The Future Conceived

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.

Today's interview is all about Dr. David Pepin the winner of the 2022 SSR New Investigator Award. Listen close as we talk about his career journey, the challenges he's faced as a postdoc, and all about his research on female reproductive health.

Today's interview is with Dr Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz, Professor at the University of Cambridge, UK and Bren Professor at the California Institute of Technology, USA who is interviewed here by her PhD student Bailey Weatherbee. Tune in to learn all about Magda's early influences growing up in Poland and how she came to be a scientist with a love of developmental biology, the challenges she’s faced along the way not only as a scientist but as a woman and an immigrant and and, of course, all about her labs fascinating work trying to unravel the complexities of early embryo development.

The Laramie Foothills Bison Conservation Project focuses on the ecologic and reproductive wellbeing of the bison herd at CSU. Today, we are talking to Dr. Jennifer Barfield and Dr. Kate Wilkins about what it takes to manage, breed, and conserve a bison herd. Tune in as we talk about the importance of bison in their habitat, the benefits of ART, the cultural importance behind this species, and why it takes a village to bring together this project. Enjoy!

This is the second episode in our series on Breakthroughs in Reproductive Technologies. Here Dr Jane Fenelon and Dr Rachel West talk to Dr Rebecca Krisher about the impact that Assisted Reproductive Technologies (ART) have had on human reproduction. Join us as we learn more about the common procedures that are available to us today and their efficacy and about some of the controversies surrounding ‘add-ons’ on offer in the IVF clinic We also try and answer some of the big questions like when should women start thinking about their fertility? And what does the future hold? As well as a fascinating insight into Rebecca’s career journey so far and tips for trainees.