Wednesday, April 24, 2019
12:00 – 1:00 pm
Michigan State University
Grand Rapids Research Center
Room 1102
Video Conference
East Lansing Campus
1310 Anthony Hall
Michael Soares, Ph.D.
Dr. Soares received his undergraduate degree from California State University, Chico and his doctoral degree from the University of Hawaii. He received postdoctoral training at the University of California, Santa Cruz and Baylor College of Medicine. Dr. Soares is currently a University Distinguished Professor at the University of Kansas Medical Center, with appointments in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, the Department of Pediatrics, and the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology. He also serves as Director of the Institute for Reproduction and Perinatal Research at the University of Kansas and Director of the Center for Perinatal Research at the Children’s Research Institute, Children’s Mercy Kansas City. Dr. Soares’ research program focuses on regulatory processes associated with pregnancy, especially events controlling the development of the hemochorial placenta.
Wednesday, May 15, 2019
Presentation:
Endocrinology of Contraception
9:30am – 11:15am
Break 10:15am - 10:30am
Michigan State University
Secchia Center, Room 130
15 Michigan Street NE
Grand Rapids
Michael A. Thomas, MD, is Chief of the Division of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine. Dr. Thomas is also Director of Reproductive Medicine Research, a clinical research unit that is funded by federal and private institutions, at the University of Cincinnati. Dr. Thomas is the Principal Investigator of the Contraceptive Clinical Network on the National Institutes of Health and has grants from many pharmaceutical companies. His research interests include contraception, infertility and the effects of stress on reproductive function. Dr. Thomas has extensive experience in treating multi-faceted infertility issues and endocrine disorders ranging from infertility, abnormal puberty, endometriosis, polycystic ovarian syndrome and menopause to disorders of the thyroid and adrenal gland. He is trained in microsurgery and hysteroscopy, as well as operative and laser laparoscopy.
Wedneday, May 22 2019
12:00 – 1:00 pm
Michigan State University
Grand Rapids Research Center
Room 1102
Presentation will be available via Zoom in
AH 1310, IQ 1000 or by 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
Kenneth S. Korach, Ph.D.
Kenneth S. Korach is a Senior Principal Investigator, Chief of Reproductive and Developmental Biology Laboratory, Chief, Receptor Biology Section at NIEHS/NIH. He received his Ph.D. degree in Endocrinology from the Medical College of Georgia, post graduate training as a Ford Research Fellow at Harvard Medical School. Ken joined NIEHS in 1976 where he heads a research group investigating the basic mechanisms of estrogen hormone action in reproductive tract and other hormone responsive tissues. He has published more than 400 scientific papers, written 110 review articles and book chapters, edited 5 books on various topics of estrogen hormone action and endocrine disruptors.
Wednesday, May 29, 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
Hamid-Reza Kohan-Ghadr, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology
& Reproductive Biology
Michigan State University