Dr Barbara Meyer

  • Honorary Senior Lecturer (School of Cardiovascular & Metabolic Health)

Research interests

Associate Professor Barbara Meyer from the School of Health Sciences, University of Wollongong, Wollongong (just south of Sydney in NSW), Australia, is an Honorary Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Glasgow. 

Barbara is the current Director of the Metabolic Research Centre at the University of Wollongong and their primary focus is on lipidomics from basic science through to clinical trials (University of Wollongon Research Profile). 

Barbara is also the current President of the Nutrition Society of Australia (NSA) for a 2 year term (2012-2013), after which she will become Past President of NSA for a further 2 years (Nutrition Society of Australia  http://www.nsa.asn.au).

Barbara has a keen research interest in omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids and their relationship to health and various disease states.  Barbara collaborates with Dr Dilys Freeman in the area of lipid and fatty acid metabolism in healthy and complicated pregnancies such as pre-eclampsia. 

Publications

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2020

Zamai, N., Cortie, C. H., Jarvie, E. M., Onyiaodike, C. C., Alrehaili, A., Francois, M., Freeman, D. J. and Meyer, B. J. (2020) In pregnancy, maternal HDL is specifically enriched in, and carries the highest proportion of, DHA in plasma. Prostaglandins, Leukotrienes and Essential Fatty Acids, 163, 102209. (doi: 10.1016/j.plefa.2020.102209)

2017

Meyer, B. J. and Freeman, D. J. (2017) Maternal plasma docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) concentrations increase at the critical time of neural tube closure. Fats of Life,

2016

Meyer, B. J., Onyiaodike, C. C., Brown, E. A., Jordan, F., Murray, H., Nibbs, R. J. B. , Sattar, N. , Lyall, H., Nelson, S. M. and Freeman, D. J. (2016) Maternal plasma DHA levels increase prior to 29 days post-LH surge in women undergoing frozen embryo transfer: a prospective, observational study of human pregnancy. Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism, 101(4), pp. 1745-1753. (doi: 10.1210/jc.2015-3089) (PMID:26895389)

2012

Mackay, V.A. et al. (2012) Preeclampsia is associated with compromized maternal synthesis of long chain polyunsaturated fatty acids leading to offspring deficiency. Hypertension, 60(4), pp. 1078-1085. (doi: 10.1161/HYPERTENSIONAHA.112.197897)

2008

Meyer, B. and Freeman, D. (2008) Role of omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids in pregnancy: need for increasing awareness among women. Agro Food Industry Hi-Tech, 19(4), pp. 17-19.

2007

Stewart, F., Rodie, V., Ramsay, J., Greer, I., Freeman, D. and Meyer, B. (2007) Longitudinal assessment of erythrocyte fatty acid composition throughout pregnancy and post partum. Lipids, 42, pp. 335-344. (doi: 10.1007/s11745-006-3005-5)

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Articles

Zamai, N., Cortie, C. H., Jarvie, E. M., Onyiaodike, C. C., Alrehaili, A., Francois, M., Freeman, D. J. and Meyer, B. J. (2020) In pregnancy, maternal HDL is specifically enriched in, and carries the highest proportion of, DHA in plasma. Prostaglandins, Leukotrienes and Essential Fatty Acids, 163, 102209. (doi: 10.1016/j.plefa.2020.102209)

Meyer, B. J. and Freeman, D. J. (2017) Maternal plasma docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) concentrations increase at the critical time of neural tube closure. Fats of Life,

Meyer, B. J., Onyiaodike, C. C., Brown, E. A., Jordan, F., Murray, H., Nibbs, R. J. B. , Sattar, N. , Lyall, H., Nelson, S. M. and Freeman, D. J. (2016) Maternal plasma DHA levels increase prior to 29 days post-LH surge in women undergoing frozen embryo transfer: a prospective, observational study of human pregnancy. Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism, 101(4), pp. 1745-1753. (doi: 10.1210/jc.2015-3089) (PMID:26895389)

Mackay, V.A. et al. (2012) Preeclampsia is associated with compromized maternal synthesis of long chain polyunsaturated fatty acids leading to offspring deficiency. Hypertension, 60(4), pp. 1078-1085. (doi: 10.1161/HYPERTENSIONAHA.112.197897)

Meyer, B. and Freeman, D. (2008) Role of omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids in pregnancy: need for increasing awareness among women. Agro Food Industry Hi-Tech, 19(4), pp. 17-19.

Stewart, F., Rodie, V., Ramsay, J., Greer, I., Freeman, D. and Meyer, B. (2007) Longitudinal assessment of erythrocyte fatty acid composition throughout pregnancy and post partum. Lipids, 42, pp. 335-344. (doi: 10.1007/s11745-006-3005-5)

This list was generated on Thu Nov 21 03:35:57 2024 GMT.

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