Vipul Batra

I am currently a postdoctoral researcher in a BBSRC-funded project on male-mediated developmental programming at The University of Sheffield. I completed a M.Sc. in System Biology and Bioinformatics at the Panjab University and a PhD in Animal Biotechnology from ICAR-NDRI, India. Duringmy doctorate, he investigated male fertility markers using data mining, gene expression, and ‘omics’ approaches to identify fertility-linked glycan, (snc)RNA and protein biomarkers. My research career spans male and female fertility, reproductive immunology, ‎sperm biology, extracellular vesicle (EV) biology, embryo ‎development, fetal growth, and transgenerational epigenetic ‎inheritance.‎ He is particularly interested in how EVs mediate ‎the transfer of environmental signals ‎from father to offspring, and how they modulate the sperm ‎epigenome in preparation for ‎fertilisation which then affects ensuing embryo, foetus and lifetime health ‎and well-being of the offspring. ‎ My current research focuses on whether extracellular vesicles (EVs) from the male reproductive tract play a role in parental programming under the Developmental Origins of Health and Disease (DOHaD) paradigm where I explore how a father’s diet influences gamete quality, embryonic development, maternal health, fetal growth, and the lifelong health of offspring using a paternal-diet mice model of metabolic dysfunction.