Dr. Lydia Grmai is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Comparative Medicine at Yale University School of Medicine. Her independent group launched in January 2025 and aims to understand the interplay between physiological stress and reproductive regulation using Drosophila melanogaster as a model. She earned her BS in Biochemistry from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. She completed her PhD at the New York University School of Medicine in the lab of Dr. Erika Bach; her thesis work centered around sexual identity maintenance in adult Drosophila testes. She conducted postdoctoral research at Johns Hopkins University (in the lab of Dr. Mark Van Doren) and University of Pittsburgh (in the lab of Dr. Deepika Vasudevan), branching out to study systemic reproductive control. Her postdoctoral work uncovered a role for the Integrated Stress Response (ISR) in fat tissues in supporting oogenesis and ovulation. Her lab’s current and future work aims to continue unraveling the molecular mechanisms by which ISR acts as a “metabolic sensor” in the fat to modulate reproductive output in response to stress, including studies on hormonal control and the aging ovary.
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Wednesday, July 30, 2025
1:30 PM - 2:00 PM EDT