Katherine M. Kennedy
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Publications

2026

Maternal diet-induced excess adiposity programs multisystem vulnerability that is unmasked by postnatal infection challenge

Tatiane A Ribeiro, Anastasia V Warmington, Erica Yeo, Christian J Bellissimo, Brianna K E Kennelly, Braeden Cowbrough, Patrycja A Jazwiec, Jessica A Breznik, Erica N DeJong, Katherine M Kennedy, Janine Strehmel, Madison McKellar, Ariana E Lewis, Dawn M E Bowdish, Deborah M Sloboda

Scientific Reports

Longitudinal modelling of microbiome subcommunities reveals parity-dependent dynamics during pregnancy and postpartum

Katherine M Kennedy, S Fernando, Stephanie A Atkinson, Michael G Surette, Pratheepa Jeganathan, Deborah M Sloboda

Gut Microbes

Maternal overweight and obesity during pregnancy and sex-dependent dysregulation of the materno-fetal stress axis

Thorsten Braun, Marie Hofmann, Rebecca Rancourt, Julia Sommer, Alexandra Kühn, Loreen Ehrlich, Thomas Ziska, Kerstin Melchior, Karen Schellong, Wolfgang Henrich, Sonja Entringer, Katherine Margret Kennedy, Andreas Plagemann, Deborah Magdalena Sloboda

International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics

Placental hypoxia and oxidative stress responses to smokeless tobacco use in Alaska Native participants in the MAW study

Katherine M Kennedy, Jessica G Wallace, Kathryn Koller, Christi A Patten, Timothy K Thomas, Neil J Murphy, Christie A Flanagan, Christine A Hughes, Alison C Holloway, Deborah Sloboda

Canadian Journal of Physiology and Pharmacology

2025

Delivery mode, birth order, and sex impact neonatal microbial colonization

Katherine M Kennedy, Andreas Plagemann, Julia Sommer, Marie Hofmann, Wolfgang Henrich, Michael G Surette, Thorsten Braun, Deborah M Sloboda

Gut Microbes

Maternal high-fat, high-sucrose diet-induced excess adiposity is linked to placental hypoxia and disruption of fetoplacental immune homeostasis in late gestation

Christian J Bellissimo, Tatiane A Ribeiro, Erica Yeo, Patrycja A Jazwiec, Howard Luo, Jaskiran Bains, Katherine M Kennedy, Dawn M E Bowdish, Deborah M Sloboda

Biology of Reproduction

Maternal diet‐induced excess adiposity in mice disrupts mid‐gestation decidual immune and vascular homeostasis without impairing spiral artery remodeling

Christian J Bellissimo, Erica Yeo, Tatiane A Ribeiro, Patrycja A Jazwiec, Chethana Ellewela, Jaskiran Bains, Ariana E Lewis, Katherine M Kennedy, Ali A Ashkar, Alexander G Beristain, Dawn M E Bowdish, Deborah M Sloboda

Acta physiologica (Oxford, England)

Mapping the intersection of demographics, behavior, and government response to the COVID-19 pandemic: an observational cohort study

Katherine M Kennedy, Erica N DeJong, Alexander W Y Chan, Allison E Kennedy, Alainna Jamal, Michael G Surette, Maggie J Larché, Mark Larché, Nathan Hambly, Kjetil Ask, Stephanie A Atkinson, Paul D McNicholas, Allison McGeer, Brenda L Coleman, Dawn M E Bowdish

BMC global and public health

2024

Playing it safe? An evolutionary life history theory perspective on Canadian adolescent play during the COVID-19 pandemic

Luseadra Joy McKerracher, Katherine M Kennedy, Jordan Chin, Joanne Di Maio, Tavishi Weeraratne, Megane Bouchard, Devon Malhotra, Shania Bhopa, Kathleen Oliver, Sara Dickinson, Mary E Barker, Polly Hardy-Johnson, Deborah M Sloboda

International journal of play

2023

Questioning the fetal microbiome illustrates pitfalls of low-biomass microbial studies

Katherine M Kennedy, Marcus C de Goffau, Maria Elisa Perez-Muñoz, Marie-Claire Arrieta, Fredrik Bäckhed, Peer Bork, Thorsten Braun, Frederic D Bushman, Joel Dore, Willem M de Vos, Ashlee M Earl, Jonathan A Eisen, Michal A Elovitz, Stephanie C Ganal-Vonarburg, Michael G Gänzle, Wendy S Garrett, Lindsay J Hall, Mathias W Hornef, Curtis Huttenhower, Liza Konnikova, Sarah Lebeer, Andrew J Macpherson, Ruth C Massey, Alice Carolyn McHardy, Omry Koren, Trevor D Lawley, Ruth E Ley, Liam O'Mahony, Paul W O'Toole, Eric G Pamer, Julian Parkhill, Jeroen Raes, Thomas Rattei, Anne Salonen, Eran Segal, Nicola Segata, Fergus Shanahan, Deborah M Sloboda, Gordon C S Smith, Harry Sokol, Tim D Spector, Michael G Surette, Gerald W Tannock, Alan W Walker, Moran Yassour, Jens Walter

Nature

Resilience in adolescence during the COVID-19 crisis in Canada

J Chin, J Di Maio, T Weeraratne, K M Kennedy, L K Oliver, M Bouchard, D Malhotra, J Habashy, J Ding, S Bhopa, S Strommer, P Hardy-Johnson, M Barker, D M Sloboda, L McKerracher

BMC public health

Parity modulates impact of BMI and gestational weight gain on gut microbiota in human pregnancy

Katherine M Kennedy, Andreas Plagemann, Julia Sommer, Marie Hofmann, Wolfgang Henrich, Jon F R Barrett, Michael G Surette, Stephanie Atkinson, Thorsten Braun, Deborah M Sloboda

Gut microbes

Probiotics in pregnancy: Inequities in knowledge exchange, attitudes, and use of probiotics in a socio-demographically diverse, cross-sectional survey sample of pregnant Canadians

L McKerracher, T Moffat, M E Barker, B Murray-Davis, K M Kennedy, C J Bellissimo, E Yeo, D Høtoft, L Zalot, V Parlette, S A Atkinson, D M Sloboda

PharmaNutrition

Intestinal permeability and peripheral immune cell composition are altered by pregnancy and adiposity at mid- and late-gestation in the mouse

Tatiane A Ribeiro, Jessica A Breznik, Katherine M Kennedy, Erica Yeo, Brianna K E Kennelly, Patrycja A Jazwiec, Violet S Patterson, Christian J Bellissimo, Fernando F Anhê, Jonathan D Schertzer, Dawn M E Bowdish, Deborah M Sloboda

PloS one

2022

Paternal obesity induces placental hypoxia and sex-specific impairments in placental vascularization and offspring metabolism

Patrycja A Jazwiec, Violet S Patterson, Tatiane A Ribeiro, Erica Yeo, Katherine M Kennedy, Paulo C F Mathias, Jim J Petrik, Deborah M Sloboda

Biology of reproduction

2021

Over-celling fetal microbial exposure

Katherine M Kennedy, Christian J Bellissimo, Jessica A Breznik, Jon Barrett, Thorsten Braun, Frederic D Bushman, Marcus De Goffau, Michal A Elovitz, Markus M Heimesaat, Liza Konnikova, Omry Koren, Samuel Parry, Laura Rossi, Nicola Segata, Rebecca A Simmons, Michael G Surette, Jens Walter, Deborah M Sloboda

Cell

Fetal meconium does not have a detectable microbiota before birth

Katherine M Kennedy, Max J Gerlach, Thomas Adam, Markus M Heimesaat, Laura Rossi, Michael G Surette, Deborah M Sloboda, Thorsten Braun

Nature microbiology

Exposure to high fructose corn syrup during adolescence in the mouse alters hepatic metabolism and the microbiome in a sex-specific manner

Shazia F Bhat, Sara E Pinney, Katherine M Kennedy, Cole R McCourt, Miles A Mundy, Michael G Surette, Deborah M Sloboda, Rebecca A Simmons

The Journal of Physiology

2020

Placental Metabolomics for Assessment of Sex-specific Differences in Fetal Development During Normal Gestation

Michelle Saoi, Katherine M Kennedy, Wajiha Gohir, Deborah M Sloboda, Philip Britz-McKibbin

Scientific reports

2019

High-fat diet intake modulates maternal intestinal adaptations to pregnancy and results in placental hypoxia, as well as altered fetal gut barrier proteins and immune markers

Wajiha Gohir, Katherine M Kennedy, Jessica G Wallace, Michelle Saoi, Christian J Bellissimo, Philip Britz-McKibbin, Jim J Petrik, Michael G Surette, Deborah M Sloboda

The journal of physiology

2017

Perinatal Programming of Disease Risk: Maternal, Microbial, and Metabolic Influences

Katherine Kennedy, Johanna Selvaratnam, Deborah Sloboda

The 116th Abbott Nutrition Research Conference

2014

Evaluating bias of illumina-based bacterial 16S rRNA gene profiles

Katherine Kennedy, Michael W Hall, Michael D J Lynch, Gabriel Moreno-Hagelsieb, Josh D Neufeld

Applied and environmental microbiology

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