Past Seminars
2015
Stacey Missmer, Sc.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Biology
Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard University
“Building Resources for Multidisciplinary Advances toward Personalized Reproductive Medicine”
December 16, 2015
Gaurang Daftary, M.D.
Assistant Professor – Obstetrics and Gynecology
Mayo Clinic College of Medicine
“Epigenetics, Endometrium and Endometriosis”
October 14, 2015
Jennifer Richer, Ph.D.
Professor of Pathology
University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
“Androgen Receptors in breast Cancer: Estrogen Receptor alpha. Accomplice, Competitor, or Substitute?”
September 2, 2015
Ja-Young Kwon, Ph.D.
Visiting Assistant Professor
Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences
Reproductive Immunology Department
Yale University School of Medicine
“The Role of Trophoblasts as Immune Regulator”
July 29, 2015
Nihar Nayak, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Wayne State University
“Using animal models to study pregnancy disorders: challenges and opportunities”
May 6, 2015
2014
Yoel Sadovsky, M.D.
Director, Magee Womens Research Institute
Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences and
Microbiology and Molecular Genetics
University of Pittsburgh
“New Insights into the Maternal-Placental-Fetal Communication Interface”
November 19 and 20, 2014
Andrea Dunaif, M.D.
Charles F. Kettering Professor of Endocrinology and Metabolism
Department of Medicine
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
“The Long, Winding and Rocky Road to PCOS Genes”
September 10, 2014
Linda Schuler, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Comparative Biosciences
University of Wisconsin School of Veterinary Medicine
School of Medicine and Public Health
“Prolactin and Breast Cancer : Insights from Mouse Models”
June 3, 2014
Sun-Wei Guo, Ph.D.
Professor
Shanghai Obstetrics and Gynecology Hospital
Department of Biochemistry
Fudan University Shanghai College of Medicine
“Cracking the Enigma of Endometriosis Pathogenesis”
April 25, 2014
Soumen Paul, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Pathology
University of Kansas Medical Center
"Molecular Determinants of Trophoblast Lineage Development"
April 14, 2014
2013
Ariella Shikanov, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Biomedical Engineering
University of Michigan
“Engineering the Follicle Environment”
December 11, 2013
Zhong Wang, Ph. D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Cardiac Surgery
University of Michigan
“SWI/SNF-Mediated Epigenetic Regulation in Stem Cell Differentiation”
November, 13, 2013
Mary B. Zelinski., Ph.D.
Affiliate Associate Scientist
Division of Reproductive & Developmental Sciences
Oregon National Primate Research Center
“Oncofertility: Translational Research in Ovarian Cryopreservation, Transplantation and In Vitro Follicle Maturation”
September 12, 2013
Polani B. Seshagiri, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Molecular Reproduction,
Development and Genetics
Indian Institute of Science
“Blastocyst Hatching Phenomenon & Blastocyst Derived Pluripotent Stem Cell Differentiation”
July 16, 2013
Brian Schutte, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics;
Pediatrics and Human Development
Michigan State University
“IRF6 in Neural Tube Development; the Prequel to IRF6 in Lip and Palate Development”
March 27, 2013
Rita Loch Caruso, Ph.D.
Professor
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Department of Environmental Health Sciences
“Toxicology of Parturition”
February 27, 2013
Irving Vega, Ph.D.
Asst. Dean of Research, Office of the Dean of Graduate School and Research
Associate Professor, Department of Biology
University of Puerto Rico – Rio Piedras Campus
"Neuroproteomics: toward deciphering neuroprotection and neurodegeneration signals"
February 6, 2013
2012
Anne Croy, DVM, Ph.D
Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Reproduction, Development and Sexual Funtion
Department of Biomedical and Molecular Sciences
"Uterine Immune Cells: The Remodeling of Early Pregnancy"
December 5, 2012
Diego H. Castrillon, M.D., Ph.D.
Associate Professor
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
"The PI3K - FOXO Tumor Supressor Pathway in the Control and Maintenance of the Mammalian Germline"
October 3, 2012
Mary Hunzicker-Dunn, Ph.D.
Professor, School of Molecular Biology
Washington State University
"Tales of how FSH Signals Granulosa Cells Usurp Unexpected Pathways to Regulate Gene Expression"
September 4, 2012
Patricia Hunt, Ph.D
Meyer Distinguished Professor
School of Molecular Biosciences
Washington State University
“Making Gametes in the 21st Century: is the Environment Affecting our Reproductive Health?"
June 13, 2012
Jason Knott, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Animal Science
Michigan State University
“Transcriptional Regulation of Tight Junction Biogenesis and Cavity Formation During Blastocyst Development"
May 16, 2012
Sonia S. Hassan, M.D.
Associate Dean for Maternal, Perinatal and Child Health
Professor, Division of MFM, Department of ObGyn
Wayne State University School of Medicine
Director, Center for Advanced Obstetrical Care and Research
Perinatology Research Branch, NICHD/NIH/DHHS
“Ultrasound Examination of the Uterine Cervix: A Critical Tool in the Prediction and Prevention of Preterm Birth”
April 18, 2012
2011
R. Michael Roberts, Ph.D.
Curators' Professor
Biochemistry, Animal Sciences and Veterinary Pathology
University of Missouri-Columbia
“Model Systems for Studying Trophoblast Differentiation from Human Pluripotent Stem Cells”
December 14, 2011
Thomas P. Conrads, Ph.D.
Chief Scientific Officer
Women’s Health Integrated Research Center
Inova Health System
September 7, 2011
Hugh S. Taylor, M.D.
Professor and Director
Division of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility
Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences
Yale University School of Medicine
Professor of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology-Yale University
Chief of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility-Yale-New Haven Hospital
“Stem Cells and the Endometrium”
April 20, 2011
Milan L. Bachi, Ph.D.
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Department of Molecular and Integrative Physiology
Center for Research in Reproduction and Infertility
March 30, 2011
Chemyong (Jay) Ko, Ph.D
Universisty of Kentucky
Center of Excellence in Reproductive Sciences
Division of Clinical and Reproductive Laboratory Science
"Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome: Development of Animal Models by Genetic Modulation and High Fat Diet"
February 16, 2011
Lucio Miele, MD, Ph.D.
University of Mississippi Cancer Institute
Ergon Professor of Medicine and Pharmacology
University of Mississippi Medical Center
January 19, 2011
2010
Kjersti Aagaard - Tillery, M.D.
Assistant Professor in Obstetrics and Gynecology
Division of Maternal - Fetal Medicine
Baylor College of Human Medicine
"Pregnancy Research and Discovery Science"
November 17, 2010
Gustavo Rodriguez, M.D.
Clinical Associate Professor
University of Chicago
Adjunct Associate Professor
Duke University
Director, Gynecology Oncology, NorthShore University HealthSystem
“Pharmacological Opportunities for the Chemoprevention of Ovarian and Endometrial Carcinoma”
October 20, 2010
2017 Seminars
David Ferguson, PhD
Assistant Professor
Michigan State University
Department of Kinesiology
“Early life nutrition influences cardiac function and exercise capacity in adulthood”
March 7, 2017
March 27, 2017:
Alvaro Rojas-Pena, MD
University of Michigan
“Animals in artificial organ research”
Jack Harkema, DVM, PhD, DACVP
Professor
Michigan State University
Food Safety
“Animal models of air pollutant-Induced asthma and rhinitis: What we have learned from monkeys, rats, and mice”
Clifford Les, DVM, PhD
Oakland University
“Large animal models for bone materials and remodeling research”
Lisa Larkin, PhD
Professor, Molecular & integrative Physiology
Professor, Biomedical Engineering
University of Michigan
“Using sheep as a large animal model to test ligament/tendon repairs”
Andrew Shaver
NuGEN
“RNAseq solutions”
Adam Moeser, DVM, PhD
Associate Professor
Michigan State University
“Porcine models of stress-induced gastrointestinal disorders: pathophysiology and translational implications”
Sean Limesand, PhD
Professor
University of Arizona
“Biomedical animal models for pregnancy”
RD Roghair, MD
University of Iowa
“Translational cardiovascular investigations in sheep and transgenic pigs”
Ariela Shikanov, PhD
University of Michigan
“Engineering the follicle environment”
Lonnie Shea, PhD
University of Michigan
“Local ;and systemic immunomodulation for regenerative medicine”
Randall Prather, PhD
University of Missouri
“Genome editing-state of the art, promises, pitfalls, & applications”
Tom Spencer, PhD
University of Missouri
“Understanding fertility in agriculturally important large animals: Impacts of technology”
Arjun Krishnan, PhD
Assistant Professor
Michigan State University
“Nobody knew health and disease could be so complicated!”
July 17, 2017
Melanie B. Jacobs
Senior Associate Dean
Michigan State University
“The complicated art of parentage determination in the time of A.R.T.”
October 2, 2017
Gina Leinninger, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Physiology
Michigan State University
“Weighing in on how central neurotensin controls body weight”
October 16, 2017
Ashley George, PhD-c
Endocrinology and Animal Biosciences
Rutgers University
Maternal lactocrine programming of porcine uterine development”
October 17, 2017
Xiao-Jiang Li, MD, PhD
Professor
Department of Human Genetics
Emory University School of Medicine
“Genetically modified non-human primate models of human diseases”
November 20, 2017
Courtney Carignan, Phd
Assistant Professor
Food Science and Human Nutrition
Michigan State University
“Flame retardants and fertility. Using IVF as a model for reproductive health”
December 4, 2017
Rita Strakovsky, PhD
Assistant Professor
Food Science and Human Nutrition
Michigan State University
“Endocrine disruptors, maternal adiposity, and gestational estrogen status”
December 11, 2017
2016 Seminars
Jeff MacKeigan, PhD
Associate Professor
Center for Cancer and Cell Biology
Van Andel Research Institute
"Precision medicine: The Genomics Landscape of a Tumor Syndrome"
December 19, 2016
Gil Mor, PhD
Professor and Director
Division of Reproductive Sciences
Director, Discovery to Cure Translational Resarch Program
Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences
Yale University School of Medicine
"Origins of Ovarian Cancer and Mechanisms of Recurrence"
November 7, 2016
Richard Behringer, PhD
Professor
Department of Genetics
University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
"Developmental Genetics of Mammalian Reproductive Organs"
October 3, 2016
Alex Bonnin, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Cell and Neurobiology
University Southern California – Keck School of Medicine
“Prenatal Exposures and Placental Serotonin: A Potential Pathway for the Developmental”
September 28, 2016
Sathish Kumar, PhD
Assistant Professor
University of Texas Medical Branch
“Maternal Androgens in Cardiovascular Function, Placental Development and Fetal Programming”
September 20, 2016
Ben Major, PhD
Associate Professor
Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center
Department of Cell Biology and Physiology
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC
"Proteomics and Functional Genomics of Signal Transduction in Cancer"
September 13, 2016
Paul Soumen, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Division of Cancer and Departmental Biology
University of Kansas Medical Center
"Transcriptional Control of Trophoblast Development"
May 23, 2016
Susan Fisher, PhD
Professor
Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences
University of California - San Francisco
"Genome- Scale Fluctuations in the Cytotrophoblast Epigenome Over Gestation and in Placental Pathologies"
May 13, 2016
Steve Ondersma, PhD
Professor
Wayne State University
"Maximizing Reach Via Computer-Delivered Screening and Brief Intervention for Substance Use Among Pregnant and Postpartum Women"
April 29, 2016
Sascha Drewlo, PhD
Assistant Professor
Wayne State University School of Medicine
C.S. Mott for Human Growth and Development
"Introduction into a New Era for the Detection and Improvement of Placental Function"
April 28 and 29, 2016
Sophia Lunt, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Biochemistry
Michigan State University
"Cancer Metabolomics"
April 25, 2016
Thaddeus Golos, PhD
Professor
Department of Comparative Biosciences
University of Wisconsin, Madison
"Reproductive Tract Targets of Listeria Monocytogenes in Early Pregnancy"
March 24, 2016
Katherine Aird, PhD
Staff Scientist
The Wistar Institute and Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, PA
"Metabolic Regulation of Oncogene - Induced Senescense"
March 21, 2016
Xin Sun, PhD
Professor, Laboratory of Genetics
Department of Medical Genetics
University of Wisconsin - Madison
"Building a Functional Lung, Lessons From Mouse Models of Diseases"
January 25, 2016
Seyed Hadi Erfani, Ph.D.
Post-doctoral Research Fellow
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Baylor College of Medicine
Michigan State University
"Twin Perinatal Mortality and Morbidity in the United States"
October 24, 2018
Tom Hollon
Grant Consultant
Research and Graduate Studies
Michigan State University
“Adam Ratner’s NIH R01 grant: What makes it a Mona Lisa of selling science?”
January 22, 2018
Bruce Lessey, MD, PhD
Clinical Professor
OBGYN School of Medicine
University of S. Carolina
“Inflammation and Endometriosis: Pathway to infertility and cancer”
February 12, 2018
Ripla Arora, PhD
Assistant Professory
Michigan State University
“Insights from imaging the implanting embryo and the uterine environment in three dimensions”
February 26, 2018
Sun-Wei Guo, PhD
Professor
Shanghai OBGYN Hospital
Fudan University
Adjunct Professor
Michigan State University
"The quest for the Holy Grail of the natural history of endometriosis”
March 5, 2018
Jeremy Block
Principal Scientist, Livestock Wellness & Performance
Zoetis
April 9, 2018
Aierken Abudu, MD, PhD
Research Associate
Michigan State University
“The role of AP-1 in self-sufficient proliferation and migration of cancer cells and its potential impact on an autocrine/paracrine loop”
April 23, 2018
Kathryn Terry, ScD
Associate Professor
Harvard
“Redefining normal: Personalized CA125 cutpoints for ovarian cancer screening”
April 30, 2018
Marco Conti, MD
Professor and Director
School of Medicine University of California, San Francisco
“The program of maternal mRNA translation during the meiotic cell cycle”
May 7, 2018
Cedric Condro, PhD
Professor
Animal Science
Michigan State University
“Livestock breeding in the age of NGS”
June 4, 2018
Tom Hollon
Grant Consultant, VPRGS
Michigan State University
“The NIH Reporter – A Secret Tool for Grant Competitive Intelligence”
June 18, 2018
Sascha Drewlo, PhD
Associate Professor
OB/GYN
Michigan State University
“Changing fetal maternal healthcare in the first trimester-Biology and clinical applications of the cervical trophoblast”
September 3, 2018
Wednesday, April 17, 2019
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
Michigan State University
Grand Rapids Research Center
Room 1102
400 Monroe Avenue NW
Presentation will be available via Zoom in
IQ 1000 or via your personal device.
Zoom Details:
By Room: Dial—162.255.36.156
Meeting ID: 355 119 510
Join with a personal device:
https://msu.zoom.us/j/355119510
Bin Gu, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellowr
University of Toronto
“2‐cell Based Genome Editing: From Embryonic Development to Disease Modeling”
December 4, 2019
Andrea L. Greiner, MD, MHA
Clinical Associate Professor
Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology at the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine
Gastroschisis: Why, How and What?
November 20, 2019
Asgi Fazleabas, Ph.D.
University Distinguished Professor and Associate Chair of Research
Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology at Michigan State University
“A notch up and a notch down, A tale of two function in endometriosis”
November 13, 2019
Michael Anglesio, PhD
Assistant Professor
University of British Columbia
“Molecular data drives subtyping of ovarian carcinomas and non‐malignant precursor lesions”
November 11, 2019
Subechhya Neupane
Student Aide, Chandler Lab
Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology at the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine
“Somatic gene editing to create mouse models of gynecologic cancer”
November 6, 2019
Stacey Missmer, Sc.D.
Professor
Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology at Michigan State University
“Discussion of Ongoing Population Science Aims and Opportunities”
October 30, 2019
Genna Moldovan
Lab Assistant, Fazleabas Lab
MSU Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Biology
“Role of the HIPPO and NOTCH signaling pathways in endometrial stromal cells during decidualization”
October 28, 2019
Daphne W. Bell, PhD
Senior Investigator
National Human Genome Research Institute
"Functional analyses of FBXW7 mutations in serous endometrial cancer”
October 23, 2019
Anthony Chang, PhD
Founder/CEO, BAMF Health
BAMF Health
October 2, 2019
Linda G. Griffith, PhD
School of Engineering Teaching Innovation Professor of Biological and Mechanical Engineering and MacVicar Fellow at MIT, where she directs the Center for Gynepathology Research and the Human Physiome on a Chip Project. Dr.
OB/Gyn
MIT
“Integration of Systems Biology with Tissues Engineering for Endometriosis Drug Development”
September 30, 2019
Raina Fichorova, MD, PhD
Harvard Medical School Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Biology.
OB/Gyn
Havard
“The vaginal microbes – how far the reach?”
September 25, 2019
Ayman Al-Hendy, MD PhD FRCSC FACOG CCRP
Professor and Director, Translational Research
UIC OB/Gyn
University of Illinois at Chicago
Uterine Fibroids: Where Do They Come From? How Should We Treat Them?
September 18, 2019
Surendra Sharma, MD, Ph D
Professor of Pediatrics and Director
Center of Excellence for Reproductive Health
Women and Infants Hospital-Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA
“Understanding Preeclampsia using Alzheimer’s Etiology”
June 12, 2019
Reshma Jagsi, MD, DPhil
Newman Family Professor and Deputy Chair in the Department of Radiation Oncology and Director of the Center for Bioethics and Social Sciences
Department of Radiation Oncology / Center for Bioethics and Social Sciences
University of Michigan
#MeToo: Harnessing Evidence to Ensure Safe and Equitable Environments in Academic Medicine
June 5, 2019
Hamid-Reza Kohan-Ghadr, PhD
Assistant Professor
OB/Gyn
Michigan State University
“The role of Irisin in the human placenta and preeclampsia”
May 29, 2019
Kenneth S. Korach, PhD
Senior Principal Investigator, Chief of Reproductive and Developmental Biology Laboratory, Chief, Receptor Biology Section
NIEHS/NIH
“Physiological and Clinical effects of Estrogen Receptor Functional Domains”
May 22 2019
Michael Thomas, MD
Chief of the Division of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility, Director of Reproductive Medicine Research
College of Medicine
University of Cincinnati
“Endocrinology of Contraception”
May 15, 2019
Michael Soares, PhD
University Distinguished Professor
University of Kansas Medical Center
“Invasive Trophoblast Development and Placental Health”
April 24, 2019
Karen Racicot, PhD
Assistant Professor
MSU OB/Gyn
Michigan State University
“Viral Infections During Pregnancy”
April 17, 2019