[1] Her research centers on the role of parental, prenatal, and early life stress on the developing brain and subsequent behavior throughout the lifespan.
[7] In 2017, she moved her lab to the University of Maryland School of Medicine, where she was a Professor of Pharmacology and Director of the Center for Epigenetic Research in Child Health and Brain Development.
[11] Her recent work focuses on understanding the mechanisms by which stress and trauma impact brain development and function across the lifespan and may be passed to offspring (see developmental origins of health and disease).
Her research examines the cellular processes involved in stress signals and allostasis, including mitochondrial and nuclear transcriptional regulation, chromatin modifications, and secreted factors, such as extracellular vesicles.
[16][17] Her studies and commentary on germline cells have been widely covered by major outlets including Scientific American and The New York Times.