PhD Student
University of Missouri
Columbia, Missouri, United States
Due to my natural curiosity in biological processes, my undergraduate education from Washington State University was in Genetics and Cell Biology. As a junior, I began work in a research lab focused on the oviduct and got to attend my first scientific conference, where I was given the opportunity to present my work for the first time. Though it was just a poster, it left an impressionable mark on me and spurred me onwards towards a hopeful career in reproductive biology research.
After graduating from Washington State, I worked for about a year in another reproductive biology lab, this time focusing on the uterus and events coordinating implantation and early pregnancy. No publications have been generated from this work yet, but are in the works. During this time, I applied and was accepted to the University of Missouri, with the intention of joining a uterine biology lab.
I joined the Spencer/Kelleher laboratory as a PhD student in 2024, and since then, have had the opportunity to attend multiple conferences and share my research and learn of others’. Since joining, I have moved away from pregnancy and worked towards investigating uterine development. My efforts paid off in January 2025, with my first co-author paper, which utilized primarily organoid culture techniques to investigate epithelial fate specification. My ongoing work is focused on epithelial-intrinsic mechanisms of uterine epithelial fate specification.
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Epithelial Estrogen Receptor Alpha is Required for Uterine Epithelial Development
Wednesday, July 30, 2025
2:00 PM - 2:15 PM EDT