Josca Schoonejans, PhD
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Josca Schoonejans, PhD
@jmschoonejans.bsky.social
Interested in adipose tissue, metabolic disorders of pregnancy & developmental origins of health and disease (DOHaD) | Imperial College London | UK, NL | Imperial College Research Fellow at the MRC-LMS
My poster looking at cardiovascular effects of prenatal #metformin exposure is up #DOHaD2025 (PS3.002)! Come by during the session this morning or find me during the day 🐭🫀🤰

Again, thanks to @physoc.bsky.social & @socendocrinology.bsky.social for making it possible to travel to Argentina!
September 10, 2025 at 12:12 PM
My first poster is up today at
#DOHaD2025! Come by poster PS1.006 to chat about paternal influences on offspring fat and energy balance 🐁

Huge thanks to @socendocrinology.bsky.social
& @physoc.bsky.social for the travel grants that made presenting here possible!
September 8, 2025 at 6:54 PM
🌟 We made the cover🌟

Our image of a female aorta exposed to #metformin in utero is on the cover of @jphysiol.bsky.social. The paper was also the Editor's Choice!

Interested? I'm presenting this next Wednesday at #DOHAD2025 in Buenos Aires (PS3.002). Come say hi or connect on here! #DOHaD
September 5, 2025 at 9:50 AM
I was very glad to present my @tommyscharity.bsky.social -funded work on #bile #acids in #preterm #labour today at the IRDB internal work in progress seminar. Thanks for the invite and for all the interesting questions ! @imperialmdr.bsky.social
September 1, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Our new paper showing sex-specific adverse #cardiovascular outcomes of prenatal #metformin exposure in a mouse model of diet-induced glucose intolerance is out now in @jphysiol.bsky.social ! 🐁❤️ ♂️♀ Find it here shorturl.at/VKqjD (in collab with @ozannelab.bsky.social & Giussani labs) #DOHaD
June 23, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Two posters from the group today! I'm showing #paternal #programming of sWAT in male offspring of hypercholanaemic dads (3022); Madeleine reports on the impact of HFD & intermittent cold exposure on adipose tissue/liver in a mouse #MASLD model (3013) @keystonesymposia.bsky.social #KSObesity25 #DOHaD
February 26, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Alice is representing the Williamson group today with her poster 2029 on how #maternal #obesity and hyperglycemia is associated with reduced neonatal brown adipose tissue response to #cold exposure! Come have a look! @keystonesymposia.bsky.social #KSObesity25 #BAT #DOHaD
February 25, 2025 at 11:22 PM
The sun was out on the mountain today while we snowshoed all the way from Alberta to British Columbia! A glorious welcome to Banff, ready for @keystonesymposia.bsky.social #KSObesity25 tomorrow!
February 24, 2025 at 4:45 AM
I'm thrilled to finally announce that I have been awarded an Imperial College Research Fellowship! I am excited to join @mrc-lms.bsky.social later in 2025 to study novel treatments for gestational diabetes and start my career as an independent researcher🥂 @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social #GDM #DOHaD
February 13, 2025 at 2:15 PM