OxTalks will soon move to the new Halo platform and will become 'Oxford Events.' There will be a need for an OxTalks freeze. This was previously planned for Friday 14th November – a new date will be shared as soon as it is available (full details will be available on the Staff Gateway).
In the meantime, the OxTalks site will remain active and events will continue to be published.
If staff have any questions about the Oxford Events launch, please contact halo@digital.ox.ac.uk
Bio:
Prof Forde is Professor and Chair of Molecular Reproductive Biosciences based in the School of Medicine at the University of Leeds. She also Co-founded, is Co-Director and current Academic Lead for LeedsOmics a virtual research Institute.
Her group is focused on understanding the molecular interactions between the uterine endometrium and the embryo that are required for successful early pregnancy in mammalian species with different implantation strategies (cattle, pigs, humans). We are also interested in and how the maternal environment and sex of the embryo influences these interactions.
We use a combination of in vivo and in vitro (including micro-fluidics, organoids, and extracellular scaffolds) approaches, as well as omics technologies to understand fundamentally how both protein coding and non-coding parts of the genome regulate endometrial function for food, fertility and health. We are also interested in the role components of extracellular vesicles play in these processes (including miRNAs, lncRNAs and proteins).
