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Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title
9/6/12 Thursday	Frontiers in Pregnancy Research Symposium		Genetics of Pregnancy and Personalized Medicine
9/11/12	Enette Larson Meyer, PhD Associate Professor	University of Wyoming Department of Family and Consumer Science	Presence and Dynamics of Appetite Regulating Hormones in Human Breast Milk at Early Postpartum and Relation to Infant Growth
9/11/12 12:00 PM Hensel Phelps	Geoffrey M. Wahl, PhD Professor	Salk Institute for Biological Studies Gene Expression Laboratory	Stem Cells, Cancer Stem Cells, and Cancer: What are the Relationships
9/18/12	Dean's Distinguished: Beatrice Hahn, MDProfessor	University of Pennsylvania Department of Microbiology	Ape Reservoirs of Human AIDS and Malaria in Hensel Phelps West
9/25/12	Kathy Connell, MD Associate Professor	Univ Colorado AMC	Going back to the basics with the developmental gene, HOXA11, in order to move forward in options for women with pelvic organ prolapse
10/2/12	Ruben Alvero, MD Professor, OB-Gyn	University of Colorado REI section head	The efficacy of an aromatase inhibitor in the treatment of male subfertility: A randomized clinical trial concept proposal for the Reproductive Medicine Network.
10/9/12	Stephen Ford, PhD Professor and Director	University of Wyoming Reproductive Biology	Impacts of maternal obesity on prenatal and postnatal growth and development of offspring in a sheep model
10/16/12	Dean's Distinguished: Elaine Ostrander, PhD Chief & NIH Distinguished Investigator	National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health Cancer Genetics Branch	The Human Links to Good Dogs with Bad Genes
10/23/13	David O Norris, PhD Professor	Univ Colorado Boulder Dept of Integrated Physiology	Endocrine disrupting chemicals in wastewater: implications for wildlife and human health
10/26/13 Friday 3:30 PM	Claire Gustafson Graduate Student	Univ Colorado AMC Immunology Graduate Program Janoff Lab	Mucosal immune development in infants
10/30/12	Leslie Myatt, Ph.D. Professor of OB-GYN	Univ Texas Health Science Center	Sexual dimorphism in placental response and function in obesogenic and inflammatory environments
11/6/12	Carol Sartorius, PhD Associate Professor	Univ Colorado AMC Dept of Pathology	Steroid hormone regulation of breast cancer heterogeneity
11/13/12	Dean's Distinguished: Kevin Gardner, MD PhD Senior Investigator	Laboratory of Receptor Biology and Gene Expression, National Cancer Institute	Molecular linkages between metabolic imbalance and breast cancer: an epigenetic connection
11/16/12 Friday 3:30	Allyson Booth Graduate Student	Univ Colorado AMC McManaman Lab	Ultrastructural analysis of impaired lactation in mouse genetic models
	Melanie Scully Graduate Student	Univ Colorado AMC Program in Molecular Biology Jackson Lab	Estrogen regulation of PTEN activity and compartmentalization
11/20/12	Janet Hall, MD Professor	Harvard Medical School Reproductive Endocrinology	Estrogen and the brain – neuroendocrine effects and beyond
11/27/12	Patrick Burns, PhD Assistant Professor	University of Northern Colorado Department of Biological Sciences	Fish oils – a possible way to regulate prostaglandin metabolism in reproductive tissues
12/4/12	Ronny Drapkin, MD PhD Assistant Professor	Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School Department of Pathology	Coming into focus: the non-ovarian origins of ovarian cancer
12/11/12	Wendy Kohrt, PhD Professor	Univ Colroado AMC Division of Geriatric Medicine	See Jack run. See Jill run. What makes Jack and Jill run? (An introduction to the Specialized Center of Research on Sex Differences)
12/14/12 Friday 3:30	Margaret Heerwagen Graduate Student	Univ Colorado AMC Program in Reproductive Sciences Friedman Lab	Maternal obesity, dietary fat and fetal metabolic programming
12/17/12 Monday 4:00-5:00 Hensel West	Dean's Distinguished: Stephen Teret, JD,MPH Professor, Dept of Health Policy and Management	Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health	Litigating the Public’s Health
1/8/13	Jonathan Van Blerkom Professor	Univ Colorado Boulder Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology	Fertilization competence, oolemmal lipid microdomains, and mitochondrial polarity in idiopathic infertility in women
1/15/13	Dean's Distinguished: Bonnie Bassler, PhD Professor	Princeton University Molecular Biology
1/22/13	Gerrit J. Bouma, PhD Associate Professor	Colorado State University Deptartment of Biomedical Sciences	Exosomes in ovarian function and disease
1/25/13 Friday 3:30	Jaime Fornetti Graduate Student	Univ Colorado AMC Program in Reproductive Sciences Schedin Lab	Manipulating Quorum Sensing to Control Bacterial Pathogenicity
1/29/13	Dan LaBarbera, PhD Assistant Professor	Univ Colorado AMC Pharmaceutical Sciences	Dual Inhibitors of Topoisomerase IIα and TCF-transcription Targeting Drug Resistant and Metastatic Cancers
2/5/13	Hadine Joffe, MD, MSc Associate Professor	Harvard Medical School Department of Psychiatry	Mechanistic studies of menopause using GnRH agonist models
2/12/13	Laxmi Kondapalli, MD Assistant Prof., OB-Gyn Women’s Reproductive Health Research Scholar	Univ Colorado AMC Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility	Early Childhood Outcomes after Assisted Reproductive Technology: A Pilot Study of Neurodevelopment, Behavior, and Obesity
2/19/13	Dean's Distinguished: Emmanuel Mignot, MD PhD Professor and Director	Stanford Medical School Center for Narcolepsy	Narcolepsy, infections and immunity
2/21/13 Thursday 3:30	Allyson Booth Graduate Student	Univ Colorado AMC Program in Reproductive Sciences	Role of P13K in pituitary lactotroph proliferation
	Chu-An Wang, PhD Postdoctoral Fellow	Univ Colorado AMC Program in Molecular Biology Ford Lab	The novel function of VEGF-C in mediating oxidative stress response through regulation of SOD3 in breast cancer
2/26/13	Chuck Harrell, PhD Postdoctoral Fellow Perou Lab	University of North Carolina School of Medicine	Subtyping Breast Cancer Metastasis
3/5/13	R. Ann Word, MD Professor	UT Southwestern Medical Center Obstetrics and Gynecology	Fibulin-5: An elastogenic organizer important for pelvic organ support
3/12/13	No Seminar - Spring Break
3/19/13	Dean's Distinguished: Cato T. Laurencin, MD PhD Professor	University of Connecticut Department of Orthopaedic Surgery	Musculoskeletal Regenerative Engineering: The Future of Tissue Engineering
3/26/13	Sue Moenter, PhD Professor	University of Michigan Molecular & Integrative Physiology	Central control of gonadotropin-releasing hormone neuron activity and secretion
3/29/13 Friday 3:30	Adrianne Stefanski Graduate Student	University of Colorado AMC Program in Reproductive Sciences	Placental Siglec-6 signaling modulates trophoblast invasion: Is it glycoprotein- context dependent?
4/2/13	Genevieve Neal-Perry, MD PhD Associate Professor	Albert Einstein College of Medicine Dept of Obstetrics & Gynecology and Women's Health	Vitamin D and reproduction: A role beyond bone health
4/23/13	Camille Hoffman, MD Assistant Prof., OB-Gyn Women’s Reproductive Health Research Scholar	Denver Health Medical Center UC Denver Maternal Fetal Medicine	Stressed out and pregnant: Causes and Effects
4/26/13	Emily Busta Graduate Student	Univ Colorado AMC Program in Reproductive Sciences Winn Lab	Factor H in preeclampsia
	Linnea Schmidt Graduate Student	Univ Colorado AMC Program in Reproductive Sciences Williams Lab	Gain in hedgehog signaling in the limb and frontonasal prominence mesenchyme causes drastic skeletal patterning defects
4/30/13	Teresa Woodruff, PhD Professor	Northwestern University School of Medicine Obstetrics & Gynecology	Oncofertility: Translation in multiple dimensions
5/7/13	Sarah England, PhD Professor	Washington University, St. Louis Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology	The impact of electrogenic changes on pregnancy outcomes
5/14/13	Dean's Distinguished Daniel J. Rader, MD Professor	University of Pennsylvania Medicine and Pharmacology	Translational medicine in lipids and atherosclerosis: From human genetics to new biological pathways to novel therapeutics
5/21/13	Allyson Booth Graduate Student	Univ Colorado AMC Program in Reproductive Sciences	The role of MST4 kinase in pituitary tumors
	Rebecca Green Graduate Student	Univ Colorado AMC Program in Reproductive Sciences Williams Lab	AP-2 based mouse models of human birth defects
5/28/13	James R. Lambert, MD Assistant Research Professor	University of Colorado AMC Department of Pathology	Preclinical evaluation of a novel anticancer agent
6/4/13	Thomas Jansson, MD, PhD Associate Professor	Univ Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology	Molecular mechanisms of placental nutrient sensing

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title
08/26/13 MONDAY	Candidate Seminar George Christ, PhD Professor	Virginia Tech/ Wake Forest University	Regeneration, repair and remodeling of the lower urinary tract
09/09/13 MONDAY	Candidate Seminar Carole Lange, PhD Professor	University of Minnesota Masonic Cancer Center	Context‐Dependent Actions of Progesterone in Breast Cancer Models
09/10/13	Gautam Chaudhuri, MD/PhD Distinguished Professor/Chair	Obstetrics and Gynecology University of California Los Angeles	The role of reactive oxygen and nitrogen species in breast cancer
09/17/13	Dean's Distinguished Jean-Laurent Casanova Professor	St. Giles Laboratory of Human Genetics of Infectious Diseases The Rockefeller University	Life-threatening infectious diseases of childhood: single-gene inborn errors of immunity
09/25/13 WED.	March of Dimes Frontiers in Pregnancy Research Graham Burton, FMedSci Kelle Moley, MD and others	University of Cambridge Washington University	Placental molecular responses to hypoxia at high altitude Maternal metabolic disorders, oocyte alternatives and long-term offspring health
10/01/13	Robert Garcea, MD Professor	Dept. of Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology and the Biofrontiers Institute Univ Colorado Boulder	Human papillomaviruses and cervical cancer: past, present, and future
10/15/13	Dean’s Distinguished J. Lee Nelson Professor	Medicine, Rheumatology Hutchinson Cancer Research Center University of Washington	The Otherness of Self in Autoimmunity and Alloimmunity: Microchimerism 3
10/18/13 Friday	Jaime Fornetti PiRS Graduate Student Annual Update	Schedin Lab University of Colorado-AMC	A novel in vitro model of phagocytic mammary epithelial cells: insights into postpartum breast cancer promotion
10/22/13	Michal Elovitz, MD Associate Professor	Ob/Gyn University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine	Prenatal Inflammation, fetal brain injury and TLR pathways
10/29/13	Lorna Moore, PhD Professor	Ob/Gyn University of Colorado-AMC	Genetic infuences on uteroplacental blood flow and fetal growth: lessons from high altitude
11/01/13 Friday	Becca Green PiRS Graduate Student Annual Update	Williams Lab University of Colorado-AMC	Development of cleft lip and palate – a role for shape
11/05/13	Janet Rossant, PhD Senior Scientist & Chief of Research, Lombard Chair in Paediatric Research	Departments of Molecular Genetics, and Obstetrics and Gynecology University of Toronto	Making the mouse blastocyst
11/12/13	Lee Niswander Investigator Professor	HHMI Dept of Pediatrics University of Colorado-AMC	Gene-environment interactions in early development
11/15/13 Friday	Michael Oliphant PiRS Student Rotation Talk Melanie Scully Research Update	Spillman Lab University of Colorado-AMC Jackson Lab University of Colorado-AMC	Journey through the center of the diagphragm: studies of ovarian cancer cell migration Estrogen regulation of tumor suppressor PTEN in endometrial cancer cells
11/19/13	Dean’s Distinguished David Relman Professor	Stanford University	Diversity, Stability, and Resilience of the Human Microbiome
11/26/13	Celia Sladek, PhD Professor Lisa Kurth, PhD Assistant Clinical Professor	Dept of Physiology & Biophysics University of Colorado-AMC Department of Pediatrics University of Colorado-AMC	Endocrine and Neurobehavioral Actions of Oxytocin: ADHD and Related Outcomes
12/03/13	Paul Rozance, MD Associate Professor	Pediatrics - Neonatology University of Colorado-AMC	Disruption of Pancreatic Beta Cell - Endothelial Cell Cross Talk in Fetal Growth Restriction
12/10/13	Miles Wilkinson, PhD Professor	Division of Reproductive Endocrinology Univ of California San Diego	The X-linked Rhox homeobox gene cluster: epigenetic regulation and roles in spermatogonial stem cells
12/17/13	Dean’s Distinguished Michael W. Young Professor	The Rockefeller University	Genes Controlling Sleep and Circadian Rhythms
01/07/14	Isabel Schlaepfer, PhD	University of Colorado-AMC	Lipid Metabolism in Prostate Cancer Cells: A New Area of Therapeutic and Imaging Promise?
01/14/14	Sam Mesiano, PhD Associate Professor	Case Western Reserve University	Mechanism of progesterone action in human pregnancy and parturition
01/21/14	Dean’s Distinguished Jeffrey M. Friedman Professor	Laboratory of Molecular Genetics The Rockefeller University	Leptin, Leptin Therapy and the biological basis of obesity
01/28/14	Adrianne Stefanski PiRS Student Annual Update	Winn Lab University of Colorado-AMC	Investigating Siglec-6 signaling and Exoxomal small RNAs in trophoblasts
02/04/14	Laura Brown, MD	University of Colorado-AMC	Targeting myogenesis to improve fetal skeletal muscle growth in IUGR
02/11/14	Russell Anthony, PhD Professor	Dept. of Biomedical Sciences Colorado State University	Assessing Gene Function in the Placenta
02/18/14	Dean’s Distinguished Craig B. Thompson	Memorial Sloan-Kettering	Metabolic Inputs into Cancer Epigenetics
02/25/14	Emily Busta PiRS Graduate Student Annual Update	Winn Lab University of Colorado-AMC	Alterations in amnion methylation: A role in preterm birth
02/28/14 Friday	Michael Oliphant PiRS Student Rotation Talk Brandi Briggs Annual Update	Ford Lab University of Colorado-AMC University of Colorado Boulder Ferguson Lab	p53-independent regulation of MDM2: is Six1 a third wheel? Ultrasound elastography reference materials: Developing methods for early detection of cervical insufficiency
03/04/14	Tod Hansen, PhD Professor	Biomedical Sciences Dept Colorado State University	Interferon-stimulated genes mediate establishment of pregnancy in ruminants
03/11/14	Spring Break No Seminar Scheduled
03/18/14	Dean’s Distinguished Carlos L. Arteaga Professor	Vanderbilt School of Medicine	Presurgical Studies in Breast Cancer: Role in Clinical Development and Discovery of Mechanisms of Drug Resistance
03/25/14	Linnea Schmidt PiRS Student Annual Update	Williams Lab University of Colorado-AMC	Increased Fgf8 and Hh signaling leads to cranial and limb skeletal malformations
04/01/14	Brian Cherrington, PhD Assistant Professor, Molecular Endocrinology	Dept of Zoology & Physiology University of Wyoming	The role of peptidylarginine deiminases (PAD) enzymes in female reproductive tissues and cancer pathogenesis
04/08/14	T. Rajendra Kumar Associate Professor	Univ of Kansas Medical Center	Genetic modification of gonadotropin secretion patterns and ovarian function
04/15/14	Dean’s Distinguished Mitchell A. Lazar Professor	University of Pennsylvania	Coordination of Circadian Rhythms and Metabolic Physiology
04/22/14	Shunping Wang, PhD Assistant Professor Andrology Laboratory Director, Advanced Reproductive Medicine	Ob/Gyn University of Colorado-AMC	Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis/Screening: The Past, Present and Future
04/29/14	No Seminar Scheduled
05/06/14	Amy Navratil, PhD Assistant Professor	Dept of Zoology & Physiology University of Wyoming	GnRH receptor signaling: understanding gonadotrope plasticity
05/09/14 Friday	Michael Oliphant PiRS Student Rotation Talk	Lab TBD University of Colorado-AMC	Targeting multiple mechanisms of metastasis in triple negative breast cancer and ovarian cancer
	Allyson Booth PiRS Student Annual Update	Gutierrez-Hartmann Lab University of Colorado-AMC	P13K, not MAPK, drives lactotrope proliferation
05/13/14	Clyde Wright, MD Assistant Professor	Pediatrics-Neonatology UCD-AMC	Damage control: targeting the NFkb inhibitory proteins IkBa and IkBb to modulate the response to inflammatory stress in the developing lung
05/20/14	Paul Goodfellow, PhD Professor	College of Medicine The Ohio State University	Contextualizing the cancer genome atlas for endometrial cancers: gaining perspective on biological and statistical evidence

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title
09/18/2014	Dean's Distinguished Terry L. Orr-Weaver, PhD Professor	Whitehead Institute - American Cancer Society Research Professor - Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Developmental Roles and Mechanisms of Differential DNA Replication
10/07/2014	Benedikt Hallgrimsson, PhD Professor	Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada	Nutritional Stress, Growth and Craniofacial Development
10/14/2014	Nancy N. Huang Assistant Professor	Molecular Biology - Colorado College Molecular Biology - Colorado College	Getting a head and tail in life: Asymmetry of the RNA binding protein MEX-3 in the Caenorhabditis elegans embryo
10/21/2014 AMC, RC1N, Hensel Phelps West Auditorium	Dean's Distinguished: Eva Nogales, PhD Professor	Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Professor, Biochemistry, Biophysics and Structural Biology, University of California, Berkeley	Mechanistic Insights into Microtubule Dynamics and Transcription Initiation from Cryo-EM Studies
10/28/2014	Heidi Wilson, Phd Assistant Professor	Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Division of Basic Reproductive Sciences, School of Medicine, University of Colorado	Novel Functions of Claudin Proteins in Normal and Tumor Cell Biology
11/04/2014	Katherine Newton, PhD, MA Director	Research and External Affairs Group Health Research Institute, University of Washington	The Placebo Effect in Clinical Trials
11/11/2014	Kenneth W Liechty, MA, FAAP, FACS Professor	The Sandy Wolf Chair in Maternal Fetal Surgery, Surgery & Pediatrics, Director of Pediatric Surgery, Basic and Translational Research, University of Colorado School of Medicine	Mechanisms of fetal cardiac regeneration
12/09/2014	Kristin Myers, PhD Assistant Professor	Mechanical Engineering, Columbia University	Understanding the Mechanical Role of the Cervix During Pregancy
12/16/2014	Daphne W. Bell, PhD Investigator	Cancer Genetics and Comparative Genomics Branch, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland	Uncovering Drive Mutations in Clinically Agressive Endometrial Carcinomas
01/13/2015	Michele Cote, PhD Associate Professor	Karmanos Cancer Institute, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan	Endometrial Cancer: Epidemology, Etiology, and Emerging Research Challenges
01/20/2015	Faculty Candidate Seminar James K Pru, PhD Associate Professor	Center for Reproductive Biology, Department of Animal Sciences, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington	Mechanisms of Uterine Remodeling and Tissue Regeneration
01/27/2015	Alison Edelman, MD, MPH Associate Professor	Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Co-Director, Oregon Family Planning Fellowship Director, OCTRI Human Subjects Protection Program	Novel Non-Hormonal Targets for Emergency Contraception
02/03/2015	Faculty Candidate Seminar Joshua Johnson, PhD Research Scientist	Yale School of Medicine, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences, New Haven, Connecticut	The Fragile X Locus: Consequences and Correction Using Genome Engineering
02/10/2015	Faculty Candidate Seminar Rajendra Kumar, PhD Professor	University of Kansas Medical Center, Department of Molecular and Integrative Physiology, Director, Center for Reproductive Sciences, Kansas City, Kansas	Genetics and Physiology of FSH Secretion
02/17/2015 AMC, RC1N, Hensel Phelps West Auditorium	Dean's Distinguished: Huda Zoghbi, MD Professor	Department of Pediatricses Medical Institute, Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Molecular and Human Genetics, Neurology, and Neuroscience, Director, Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute, Texas Children's Hospital, and Baylor College of Medicine	The Story of Rett Syndrome and the Insight It Provides into Neuropsychiatric Disorders
02/17/2015	Faculty Candidate Seminar Martha Susiarjo, PhD Post Doctoral Researcher	Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania	Enviornmental Exposure in Health and Disease
02/24/2015	Celia Santi, MD, PhD Assistant Professor	Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri	Sperm-Specific Ion Channels Essential for Male Fertility
03/03/2015	Elisabet Stener-Victorin Associate Professor	Physiology/Endocrine, University of Gothenburg, Sweden	How Does Prenatal and Prepubertal Androgen Exposure Affect Placental Function and Development of PCOS?
03/10/2015	Kjersti Aagaard-Tillery, MD, PhD Associate Professor	Division of Maternal Fetal Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas	Impact of the Maternal Diet on Seeding the Offspring Microbiome
03/16/2015 AMC, RC1N, Hensel Phelps West Auditorium	Dean's Distinguished: Karl Deisseroth, MD, PhD Investigator	Howard Hughes Medical Institute, D.H. Chen Professor of Bioengineering, and of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University	Optical Tools for Probing Intact Biological Systems
03/31/2015	Kenneth Korach, PhD Senior Investigator	Reproductive and Developmental Toxicology Laboratory/Receptor Biology Group, National Institutes of Health, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina	Genetic Models for Analyzing the Functional Domains of Estrogen Receptors
04/07/2015	Rebecca Safran, PhD Associate Professor	Environmental Studies, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, Colorado	The Role of Sexual Selection in Speciation: An Integrative and Comparative Perspective
04/14/2015	Irving Aye, PhD, Instructor	Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Division of Basic Reproductive Sciences, School of Medicine, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus	Adiponectin in Pregnancy: A Crucial Endocrine Link Between Maternal Adipose Tissue and the Placenta
04/22/2015	Dean's Distinguished George D. Yancopoulos, MD, PhD	President of Research Laboratories, and Chief Scientific Officer - Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	Building a Better Biotech Company: Translating Genetics and Basic Science Discoveries into Therapeutic Options
04/28/2015	Terry Hassold, PhD Distinguished Professor	School of Molecular Biosciences, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington	Aneuploidy in Humans: Where We've Been, Where We're Going
05/05/2015	Peter Baker, MD Instructor	Pediatrics, School of Medicine, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus	Maternal Obesity, Mesenchymal Stem Cells, Mitochondrial Mechanics, and Metabolomics: Much More than a Mouthful
05/12/2015	Lori Driscoll, PhD Associate Professor	Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, Colorado College, Colorado Springs, Colorado	Early postnatal exposure to flame retardant polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) impacts learning and motivation in rats
05/19/2015	Jill Goldstein, PhD Professor	Professor of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Division of Women’s Health at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts	Prenatal Stress-Immune Programming of Sex Differences in Depression and Risk for Cardiovascular Disease

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title
9/20/11	Adrianne Stefanski Rebecca Green	University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus	"Journal Club"
9/27/11	Terry Nett, PhD Professor of Biomedical Sciences	Colorado State University	"A Toxic Approach to Control of Fertility and Cancer"
10/4/11	Aaron Patrick, PhD Heide Wilson, PhD	University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus	"Structure of the Pro-Tumorigenic and pro- Metastatic SIX1-EYA Transcriptional complex for Structure Based Drug Design" "What are Claudins Doing in Tumor cells Anyway"
10/11/11	Iain L.O. Buxton, PharmD Professor of Pharmacology	University of Nevada School of Medicine	"New Therapeutic Targets in the Regulation of Myometrial Relaxation"
10/18/11	No seminar	Deans Distinguished Seminar
10/25/11 At Noon in Shore Family Auditorium	Jessica Wahlig Doctoral Candidate McManaman Lab Thesis defense	Program in Reproductive Sciences University of Colorado School of Medicine	"The Effect of High Fat Diet and Obesity on Maternal and Neonatal Lipid Metabolism"
11/1/11	Tessa Crume, PhD MSPH Assistant Professor of Epidemiology	University of Colorado AMC School of Public Health	"The Consequences of in utero Over-nutrition and Perinatal Diet on Offspring Obesity and Fat Distribution: Epidemiologic Evidence from the EPOCH Study"
11/8/11	Jennifer Richer, PhD Associate Professor of Pathology	University of Colorado AMC	"The Power of MicroRNAs in Breast and Gynecologic Cancers"
11/15/11	Mark Laudenslager, PhD Professor of Psychiatry	University of Colorado AMC	"STRESS: Spitting in the Wind and Splitting Hairs"
11/22/11	Brenda M. Alexander, PhD Assistant Professor of Animal Science	University of Wyoming	"Male Sexual Behavior and the Absence of Expression"
11/29/11	Emily Busta, Graduate Student Linnea Schmidt, Graduate Student	University of Colorado AMC Reproductive Sciences	"Measuring Oxidative Stress Induced by Maternal High Fat Diet" "The Effect of Leptin on Leptin Receptor and Integrin Alpha 1 Expression in Invasive Trophoblast Cells"
12/6/11	Susan Sadler, PhD Associate Professor of Biological Sciences	University of Denver	"Insulin and IGF-1 in Oocyte Maturation-More Questions than Answers"
12/13/11	No Seminar	Deans Distinguished Seminar
1/6/12 Friday at noon in RC1 East Auditorium	Connie Trimble, MD Associate Professor of Gynecology/Obstetrics, Oncology and Pathology Co-sponsored: Hormone Related Malignancies	Johns Hopkins School of Medicine	"Immune Therapies for HPV Disease"
1/10/12	Margaret Heerwagen, BS Graduate Student Jaime Fornetti, BS Graduate Student	University of Colorado AMC Program in Reproductive Sciences	"Fetoplacental Lipotoxicity and Offspring Metabolic Outcomes: Examining a Protective Role for Omega-3s" "Characterization of Phagocytic Mammary Epithelial Cells during Postpartum Involution"
1/17/12	No Seminar	Deans Distinguished Seminar
1/24/12	Dale 'Buck' Hales, PhD Professor of Physiology Co-sponsored: Pathology	Southern Illinois University Carbondale, School of Medicine	"New Insights into the Pathogenesis of Ovarian Cancer: Identifying Molecular targets for Dietary Intervention"
1/31/12	David Bain, PhD Associate Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences	University of Colorado School of Pharmacy	"Toward a Quantitative Understanding of the Human Steroid Receptors: the Role of Energetics"
2/7/12	Katherine Wisner, MD MS Professor of Psychiatry, Obstetrics & Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences & Epidemiology Co-sponsored: Psychiatry	University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine	"SSRI Treatment during Pregnancy: Are we Asking the Right Questions"
2/14/12	Peggy Neville, PhD Professor Emerita	University of Colorado AMC	"The Biology of Developmental Switches in the Mammary Gland"
2/21/12	No Seminar	Deans Distinguished Seminar
2/28/12	Smita Salian-Mehta, PhD Post Doctoral Fellow	Wierman Lab Division of Endocrinology, Metabolism & Diabetes	"Axl and Met: Kinase Receptor Crosstalk in GnRH Neuron Survival and Migration"
3/6/12	Emily Busta, BS Graduate Student Linnea Schmidt, BS Graduate Students	University of Colorado AMC Program in Reproductive Sciences.	"The Role of Histone Deacetylase 9 (HDAC9) in GnRH Neuron Development" "Identifying Non-classical Estrogen Responsive Targets in Endometrial Cancer Cells by Microarray"
3/13/12	No Seminar	Spring Break
3/20/12	No seminar	Deans Distinguished Seminar
3/27/12	Gil Mor, MD, PhD, MSc Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences	Yale School of Medicine, Newhaven CT *Student Invited Speaker	"Inflammation and Pregnancy: The Good and the Bad"
4/3/12	Pei-San Tsai, PhD Associate Professor of Integrated Physiology	University of Colorado at Boulder	"Developmental and Postnatal Control of Gonadotropin-releasing Hormone Neurons"
4/10/12	W. Allan Walker, MD Professor of Nutrition and Pediatrics	Massachusetts General Hospital Harvard Medical School *Student Invited Speaker	"Immunologic Programming in the Perinatal Period"
4/17/12	Joaquin Espinosa, PhD Professor of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology	University of Colorado at Boulder	"The Long Road Toward a p53-Based Cancer Therapy: It's Back to Basics"
4/24/12	Stuart Tobet, PhD Professor of Biomedical Sciences	Colorado State University Fort Collins	"Neuroendocrine Bases for Co-Morbidity of Mood Disorders, Cardiovascular Disease, Infertility and Obesity"
4/27/12 Friday 3pm	Adrianne Stefanski, BA, BS Graduate Student, Winn Lab Rebecca Green, BA Graduate Student Williams Lab	University of Colorado, AMC Program in Reproductive Sciences	"Pregnancy Amelioration of Arthritis in SKG Mice Corresponds with Alterations in Serum Amyloid A3" "AP-2 Based Mouse Models of Human Birth Defects"
5/1/12	Yaacov Barak, PhD Associate Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences	Magee Women's Hospital University of Pittsburgh	"PPAR gama Transcriptional Networks in Placental Metabolism and Development"
5/8/12	Francesco DeMayo, PhD Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology Co-sponsor: Cancer Center Cell Biology Program	Baylor College of Medicine Houston, TX	"Understanding the Molecular Interactions Regulating Uterine Biology"
5/15/12	No Seminar	Deans Distinguished Seminar
5/18/12 FRIDAY Noon	Catherine Spong, MD Chief, Pregnancy and Perinatology Branch Co-sponsor: Pediatrics	NICHD NIH Bethesda, MD	"Neuroprotection in Models of Down Syndrome and Fetal Alcohol Syndrome"
5/22/12	Emily Busta Graduate Student Linnea Schmidt Graduate Student	University of Colorado Program in Reproductive Sciences	"Placental Siglec-6: A Role in Early Trophoblast Invasion" "Manipulation of Hedgehog Signaling Results in Limb and Craniofacial Abnormalities"
5/29/12	Jennifer Armstrong-Wells, MD MPH Assistant Professor Pediatric Neurology	Children's Hospital Colorado University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus	"Patterns of Placental Inflammation and the Fetal Inflammatory Response in Pregnancies Complicated by Premature Rupture of Membranes"

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title
09/14/2015	Caroline Gargett, PhD Assistant Professor	The Ritchie Centre Monash Institue of Medical Research, Australia	Role of Edometrial Stem Cells in Normal Physiology and Gynecological Disease
9/22/2015	Tanna Wuren, MD, PhD Associate Professor	Qinghai University Medical College Qinghai, China	Tibetan Reproductive Success at High Altitude: Insights from Placenta Studies
9/29/2015	Juan Arroyo, PhD Assistant Professor	Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah	The Gas6/AXL Relationship: A New Model for Preeclampsia?
10/06/2015	Bo Rueda, PhD Associate Professor	Vincent Center for Reproductive Biology Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology Massachusetts General Hospital	Endometrial cancer: PIK - HER path of resistance
10/13/2015	Blair Dodson, PhD	University of Colorado Denver Anschutz Medical Campus Children's Hospital	The Vasculopathy of the Intrauterine Growth Restricted Fetus
10/27/2015	Marilyn Cipolla, PhD Professor	Department of Neurological Sciences University of Vermont College of Medicine	Mechanisms of seizure during pregnancy and preeclampsia
11/3/2015	Diana Cittelly-Cuevas, MS, PhD	Department of Pathology University of Colorado, Anschutz Medical Campus	The contribution of brain and ovarian estrogens to brain metastatic colonization in pre-menopausal women.
11/10/2015	Rebecca Krisher, PhD Research Director	National Foundation for Fertility Research	The Mammalian Oocyte: Metabolic Challenges and Opportunities
11/17/2015	Gary Clark, PhD	University of Missouri School of Medicine	The Human Fetoembryonic Defense System Hypothesis and Its Relationships to Pathogenesis
12/01/2015	Jennifer Condon, PhD	Wayne State University Perinatal Research Branch - NICHD CS MOtt Center for Human Growth and Development
12/15/2015	Theresa Powell, PhD Professor	Department of Pediatrics, Section for Neonatology University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
02/09/2016	Kerrie Moreau, PhD Associate Professor	Division of Geriatrics University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
03/08/2016	Indira Mysorekar, PhD Associate Professor	Washington Univeristy School of Medicine in St. Louis, Missouri Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology and Pathology and Immunology
04/12/2016	Leanne Redman, M.S., Ph.D.	Pennington Biomedical Research Center of LSU

Reproductive Sciences Seminars