Cambridge Reproduction Networking Event

About

Are you a Cambridge-based researcher with an interest in reproduction?

Please join us from 3pm for refreshments and a chance to meet other researchers!

The programme includes:

Interdisciplinary dialogue

Abortion (il)legality and access in the UK and Ireland
Dr Aideen O’Shaughnessy (University of Lincoln) and Dr Catherine Aiken (Obstetrics & Gynaecology)

Flash talks and questions

How cells control developmental timetables
Dr Teresa Rayon (Babraham Institute)

Housework's disappearing trick
Carleigh Morgan (MMLL)

Pregnancy at altitude: placentas and fetal growth in Andean highlanders
Jenna Armstrong (Physiology, Development & Neuroscience)

Marie Stopes: contraception's first historian
Kim Alexander (History and Philosophy of Science)

Reproductive hormone levels across the mouse estrous cycle
Ellen Wall (Physiology, Development & Neuroscience)

Project update

Governance of stem cell-based embryo models: complex problems need multi-disciplinary teams
Sandy Starr (Progress Educational Trust) and Christina Rozeik (Cambridge Reproduction)

Interdisciplinary dialogue

Indian mothers and daughters: becoming the world's most populous country
Dr Edward Moon-Little (Social Anthropology), Dr Shuvatri Dasgupta (History) and Reetika Subramanian (Gender Studies)

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The programme will be followed by a networking reception with drinks and canapes.

This is an in-person event - hosted at the prestigious Pitt Building, arrival refreshments from 15.00, talks starting at 15.30 and finishing at 17.30 - followed by a drinks reception.

The event is free to attend, but we ask that you register at Eventbrite

We still have spaces available for flash talks! If you would like to give a 5-minute presentation about your work (including work in progress), please email Christina Rozeik coordinator@repro.cam.ac.uk

Funding for this event has been provided by the Humanities and Social Sciences Research Framework