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Distinguished Speaker Series – L.A. County Supervisor Holly J. Mitchell

California NanoSystems Institute 570 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, United States

UCLA Center for Reproductive Science, Health and Education (CRSHE) Distinguished Speaker Series featuring L.A. County Supervisor Holly J. Mitchell Join CRSHE Director Amander Clark Ph.D., L.A. County Supervisor Holly J. Mitchell and Dr. Elaine Batchlor, M.D., M.P.H in a conversation about black maternal health and care in Los Angeles. Dr. Batchlor serves as the CEO […]

Career Development Sessions with Medical Anthropologist, Dr. Ugo Edu

BSRB 483

Come hear about Dr. Edu's inspiring career trajectory! An Assistant Professor in the African American Studies Department, Dr. Edu's scholarship focuses on reproductive and sexual health, gender, race, aesthetics, body knowledge, and body modifications. In addition to her research, she considers the incorporation of art in her scholarship and how to foster critical public engagement.

Career Development Sessions With Dr. Yalda Afshar, Physician-Scientist in Maternal Fetal Medicine

BSRB 483

Come hear about Dr. Afshar's phenomenal career trajectory in maternal fetal medicine! Dr. Afshar manages care for pregnancies complicated by cardiovascular disease and congenital heart disease. Her team focuses on clinically relevant research to improve care, access, and biological understanding toward improving the health of pregnant people and their babies.

Monthly Seminar Series – Dr. Elsie Jacobsen & Olivia Scott

BSRB 401

Dr. Elsie Jacobsen will be discussing how X-linked gene expression is regulated in the mouse and its critical role in placental development. Olivia Scott will be sharing her current work with the Afshar Lab studying a very high-risk pregnancy condition, placenta accrea.

Distinguished Speaker Series – Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz

California NanoSystems Institute 570 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, United States

Please join us for this timely event where the science of human embryos and embryo models will be explained by preeminent scientist and author Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz. Opening remarks will be provided by CRSHE’s co-director, Hannah Landecker. Thursday, October 3, 202412:00 p.m. PTReception to follow California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI)UCLA Campus Registration is required.Seating is first come […]

Making eggs and sperm in the lab: 21st century bioethics and the rise of new reproductive futures

Brocher Foundation , Switzerland

Organized by CRSHE Directors Hannah Landecker and Amander Clark, CRSHE members Robbin Jeffries Hein and Isaias Roberson, and French collaborators Anne Le Goff and Noémie Merleau-Ponty, this workshop will explore the science and ethics of in vitro gametogenesis (IVG), that is, the production of eggs and sperm from stem cells in the laboratory. Bringing together leading life […]