Audrey  Gaskins

My research focuses on understanding the relation of environmental, dietary, and lifestyle factors with reproductive health in men and women. Although the outcomes I study are vast, ranging from pubertal development to reproductive senescence, the majority of my work is focused on fertility. An additional motivation underlying my research is better understanding the biological mechanisms through which diet and environmental exposures affect fertility, as this strengthens the plausibility of associations and helps establish causality. Therefore, much of my work has focused on couples undergoing assisted reproductive technologies (ART) in whom routine biospecimens are collected and many key reproductive processes are externalized, enabling the study of intermediate outcomes to examine potential biological mediators.