It was so good to see old friends at @ssrepro.bsky.social last week! Feeling inspired to get back and do good science 🧬 ✨ @ssrwinrs.bsky.social #reprorocks #batheinmaternalblood
Deirdre Logsdon, PhD
@deirdrelogsdon.bsky.social
Embryology | Blastoids| Implantation | Trophoblast Development and Function | Infertility | Postdoc | Brumbaugh Lab
Paying peer reviewers Interview with @danielgorelick.bsky.social about @biologyopen.bsky.social Fast & Fair trial in which peer reviewers were paid £220/review Spoiler: it works - fast, high quality reviews www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Why paying peer reviewers works, according to a journal’s editor-in-chief
A biology journal that paid peer reviewers found that the approach cut the time to a first editorial decision by 85% and maintained high-quality reviews.
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So excited to attend @ISSCR annual meeting for the first time this year! Thank you to the program organizers for my travel and merit awards 🙏 #womeninstem #placentasarecool #reprorocks
So excited to be welcomed into such a supportive community of amazing scientists!! Cheers to good people and good science 🧬 👏 🎉
Leading Edge Fellows Program@leadingedgeprogram.bsky.social · 2mo agoWe are thrilled to announce the 2026 Zara Weinberg Leading Edge Fellows! 40 remarkable postdocs pursuing transformative research in biological/biomedical sciences. This is the 7th Leading Edge cohort and we are so excited to welcome them! www.leadingedgesymposium.org/fellows/
Preprint alert! 🚨We found that trisomic expression of NRIP1 disrupts estrogen signaling and drives trophoblast defects in Down syndrome 🚨 @brumbaugh-lab.bsky.social #trisomy21 #Downsyndrome #reprorocks #placentasarecool www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
We are proud to highlight our own Dr. Sarah Robertson from @adelaideuni for our April Pub of the Month!! 🎉Full text here: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41850558/ Cheers to moving the field forward 🔬✨ #WinRS #WomenInReproductiveSciences
New issue of the #PlacentalCellBio reports by @biomednews.bsky.social biomed.news/bims-placeb/... Looking forward to reading this short review on trophoblast organoids by the Turco lab! febs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Trophoblast organoids, derived from the placenta or blastocyst, are a promising model for deciphering human placental development in both health and disease, paving the way for advances in clinical a....
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Scientists have their first proof that the ancestors of some mammals laid eggs, thanks to a 250-million-year-old fossil embryo discovered in South Africa in 2008. https://scim.ag/41E7C0p
Ancient mammal relatives may have laid eggs
Lystrosaurus fossil reveals how some early ancestors of mammals may have reproduced in the wake of the Great Dying
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Further confirmation that high AMH and AFC do not always mean oocyte quality. On the other hand, better ovarian reserve parameters could lead to higher number of mature oocytes, which is associated with higher live birth rates. Fertility is a delicate balance between quality and quantity!!!!!
Reproduction and Fertility@repro-fertility.bsky.social · 4mo agoHow do biological factors affect IVF success? Bahman Afsari et al. analysed 1,736 cycles: maternal age is the strongest predictor of live birth, anti-Müllerian hormone and antral follicle count influence oocyte/embryo stages, and body mass index has limited impact. 🔗 doi.org/10.1530/RAF-...
Pub of the Month! 💜📰 We’re excited to spotlight new research, recently published in Environment International, by Katie Land (WinRS Trainee Chair) and her fellow Hannon Lab members at the University of Kentucky College of Medicine, in collaboration with their IVF clinic partners! 🔬✨
Pub of the Month! 💜📰 This research by Dr. Jenna Schmidt and Dr. Lynda Harris demonstrates innovative work on nanoparticles for placenta-specific drug delivery in pregnant nonhuman primates 🔬✨ #PubOfTheMonth #WinRS #ReproRocks #WomenInSTEM #MaternalHealth #Placenta#Science @lyndakharris.bsky.social
Congrats to the 2026 SDB Award Winners! Conklin Medal: Lee Niswander SDB Lifetime Achievement Award: Alexandra Joyner Hamburger Outstanding Educator Prize: Roberto Mayor Hay New Investigator Award: Jeffrey Farrell SDB Trainee SciComm Award: Nicholas Desnoyer bit.ly/4afnjiC
Pub of the Month! 💜📰 Kicking off January 2026 by celebrating outstanding research in Science Advances, featuring Dr. Yu-Ying Chen’s recent publication from Dr. Humphry Yao’s group at NIEHS. Cheers to discovery! 🔬✨ #WinRS #WomenInReproductiveSciences
Pub of the Month! 📄💜 This month’s feature: “Comparative analysis of human and mouse ovaries across age” from the Laird Laboratory @ucsanfrancisco.bsky.social Celebrating the research (and researchers!) moving science forward. 🔬🥼✨ #ReproRocks #WinRS #NewPublication #Research #SSR #Science
Here’s to unraveling the mysteries of reproduction one (spooky) experiment at a time! 👻🧪
SOOOOO proud of our amazing grad student Mika! 👏 👏👏Congrats to @distefanolab.bsky.social and @brumbaugh-lab.bsky.social for their manuscript describing how biomolecular condensates direct cell fate! @natbiotech.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Selective RNA sequestration in biomolecular condensates directs cell fate transitions - Nature Biotechnology
Stem cell differentiation is controlled by manipulating RNA condensates.
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Functional human eggs have been generated from skin cells in a proof-of-concept study in @natcomms.nature.com. The technique could offer a new path to treating infertility, though more research is needed before clinical use. #devbio www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Induction of experimental cell division to generate cells with reduced chromosome ploidy - Nature Communications
Researchers induced ploidy reduction in human oocytes generated by somatic cell nuclear transfer, enabling fertilization and embryo development with integrated somatic and sperm chromosomes, highlighting a proof-of-concept for in vitro gametogenesis.
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SSR annual meeting was such a blast. Didn’t realize how much I needed my repro friends! @ssrwinrs.bsky.social #reprorocks #womeninSTEM
Going to the SSR annual meeting and need childcare support? Apply for a childcare grant through WinRS! #momsinstem #happymothersday
Attention SSR Annual Meeting attendees: Don't miss registration for the Lunch and Learn session with Dr. Kelly Diggs to sharpen up your mentoring skills! #reprorocks #womeninstem
Listen to 2024 Roger V Short Medal Awardee, Dr. Francesca Duncan, discuss ovarian aging and give trainees a bit of her wisdom on the latest SSR podcast! 👏👏👏 #womeninSTEM #reprorocks Listen to the full episode here 👇https://www.buzzsprout.com/1786803/episodes/16143433
I’m SO proud of my postdoc lab for publishing their first Brumbaugh Lab paper in @NatureCellBio today! Check out how altered H3K36 methylation impacts intestinal cell plasticity 👇 www.nature.com/articles/s41... Congratulations @Brumbaugh_JB 🥳
H3K36 methylation regulates cell plasticity and regeneration in the intestinal epithelium - Nature Cell Biology
Pashos et al. show that H3K36 methylation maintains intestinal epithelial fate commitment, whereas its suppression, which is also observed upon injury, induces a plastic state and expression of genes ...
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Wenli Fan et al. leverage conditional mouse knockouts to explore the link between placental problems and congenital heart defects, showing that SLC25A1 regulates trophoblast differentiation and placental development to safeguard embryonic heart formation. 🐭🫀 https://bit.ly/4g372OU #DevBio
