Sarah Kimmins PhD

Dr. Kimmins received her Ph.D. from Dalhousie University in 2003 and completed her post-doctoral training at the Institute of Genetique at the Biology Molecular at Cellulare in Strasbourg, France. She was appointed to the Department of Animal Science in the Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences in September of 2005 and is a tenured Associate Professor.

She is an associate member of the Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Faculty of Medicine at McGill. She holds a Tier II Canada Research Chair in Epigenetics, Reproduction and Development and is the Associate Director for the McGill Center for the Study of Reproduction (2014-2017). Her independent and collaborative research programs have received peer reviewed funding from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), Genome Quebec, Fonds québéc de la recherché sur la nature et les technologies (FQRNT) and the National Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC). She has published in international general interest and field specific journals including: Science, Nature Communications, Nature Methods, FASEB and Biology of Reproduction.

She is a frequent invited speaker with over 50 presentations including international meetings such as the American Society for Andrology, Keystone Symposia, the Society for the Study of Reproduction and Gordon Research Conference serie.