Description: Join us for the second webinar of SSR’s New Investigator Bootcamp series, titled “Setting-up and Staffing Your Lab”. This session is tailored toward future investigators seeking their first independent positions and features an expert panel, including Dr. Shuo Xiao, Dr. Xiaoqiu Wang, Dr. Anna Denicol, Dr. Elle Roberson, Dr. Nicholas Wege Dias. Moderator and audience questions will be answered on topics such as:
Common pitfalls and mistakes
R1 vs PUI (attracting candidates, start-up fund differences, timelines)
Pros & Cons of different hiring strategies, who to hire
What you need to open a lab
Identifying Mentors and peers
How to build long-term relationships
How your personal leadership style impacts your management style
Description: Join us for the upcoming webinar, “How to Put the ‘Fun’ in Funding: Applying, Maintaining Grant Funds, and Managing Your Finances,” where we’ll dive into key strategies for securing and managing finances as a new investigator. This session features a diverse panel discussing how to navigate funding opportunities, write effective grant applications, and manage lab finances. Attendees will learn about new investigator-specific and general grants, the grant application process, essential tips for grant writing, financial reporting, lab budgeting, and resources to streamline financial management.
Description: Join us for the first webinar of SSR’s New Investigator Bootcamp series, titled “Finding, Applying to, and Negotiating Your First Faculty Position”. This session is tailored toward future investigators seeking their first independent positions and features an expert panel, including Dr. Farners Amargant i Riera, Dr. Andrew Modzelewski, Dr. Ky Pohler, Dr. Joanie Jorgensen, and Dr. Carmen Williams.
Neutrophils are the most abundant human white blood cell and constitute a first line of defense in the innate immune response. Neutrophils are short-lived cells, and thus the impact of organismal aging on neutrophil biology, especially as a function of biological sex, remains poorly understood. We have generated a multi-omic resource of mouse primary bone marrow neutrophil from young and old female and male mice, at the transcriptomic, metabolomic and lipidomic levels. We identified widespread regulation of neutrophil ‘omics’ landscapes with organismal aging and biological sex. In addition, we leveraged this data to predict functional differences, including changes in neutrophil responses to activation signals. To date, this dataset represents the largest multi-omics resource for neutrophils across sex and ages. This resource identifies neutrophil characteristics which could be targeted to improve immune responses as a function of sex and/or age.
These webinars, sponsored by the Society for the Study of Reproduction (SSR), Frontiers in Reproduction (FIR), and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, will focus on emerging technologies and approaches to male and female contraception.
Speakers:
Dr. Lonny R. Levin, Professor of Pharmacology, Weill Cornell Medical College
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Title: On-demand nonhormonal male contraception via ADCY10 inhibition
Description: Fast-acting sAC inhibitors with slow off-rates can provide safe, pre-coital, on-demand contraception for men which is nonhormonal, orally available, easily tolerated, fast-acting, and readily reversible.
Dr. Celia Santi, Associate Professor of OBGYN, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis
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Title: Targeting the sperm-specific K+ channel SLO3 for non-hormonal contraception.
Description: Identification of inhibitors of the sperm specific SLO3 K+ channel that can be developed into a non-hormonal class of female contraceptives that act by targeting sperm capacitation.
These webinars, sponsored by the Society for the Study of Reproduction (SSR), Frontiers in Reproduction (FIR), and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, will focus on emerging technologies and approaches to male and female contraception.
Speakers:
Dr. Jianjun Sun, Associate Professor, Department of Physiology & Neurobiology, University of Connecticut, Storrs
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Title: Screening female contraceptive compounds using Drosophila ovulation model
Description: In my presentation, I will introduce the ovulation mechanism in Drosophila and describe the platform utilizing Drosophila ovulation to screen contraceptive compounds that can effectively inhibit follicle rupture.
Dr. Phil Santangelo, Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Tech University & Emory University
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Title: Intravaginal delivery of mRNA encoded contraceptive antibodies
