Research Professor
Oregon Health & Science University
Lyndsey Shorey-Kendrick is a Computational Biologist in the Division of Neuroscience at the Oregon National Primate Research Center. Dr. Shorey-Kendrick completed a Ph.D. in Environmental and Molecular Toxicology at Oregon State University, in 2012, with a specific interest in the Developmental Origins of Health and Disease (DOHaD). In 2012, she joined the laboratory of Dr. Eliot Spindel as a Postdoctoral Researcher where she progressed to Research Faculty while investigating molecular pathways that contribute to effects of maternal smoking during pregnancy (MSDP) on lung development and lung function. A primary focus of her research is to study the epigenetic regulation of gene expression during development with a focus on how environmental and drug exposures can interact with epigenetic programming to alter development. With extensive experience studying the prenatal effects of nicotine at the molecular level, Dr. Shorey-Kendrick has recently begun to study the effects of prenatal THC as well as the effects of THC/cannabis on reproductive health.
Key goals of her research are to integrate ‘omics datasets across tissues with phenotype data and longitudinally, and to develop novel DNA methylation biomarkers of prenatal exposure to maternal smoking, cannabis, or air pollution, and of related health outcomes and resiliency. Dr. Shorey-Kendrick is working in collaboration with the NIH Environmental Childhood Health Outcomes (ECHO) consortium of investigators in the development and application of these biomarker tools, with the overall goal of improving childhood health outcomes.