Sofia Ortega
Position title: Assistant Professor, Reproductive Physiology, Animal and Dairy Sciences
Email: sofia.ortega@wisc.edu
Phone: Interested in the underlying genomics of fertility regulation, which are players driving maternal-embryo interactions.
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Education
M.S. Animal Sciences, Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, Santiago, Chile
Ph.D. Animal Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida
Postdoctoral Training, Reproductive Biology, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri
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Research Focus:
Sofia researches bovine reproductive physiology. She is particularly interested in the underlying genomics of fertility regulation, which are players driving maternal-embryo interactions, and how to regulate them to improve reproductive performance in mammals. Her program focuses on the genetic regulation of fertility with an emphasis in preimplantation embryonic development and placentation in the bovine. She uses novel genomic approaches including gene editing, to investigate the effect of reproduction-related genes on development and physiology. The long-term goal of her program is to identify key variants and mechanisms associated with pregnancy establishment and use that information to improve reproduction and genetic selection for fertility in cattle.
Program Activities
- Joined ERP Program: 2022
- ERP Admissions Committee Member
Trainees
No Current or Past ERP Students