SK Dey, PhD
Keynote Speaker at the ICRS 2011 Symposium in St. Charles, IL. His talk was titled, “Annual Kang Tsou Memorial Lecture." (July 6-10, 2011)
SK Dey, PhD
Invited session leader at the Nature Medicine Herrenhausen Symposium on Reproductive Biology in Seeon, Germany. He led the Funding and Training session. (October 4-7, 2011)
SK Dey, PhD
Keynote Speaker at the 2nd International Symposium on Reproductive Medicine in Seoul, Korea. His talk was titled, “Endocannabinoid signaling in early pregnancy: Lessons from mouse models.” (October 28, 2011)
SK Dey, PhD
Participated in the NIH-sponsored 6th Collaborative Team Meeting on Interdisciplinary Research on Blastocyst Implantation held in Rockville, MD. (February 21 and 22, 2012)
SK Dey, PhD
Gave an invited talk at the 2012 Annual Society for Gynecologic Investigation (SGI) Meeting in San Diego, CA (March 20-24). His talk was titled, “Premature Decidual Senescence Provokes Preterm Birth.”
SK Dey, PhD
Invited to give an endowment lecture at the Magee-Womens Research Institute in Pittsburgh, PA, for their annual Research Day in Reproductive Biology and Women's Health (May 25, 2012). His lecture was titled, “Premature Decidual Senescence Provokes Preterm Birth.”
Takiko Daikoku, PhD
Invited to Northwestern University in Chicago, IL to give a lecture titled, “PTEN, mTORC1, COX-2 and Endometrial Cancer.” (April 5, 2012)
Jeeyeon Cha, Graduate Student MD/PhD
Selected to give an oral presentation at the Society of Gynecologic Investigation 59th Annual Scientific Meeting in San Diego, CA. Title: “Increased mammalian target of rapamycin complex-1 (mTORC1) signaling is a major contributor to preterm birth.” (March 21-24, 2012)
Hosu Sin, PhD
Awarded the Japan Society for Reproductive Medicine/MSD Scientific Award for her paper entitled, “Features of constitutive gr/gr deletion in a Japanese population.”(December 8, 2011)
Satoshi Namekawa, PhD
Selected to give a talk at The Institute of Cancer Research in Sutton, UK, titled, “A link between DNA damage response pathway and epigenetic programming.” (July 19, 2011)
Satoshi Namekawa, PhD
Selected to give a talk at the EMBO Conference on 50 Years of X-inactivation Research in Cambridge, UK titled, "Sex Chromosome Inactivation in Male." (July 20-24, 2011)
Satoshi Namekawa, PhD
Selected to give a talk at the Gordon Research Conference on Mammalian Gametogenesis and Embryogenesis in Waterville Valley, NH, titled “Meiotic Sex Chromosome Inactivation: Mechanism and Evolution.” (August 21-26, 2011)
Satoshi Namekawa, PhD
Invited to give a talk at the Cold Spring Harbor Asia: Developmental Control of Sex, Growth and Cellular Fate conference in Suzhou, China, titled, “Sex chromosome inactivation in male germ cells-Mechanism and evolution.” (October 11-15, 2011)
Satoshi Namekawa, PhD
Invited to give a talk at the MDB seminar at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center in Cincinnati, OH titled, "Journey of the sex chromosomes through reproduction and evolution." (February 1, 2012)
Satoshi Namekawa, PhD
Invited to give a talk at The second SKLRB Symposia on Frontiers in Reproductive Biology in Beijing, China titled, "Regulatory Mechanism of Sex Chromosome in Germ Cells: Chromosome-wide Inactivation and Activation.” (May 6-11, 2012)
Satoshi Namekawa, PhD
Selected to give a talk at the 14th Annual Midwest DNA Repair Symposium in Cincinnati, OH titled, "DNA Damage Response on the Sex Chromosomes in Germ Cells: Chromosome-wide Inactivation and Activation." He was also a session chair. (May 19-20, 2012)
Satoshi Namekawa, PhD
Invited to give a talk at the Gordon Research Conference on Meiosis in New London, NH titled, "A novel role of the DNA damage response pathway in meiosis: Chromosome-wide gene activation of inactive sex chromosomes." (June 3-8, 2012)
Satoshi Namekawa, PhD
Invited to give a talk at the University of Cincinnati in Cincinnati, OH for a Physiology seminar titled, "Journey of the sex chromosomes through reproduction and evolution." (June 12, 2012)
New Hires
September - Sandi Newman, Grant Specialist
March - Macarena Vargas Vargas, PhD, as a Postdoctoral Fellow in S.K. Dey’s lab
March - Monica Cappelletti, PhD, as a Postdoctoral Fellow in Reproductive Sciences
and Immunology (joint between S.K. Dey, PhD, and Senad Divanovic, PhD).
April - Kazuteru Hasegawa, PhD, as a Postdoctoral Fellow in Satoshi Namekawa’s lab
May - Tyler Broering, Research Assistant II for Satoshi Namekawa’s lab
June - Dustin Sams, Research Assistant II for S.K. Dey’s lab
June - Jake Burlew, SURF Student, for S.K. Dey’s lab
June - Kris Alavattam, SURF Student, for Satoshi Namekawa’s lab
Promotions
Takiko Daikoku, PhD, to Research Associate Professor
Sandi Newman to Financial Analyst I
