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Biography
Dr Ching Tat Lai graduated from his Bachelor of Science in biochemistry and molecular biology in 1996 at UWA, where he went on to complete his Post Graduate Diploma, Masters and PhD in the Hartmann Human Lactation Laboratory.
Funding overview
Medela
Current projects
Collaborators
Professor Paula Meier from The University of Illinois, Chicago (Currently in Progress)
Professor Paula Meier from The University of Illinois, Chicago (Currently in Progress)
Research
Dr Lai's overall research is on milk production and the physiology of breast feeding, but he is currently researching expression regimes and milk production over time for pre-term babies. There are an increasing number of pre-term babies being born, and with medical advances a greater number of pre-term babies are able to survive, however the appropriate nutrition for these babies remains unknown. A pre-term baby has a very different nutritional environment to a fetus of the same age, which will still be receiving all its nutrition via the placenta. The effects of this change on pre-term babies are not yet known, but it is suspected that breast milk is extremely important for them. The exact composition of breastmilk varies between individual mothers and has an extremely complex composition which consists of a lot of biologically active compounds that help with growth and development.
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Research Output
DNA extraction method influences human milk bacterial profiles
Cheema, A. S., Stinson, L. F., Lai, C. T., Geddes, D. T. & Payne, M. S., 12 Jul 2020, In : Journal of Applied Microbiology.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Human milk immunomodulatory proteins are related to development of infant body composition during the first year of lactation
Gridneva, Z., Lai, C. T., Rea, A., Tie, W. J., Ward, L. C., Murray, K., Hartmann, P. E. & Geddes, D. T., 21 May 2020, In : Pediatric Research.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Short-term rate of milk synthesis and expression interval of preterm mothers
Lai, C. T., Rea, A., Mitoulas, L. R., Kent, J. C., Simmer, K., Hartmann, P. E. & Geddes, D., 1 May 2020, In : Archives of Disease in Childhood: Fetal and Neonatal Edition. 105, 3, p. F266-F269Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Open Access
Carbohydrates in Human Milk and Body Composition of Term Infants during the First 12 Months of Lactation
Gridneva, Z., Rea, A., Tie, W. J., Lai, C. T., Kugananthan, S., Ward, L. C., Murray, K., Hartmann, P. E. & Geddes, D. T., 28 Jun 2019, In : Nutrients. 11, 7Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Open Access
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Comparison of maternal milk ejection characteristics during pumping using infant-derived and 2-phase vacuum patterns
Gardner, H., Kent, J. C., Lai, C. T. & Geddes, D. T., 6 Nov 2019, In : International Breastfeeding Journal. 14, 1, 47.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Open Access