In today’s episode, we have the pleasure of chatting with Dr. Kosta Simintiras, Assistant Professor of Reproductive and Developmental Biology at Lousiana State University. Dr. Simintiras studies mechanisms of communication between maternal and embryonic tissues that are essential for establishing early pregnancy in mammals. His lab uses a combination of model systems including cattle, transgenic rodents, and organoids grown from human cells, with the ultimate goal of understanding of how pregnancy works both when it goes well, and when it doesn’t. 

Learn more about SSR here: https://ssr.org/

Learn more about the LSU Simintiras Lab here: https://faculty.lsu.edu/csimintiras/index.php

Link to some of Dr. Simintiras' relevant work in SSR's flagship journal The Biology of Reproduction: https://academic.oup.com/biolreprod/article/114/1/134/8239143?guestAccessKey=