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.
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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
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.
Monthly Seminar Series – Dr. Vibha Singhal – “Reproductive and Next Generation Effects of Obesity Treatments”
BSRB 483Dr. 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
Monthly Seminar Series: Shirley Zhang – “Heritable mutations in key prostate development gene and prostate health”
BSRB 483Shirley 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
Distinguished Speaker Series: Elizabeth Dias
California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI)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