Professor
- BS, DVM—University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
- PhD—University of Missouri
CONTACT
- Email: rosenfeldc@missouri.edu
- Phone: (573) 882-5131
- Office: W123 Veterinary Medicine Building
TEACHING
- VBSCI 5100 Veterinary Neurosciences
- VBSCI 5500 Small Animal Gross Anatomy
- VBSCI 5502 Veterinary Endocrinology
- VBSCI 5503 Veterinary Histology
- VBSCI 5508 Pharmacology – Exotic Animal Pharmacology Lecture
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Dr. Cheryl Rosenfeld was awarded her BS and DVM degrees with high honors from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. She then earned her PhD degree from the University of Missouri with an emphasis on endocrinology and reproductive biology. Currently, she is a professor at the University of Missouri College of Veterinary Medicine. She was the first women president for the United States Developmental Origins of Adult Health and Disease (DOHaD) Society. Dr. Rosenfeld edited and co-authored the foundational textbook, The Epigenome and Developmental Origins of Health and Disease, which won the 2016 British Medical Association (BMA) Book Award for Basic and Clinical Sciences. Dr. Rosenfeld is internationally recognized for her distinguished contributions into the links between maternal nutritional changes, placental pathologies, and how these can impact long-term risk for neurobehavioral disorders, such as autism spectrum disorders (ASD). Her laboratory has done pioneering work establishing how changes in the placenta brought upon by the mother can influence fetal brain development. In 2021, she was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Medical Sciences. Dr. Rosenfeld is a licensed veterinarian in Illinois and Missouri.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
A full of list of Dr. Rosenfeld’s publications can be found at:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=Rosenfeld+Cheryl+S&sort=date
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=qluXCCYAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Cheryl-Rosenfeld
Her current H-index is 56 and i10-index is 117.
- Jašarević E, Sieli PT, Twellman EE, Welsh TH Jr, Schachtman TR, Roberts RM, Geary DC, Rosenfeld CS. From the Cover: Disruption of adult expression of sexually selected traits by early exposure to bisphenol A. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2011; 108:11715-11720. PMID: 21709224. PMCID: PMC3136312. Highlighted in PNAS, 108:11305-11306. This work was featured on: https://www.cnn.com/2011/HEALTH/06/27/bpa.mice.exposure/ and https://www.goodmorningamerica.com/wellness/story/plastic-compound-bpa-undermine-masculinity-13940540
- Rosenfeld CS. Editor and Author for The Epigenome and Developmental Origins of Health and Disease. Elsevier, 2015. ISBN: 978-0-12-801383-0. First prize winner for a British Medical Association (BMA) Medical Book Award in the Basic and Clinical Sciences Category: https://www.bma.org.uk/library/medical-book-awards/winners. This book is ranked by Amazon as one of the top books in the Genetics Category.
- Authored chapters:Chapter 5: Perinatal neurohormonal programming and endocrine disruptionChapter 24: Introduction to Moms in Motion
- Chapter 26: Informational resources for developmental origins of health and disease research
- Rosenfeld CS. Sex-specific placental responses in fetal development. Endocrinology. 2015 Oct: 156(10):3422-3434
- Manshack LK, Conard CM, Johnson SA, Alex JM, Bryan SJ, Deem SL, Holliday DK, Ellersieck MR, Rosenfeld CS. Effects of developmental exposure to bisphenol A and ethinyl estradiol on spatial navigational learning and memory in painted turtles (Chrysemys picta). Hormones and Behavior, 2016; epub. doi: 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2016.07.009. This work has been featured on the CBS News Page: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/bpa-plastics-chemical-can-make-male-turtles-act-like-females/.
- Manshack LK, Conard CM, Bryan SJ, Deem SL, Holliday DK, Bivens NJ, Givan SA, Rosenfeld CS. Transcriptomic alterations in the brain of painted turtles (Chrysemys picta) developmentally exposed to bisphenol A or ethinyl estradiol. Physiological Genomics, 2017; 49:201-215. Chosen by the Editor-in-Chief to be featured on the online cover for this journal.
- Rosenfeld CS and Hoffmann F (co-editors). Neuroendocrine Regulation of Animal Vocalization. 1st Edition. Mechanisms and Anthropogenic Factors in Animal Communication. Elsevier 2020. ISBN: 9780128151600. Authored Chapters:
- Chapter 21 Rosenfeld CS and Schenk AS. Endocrine disruptors and potential effects on vocalization behaviors in rodents and other species.Chapter 22 Rosenfeld CS and Denslow ND. Measures to curb endocrine disrupting chemicals in the United States.
- Chapter 26 Rosenfeld CS and Hofmann F. Final thoughts on understanding animal vocalizations in the 21st Century.
- Mao J, Jain A, Denslow ND, Nouri MZ, Chen S, Wang T, Zhu N, Koh J, Sarma SJ, Sumner BW, Lei Z, Sumner LW, Bivens NJ, Roberts RM, Tuteja G, Rosenfeld CS. Bisphenol A and bisphenol S disruptions of the mouse placenta and potential effects on the placenta-brain axis. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA. 2020;117(9):4642-52. Epub 2020/02/20. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1919563117. PMID: 32071231; PMCID: PMC7060676.
- Rosenfeld CS. The placenta-brain-axis. J Neurosci Res. 2021 Jan;99(1):271-283. doi: 10.1002/jnr.24603.
- Lyu Z, Kinkade JA, Bivens NJ, Roberts RM, Joshi T, Rosenfeld CS. Effects of oxycodone on placental lineages: Evidence from the transcriptome profile of mouse trophoblast giant cells. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2024; 121:e2412349121.
- Ellenberger DT, Herrington RTB, Seda SE, Lambert AN, Rosenfeld CS. Effects of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRI) on the placenta. Biol Reprod 2025, Jun 28:ioaf141. doi: 10.1093/biolre/ioaf141.