Kjersti
Middle Name
Marie
Aagaard, M.D., Ph.D.
Middle Name
Marie
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Kjersti
Middle Name
Marie
Aagaard, M.D., Ph.D.
Middle Name
Marie
Professor
Positions
- Professor
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Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Maternal-Fetal Medicine
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, TX US
Henry and Emma Meyer Chair in Obstetrics and Gynecology Professor and Vice Chair of Research Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine
- Professor
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Molecular and Human Genetics
Baylor College of Medicine
Henry and Emma Meyer Chair in Obstetrics and Gynecology Professor and Vice Chair of Research Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine
- Professor
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Molecular and Cell Biology
Baylor College of Medicine
Henry and Emma Meyer Chair in Obstetrics and Gynecology
- Professor
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Molecular Physiology and Biophysics
Baylor College of Medicine
Henry and Emma Meyer Chair in Obstetrics and Gynecology
Addresses
- TCH Pavilion for Women (Clinic)
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6651 Main St. Suite F420
77030, TX 77030
United States
Phone: (832) 826-7500
Education
- MSc from University Of Utah
- 06/2007 - Salt Lake City, Utah United States
- MD from University Of Minnesota Medical School
- 06/2000 - Minneapolis, Minnesota United States
- PhD from Mayo Graduate School Of Medicine
- 01/1996 - Rochester, Minnesota United States
Professional Interests
- Microbiome interactions to preterm birth
- The in utero environment and epigenetics in fetal programming and development
Websites
VIICTR Research Database
Selected Publications
- Cox J, Williams S, Grove K, Lane RH, Aagaard-Tillery KM "A maternal high-fat diet is accompanied by alterations in the fetal primate metabolome.." Am. J. Obstet. Gynecol..2009/September;201(3):281.e1-9. Pubmed PMID: 19733280
- Aagaard-Tillery KM, Holmgren C, Lacoursiere DY, Houssain S, Bloebaum L, Satterfield R, Branch DW, Varner MW "Factors associated with nonanomalous stillbirths: the Utah Stillbirth Database 1992-2002.." Am. J. Obstet. Gynecol.2006/March;194(3):849-54. Pubmed PMID: 16522424
- Aagaard-Tillery KM, Grove K, Bishop J, Ke X, Fu Q, McKnight R, Lane RH "Developmental origins of disease and determinants of chromatin structure: maternal diet modifies the primate fetal epigenome.." J. Mol. Endocrinol..2008/August;41(2):91-102. Pubmed PMID: 18515302
- Klinger S, Turgeon B, Lévesque K, Wood GA, Aagaard-Tillery KM, Meloche S "Loss of Erk3 function in mice leads to intrauterine growth restriction, pulmonary immaturity, and neonatal lethality.." Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A..2009/September29;106(39):16710-5. Pubmed PMID: 19805361
- Suter M, Abramovici A, Showalter L, Hu M, Shope CD, Varner M, Aagaard-Tillery K "In utero tobacco exposure epigenetically modifies placental CYP1A1 expression." Metabolism. 2010 October ; 59 (10): 1481-90. Pubmed PMID: 20462615
- Aagaard K, Petrosino J, Keitel W, Watson M, Katancik J, Garcia N, Patel S, Cutting M, Madden T, Hamilton H, Harris E, Gevers D, Simone G, McInnes P, Versalovic J "The Human Microbiome Project strategy for comprehensive sampling of the human microbiome and why it matters." FASEB J. 2013 27 (3): 1012-22. Pubmed PMID: 23165986
- Suter MA, Chen A, Burdine MS, Choudhury M, Harris RA, Lane RH, Friedman JE, Grove KL, Tackett AJ, Aagaard KM "A maternal high-fat diet modulates fetal SIRT1 histone and protein deacetylase activity in nonhuman primates." FASEB J. 2012 December ; 26 (12): 5106-14. Pubmed PMID: 22982377
- Ferres MA, Olivarez SA, Trinh V, Davidson C, Sangi-Haghpeykar H, Aagaard-Tillery KM "Rate of wound complications with enoxaparin use among women at high risk for postpartum thrombosis.." Obstet Gynecol. 2011 January ; 117 (1): 119-24. Pubmed PMID: 21173652
- Aagaard-Tillery KM, Nuthalapaty FS, Ramsey PS, Ramin KD "Preterm premature rupture of membranes: perspectives surrounding controversies in management.." Am J Perinatol. 2005 August ; 22 (6): 287-97. Pubmed PMID: 16118716
- Riehle K, Coarfa C, Jackson A, Ma J, Tandon A, Paithankar S, Raghuraman S, Mistretta TA, Saulnier D, Raza S, Diaz MA, Shulman R, Aagaard K, Versalovic J, Milosavljevic A "The Genboree Microbiome Toolset and the analysis of 16S rRNA microbial sequences." BMC Bioinformatics. 2012 13 : S11. Pubmed PMID: 23320832
- Suter M, Bocock P, Showalter L, Hu M, Shope C, McKnight R, Grove K, Lane R, Aagaard-Tillery K "Epigenomics: maternal high-fat diet exposure in utero disrupts peripheral circadian gene expression in nonhuman primates." FASEB J. 2011 February ; 25 (2): 714-26. Pubmed PMID: 21097519
- Li W, Whaley CD, Bonnevier JL, Mondino A, Martin ME, Aagaard-Tillery KM, Mueller DL "CD28 signaling augments Elk-1-dependent transcription at the c-fos gene during antigen stimulation." J. Immunol. 2001 July 15; 167 (2): 827-35. Pubmed PMID: 11441089
- Aagaard-Tillery KM, Lin MG, Lupo V, Buchbinder A, Ramsey PS "Preterm premature rupture of membranes in human immunodeficiency virus-infected women: a novel case series.." Infect Dis Obstet Gynecol. 2006 2006 : 53234. Pubmed PMID: 17093352
- Aagaard-Tillery KM, Jelinek DF "Inhibition of human B lymphocyte cell cycle progression and differentiation by rapamycin.." Cell. Immunol.. 1994 July ; 156 (2): 493-507. Pubmed PMID: 7517796
- Aagaard-Tillery KM, Silver R, Dalton J "Immunology of normal pregnancy.." 2006 October ; 11 (5): 279-95. Pubmed PMID: 16784908
- Aagaard K, Riehle K, Ma J, Segata N, Mistretta TA, Coarfa C, Raza S, Rosenbaum S, Van den Veyver I, Milosavljevic A, Gevers D, Huttenhower C, Petrosino J, Versalovic J "A metagenomic approach to characterization of the vaginal microbiome signature in pregnancy." PLoS ONE. 2012 7 (6): e36466. Pubmed PMID: 22719832
- Suter M, Ma J, Harris A, Patterson L, Brown KA, Shope C, Showalter L, Abramovici A, Aagaard-Tillery KM "Maternal tobacco use modestly alters correlated epigenome-wide placental DNA methylation and gene expression." Epigenetics. 2011 November ; 6 : 1284-1294. Pubmed PMID: 21937876
- Aagaard-Tillery KM, Jelinek DF "A role for phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase in generating T cell help for B cell growth and differentiation.." J. Immunol.. 1996 October 1; 157 (7): 2769-78. Pubmed PMID: 8816379
- Munch EM, Harris RA, Mohammad M, Benham AL, Pejerrey SM, Showalter L, Hu M, Shope CD, Maningat PD, Gunaratne PH, Haymond M, Aagaard K "Transcriptome profiling of microRNA by Next-Gen Deep Sequencing reveals known and novel miRNA species in the lipid fraction of human breast milk." PLoS ONE. 2013 8 (2): e50564. Pubmed PMID: 23418415
- Menderes G, Athar Ali N, Aagaard K, Sangi-Haghpeykar H "Chlorhexidine-alcohol compared with povidone-iodine for surgical-site antisepsis in cesarean deliveries." Obstet. Gynecol. 2012 November ; 120 (5): 1037-44. Pubmed PMID: 23090520
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