Faculty
David Abbott
Credentials: [Not accepting new students]
Position title: Professor, Reproductive Sciences, Obstetrics and 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: Professor, Medicine
Phone: Hormone regulation of aging and Alzheimer's Disease
Anjon Audhya
Position title: Professor, Biomolecular Chemistry
Phone: Membrane Development and Organization
Anthony Auger
Position title: Professor, Department of Psychology
Phone: Neuroendocrinology of Sex Differences in Brain and Behavior
Karla Ausderau
Position title: Associate Professor, Occupational Therapy, Department of Kinesiology
Phone: Families and children with autism spectrum disorder
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
Credentials: [Not accepting new students]
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: Professor, Division of Critical Care, 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
Tanja Dominko
Position title: Professor of Surgery/Transplantation
Phone: Effects of tissue environment on fibroblast behaviors during wound healing
Marina Emborg
Position title: Professor, Medical Physics
Phone: Developing treatments for neurological disorders, in particular Parkinson’s disease
Feyza Engin
Position title: Associate Professor, Medicine, Biomolecular Chemistry
Phone: Type 1 diabetes, Type 2 diabetes, Beta cells, Endoplasmic reticulum, Unfolded protein response, Obesity
Andrea Galmozzi
Position title: Assistant Professor, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Department of Medicine
Phone: Deep understanding of fundamental processes in cell biology and studying the molecular basis of adipose tissue dysfunction in metabolic diseases.
David Harris
Position title: Assistant Professor, Division of Minimally Invasive Surgery, Department of Surgery
Phone: Mechanistic intersection between bariatric surgery, metabolism, and aging.
Laura Hernandez
Position title: Professor, Lactation Physiology, Department of Medicine; Affiliate Professor Obstetrics and Gynecology
Phone: Lactation biology
Kimberly Keil Stietz
Position title: Assistant Professor, Comparative Biosciences
Phone: Environmental endocrine disruptors; urinary dysfunction; gene-environment interactions
Hasan Khatib
Position title: Associate Chair & Professor - Genetics & Epigenetics, 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: Professor, Medicine
Phone: Signal transduction; Diabetes pathophysiology
Pam Kreeger
Position title: Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
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
Jimena Laporta
Position title: Assistant Professor, Lactation Physiology, Animal and Dairy Sciences
Phone: Mammary gland physiology with advances in management, genetics and nutrition
Jon Levine
Credentials: [Not accepting new students]
Position title: Professor, Neuroscience; Director, Wisconsin National Primate Research Center Obstetrics and Gynecology
Phone: Polycystic Ovary Syndrome
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
Credentials: [Not accepting new students]
Position title: Associate Professor, Medicine
Phone: Pancreatic islet metabolism and diabetes; live-cell imaging, electrophysiology, and protein biochemistry
Mark B. Meyer
Position title: Assistant Professor, Nutritional Sciences
Phone: Studies the dynamic chromatin environment responsible for serum calcium and phosphate maintenance and the impacts of vitamin D metabolism in skeletal, renal, and intestinal biology
Emma Mohr
Position title: Assistant Professor, Pediatrics
Phone: Improving the health of children impacted by infections in pregnancy
Sofia Ortega
Position title: Assistant Professor, Reproductive Physiology, Animal and Dairy Sciences
Phone: Interested in the underlying genomics of fertility regulation, which are players driving maternal-embryo interactions.
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
Francisco Peñagaricano
Position title: Assistant Professor, Quantitative Genomics, Animal and Dairy Sciences
Phone: Quantitative genomics and computational biology
Suzanne Ponik
Position title: Assistant Professor, Cell and Regenerative Biology
Phone: Breast cancer; Extracellular matrix
Jenna Schmidt
Position title: Research Assistant Professor, Wisconsin National Primate Research Center
Phone: Reproductive physiology, embryo development, pregnancy
Judith Simcox
Position title: HHMI Freeman Hrabowski Scholar, Assistant Professor, Biochemistry
Phone: Identify novel lipids in the circulation, determine how their production is regulated, and discover how these plasma lipids function in metabolic disease
Raunak Sinha
Position title: Associate Professor, Neuroscience
Phone: Visual processing in the retina
Aleksandar Stanic-Kostic
Position title: Associate Professor, Obstetrics & Gynecology
Phone: The role of Innate Lymphoid cells and immune cellular networks in the architectural organization of the maternal/fetal interface
Ei Terasawa
Credentials: [Not accepting new students]
Position title: Professor, Pediatrics
Phone: Neuroendocrinology
James Thomson
Position title: John D. Macarthur Professor; Director of Regenerative Biology, Morgridge Institute For Research; Professor, Department of Cell and Regenerative Biology, UW School of Medicine and Public Health; Professor, Department of Molecular, Cellular, & Developmental Biology, UC Santa Barbara
Phone: Stem cells
Chad Vezina
Position title: Professor, Department Chair, Comparative Biosciences
Phone: Prostate disease
María Virumbrales-Muñoz
Position title: Assistant Professor, Obstetrics & Gynecology
Phone: In vitro biomimetic modeling, cancer, and women's health
Samantha Weaver
Position title: Assistant Professor, Department of Comparative Biosciences
Phone: Defining the endocrine and molecular processes that govern bone and cartilage regeneration
Milo Wiltbank
Position title: Professor - Reproductive Physiology & Management, 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
C L Eric Yen
Position title: Associate Professor of Nutritional Sciences
Phone: Elucidating how intestinal lipid metabolism modulates systemic energy balance and glycemic control
Fei Zhao
Position title: Assistant Professor, Comparative Biosciences
Phone: Sexual differentiation, Reproductive tract, Sex hormones, Toxicology
Jing Zheng
Position title: Professor, Reproductive Sciences, Obstetrics & Gynecology
Phone: Endothelial cell function
Program Associates
Terence Barry
Position title: Emeritus, Animal and Dairy Sciences
Phone: Aquaculture, Fish Reproduction
Zeki Beyhan
Position title: Assistant Professor, Gamete/Embryo Biology and Assisted Reproductive Technologies
James Garcia
Position title: Research Associate, Primate Research Center
Phone: Sex difference in the GnRH-kisspeptin-neuronkinin B network
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
