Name: Endo-Eggcellent Adventure: Navigating the Reproductive Maze
Start: 2024-05-15T19:30:00
End: 2024-05-15T21:30:00
Location: Calla

How do we come to be? The very first stages of life are complex and understanding just how we go from two cells to a fully formed person can open many avenues to understanding diseases. Join us for two enlightening talks on the reproductive system. First Dr Barbara Guinn gives a talk on endometriosis and the genetic causes for the disease. Then Professor Roger Sturmey takes us on the amazing journey of what makes an embryo an embryo and how this can help us understand the earliest stages of development.

Does endometriosis run in families?

Dr Barbara Guinn (Reader in Biomedical Sciences)

Endometriosis affects 1 in 10 women but little is know what causes it. To try to understand why some people develop endometriosis we want to investigate the genetic alterations that cause it in families.

When is an embryo not an embryo?

Roger Sturmey (Professor of Reproductive Medicine)

Over the past 10 years, remarkable breakthroughs have been made that allow scientists to model the first stages of human embryo development, allowing us to consider what causes pregnancy loss. However, these embryo models are not the product of eggs and sperm, but are derived entirely from stem cells. Such breakthroughs offer amazing possibilities to explore the earliest stages of development, but are also posing deeper questions about what makes an embryo an embryo. During this session I will take you through the amazing journey of becoming an embryo and then consider how embryo models are different, but can provide exciting opportunities to discover more about what makes an embryo.

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