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Program in Reproductive Sciences Seminars

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​​ Seminars are held Tuesdays at 4pm in RC2 3rd floor conference room P15-3109, unless otherwise noted. Student annual research update talks held monthly in RC2-3015 on Friday afternoons at 3:30pm unless otherwise noted. All ​are welcome! Dr. K. Joseph Hurt, MD, PhD, Seminar Series Director. For additional information or to request to meet with a visiting speak​er, please contact: Barb.Hughes@ucdenver.edu, Seminar Coordinator.  Tel: (303) 724-3506 Fax: (303) 724 3512 Sponsored by Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology ​​​​

2012-2013 Seminars Seminar Archive (2011-2012)  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 Gradua​te 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 4/9/13 Terry Hassold, Ph.D. Director, Center for Reproductive Biology Washington State University The origin of human aneuploidy: what we know, what we wish we knew 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 Friday 3:30 Emily Busta Graduate Student Univ Colorado AMC Winn Lab Factor H in preeclampsia   Linnea Schmidt Graduate Student Univ Colorado AMC 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 2011-2012 Seminar Archive  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" Tab 3 Headline Tab 4 Headline Tab 5 Headline ​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​