Dr. Adam J Watkins is an Associate Professor in Reproductive and Developmental Physiology at the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Nottingham. He conducted his Ph.D in the Laboratory of Professor Tom Fleming at the University of Southampton. Here, his research focused on investigating the impact of mouse embryo culture and environmental conditions on long-term adult health. In 2011, he was awarded a University of Nottingham Advanced Research Fellowship to investigate the impact of paternal nutrition on sperm quality and adult offspring cardiovascular and metabolic health. Under this 2-year fellowship, he demonstrated that LPD fed to male mice prior to conception induced genome-wide hypomethylation in sperm, offspring hypotension, vascular dysfunction, glucose intolerance, and elevated adiposity. In April 2014, he was awarded an Aston Research Centre for Healthy Ageing Research Fellow within Aston University to continue and develop his investigations into the impact of parental nutrition on offspring health. His current research focuses on the impact of poor paternal diet on sperm quality and seminal fluid composition and the discrete effects that these have on embryo development, foetal growth and skeletal formation, and adult offspring cardiovascular and metabolic health in a mouse model.