In this episode of The Future Conceived, Dr. Yu-Ying Chen, postdoctoral fellow at NIEHS and member of the SSR Virtual Education Committee, sits down with Dr. Francesco DeMayo, the 2024 recipient of SSR’s highest honor, The Carl G. Hartman award. 
Dr. DeMayo is the the Chief and Senior Investigator in the Reproductive and Developmental Biology Laboratory at the National Institute for Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS / NIH). Listen in as Dr. DeMayo discusses his career trajectory, his research in uterine biology and gives some words of wisdom for the next generation of reproductive biologists.

In this episode of The Future Conceived, Dr. Victor A. Ruthig, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, sits down with Rhasaan Bovell, a third-year PhD candidate conducting cheetah research at Cornell University and the Smithsonian National Zoo & Conservation Biology Institute. Listen in as Rhasaan updates us on advances in cheetah conservation since our last podcast on the topic in 2022. Rhasaan also talks about his scientific journey and shares advice to young blossoming scientists.

What happens when your scientific observations conflict with literature? Do challenging scientific dogmas impact the way we do research, and can it even impact our career? Listen close to the interview of Dr. Greg Johnson and Dr. Ky Pohler from Texas A&M University by Dr. Pete Hansen from University of Florida, and learn how some aspects of their research are calling into question some of our current understanding in placental biology and maternal recognition of pregnancy. Dr. Johnson and Dr. Pohler also provide some wisdom for young independent investigators on how to conduct research and establish themselves in their field.  

In this episode of The Future Conceived, Dr. Victor A. Ruthig, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, sits down with Dr. Bruce D. Murphy, University of Montreal. Dr. Murphy is the 2023 recipient of SSR’s highest honor, The Carl G. Hartman award. Listen in as Dr. Murphy discusses his research trajectory and being the 2023 Carl G. Hartman award recipient. Dr. Murphy also gives some sage wisdom about mentorship and speculates about where the field of reproductive biology is headed. Dr

In this podcast, Dr. Peter Hansen interviews Dr. Thomas Hildebrandt, Head of Department of Reproduction Management at the Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research in Berlin, Germany on his first successful embryo transfer in southern white rhinos. Listen to learn more about white rhino conservation, the uncharted territory of performing IVF, and this major milestone in the race against time to save the endangered northern white rhino species.

Dr. Hildebrandt is an invited speaker at the upcoming 2024 SSR meeting. 

To learn all about Dr. Pate's mentoring philosophy and her SSR meeting memories, listen to this interview conducted by Dr. Warren B. Nothnick, who was a graduate student with Dr. Pate and who nominated her for the 2021 Trainee Mentor Award.

In this episode of "The Future Conceived", we Interviewed Dr Diana Monsivais, the 2023 SSR Bahr Jr Scientist Travel Awardee. She is an assistant professor at Baylor College of Medicine. Click to listen what's her experience with SSR and the exciting topics she is working on!

Follow along as we learn about Dr. Fuller Bazer’s career journey, from his upbringing in Louisiana, his Ph.D. training at North Carolina State University in the 1960’s following his military active duty in South Korea, to his early career at University of Florida before settling in at Texas A&M University in 1992. Dr. Bazer is a distinguished professor in Animal Science, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Texas A&M University. His research in reproductive biology focuses on uterine biology and pregnancy in livestock species.

Dr. Bazer became a member of SSR in 1969, in the early years of SSR. Hear about what SSR means to Dr. Bazer, and how being a scientist in reproductive biology / animal sciences has evolved from the time SSR was created, to now. 

From cleaning dishes in a lab, to engineering, to medical school, to senior principal investigator of the "Reproductive Medicine Group" at NIEHS, listen to the amazing scientific journey of Dr. Carmen Williams, the recipient of the 2023 SSR Trainee Mentoring Award. 
This podcast also features Dr. Miranda Bernhardt, who, before becoming the Director of the Animal Production Core and Assistant Research Professor at the Center for Reproductive Biology at Washington State University, was a postdoctoral fellow in Dr. Williams’s lab from 2011 to 2017. 
Mentors are themself first and foremost mentees that keep on learning throughout their career, from others, including their trainees, and from their own experience along the way.

Today's interview is with Dr Benjamin Tsang, the 2022 SSR Distinguished Leadership and Service Awardee. Dr. Tsang is a Professor Emeritus of Obstetrics & Gynecology and Cellular & Molecular Medicine at the University of Ottawa. Tune in to learn all about Dr. Tsang's career, his research on ovarian cancer, and his long term commitment and service to our SSR society.