Dr. Catherine VandeVoort is a Professor in the School of Medicine and a Core Scientist at the California National Primate Research Center. Her research focuses on human reproduction including sperm biology and cryopreservation, oocyte maturation and early embryo culture, and reproductive toxicology.

Positions at UC Davis

• Professor, School of Medicine
• Core Scientist, Reproductive Sciences and Regenerative Medicine Unit, Ca National Primate Center

Major Research Papers

Laufer BI, Hasegawa Y, Zhang Z, Hogrefe CE, Del Rosso LA, Haapanen L, Hwang H, Bauman MD, Van de Water J, Taha AY, Slupsky CM, Golub MS, Capitanio JP, VandeVoort CA, Walker CK, LaSalle JM. Multi-omic brain and behavioral correlates of cell-free fetal DNA methylation in macaque maternal obesity models. Nat Commun. 2022 Sep 21;13(1):5538. doi: 10.1038/s41467-022-33162-7. PMID: 36130949; PMCID: PMC9492781.

Roodgar M, Suchy FP, Nguyen LH, Bajpai VK, Sinha R, Vilches-Moure JG, Van Bortle K, Bhadury J, Metwally A, Jiang L, Jian R, Chiang R, Oikonomopoulos A, Wu JC, Weissman IL, Mankowski JL, Holmes S, Loh KM, Nakauchi H, VandeVoort CA, Snyder MP. Chimpanzee and pig-tailed macaque iPSCs: Improved culture and generation of primate cross-species embryos. Cell Rep. 2022 Aug 30;40(9):111264. doi: 10.1016/j.celrep.2022.111264. PMID: 36044843; PMCID: PMC10075238.

Hasegawa Y, Zhang Z, Taha AY, Capitanio JP, Bauman MD, Golub MS, Van de Water J, VandeVoort CA, Walker CK, Slupsky CM. Impact of Maternal Obesity on the Gestational Metabolome and Infant Metabolome, Brain, and Behavioral Development in Rhesus Macaques. Metabolites. 2022 Aug 19;12(8):764. doi: 10.3390/metabo12080764. PMID: 36005637; PMCID: PMC9415340.

Ruebel ML, Zambelli F, Schall PZ, Barragan M, VandeVoort CA, Vassena R, Latham KE. Shared aspects of mRNA expression associated with oocyte maturation failure in humans and rhesus monkeys indicating compromised oocyte quality. Physiol Genomics. 2021 Apr 1;53(4):137-149. doi: 10.1152/physiolgenomics.00155.2020. Epub 2021 Feb 8. PMID: 33554756; PMCID: PMC8083967.

Schall PZ, Ruebel ML, Midic U, VandeVoort CA, Latham KE. Temporal patterns of gene regulation and upstream regulators contributing to major developmental transitions during Rhesus macaque preimplantation development. Mol Hum Reprod. 2019 Mar 1;25(3):111-123. doi: 10.1093/molehr/gaz001. PMID: 30698740; PMCID: PMC6417155