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.
Dr. 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.
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.
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
Sisi Peng shares her current work with the Haselton Lab studying attitudes toward periods in social media, surveys, and an in-lab experiment.
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
Dr. 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.
Aditya 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.
Ariel 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.
Dr. Singhal’s passion involves improving outcomes of obesity management via personalized treatments. She directs the FIT for Health pediatric clinic, which provides pharmacological and surgical treatments for children and adolescents with obesity while optimizing the delivery of efficient and evidence-based care.
Shirley Zhang is a Ph.D. candidate at UCLA studying ancestry-associated prostate cancer risk and the related change in prostate composition. Shirley's project is to understand the impact of heritable mutations on prostate development and the subsequent problems on fertility.
Please join us for this timely event in which Elizabeth Dias, the New York Times national religion correspondent, will be discussing her bestselling book, "The Fall of Roe: The Rise of a New America," co-authored with Lisa Lerer. Opening remarks will be provided by Dr. Tracy Johnson, dean of UCLA Division of Life Sciences.
