Meetings

Thor visited Baylor and presented our latest studies on human pluripotency and trophoblast development. A great opportunity to find out about the exciting science happening at BCM Houston and catch up with friends and collaborators!

Celebrating Diwali with Jason Mills, Indira Mysorekar, Margot Williams, Kyle Eagan, Bruno Di Stefano, and Will Hudson:

Visiting Rama Kommagani and his lab:

Catching up with Margot Williams (former postdoc in the LSK Lab at WashU, now an Assistant Professor at Baylor):

The Theunissen Lab attended the 4th Annual Joint Retreat of the Developmental, Regenerative, and Stem Cell Biology (DRSCB) Program, the Department of Developmental Biology, and the Center of Regenerative Medicine at Pere Marquette Lodge (September 6-7, 2022). Our postdocs Shafqat Khan and Rowan Karvas gave poster presentations. Exciting to share our latest work with our colleagues!

Shafqat will present his latest work on naive pluripotency at the Gordon Research Conference “Safeguarding Fertility for the Present and Future”, which is associated with the Gordon Research Seminar on Mammalian Reproduction in Vermont (August 13-19, 2022).

More information about the GRC can be found here.

Rowan will present her work on stem-cell-derived trophoblast organoids in the mini-symposium on modeling embryo formation at the SSR Annual Meeting in Spokane, WA, July 26-29, 2022.

More information about the meeting can be found here.

Dr. Rowan Karvas won first place in the poster competition for postdoctoral trainees at the Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Reproduction in St. Louis, MO, for her poster entitled “3D organoids generated from human trophoblast stem cells model early placental development and susceptibility to emerging viral infections“. Well done Rowan!