Professor Chris Murgatroyd
Professor Chris Murgatroyd
Professor of Epigenetics
My profile
Biography
I am a research active academic with an international reputation in molecular psychiatry and neuroendocrinology. I publish regularly in high impact journals (Google Scholar: h-index 33; Citations 4714) and generate grant come as both PI and Co-I with national and international collaborations (~£6.7m). I use my research background to develop and delivery research-informed teaching at both undergraduate and postgraduate programmes. I have supervised 14 PhD students and 9 MRes Students.
Academic and professional qualifications
Diplomas, Academic training:
- Doctorate (Dr. rerum. Naturalium - magna cum laude); Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) Munich, (Germany), 2000-2005 Thesis: Impaired repression of a vasopression promoter polymorphism in a rat model of trait anxiety and depression.
- MSc Medical Genetics; Department of Human Genetics, University of Newcastle, 1997-1998 Thesis: Alpha-synuclein polymorphisms in Lewy body dementia.
- BSc Genetics; Swansea University, Wales (UK), 1994-1997 Thesis: Inheritance of plant height and branching in Pelagonia
Professional Certificates:
- Postgraduate Certificate in Academic Practice (PGCAP); Manchester Metropolitan University, 2014.
- FELASA-B (Federation for European Laboratory Animal Science Associations) animal license for injections/biopsies/blood measurements/collection; Gesellschaft für wissenschaften Tierschutz, Munich, 2010
Academic Citizenship and Leadership
I undertake several management and leadership roles within the Department where I offer mentorship of junior staff – supervision of postdoctoral researchers and supervision of PhD / MRes students. I am the Research Lead for the Aging and Lifelong Health Theme within the Centre for Bioscience.
Publications, Presentations & OUTREACH
I publish regularly in my field (see Google Scholar link) and I am invited to speak at national and international conferences. In addition to my research and academic work, I am keenly involved in public engagement in science and have published two books for the general reader Power of the Gene: The Origin and Impact of Genetic Disorders (2011, Nova Science Publishers Inc) and Conversational Genetics (2020, independently published) and maintain a website on clinical epigenetics for the public http://www.powerofthegene.com.
External roles
Reviewer for external funding bodies: I am a regular assessor for Innovate UK (2016 - ) and overseas grant panel evaluator for the National Science Centre Poland (2018-). I regularly review grants from national (e.g. MRC, BBSRC, ESRC, NERC) and international (inc. Netherlands, Australia, Canada, Poland Czech Republic, Germany) funding bodies.
Journal reviewing: I regularly act as a reviewer for numerous journals each year (I try to accept at least 10 a year in addition to my editorial roles) and have reviewed for possibly 100 different journals.
Examiner for PhD theses: I have internally examined and chaired within the MMU and acted as an external examiner for <15 thesis’ from national and international universities.
Editorial Board membership: Gene (2012 - 2017), BMC Research Notes (2011 - ), Frontiers in Epigenomics (2013 - ), Scientific Reports (2016 -), Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease (2013 - 2018), Associate Editor for Epigenetics (2020 - ), Section Editor for Epigenetic Techniques Epigenetic Reports (2023- )
Guest-editing - Historical medical genetics: skeletal disorders. Gene (2013); Historical Medical Genetics II. Gene (2015); Historical Medical Genetics III. Gene (2015); The Exposome. Scientific Reports (open 2022).
External examiner for degree courses: Liverpool U, MRes Translational Medicine (2016-2021); Coventry U, BSc Human Biosciences (2014-2019); Hong Kong, BSc Human Biosciences (2016-2019).
Activity in national/international meetings: I have organised symposia and have been invited to speak at >100 conferences, symposiums and meetings.
Membership of scientific societies: Biochemical Society (Panel member from 2012 to 2017, grant reviewer and MMU local ambassador 2017-); European Neuropeptide Club; Epigenetics Society; British Neuroendocrine Society; ISN International Society for Neurochemistry.
Industry engagement: I have and continue to work with several industries and am very open to collaborations
Community engagement: I have worked with charities and foundations on the role of epigenetics and mental health, such as the William Templeton Foundation, and been funded by the UKRI to deliver outreach sessions on the brain to school children together with the company Xplore!.
Public engagement: I deliver talks and lessons to Schools at primary, secondary and sixth-form levels U3A events, Café Scientific and SciBar on genetics, clinical genetics, neuroendocrinology of stress or my research. and I am a registered speaker with Speakeazy. My research has received media attention from the BBC and other national and international news outlets.
Languages
English and German
Personal website address
Teaching
I am actively involved in Teaching and since 2013 I have continued to run the level 6 unit entitled Physiology of Ageing which continues to achieve high student satisfaction and good marks. I also continue to teach on other units, deliver tutorials and supervise practical classes.
I deliver excellent undergraduate research projects including laboratory-based and meta-analyses as examples of good practice in research-led teaching. I am the first in the department and perhaps Man Met (as far as I am aware) to publish an undergraduate thesis (in its entirety) with the student as 1st author in high-impact peer-reviewed journals in each of the last 5 years. These include lab projects and meta-analyses e.g. Bezuch N, Bradburn S, McPhee J, Murgatroyd C, Association of interleukin-6 rs1800796 polymorphism with reduced cognitive performance in healthy older adults. Meta Gene (2018) 19:51-55; Tolkien K, Bradburn S, Murgatroyd C, An anti-inflammatory diet as a potential intervention for depressive disorders: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Clinical Nutrition (2018) 18; 32540-8.; Ashley S, Bradburn S, Murgatroyd C. A meta-analysis of peripheral tocopherol levels in age-related cognitive decline and Alzheimer’s disease. Nutritional Neuroscience. (2019) 29:1-15).
To support my teaching I have designed and maintained a website (www.powerofthegene.com), based on a previously published book of mine The Power of the Gene, which receives ~5000 hits a month and is regularly used by my students. I have also published a new paperback book on genetics, Conversational GeneticsISBN-13:979-8663441629. To highlight my novelty in teaching, I was the first, with a colleague, Michael Carroll, to produce and edits numerous videos to support the different practical classes that I supervised – this allowed the students to see the exact techniques being used and follow. These videos are still widely used by other members of staff now leading these practicals. I have also been an external examiner for courses and programmes at other Universities including Liverpool University, MRes Translational Medicine (2016-2021); Coventry University, BSc Human Biosciences (2014-2019); Hong Kong, BSc Human Biosciences (2016-2019).
Supervision
Research outputs
Study of gene-environment interactions in early-life ageing. I work on mouse and rat models and human cohorts following early-life environmental exposures and study the epigentic mechanisms underlying programming of long-term gene regulatory changes.
-
Books (authored/edited/special issues)
Murgatroyd, C. (2010) The Power of the Gene: The Origin and Impact of Genetic Disorders.
-
Chapters in books
Murgatroyd, C. (2020) 'Epigenetic Modifications of Early-Life Stress and Adult Life Psychopathology.' Progress in Inflammation Research. pp. 33-48.
Murgatroyd, C. (2018) 'Epigenetic changes in the immune systems following early-life stress.' Inflammation and Immunity in Depression: Basic Science and Clinical Applications. pp. 325-338.
Murgatroyd, C.A., Bradburn, S. (2016) 'Translational animal models.' Epigenetics, the Environment, and Children’s Health Across Lifespans. Springer,
Murgatroyd, C. (2016) 'Epigenetics.' Molecular Neuroendocrinology: From Genome to Physiology. pp. 121-138.
Murgatroyd, C., Bradburn, S. (2016) 'Translational animal models for the study of epigenetics and the environment.' Epigenetics, the Environment, and Children's Health Across Lifespans. pp. 207-229.
Murgatroyd, C.A. (2015) 'Epigenetics.' Molecular Neuroendocrinology From Genome to Physiology. John Wiley & Sons, pp. 141-154.
Taliefar, M., bradburn, S., podda, G., Murgatroyd, C.A. (2015) 'Reverse Transcription Real-Time PCR Protocol for gene expression analyses.' Handbook of Vascular Biology Techniques. Springer,
Bradburn, S., McPhee, J.S., Williams, A.G., Heffernan, S.M., Lockey, S.J., Day, S.H., Murgatroyd, C. (2015) 'Protocol for multiplex amplicon sequencing using barcoded primers.' In Slevin, M., McDowell, G. (ed.) Handbook of Vascular Biology Techniques. Springer, pp. 427-438.
Slevin, M., Carroll, M., Murgatroyd, C., McDowell, G. (2014) 'Biophysical and molecular targets.' Cardiac Arrhythmias: From Basic Mechanism to State-of-the-Art Management. pp. 335-343.
Murgatroyd, C.A. (2014) 'Laboratory techniques in psychiatric epigenetics.' In Peedicayil, J., Grayson, D., Avramopoulos, D. (ed.) Epigenetics in Psychiatry, 1st Edition. Academic Press,
Murgatroyd, C.A. (2014) 'Laboratory techniques in psychiatric epigenetics.' Epigenetics in Psychiatry. Elsevier,
Slevin, M., Baldellou, M., Hill, E., Alexander, Y., McDowell, G., Murgatroyd, C., Carroll, M., Degens, H., Krupinski, J., Rovira, N., Chowdhury, M., Serracino-Inglott, F., Badimon, L. (2014) 'Novel Methods for Accurate Identification, Isolation, and Genomic Analysis of Symptomatic Microenvironments in Atherosclerotic Arteries.' Methods in Molecular Biology. Springer New York, pp. 289-305.
-
Journal articles
Didikoglu, A., Guler, E.S., Turk, H.K., Can, K., Erim, A.N., Payton, A., Murgatroyd, C., Pakpahan, E., Minshull, J., Robinson, A.C., Maharani, A. (2024) 'Depression in older adults and its associations with sleep and synaptic density.' Journal of Affective Disorders, 366pp. 379-385.
Petrican, R., Chopra, S., Murgatroyd, C., Fornito, A. (2024) 'Sex-differential markers of psychiatric risk and treatment response based on premature aging of functional brain network dynamics and peripheral physiology.' Biological Psychiatry,
Stepan, J., Heinz, D.E., Dethloff, F., Wiechmann, S., Martinelli, S., Hafner, K., Ebert, T., Junglas, E., Häusl, A.S., Pöhlmann, M.L., Jakovcevski, M., Pape, J.C., Zannas, A.S., Bajaj, T., Hermann, A., Ma, X., Pavenstädt, H., Schmidt, M.V., Philipsen, A., Turck, C.W., Deussing, J.M., Rammes, G., Robinson, A.C., Payton, A., Wehr, M.C., Stein, V., Murgatroyd, C., Kremerskothen, J., Kuster, B., Wotjak, C.T., Gassen, N.C. (2024) 'Inhibiting Hippo pathway kinases releases WWC1 to promote AMPAR-dependent synaptic plasticity and long-term memory in mice.' Science Signaling, 17(834)
Hartmann, J., Bajaj, T., Otten, J., Klengel, C., Ebert, T., Gellner, A.K., Junglas, E., Hafner, K., Anderzhanova, E.A., Tang, F., Missig, G., Rexrode, L., Trussell, D.T., Li, K.X., Pöhlmann, M.L., Mackert, S., Geiger, T.M., Heinz, D.E., Lardenoije, R., Dedic, N., McCullough, K.M., Próchnicki, T., Rhomberg, T., Martinelli, S., Payton, A., Robinson, A.C., Stein, V., Latz, E., Carlezon, W.A., Hausch, F., Schmidt, M.V., Murgatroyd, C., Berretta, S., Klengel, T., Pantazopoulos, H., Ressler, K.J., Gassen, N.C. (2024) 'SKA2 regulated hyperactive secretory autophagy drives neuroinflammation-induced neurodegeneration.' Nature Ccommunications, 15(1)
Schmitt, I., Evert, B.O., Sharma, A., Khazneh, H., Murgatroyd, C., Wüllner, U. (2024) 'The Alpha-Synuclein Gene (SNCA) is a Genomic Target of Methyl-CpG Binding Protein 2 (MeCP2)—Implications for Parkinson’s Disease and Rett Syndrome.' Molecular Neurobiology, 61(10) pp. 7830-7844.
Nephew, B.C., Murgatroyd, C., Polcari, J.J., Santos, H.P., Incollingo Rodriguez, A.C. (2023) 'Increasing the use of functional and multimodal genetic data in social science research.' Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 46
Braithwaite, E., Cole, J., Murgatroyd, C., Wright, N., O'Farrelly, C., Barker, B., Ramchandani, P. (2023) 'Child DNA methylation in a randomized controlled trial of a video-feedback intervention to promote positive parenting and sensitive discipline (VIPP-SD).' Frontiers in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 2pp. 1175299-1175299.
Woods, R.M., Lorusso, J.M., Harris, I., Kowash, H.M., Murgatroyd, C., Neill, J.C., Glazier, J.D., Harte, M., Hager, R. (2023) 'Maternal Immune Activation Induces Adolescent Cognitive Deficits Preceded by Developmental Perturbations in Cortical Reelin Signalling..' Biomolecules, 13(3) pp. 489-489.
Rodriguez, A.C.I., Smith, L., Harris, R., Nephew, B.C., Santos, H.P., Murgatroyd, C. (2022) 'Oxytocin modulates sensitivity to acculturation and discrimination stress in pregnancy.' Psychoneuroendocrinology, 141
Incollingo Rodriguez, A.C., Polcari, J.J., Nephew, B.C., Harris, R., Zhang, C., Murgatroyd, C., Santos, H.P. (2022) 'Acculturative stress, telomere length, and postpartum depression in Latinx mothers.' Journal of Psychiatric Research, 147pp. 301-306.
Bezuch, N., Bradburn, S., Robinson, A.C., Pendleton, N., Payton, A., Murgatroyd, C. (2021) 'Superior Frontal Gyrus TOMM40-APOE Locus DNA Methylation in Alzheimer’s Disease.' Journal of Alzheimer's Disease Reports, 5(1) pp. 275-282.
Alyamani, R., Nephew, B., Murgatroyd, C. (2021) 'Intergenerational changes in hippocampal transcription in an animal model of maternal depression.' European Journal of Neuroscience, 55(9-10) pp. 2242-2252.
Altakroni, B., Nevin, C., Carroll, M., Murgatroyd, C., Horne, G., Brison, D.R., Povey, A.C. (2021) 'The marker of alkyl DNA base damage, N7-methylguanine, is associated with semen quality in men.' Scientific Reports, 11
Santos, H.P., Adynski, H., Harris, R., Bhattacharya, A., Incollingo-Rodriguez, A., Cali, R., Yabar, A.T., Nephew, B.C., Murgatroyd, C. (2020) 'Biopsychosocial Correlates of Psychological Distress in Latina Mothers.' Journal of Affective Disorders, 282pp. 617-626.
McEwan, A., Erickson, J.C., Davidson, C., Heijkoop, J., Turnbull, Y., Delibegovic, M., Murgatroyd, C., MacKenzie, A. (2020) 'The anxiety and ethanol intake controlling GAL5.1 enhancer is epigenetically modulated by, and controls preference for, high-fat diet.' Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences, 78(6) pp. 3045-3055.
Sluiter, F., Incollingo Rodriguez, A.C., Nephew, B.C., Cali, R., Murgatroyd, C., Santos, H.P. (2020) 'Pregnancy associated epigenetic markers of inflammation predict depression and anxiety symptoms in response to discrimination.' Neurobiology of Stress, 13pp. 100273-100273.
Hulme, B., Didikoglu, A., Bradburn, S., Robinson, A., Canal, M., Payton, A., Pendleton, N., Murgatroyd, C. (2020) 'Epigenetic Regulation of BMAL1 with Sleep Disturbances and Alzheimer's Disease.' Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD, 77(4) pp. 1783-1792.
Ponirakis, G., Elhadd, T., Chinnaiyan, S., Hamza, A.H., Sheik, S., Kalathingal, M.A., Anodiyil, M.S., Dabbous, Z., Siddique, M., Almuhannadi, H., Petropoulos, I., Khan, A., Ashawesh, K.A.E., Dukhan, K.M., Mahfoud, Z.R., Zirie, M.A., Jayyousi, A., Murgatroyd, C., Slevin, M., Malik, R.A. (2020) 'Prevalence and risk factors for diabetic neuropathy and painful diabetic neuropathy in primary and secondary health care in Qatar.' Journal of Diabetes Investigation, 12(4) pp. 592-600.
Hall, E., Murgatroyd, C., Stebbings, G., Cunniffe, B., Harle, L., Salter, M., Ramadass, A., Westra, J., Hunter, E., Akoulitchev, A., Williams, A. (2020) 'The Prospective Study of Epigenetic Regulatory Profiles in Sport and Exercise Monitored Through Chromosome Conformation Signatures.' Genes, 11(8)
Villalba de la Peña, M., Piskobulu, V., Murgatroyd, C., Hager, R. (2020) 'DNA methylation patterns respond to thermal stress in the viviparous cockroach Diploptera punctata.' Epigenetics, 16(3) pp. 313-326.
Sawkulycz, X., Bradburn, S., Robinson, A., Payton, A., Pendleton, N., Murgatroyd, C. (2020) 'Regulation of Interleukin 6 by a polymorphic CpG within the frontal cortex in Alzheimer’s disease.' Neurobiology of Aging, 92pp. 75-81.
McEwan, A.R., Davidson, C., Hay, E., Turnbull, Y., Erickson, J.C., Marini, P., Wilson, D., McIntosh, A.M., Adams, M.J., Murgatroyd, C., Barrett, P., Delibegovic, M., Clarke, T.K., MacKenzie, A. (2020) 'CRISPR disruption and UK Biobank analysis of a highly conserved polymorphic enhancer suggests a role in male anxiety and alcohol intake.' Molecular Psychiatry, 26(6) pp. 2263-2276.
Ponirakis, G., Elhadd, T., Chinnaiyan, S., Dabbous, Z., Siddiqui, M., Al‐muhannadi, H., Petropoulos, I., Khan, A., Ashawesh, K.A.E., Dukhan, K.M.O., Mahfoud, Z.R., Murgatroyd, C., Slevin, M., Malik, R.A. (2020) 'Prevalence and management of diabetic neuropathy in secondary care in Qatar.' Diabetes/Metabolism Research and Reviews, 36(4)
Toorie, A.M., Vassoler, F.M., Qu, F., Schonhoff, C.M., Bradburn, S., Murgatroyd, C.A., Slonim, D.K., Byrnes, E.M. (2019) 'A history of opioid exposure in females increases the risk of metabolic disorders in their future male offspring.' Addiction Biology, 26(1) pp. e12856-e12856.
Berneau, S.C., Shackleton, J., Nevin, C., Altakroni, B., Papadopoulos, G., Horne, G., Brison, D.R., Murgatroyd, C., Povey, A.C., Carroll, M. (2019) 'Associations of sperm telomere length with semen parameters, clinical outcomes and lifestyle factors in human normozoospermic samples.' Andrology, 8(3) pp. 583-593.
Ashley, S., Bradburn, S., Murgatroyd, C. (2019) 'A meta-analysis of peripheral tocopherol levels in age-related cognitive decline and Alzheimer's disease.' Nutritional Neuroscience, 24(10) pp. 795-809.
Hill, J., Pickles, A., Wright, N., Quinn, J.P., Murgatroyd, C., Sharp, H. (2019) 'Mismatched Prenatal and Postnatal Maternal Depressive Symptoms and Child Behaviours: A Sex-Dependent Role for NR3C1 DNA Methylation in the Wirral Child Health and Development Study..' Cells, 8(9)
Aarons, T., Bradburn, S., Robinson, A., Payton, A., Pendleton, N., Murgatroyd, C. (2019) 'Dysregulation of BDNF in Prefrontal Cortex in Alzheimer’s Disease.' Journal of Alzheimer's Disease, 69(4) pp. 1089-1097.
Pittet, F., Van Caenegem, N., Hicks‐Nelson, A., Santos, H.P., Bradburn, S., Murgatroyd, C., Nephew, B.C. (2019) 'Maternal social environment affects offspring cognition through behavioral and immune pathways in rats.' Journal of Neuroendocrinology, 31(9) pp. e12711-e12711.
Ponirakis, G., Elhadd, T., Chinnaiyan, S., Dabbous, Z., Mashhood, S., Al-Muhannadi, H., Petropoulos, I., Khan, A., Ashawesh, K.A.E., Dukhan, K.M.O., Mahfoud, Z.R., Murgatroyd, C., Slevin, M., Malik, R.A. (2019) 'Prevalence and risk factors for painful diabetic neuropathy in secondary health care in Qatar.' Journal of Diabetes Investigation, 10(6) pp. 1558-1564.
Bradburn, S., Murgatroyd, C., Ray, N. (2019) 'Neuroinflammation in mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's disease: a meta-analysis.' Ageing Research Reviews, 50pp. 1-8.
Tolkien, K., Bradburn, S., Murgatroyd, C. (2018) 'An anti-inflammatory diet as a potential intervention for depressive disorders: A systematic review and meta-analysis.' Clinical Nutrition, 38(5) pp. 2045-2052.
Seaborne, R.A., Strauss, J., Cocks, M., Shepherd, S., O'Brien, T.D., Someren, K.A.V., Bell, P.G., Murgatroyd, C., Morton, J.P., Stewart, C.E., Mein, C.A., Sharples, A.P. (2018) 'Methylome of human skeletal muscle after acute & chronic resistance exercise training, detraining & retraining..' Scientific Data, 5
Bezuch, N.E., Bradburn, S., Sipilä, S., Pääsuke, M., Gapeyeva, H., Maier, A.B., Hogrel, J.Y., Barnouin, Y., Butler-Browne, G., Narici, M., McPhee, J., Murgatroyd, C. (2018) 'Association of interleukin-6 rs1800796 polymorphism with reduced cognitive performance in healthy older adults.' Meta Gene, 19pp. 51-55.
Santos, H.P., Nephew, B.C., Bhattacharya, A., Tan, X., Smith, L., Alyamani, R.A.S., Martin, E.M., Perreira, K., Fry, R.C., Murgatroyd, C. (2018) 'Discrimination exposure and DNA methylation of stress-related genes in Latina mothers.' Psychoneuroendocrinology, 98pp. 131-138.
Nevin, C., McNeil, L., Ahmed, N., Murgatroyd, C., Brison, D., Carroll, M. (2018) 'Investigating the Glycating Effects of Glucose, Glyoxal and Methylglyoxal on Human Sperm.' Scientific Reports, 8(1)
Gali Ramamoorthy, T., Allen, T.J., Davies, A., Harno, E., Sefton, C., Murgatroyd, C., White, A. (2018) 'Maternal overnutrition programs epigenetic changes in the regulatory regions of hypothalamic Pomc in the offspring of rats..' International Journal of Obesity, 42pp. 1431-1444.
Manca, M., Pessoa, V., Myers, P., Pickles, A., Hill, J., Sharp, H., Murgatroyd, C., Bubb, V.J., Quinn, J.P. (2018) 'Distinct chromatin structures at the monoamine oxidase-A promoter correlate with allele-specific expression in SH-SY5Y cells.' Genes, Brain and Behavior, 18(6) pp. e12483-e12483.
Alyamani, R.A.S., Murgatroyd, C. (2018) 'Epigenetic Programming by Early-Life Stress.' Progress in Molecular Biology and Translational Science, 157pp. 133-150.
Soch, A., Bradburn, S., Sominsky, L., De Luca, S.N., Murgatroyd, C., Spencer, S.J. (2018) 'Corrigendum to: Effects of exercise on adolescent and adult hypothalamic and hippocampal neuroinflammation (Hippocampus, (2016), 26, (1435–1446), 10.1002/hipo22620).' Hippocampus, 28(4) pp. 312-312.
Manca, M., Pessoa, V., Lopez, A.I., Harrison, P.T., Miyajima, F., Sharp, H., Pickles, A., Hill, J., Murgatroyd, C., Bubb, V.J., Quinn, J.P. (2018) 'The Regulation of Monoamine Oxidase A Gene Expression by Distinct Variable Number Tandem Repeats.' Journal of Molecular Neuroscience, 64(3) pp. 459-470.
Bradburn, S., McPhee, J., Bagley, L., Carroll, M., Slevin, M., Al-Shanti, N., Barnouin, Y., Hogrel, J.Y., Paasuke, M., Gapeyeva, H., Maier, A., Sipila, S., Narici, M., Robinson, A., Mann, D., Payton, A., Pendleton, N., Butler-Browne, G., Murgatroyd, C. (2018) 'Dysregulation of CXC motif ligand 10 during aging and association with cognitive performance.' Neurobiology of Aging, 63pp. 54-64.
Seaborne, R.A., Strauss, J., Cocks, M., Shepherd, S., O'Brien, T.D., Van Someren, K.A., Bell, P.G., Murgatroyd, C., Morton, J.P., Stewart, C.E., Sharples, A.P. (2018) 'Human Skeletal Muscle Possesses an Epigenetic Memory of Hypertrophy.' Scientific Reports, 8(1)
Bradburn, S., Sarginson, J., Murgatroyd, C. (2018) 'Association of peripheral interleukin-6 with global cognitive decline in non-demented adults: a meta-analysis of prospective studies.' Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience, 9(438) pp. 1-9.
Ray, N.J., Bradburn, S., Murgatroyd, C., Toseeb, U., Mir, P., Kountouriotis, G.K., Teipel, S., Grothe, M.J. (2017) 'In vivo cholinergic basal forebrain atrophy predicts cognitive decline in de novo Parkinson’s disease.' Brain, 141(1) pp. 165-176.
Nephew, B.C., Carini, L.M., Sallah, S., Cotino, C., Alyamani, R.A.S., Pittet, F., Bradburn, S., Murgatroyd, C. (2017) 'Intergenerational accumulation of impairments in maternal behavior following postnatal social stress.' Psychoneuroendocrinology, 82pp. 98-106.
Coulson, J., Bagley, L., Barnouin, Y., Bradburn, S., Butler-Browne, G., Gapeyeva, H., Hogrel, J.Y., Maden-Wilkinson, T., Maier, A.B., Meskers, C., Murgatroyd, C., Narici, M., Pääsuke, M., Sassano, L., Sipilä, S., AL-Shanti, N., Stenroth, L., Jones, D.A., McPhee, J.S. (2017) 'Circulating levels of dickkopf-1, osteoprotegerin and sclerostin are higher in old compared with young men and women and positively associated with whole-body bone mineral density in older adults.' Osteoporosis International, 28(9) pp. 2683-2689.
Murgatroyd, C.A., Hicks-Nelson, A., Fink, A., Beamer, G., Gurel, K., Elnady, F., Pittet, F., Nephew, B.C. (2016) 'Effects of Chronic Social Stress and Maternal Intranasal Oxytocin and Vasopressin on Offspring Interferon-γ and Behavior.' Frontiers in Endocrinology, 7
Bradburn, S., McPhee, J.S., Bagley, L., Sipila, S., Stenroth, L., Narici, M.V., Pääsuke, M., Gapeyeva, H., Osborne, G., Sassano, L., Meskers, C.G., Maier, A.B., Hogrel, J.Y., Barnouin, Y., Butler-Browne, G., Murgatroyd, C. (2016) 'Association between osteocalcin and cognitive performance in healthy older adults.' Age and ageing, 45(6) pp. 844-849.
Soch, A., Bradburn, S., Sominsky, L., De Luca, S., Murgatroyd, C., Spencer, S.J. (2016) 'Effects of exercise on adolescent and adult hypothalamic and hippocampal neuroinflammation.' Hippocampus, 26(11) pp. 1435-1446.
Bagley, L., Slevin, M., Bradburn, S., Liu, D., Murgatroyd, C., Morrissey, G., Carroll, M., Piasecki, M., Gilmore, W.S., McPhee, J.S. (2016) 'Sex differences in the effects of 12 weeks sprint interval training on body fat mass and the rates of fatty acid oxidation and VO 2 max during exercise.' BMJ Open Sport & Exercise Medicine, 2
Murgatroyd, C.A., Babb, J.A., Bradburn, S., Carini, L.M., Beamer, G.L., Nephew, B.C. (2016) 'Transgenerational Social Stress, Immune Factors, Hormones, and Social Behavior.' Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 3
Al-Dabbagh, S., McPhee, J.S., Murgatroyd, C., Butler-Browne, G., Stewart, C.E., Al-Shanti, N. (2015) 'The lymphocyte secretome from young adults enhances skeletal muscle proliferation and migration, but effects are attenuated in the secretome of older adults..' Physiological Reports, 3
Jawahar, M.C., Murgatroyd, C., Harrison, E.L., Baune, B.T. (2015) 'Epigenetic alterations following early postnatal stress: a review on novel aetiological mechanisms of common psychiatric disorders.' Clinical Epigenetics, 7
Ramamoorthy, T.G., Allen, T.J., Davies, A., Harno, E., Sefton, C., Wray, J., Murgatroyd, C., White, A. (2015) 'Maternal overnutrition programs hypothalamic neuropeptides and metabolic syndrome in offspring.' Endocrine Abstracts,
Murgatroyd, C.A., Taliefar, M., Bradburn, S., Carini, L.M., Babb, J.A., Nephew, B.C. (2015) 'Social stress during lactation, depressed maternal care, and neuropeptidergic gene expression.' Behavioural Pharmacology, 26
Smart, C., Strathdee, G., Watson, S., Murgatroyd, C., McAllister-Williams, R.H. (2015) 'Early life trauma, depression and the glucocorticoid receptor gene - an epigenetic perspective.' Psychological Medicine, 45
Murgatroyd, C.A., Pena, C.J., Podda, G., Nestler, E.J., Nephew, B.C. (2015) 'Early life social stress induced changes in depression and anxiety associated neural pathways which are correlated with impaired maternal care.' Neuropeptides, 52
Murgatroyd, C., Quinn, J.P., Sharp, H.M., Pickles, A., Hill, J. (2015) 'Effects of prenatal and postnatal depression, and maternal stroking, at the glucocorticoid receptor gene..' Translational Psychiatry, 5
Nephew, B.C., Murgatroyd, C., Pittet, F., Febo, M. (2015) 'Brain Reward Pathway Dysfunction in Maternal Depression and Addiction: A Present and Future Transgenerational Risk..' J Reward Defic Syndr, 1(3) pp. 105-116.
Murgatroyd, C. (2015) 'Editorial to the Special Issue Historical Medical Genetics II..' Gene, 555(1)
Al-Dabbag, S., McPhee, J., Murgatroyd, C., Stewart, C., Al-Shanti, N. (2014) 'The immune environment and skeletal muscle regeneration.' ACTA PHYSIOLOGICA, 211
Babb, J.A., Deligiannidis, K.M., Murgatroyd, C.A., Nephew, B.C. (2014) 'Peripartum depression and anxiety as an integrative cross domain target for psychiatric preventative measures.' Behavioural Brain Research Exposure to high levels of early life stress has been identified as a potent risk factor for neurodevelopmental delays in infants, behavioral problems and autism in children, but also for several psychiatric illnesses in adultho, 276
Murgatroyd, C., Spengler, D. (2014) 'Polycomb Binding Precedes Early-Life Stress Responsive DNA Methylation at the Avp Enhancer.' PLOS ONE, 9
Taliefar, M., Benjamin, C., Murgatroyd, C. (2014) 'P.1.013 Social stress alters gene expression in a transgenerational rodent model of postpartum mood disorders.' European Neuropsychopharmacology, 24pp. S13-S14.
Slevin, M., Baldellou, M., Hill, E., Alexander, Y., McDowell, G., Murgatroyd, C., Carroll, M., Degens, H., Krupinski, J., Rovira, N., Chowdhury, M., Serracino-Inglott, F., Badimon, L. (2014) 'Novel methods for accurate identification, isolation, and genomic analysis of symptomatic microenvironments in atherosclerotic arteries.' Methods in Molecular Biology, 1135pp. 289-305.
Nephew, B., Murgatroyd, C. (2013) 'The role of maternal care in shaping CNS function.' Neuropeptides, 47(6) pp. 371-378.
Murgatroyd, C. (2013) 'Epigenetic programming of neuroendocrine systems during early life.' Experimental Physiology, 99
Murgatroyd, C. (2013) 'Introduction to the Special Issue Historical Medical Genetics: Skeletal Disorders.' Gene, 528(1)
Murgatroyd, C.A., Nephew, B.C. (2013) 'Effects of early life social stress on maternal behavior and neuroendocrinology..' Psychoneuroendocrinology, 38(2) pp. 219-228.
Murgatroyd, C.A., Nephew, B.C. (2013) 'Effects of early life social stress on maternal behavior and neuroendocrinology.' Psychoneuroendocrinology, 38(2) pp. 219-228.
Carini, L.M., Murgatroyd, C.A., Nephew, B.C. (2013) 'Using Chronic Social Stress to Model Postpartum Depression in Lactating Rodents.' Journal of visualized experiments: JoVE, (76)
Murgatroyd, C., Spengler, D. (2012) 'Genetic variation in the epigenetic machinery and mental health.' Current psychiatry reports, 14(2) pp. 138-149.
Murgatroyd, C., Hoffmann, A., Spengler, D. (2012) 'In vivo ChIP for the analysis of microdissected tissue samples.' pp. 135-148.
Murgatroyd, C., Carini, L., Nephew, B. (2012) 'Effects of chronic social stress on maternal behavior, anhedonia, milk intake, pup growth, and gene expression.' EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PSYCHOTRAUMATOLOGY, 3
Murgatroyd, C., Spengler, D. (2011) 'Epigenetics of early child development..' Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2
Murgatroyd, C., Spengler, D. (2011) 'Epigenetic programming of the HPA axis: early life decides.' Stress, 14(6) pp. 581-589.
Bettscheider, M., Murgatroyd, C., Spengler, D. (2011) 'Simultaneous DNA and RNA isolation from brain punches for epigenetics..' BMC Research Notes, 4
Bockmühl, Y., Murgatroyd, C.A., Kuczynska, A., Adcock, I.M., Almeida, O.F.X., Spengler, D. (2011) 'Differential regulation and function of 5'-untranslated GR-exon 1 transcripts..' Mol Endocrinol, 25(7) pp. 1100-1110.
Menger, Y., Bettscheider, M., Murgatroyd, C., Spengler, D. (2010) 'Sex differences in brain epigenetics.' Epigenomics, 2(6) pp. 807-821.
Murgatroyd, C., Patchev, A.V., Wu, Y., Micale, V., Bockmühl, Y., Fischer, D., Holsboer, F., Wotjak, C.T., Almeida, O.F.X., Spengler, D. (2010) 'Erratum: Dynamic DNA methylation programs persistent adverse effects of early-life stress (Nature Neuroscience (2009) 12 (1559-1566)).' Nature Neuroscience, 13(5)
Murgatroyd, C., Wu, Y., Bockmuehl, Y., Spengler, D. (2010) 'The Janus face of DNA methylation in aging.' AGING-US, 2(2) pp. 107-110.
Murgatroyd, C. (2010) 'EPIGENETIC PROGRAMMING OF THE HPA AXIS.' EUROPEAN PSYCHIATRY, 25
Murgatroyd, C. (2010) 'FC03-06-Epigenetic programming of the HPA axis.' European Psychiatry, 25
Murgatroyd, C., Wu, Y., Bockmühl, Y., Spengler, D. (2010) 'Genes learn from stress.' Epigenetics, 5(3) pp. 194-199.
Murgatroyd, C., Wu, Y., Bockmühl, Y., Spengler, D. (2010) 'Genes learn from stress: How infantile trauma programs us for depression.' Epigenetics, 5(3) pp. 194-199.
Murgatroyd, C., Spengler, D. (2010) 'Histone tales: echoes from the past, prospects for the future.' Genome biology, 11(2) pp. 105-105.
Murgatroyd, C., Patchev, A.V., Wu, Y., Micale, V., Bockmühl, Y., Fischer, D., Holsboer, F., Wotjak, C.T., Almeida, O.F.X., Spengler, D. (2010) 'Erratum: Dynamic DNA methylation programs persistent adverse effects of early-life stress.' Nature Neuroscience, 13(5) pp. 649-649.
Murgatroyd, C., Patchev, A.V., Wu, Y., Micale, V., Bockmühl, Y., Fischer, D., Holsboer, F., Wotjak, C.T., Almeida, O.F.X., Spengler, D. (2009) 'Dynamic DNA methylation programs persistent adverse effects of early-life stress.' Nature Neuroscience, 12(12) pp. 1559-1566.
Bunck, M., Czibere, L., Horvath, C., Graf, C., Frank, E., Keßler, M.S., Murgatroyd, C., Müller-Myhsok, B., Gonik, M., Weber, P., Pütz, B., Muigg, P., Panhuysen, M., Singewald, N., Bettecken, T., Deussing, J.M., Holsboer, F., Spengler, D., Landgraf, R. (2009) 'A hypomorphic vasopressin allele prevents anxiety-related behavior.' PLoS ONE, 4(4)
Keßler, M.S., Murgatroyd, C., Bunck, M., Czibere, L., Frank, E., Jacob, W., Horvath, C., Muigg, P., Holsboer, F., Singewald, N. (2007) 'Diabetes insipidus and, partially, low anxiety‐related behaviour are linked to a SNP‐associated vasopressin deficit in LAB mice.' European Journal of Neuroscience, 26(10) pp. 2857-2864.
Landgraf, R., Keßler, M.S., Bunck, M., Murgatroyd, C., Spengler, D., Zimbelmann, M., Nußbaumer, M., Czibere, L., Turck, C.W., Singewald, N. (2007) 'Candidate genes of anxiety-related behavior in HAB/LAB rats and mice: focus on vasopressin and glyoxalase-I.' Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 31(1) pp. 89-102.
Murgatroyd, C., Patchev, A., Fischer, D., Almeida, O., Spengler, D. (2007) 'Epigenetic programming of sustained AVP expression by early-life stress in mice.' Pharmacopsychiatry, 40(05)
Murgatroyd, C., Bilko, D., Spengler, D. (2006) 'Isolation of high-quality DNA for genotyping from feces of rodents.' Analytical biochemistry, 348(1) pp. 160-162.
Murgatroyd, C., Wigger, A., Frank, E., Singewald, N., Bunck, M., Holsboer, F., Landgraf, R., Spengler, D. (2004) 'Impaired repression at a vasopressin promoter polymorphism underlies overexpression of vasopressin in a rat model of trait anxiety.' The Journal of neuroscience, 24(35) pp. 7762-7770.
Murgatroyd, C., Wigger, A., Spengler, D., Landgraf, R. (2003) 'Molecular-genetic dissection of anxiety/depression: From HAB phenotype to functional SNP.' Pharmacopsychiatry, 36(05)
El-Agnaf, O.M.A., Curran, M.D., Wallace, A., Middleton, D., Murgatroyd, C., Curtis, A., Perry, R., Jaros, E. (1998) 'Mutation screening in exons 3 and 4 of α-synuclein in sporadic Parkinson's and sporadic and familial dementia with Lewy bodies cases.' NeuroReport, 9(17) pp. 3925-3927.
-
Conference papers
Tomova, A.M., Hughes, J., Hunter, H., Brison, D., Ashworth, J., Murgatroyd, C., Carroll, M. (2020) 'The role of vasopressin in human sperm function.' 9/1/2020 - 11/1/2020.
Berneau, S.C., Shackleton, J., Nevin, C.L.A.R.E., Altakroni, B., PAPADOPOULOS, G., Horne, G., Brison, D., Murgatroyd, C., Carroll, M. (2019) 'Testing association of sperm telomere length with semen parameters, clinical outcomes and lifestyle factors in human normozoospermic samples.' In Fertility 2019. Birmingham, UK, 2/1/2019 - 5/1/2019.
Ward, L., Nightingale, J., Paltoglou, A., Cordero, M., Murgatroyd, C. (2018) 'The Effect of Stress on Prefrontal Activity and Emotion Recognition, Pilot Study.' In BPS Psychobiology Annual Scientific Meeting. BPS Psychobiology Annual Scientific Meeting, Windermere, 5/9/2018 - 7/9/2018.
Nevin, C., Altakroni, B., Povey, A., Murgatroyd, C., Brison, D.R., Carroll, M. (2015) 'Environmental and lifestyle factors associated with sperm DNA methylation.' In 31st Annual Meeting of the European-Society-of-Human-Reproduction-and-Embryology (ESHRE). 30. Lisbon, PORTUGAL, 14/6/2015 - 17/6/2015. OXFORD UNIV PRESS, pp. 172-172.
Carroll, M., Nevin, C., McNeil, L., Murgatroyd, C., Brison, D., Ahmed, N. (2015) 'Using an in vitro system to investigate advanced glycation endproduct-induced damage in human sperm.' 18. Taylor & Francis: STM, Behavioural Science and Public Health Titles, pp. 295-295.
Taliefar, M., Nephew, B.C., Murgatroyd, C.A. (2014) 'SOCIAL STRESS ALTERS GENE EXPRESSION IN A TRANSGENERATIONAL RODENT MODEL OF POSTPARTUM MOOD DISORDERS.' 24.
Murgatroyd, C. (2010) 'EPIGENETIC PROGRAMMING OF VASOPRESSIN BY EARLY-LIFE STRESS.' 44. CHURCHILL LIVINGSTONE JOURNAL PRODUCTION DEPT, ROBERT STEVENSON HOUSE, 1-3 BAXTERS PLACE, LEITH WALK, EDINBURGH EH1 3AF, MIDLOTHIAN, SCOTLAND, pp. 529-529.
Murgatroyd, C., Patchev, A., Fischer, D., Almeida, O., Spengler, D. (2007) 'Epigenetic programming of sustained AVP expression by early-life stress in mice.' In 25th Symposium of the Arbeitsgemeinschaft-Neuropsychopharmakologie-und-Pharmakopsychiatrie. 40. Munich, GERMANY, 3/10/2007 - 6/10/2007. GEORG THIEME VERLAG KG, pp. 214-214.
Murgatroyd, C., Wigger, A., Spengler, D., Landgraf, R. (2003) 'Molecular-genetic dissection of anxiety/depression: From HAB phenotype to functional SNP.' In 23rd Symposium of the Arbeitsgemeinschaft-Neuropsychopharmakologie-und-Pharmakopsychiatrie (AGNP). 36. MUNICH, GERMANY, 8/10/2003 - 10/10/2003. GEORG THIEME VERLAG KG, pp. 250-251.
Murgatroyd, C., Rujescu, D., Wigger, A., Landgraf, R. (2002) 'Polymorphisms underlying innate anxiety.' 114. WILEY-LISS DIV JOHN WILEY & SONS INC, 111 RIVER ST, HOBOKEN, NJ 07030 USA, pp. 839-839.
-
Other
Murgatroyd, C.A. (2005) Impaired repression at a vasopressin promoter polymorphism in a rat model of trait anxiety and depression.