Dr Judith Eckert DVM/PhD
Associate Professor in Early Development

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Dr Judith Eckert is Associate Professor in Early Development within Medicine at the University of Southampton.
Dr Eckert was appointed to the Faculty of Medicine in 2001. After qualifying as a veterinarian in 1992 at the Veterinary School in Hanover, Germany, she finished her DVM/PhD in 1994 there and at the FAL Institute for Animal Breeding and Behaviour Mariensee, Neustadt, Germany. She qualified as specialist for animal reproductive medicine in 1998 and held postdoctoral positions in Germany and New Zealand before coming to Southampton in 1998. In 2001 she was appointed as Lecturer and 2008 as Senior Lecturer in Medicine.
Dr Eckert leads a group that investigates regulation of very early mammalian development before implantation and how these processes adapt to prevailing external cues such as for example maternal diet or in vitro culture. Thus her research is widely relevant to both clinical and basic scientists involved in obstetrics and gynaecology or reproductive technologies and long-term health outcomes. Her group is based at the Southampton General Hospital campus and forms part of a large consortium comprising of both clinical and basic scientists with an interest in development and disease. Potential students, post-doctoral scientists or clinician scientists who are interested in joining her group are encouraged to contact Dr Eckert.
She is also part of the Centre for Human Development, Stem Cells and Regeneration (http://www.stemcells.org.uk) and has strong links with the Molecular and Cell Biology group in the Institute for Life Sciences.
Qualifications
Veterinarian, Veterinary School, Hanover, Germany (1992)
DVM/PhD, Veterinary School, Hanover, Germany (1994)
Specialist for animal reproductive medicine, Lower Saxony, Germany (1998)
Appointments held
PhD Research student, Institute for animal breeding, Mariensee (FAL), Department of Biotechnology, Germany (1991-1994)
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Institute for animal breeding, Mariensee (FAL), Department of Biotechnology, Germany (1994-1998)
Postdoctoral Fellow, AgResearch, Dairy and Beef Division, Ruakura Research Centre, Hamilton, New Zealand (1996)
Senior Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Southampton, School of Biological Sciences, Division of Cell Sciences, Southampton (1998-2001)
Lecturer, University of Southampton, School of Medicine, DOHaD Division, Southampton (2001-2008)
Senior Lecturer, University of Southampton, School of Medicine, DOHaD Division, Southampton (2008-present)