Your Early Career Representatives
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Vipul Batra
Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Nottingham
Vipul completed a B.Sc. and M.Sc. in System Biology and Bioinformatics at the Panjab University and a PhD in Animal Biotechnology from ICAR-NDRI, India. Currently a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Nottingham, he explores how a father’s diet influences gamete quality, embryonic development, maternal health, fetal growth, and the lifelong health of offspring. His research focuses on whether extracellular vesicles (EVs) from the male reproductive tract play a role in parental programming under the Developmental Origins of Health and Disease (DOHaD) paradigm.
Postdoc: Dr. Shruti Kane sykane@dundee.ac.uk
National Phenotypic Screening Centre, University of Dundee
Dr. Kane is a Post-doctoral screening scientist at the National Phenotypic Screening Centre, University of Dundee. She completed her Master’s in India followed by a PhD studying the genetic causes of male infertility at Abertay University, Dundee. Her post-doctoral research involves using cutting-edge robotics for high throughput screening of chemical compounds with non-hormonal contraceptive potential. In particular, she is developing sperm painting, an image-based technology that fingerprints the functional state of sperm cells using multiplexed fluorescent microscopy for contraceptive discovery.
PhD: Dr Hannan Al-Lamee hannan.al-lamee@liverpool.ac.uk / allameeh@gmail.com
Department of Women’s and Children’s Health, Centre for Women’s Health Research, Institute of Life Course, University of Liverpool, UK
Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, London, UK
Dr Hannan Al-Lamee is a specialist trainee in Obstetrics and Gynaecology in North West London, working at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital. Hannan is a Member of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (MRCOG) and has an MBChB and MPhil from the University of Liverpool. She is currently writing up her PhD from the University of Liverpool which investigates endometrial receptivity and regeneration within the normal cycling endometrium and the endometrium from those with recurrent reproductive failure. In particular, her research focuses on the characterisation of human endometrial epithelial stem/progenitor cells. Hannan has a keen interest in human reproduction and has recently completed a clinical research fellowship at the Hewitt Fertility Centre. Her main research interests include the human endometrium, embryo implantation, recurrent pregnancy loss and recurrent implantation failure.
Postdoc: Dr. Claire Stenhouse cms9086@psu.edu
Department of Animal Science, Pennsylvania State University, USA
Dr. Stenhouse is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Animal Science at Pennsylvania State University. She completed her BSc, MSc, and PhD at the University of Edinburgh. Her research utilises large animals (sheep and pigs) to investigate molecular signalling between the conceptus (fetus and associated placental membranes) and the endometrium during pregnancy recognition, implantation, and placentation. She is particularly interested in the regulation of placental mineral transport and the mechanisms regulating intrauterine growth restriction, with a goal of generating new knowledge to improve pregnancy success in both women and livestock.
