Senior Lecturer in Biological Sciences
University of Newcastle
Callaghan, New South Wales, Australia
Dr Tessa Lord is a reproductive biologist specialising in spermatogenesis and spermatogonial stem cell biology. Tessa established her research program at University of Newcastle (UON) in 2019, after postdoctoral training at Washington State University (2016-18) with Prof Jon Oatley, a world-leading researcher in spermatogonial stem cell biology, (Expertscape (ES) ranked 1/1,600 in germline stem cells). Tessa completed her PhD with world-leader in sperm biology, L/Prof John Aitken (ES) ranked 1/54,520 in spermatozoa) and is now an emerging leader in her own right, with >1500 citations, h-index of 18, and FWCI of 1.86 for outputs related to Testis/Seminiferous tubules. Tessa has published in high-impact journals including Science (2020, first-author invited perspectives piece), Developmental Cell (2020, corresponding author meta-analysis/review) and iScience (2023, senior-author research article). She has participated in 5 invited international speaker engagements in 2022-24 alone, including the American Society for Andrology and Gordon Conference for Germinal Stem Cell Biology. Tessa has been awarded >$2M in funding since 2019, including as CIA on an NHMRC grant which characterised the role of hypoxia-inducible factors in spermatogonial stem cell regeneration (#GNT1181024, 2020), and an ARC DECRA Fellowship that is exploring the intersection between hypoxia signalling and metabolism for the development of spermatogonial stem cell technologies (DE220100032, 2022).
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