Dr. Kimmins received her Ph.D. from Dalhousie University in 2003 and completed her post-doctoral training at the Institute of Genetics and Molecular and Cellular Biology in Strasbourg, France. She was appointed to the Department of Animal Science in the Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences in September 2005 and is a tenured Associate Professor. She is an associate member of the Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, McGill Faculty of Medicine. She holds a Tier II Research Chair in Epigenetics, Reproduction and Development and is the Associate Director for the McGill Center for the Study of Reproduction (2014-2017). Her independent and collaborative research programs have received funding from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), Genome Quebec, Quebec Research and Nature Research Fund (FQRNT) and the National Science and Engineering Research Council (NSERC). She has published a wide variety of papers including: Science, Nature Communications, Nature Methods, FASEB and Biology of Reproduction. She is a frequent guest speaker with over 50 presentations including international meetings such as the American Society for Andrology, Keystone Symposia, the Society for the Study of Reproduction and Gordon Research Conference series.

Sarah Kimmins, University of California, Los Angeles, USA. Her lab is working with her husband and wife as a family member of the Canadian Community in Ontario, with a particular focus on how the environment is transmitted via heritable information in the sperm known as the epigenome.