Seminar Series

As part of the Centre for Reproductive Health's commitment to research, a series of seminars are on offer to the local scientific and clinical community.

 

The CRH offers presentations by CRH staff, students and external academics.

Available to the Edinburgh BioQuarter community on the dates shown, between 2-3pm in the Seminar Room (1.05) of the Institute for Regeneration and Repair (unless otherwise stated).

 

Friday 31st January 2025

Introduction to 1st Year PhD students - session 1

Holly TinsleyThe impact of prenatal stress on lung mast cells
Samira BlankeDefining the impact of endometriosis on immune-vascular remodelling in pregnancy
Calvin HewStructural connectivity of the preterm infants through reconstruction of the neonatal connectome using dMRI processing pipelines
Emma KearneyPreserving fertility in children with cancer by protecting the testis from chemotherapy-induced damage
Kacper DrukarczykNext Generation Plasma Proteomics for Biomarker Discovery in Early Ovarian Cancer: The LOCATE (bLood Ovarian CAncer TEst) study

Friday 7th February 2025

Professor Roland Stimson

Title: ‘Uncoupling energy metabolism in obesity – a hot topic’

Chair of Endocrinology, Chair of Cardiovascular Science, The University of Edinburgh

 

Host: Professor Colin Duncan

Short bio: here

Friday 21st February 2025

Professor Paul Fowler

Title: ‘The human fetus is at risk’

Chair in Translational Medical Sciences, University of Aberdeen

 

Host: Professor Colin Duncan

Short bio: here

Friday 28th February

Dr Zoë Johnston

Title: ‘Teaching clinical embryology online: from theory to practice’

Lecturer, Diabetes Endocrinology and Reproductive Biology, University of Dundee
 

Host: Professor Colin Duncan

Short bio: here

Friday 7th March

Prof. Grażyna Ewa Ptak

Title: ‘Physiological and pathological factors influencing lipid fingerprint of the oocyte’

Chair in Developmental Biology, Malopolska Centre of Biotechnology, Jagiellonian University in Krakow
 

Host: Dr Lance Lin

Short bio: here

Friday 14th March

Professor Paul Blumenthal

Title: ‘Going with the Flow: The emergence of menstrual science’

Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology (Gynecology-Family Planning) at the Stanford University Medical Center, Emeritus
 

Hosts: Professor Richard Anderson / Dr John Reynolds-Wright

Short bio: here

Tuesday 25th March

Professor Stephanie Page

Title: ‘Novel oral male contraceptive methods’

Associate Professor, Centre for Biomedicine, Hull York Medical School, University of York
 

Hosts: Professor Richard Anderson / Dr John Reynolds-Wright

Short bio: here

Please contact CRH.Seminars@ed.ac.uk or further info or to discuss additions to this seasons programme.

 

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