Dr. Michelle Thunders

Senior Lecturer
Health science
Massey University
New Zealand

Professor Healthcare
Biography

Dr. Michelle Thunders is currently working as a Senior Lecturer in the Department of School of Health Sciences, Massey univesity , Newzealand. Her research interests includes  epigenetic regulation of our genes, particularly relating environment to fertility and sperm success.. she is serving as an editorial member and reviewer of several international reputed journals. Dr. Michelle Thunders is the member of many international affiliations. She has successfully completed his Administrative responsibilities. she has authored of many research articles/books related to  epigenetic regulation of our genes, particularly relating environment to fertility and sperm success..

Research Intrest

Interested in understanding what makes us unique, how our genes are controlled and how our behaviour and our environment interact with our genome contributing to our physical phenotype.she is moved into bioinformatics research, specifically the analysis of Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) data and comparative RNA expression and also  interested in the epigenetic regulation of our genes, particularly relating environment to fertility and sperm success.

List of Publications
Peng, C., Tang, L., Tan, X., Li, Y., Wang, X., Ai, X., . . . Qiu, J. (2017). Heavy metal fractionation after application of fermented sludge to soil and it's effect on Sedum lineare. Fresenius Environmental Bulletin. 26(1a), 810-822 Retrieved from https://www.tum.de/
Thunders, M., Cavanagh, J., & Li, Y. (2017). De novo transcriptome assembly, functional annotation and differential gene expression analysis of juvenile and adult E. fetida, a model oligochaete used in ecotoxicological studies. Biological Research. 50(1)
Dharmadasa, P., Thunders, M., & Kim, ND. (2017). Maternal cadmium exposure and impact on foetal gene expression through methylation changes. Food and Chemical Toxicology. (Special issue on Toxicoepigenomics)