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Monthly Seminar Series – Dr. Sissy Wamaitha & Dr. Sandra Orsulic
BSRB 483Dr. Sissy Wamaitha will expand upon defining the cell and molecular origins of the primate ovarian reserve. Dr. Sandra Orsulic will be discussing aging-related precancer changes in the fallopian tube.
Career Development Sessions with Dr. Eynav Accortt, Maternal Mental Health Expert
BSRB 483Come hear about Dr. Accortt's fascinating career trajectory in reproductive psychology! Eynav Accortt, PhD, is a clinical psychologist specializing in perinatal mental health. Her research focuses on mood and anxiety disorders during the female life course and in response to chronic illness.
Career Development Sessions With Dr. Yalda Afshar, Physician-Scientist in Maternal Fetal Medicine
BSRB 483Come 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. Andrew Goldstein & Dr. Alec Szlachta-McGinn
BSRB 483Dr. Andrew Goldstein will investigate prostate luminal secretory metabolism and its regulation through puberty and aging. Dr. Alec Szlachta-McGinn will be discussing the role of the urinary microbiome in bladder pain syndrome.
Monthly Seminar Series – Dr. Elsie Jacobsen & Olivia Scott
BSRB 401Dr. 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 StatesPlease 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...
Perspectives on Periods: Joy, Stigma, and Disgust
BSRB 483Sisi Peng shares her current work with the Haselton Lab studying attitudes toward periods in social media, surveys, and an in-lab experiment.
Making eggs and sperm in the lab: 21st century bioethics and the rise of new reproductive futures
Brocher Foundation , SwitzerlandOrganized 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...
Monthly Seminar Series – Dr. Veena Sangkhae – “Iron Pathobiology in Pregnancy”
BSRB 483Dr. Veena Sangkhae will be discussing endocrine regulation of iron homeostasis in pregnancy and how perturbations in these regulatory mechanisms can result in adverse pregnancy solutions.
Monthly Seminar Series – Aditya Pimplaskar – “Leveraging polygenic scores to investigate the genetics of perinatal depression”
BSRB 483Aditya Pimplaskar will be discussing his work in analyzing a broader perinatal depression phenotype in various health system-linked biobanks, ultimately leveraging clinical and genetic data for risk prediction.
Monthly Seminar Series – Ariel Hart – “I wanted to be able to surrender: Black women’s reflections on seeking out and receiving care in a Black-Led Birth Center”
ZoomAriel Hart will be discussing findings from their ethnography of a local Black-led birth center as an alternative to dominant allopathic pregnancy, birth and postpartum care.