Faculty
David Abbott
Position title: Professor, Obstetrics & Gynecology
Phone: Neuroendocrine Function, Polycystic Ovary Syndrome
Lisa Arendt
Position title: Associate Professor, Comparative Biosciences
Phone: Obesity; Breast cancer; Mammary gland; Inflammation; Stromal/epithelial interactions
Sebastian I Arriola Apelo
Position title: Assistant Professor, Animal and Dairy Sciences
Phone: Lactation biology, nutrient and hormonal regulation of milk protein synthesis
Craig Atwood
Position title: Associate Professor, Medicine
Phone: Hormone regulation of aging and Alzheimer's Disease
Anjon Audhya
Position title: Professor, Biomolecular Chemistry
Phone: Membrane Development and Organization
Barak Blum
Position title: Assistant Professor, Cell and Regenerative Biology
Phone: Regulation of terminal differentiation and functional maturation of stem and progenitor cells, regenerative biology of the endocrine pancreas, diabetes
Derek Boeldt
Position title: Assistant Professor, Obstetrics and Gynecology
Phone: Translational approaches for preeclampsia therapy; Changes in vascular biology and function in response to pregnancy
Michael Cahill
Position title: Assistant Professor, Comparative Biosciences
Phone: Synapse, plasticity, environmental risk factor, neurodevelopment
Pelin Cengiz
Position title: Associate Professor, Pediatrics
Phone: Sex differences in developmental neuroprotection; Roles played by estrogen receptors and neuroestrogens in the hippocampus
Ricki Colman
Position title: Associate Professor, Cell and Regenerative Biology
Phone: The effects of caloric restriction on non-human primates
Dawn Davis
Position title: Professor, Medicine
Phone: Basic and translational research on diabetes and obesity
Feyza Engin
Position title: Assistant Professor, Biomolecular Chemistry
Phone: Type 1 diabetes, Type 2 diabetes, Beta cells, Endoplasmic reticulum, Unfolded protein response, Obesity
Kimberly Keil Stietz
Position title: Assistant Professor, Comparative Biosciences
Phone: Environmental endocrine disruptors; urinary dysfunction; gene-environment interactions
Hasan Khatib
Position title: Professor, Animal and Dairy Sciences
Phone: Genomic imprinting; Genetic development of embryos in cattle; Genetic traits that impact health and milk quality in cattle
Michelle Kimple
Position title: Associate Professor, Medicine
Phone: Signal transduction; Diabetes pathophysiology
Pam Kreeger
Position title: Associate Professor, Biomedical Engineering
Phone: The use of mathematical, and computational techniques to address cellular signaling questions relevant to women's health
Sathish Kumar
Position title: Associate Professor, Comparative Biosciences
Phone: Placenta biology; preeclampsia; hypertension
Jon Levine
Position title: Professor, Neuroscience; Director, Wisconsin National Primate Research Center
Phone: Polycystic Ovary Syndrome
Yun Liang
Position title: Assistant Professor, Medical Microbiology & Immunology
Phone: Immunometabolism; sexual dimorphism; endocrine regulation of immunity
Bo Liu
Position title: Professor, Surgery
Phone: Molecular mechanism underlying vascular inflammation: Molecular mechanism underlying occlusive vascular diseases; and Development of new materials for biomedical applications (gene delivery and vascular grafts)
Matthew Merrins
Position title: Associate Professor, Medicine
Phone: Pancreatic islet metabolism and diabetes; live-cell imaging, electrophysiology, and protein biochemistry
John Parrish
Position title: Professor, Animal and Dairy Sciences
Phone: Sperm regulation and function; Equine reproduction
Manish Patankar
Position title: Professor, Obstetrics & Gynecology; ERP Program Associate Director
Phone: Epithelial Ovarian Cancer (EOS)
Bikash Pattnaik
Position title: Associate Professor, Pediatrics
Phone: Understanding the mechanism of Kir7.1 mutations associated blindness using patient derived iPS-Retinal Pigment Epithelium cells
Francisco Pelegri
Position title: Professor & Department Chair, Genetics
Phone: Cellular and molecular level processes involved in early vertebrate development
Suzanne Ponik
Position title: Senior Scientist, Cell and Regenerative Biology
Phone: Breast cancer; Extracellular matrix
Raunak Sinha
Position title: Assistant Professor, Neuroscience
Phone: Visual processing in the retina
Aleksandar Stanic-Kostic
Position title: Assistant Professor, Obstetrics & Gynecology
Phone: The role of Innate Lymphoid cells and immune cellular networks in the architectural organization of the maternal/fetal interface
James Thomson
Position title: Professor & Honorary Associate/Fellow, Cell and Regenerative Biology; Director, Regenerative Biology
Phone: Stem cells
Jyoti Watters
Position title: Professor, Comparative Biosciences
Phone: Molecular mechanisms employed by microglia; Central nervous system
Milo Wiltbank
Position title: Professor, Animal and Dairy Sciences
Phone: Hormonal interaction; Intracellular regulation of cell death and steroidogenesis in the corpus luteum; Regulation of ovarian function in dairy cattle
Wei Xu
Position title: Professor, Oncology
Phone: Dissecting the epigenetic mechanisms controlling estrogen responsiveness
Fei Zhao
Position title: Assistant Professor, Comparative Biosciences
Phone: Sexual differentiation, Reproductive tract, Sex hormones, Toxicology
Program Associates
Terence Barry
Position title: Emeritus, Animal and Dairy Sciences
Phone: Aquaculture, Fish Reproduction
James Garcia
Position title: Research Associate, Primate Research Center
Phone: Sex difference in the GnRH-kisspeptin-neuronkinin B network
Thaddeus (Ted) Golos
Position title: Professor & Department Chairperson, Comparative Biosciences
Phone: Placenta biology, stem cells
Colin Jefcoate
Position title: Professor Emeritus, Cell and Regenerative Biology
Phone: stAR protein
Marissa Kraynak
Position title: Science and Technology Policy Fellow, California Council on Science and Technology
Dinesh Shah
Position title: Professor Emeritus, Obstetrics & Gynecology
Phone: Maternal-fetal medicine; Mechanisms of preeclamptic hypertension
