We have a PhD studentship available starting in October 2026. Investigating climate change heat stress impacts on maternal and child health. Get in touch if you have questions! www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

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PhD Project - Harnessing comparative biology to understand climate change induced heat stress impacts on maternal and offspring health at University of Edinburgh, listed on FindAPhD.com

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Congrats to all coauthors but a shout out to 1st author Haidee on a new paper in Biology of Reproduction PDI a highly conserved among placental mammals alters endometrial transcriptome and secretome in vitro across species with differing implantation strategies url: academic.oup.com/biolreprod/a...

The embryo-derived protein PDI is highly conserved among placental mammals and alters the endometrial transcriptome and secretome in vitro across species with differing implantation strategies

SIGNIFICANCE STATEMENT We provide evidence that a highly conserved protein (PDI) alters the endometrial transcriptome in a species- and cell-specific manne

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Massive congrats to everyone on this paper - a special shout out to first author @jessicaesge.bsky.social Bovine endometrial organoids: A new tool to study conceptus-maternal interactions in mammals. url: academic.oup.com/biolreprod/a...

Bovine endometrial organoids: A new tool to study conceptus-maternal interactions in mammals.

Abstract. We developed a hormonally responsive organoid model of the bovine endometrium. Bovine glandular epithelial cells isolated from reproductive tract

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My last day at Uni of Leeds. A massive thanks to all the brilliant people I have gotten to work with over the last 10 years! Excited to head (further) north for v2.0 in one of my favourite places in the world! Looking forward to brilliant science at CRH in the IRR @ University of Edinburgh 🧬 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Great to have @drkarenforbes.bsky.social opening the first Northern EV network meeting @universityofleeds.bsky.social ! Looking forward to a full day of all things #EVs

How did mammal placental diversity evolve? miRNAs play a significant role - indeed their repertoire is predictive of phenotype. Congrats to all: esp 1st author @jfennbio.bsky.social & all in @niamhforde.bsky.social group. Thanks to @ukri.org and @leverhulme.ac.uk. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Mammal placental phenotypes are predictable from microRNA repertoires.

Despite >100 million years of mammal diversification, similar placental morphologies have independently evolved multiple times, presenting a long-standing evolutionary puzzle: what genetic mechanisms ...

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Tomorrow at 12pm Lizzie Mann from University of Manchester will present their work ‘Dual roles of uterine monocytes regulate tissue integrity throughout reproductive cycles’. Please email us to be added to the mailing list and invites- repronorth@gmail.com

Join us tomorrow at 1pm for our first ECR seminar. Our first speakers are Delanyo Kpeglo talking about developing an endometrium-on-a-chip model and Mary Ali Oliver talking on investigating the actions of IL-6 and LIF during embryo development.

MASSIVE congratulations to Dr @haideetinning.bsky.social on her newest publication from her PhD Using a microfluidic approach to understand conceptus-endometirum interaction #reprorocks academic.oup.com/biolreprod/a...

A bovine 3D endometrium-on-a-chip reveals the role of conceptus-derived factors CAPG and PDI in conceptus-endometrial communication

We have developed an in vitro 3D bovine endometrium-on-a-chip system comprising both primary stromal cells under static conditions and epithelial cells und

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What a fantastic start to our @wellcometrust.bsky.social funded sample collection. Very lucky to be part of such a wonderful team #reprorocks @evol-molly.bsky.social @parisa-noohi.bsky.social @jessicacedge.bsky.social @haideetinning.bsky.social

Join us *today* for our first ReproNorth seminar @1pm on Teams. Speaker: Masaki Kinoshita, University of Nottingham Title: Dissection of Pluripotency Continuum To join the ReproNorth mailing list please email ReproNorth@gmail.com.

Lá Fhéile Pádraig shona dhaoibh. In lieu of not being at home to celebrate enjoy some pictures of #galway - I’ll be celebrating by having the most wonderful of Irish culinary delights for my lunch today - a tayto sandwich

Our review paper is finally out - MASSIVE well done to all the authors on this it was a collaborative lab effort! Congrats Olga, Jess, Zenab, Haidee and special shout out to Sam for our puntastic title!! www.annualreviews.org/content/jour... #reprorocks

Had a BRILLIANT time on Friday evening chatting about all things uterus for @srfsocietyuk.bsky.social Bits ‘n Bobs outreach event @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social MASSIVE congrats to all organisers and helpers but particularly to @drerinwill.bsky.social, Agnes & @rodtmitchell.bsky.social #reprorocks

Members of the U.K. and international scientific community are invited to sign to show their support: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Open letter to the President of the Royal Society – time to stand up for your values

If you wish to show your support for the letter below regarding apparent inaction by the Royal Society in the face of breaches of its code of conduct by Elon Musk FRS, please sign below. I invite anyo...

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On #internationalwomeninscienceday want to thank & celebrate the BRILLIANT women I get to work with in my group, collaborators, societies, & friends. Trying to make an inclusive community - more important now w/ current attacks on #DEI and women’s repro health rights -keep up the fight #reprorocks 🤩

Wonderful evening @universityofleeds.bsky.social listening to the inspiring @bbcbreakfast.bsky.social @bbc5live.bsky.social #NagaManchetti delivering the Bacon Lecture speaking on #womenshealthinequalities more important now than ever to have people speaking up for this #reprosky

This is a good if terrifying summary of Trump’s war on science www.science.org/content/blog...

What's Happening Inside the NIH and NSF

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Next SSR Rising Stars Webinar is on 2/19/2025, at 5:00 PM ET! Hear from emerging leaders in reproductive science, Tessa Lord and Kathryn Grive, as they share their latest research. Registration is free and open to all! Register now: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

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Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Rising Star Webinar 2.19. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.

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SRF PRESENTS: BITS & BOBS - THE ANATOMY OF SEX @ Anatomical Museum, @ University Edinburgh where we delve into the fascinating world of reproductive anatomy. Interactive activity stations, flash talks (myself included!). Find out why #reprorocks Free tickets: www.eventbrite.com/e/srf-presen...

New @bioxrivpreprint paper from our group: A conserved microRNA #miR-185 & potential function in implantation Congrats to all authors & (not all on here) including Bill, @jessicaedgejce @HaideeTinning @emmafromthelab @crustymcrusty @Evol_Molly www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #reprorocks

An evolutionarily conserved microRNA, miR-185, regulates key pathways that may contribute to implantation failure.

Recurrent implantation failure (RIF) is defined after three or more good quality embryo transfers following in vitro fertilisation without a successful pregnancy outcome. Many factors contribute to RI...

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From SRF in the other place “🌍 Exciting News from the Society for Reproduction and Fertility! 🌟 Our first educational e-book: "Reproduction in a Changing World". 📥 Download it now for FREE and stay informed about the fascinating world of reproduction! srf-reproduction.org/srf-e-book/

Wonderful week @Fertility2025 sad to be rotating off @srf_societyuk council but brilliant week of science & laughs, with friends old and new!! MASSIVE shout out to group members @jessicaedgejce Zenab, Sam, & @HaideeTinning for their brilliant presentations !! 🧬 💃 #reprorocks

Well done to our very own @jessicaedgejce on giving a BRILLIANT talk in the @srf_societyuk Post Doc prize session!! 🥳🥳 #reprorocks

Fantastic start to the @srf_societyuk satellite day with a wonderful set of talks from early career students! 🤩 and brilliant job by the ECR Council members for organising a great symposium! #reprorocks

Wonderful to be in Liverpool for @srf_societyuk satellite day today before @Fertility2025 starts tomorrow! Excited for some brilliant science #fertility2025 #reprorocks

Looking for some festive reading? Check out our new paper on developing a bovine endometrial organoid model. Congrats to Jess, Olga, Haidee, Sam, Gianluca Elena Virgínia, Karen, Mary & Pete #reprorocks 🥳🥳 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Bovine endometrial organoids: A new tool to study conceptus-maternal interactions in mammals

In cattle, communication between endometrium and conceptus during the peri-implantation period is crucial for successful pregnancy. Understanding these interactions is vital as most early pregnancy lo...

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Had a brilliant science week at a thesis defence in Tartu @ Estonian University of Life Sciences and a seminar @ University of Edinburgh #CenterforReproductiveHealth #reprorocks

MirGeneDB 3.0 is published. Great teamwork and substantial improvement of database, Taxon sampling and we took over nomenclature of novel genes and families, too academic.oup.com/nar/advance-...

MirGeneDB 3.0: improved taxonomic sampling, uniform nomenclature of novel conserved microRNA families and updated covariance models

Abstract. We present a major update of MirGeneDB (3.0), the manually curated animal microRNA gene database. Beyond moving to a new server and the creation

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