Reproductive Physiology/Endocrinology Seminar Series

The seminars will be held Wednesdays, 4:00-5:00 pm. 348 Morrison Hall (unless noted otherwise) A full schedule for the semester is available as a pdf document.

September 02 No Seminar

September 09, Dr. William Hansel, Ph.D. J. Fortune
  Professor, Pennington Biomedical Research Center
  LSU System, Baton Rouge, LA
  Liberty Hyde Bailey Professor Emeritus, Cornell University, Ithaca
  “The use of conjugates of LHRH and betaCG to target and destroy primary cancer cells and metastase”

September 16, Deborah L. Segaloff, Ph.D. M. Roberson
  Professor, University of Iowa
  Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center
  “The structural organization and activation of the gonadotropin receptors.”

September 23, John Eppig, Ph.D. J. Fortune
  Professor, Reproductive Biology
  The Jackson Laboratory
  Oocyte control of ovarian follicular development

September 30 No Seminar

October 07, Janine Brown, Ph.D. N. Place
  Reproductive Physiologist, Smithsonian National Zoological Park
  Conservation and Resource Center
  “The challenges and joys of studying elephant reproductive biology”

October 14, Mary Ann Handel, Ph.D. J. Schimenti
  Senior Research Scientist, Reproductive Biology
  The Jackson Laboratory
  “Genetic Analysis of Control of Mammalian Meiotic Division”

October 21, Work in Progress Seminar
  Boram Kim Graduate Student, Baker Institute
  TBA
  S. Coonrod

  Xuesen Zhang, Graduate Student, Baker Institute
  TBA
  S. Coonrod

October 28, Tom Jensen, Ph.D. J. Parks Scientist, San Diego Zoo’s Institute for Conservation Research
"The Avian Embryo: Why it is so amazing. The role of avian embryos in conservation"

November 04, Troy Ott, Ph.D. S. Coonrod
  Associate Professor, Reproductive Physiology
  Pennsylvania State University
  TBA

November 11, Angabin Matin, Ph.D. J. Schimenti
  Assistant Professor, M. D. Anderson Cancer Center
  University of Texas
  “Testicular germ cell tumors: dissecting the biology and genetics using mouse models”

November 18, Angela R. Baerwald, Ph.D., CCRP M. Lujan
  Assistant Professor, Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences
  University of Saskatchewan
  TBA

November 25, Thanksgiving Recess

December 02, Open! – contact May Lovelace at mrl34 to suggest a speaker