Kalie Beckers, PhD, DVM

Instructor of Medicine

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Kalie Beckers, DVM, PhD

Education & Affiliations

MS, Southeastern Louisiana University, 2017
PhD, Louisiana State University, 2023
DVM, Louisiana State University, 2024

Research

Primary Research Interests

Nonhuman primate reproductive medicine 
Nonhuman primate neonatology 
Nonhuman primate maternal/fetal interface

Contributions

Key Publications

Beckers KF, Sones JL. Maternal microbiome and the hypertensive disorder of pregnancy, preeclampsia. Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol. 2020 Jan 1;318(1):H1-H10. doi: 10.1152/ajpheart.00469.2019. Epub 2019 Oct 18. PMID: 31626558. 

Beckers KF, Schulz CJ, Flanagan JP, Adams DM, Gomes VCL, Liu CC, Childers GW, Sones JL. Sex-specific effects of maternal weight loss on offspring cardiometabolic outcomes in the obese preeclamptic-like mouse model, BPH/5. Physiol Rep. 2022 Sep;10(17):e15444. doi: 10.14814/phy2.15444. PMID: 36065848; PMCID: PMC9446412. 

Beckers KF, Gomes VCL, Crissman KJR, Adams DM, Liu CC, Del Piero F, Butler SD, Sones JL. Cardiometabolic Phenotypic Differences in Male Offspring Born to Obese Preeclamptic-Like BPH/5 Mice. Front Pediatr. 2021 Sep 22;9:636143. doi: 10.3389/fped.2021.636143. PMID: 34631607; PMCID: PMC8493471. Beckers KF, Flanagan JP, Sones JL. 

Beckers KF, Flanagan JP, Sones JL. Microbiome and pregnancy: focus on microbial dysbiosis coupled with maternal obesity. Int J Obes (Lond). 2024 Apr;48(4):439-448. doi: 10.1038/s41366-023-01438-7. Epub 2023 Dec 25. PMID: 38145995; PMCID: PMC10978494 Beckers KF, Gomes VCL, Crissman KR, Liu CC, Schulz CJ, Childers GW, Sones JL. Metagenetic Analysis of the Pregnant Microbiome in Horses. Animals (Basel). 2023 Jun 15;13(12):1999. doi: 10.3390/ani13121999. PMID: 37370509; PMCID: PMC10295021.

View Dr. Beckers' full publications on PubMed