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    Dr. Athena Ren’s Lab Publishes in Advanced Science on Newly Uncovered Ovulation Regulator

    June 2025 Dr. Athena Ren, Assistant Professor of Reproductive Biology, was recently featured in the Cornell Chronicle for her lab's research into a new ovulation regulator. This exciting new finding, published in an article titled "Semaphorin 3E-Plexin-D1 Pathway Downstream of the Lutenizing Hormone Surge Regulates Ovulation, Granulosa Cell Lutenization, and Ovarian Angiogenesis in Mice" [...]

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    Outreach Core Director Dr. Dave Lin Makes Generous Donation to Expanding Your Horizons 2025

    April 2025 Dr. Dave Lin, Associate Professor of Neurobiology, Coordinator of the CityU Hong Kong Joint PhD Program, and Director of Outreach Core for the Cornell Reproductive Sciences Center, recently made a generous donation from his CoRe outreach funds to Cornell University's 38th Expanding Your Horizons (EYH) Conference. The one-day event, which took place [...]

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    Ovarian Follicle Working Subgroup publishes new report

    February 2025 The Ovarian Follicle Working Subgroup of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Ovarian Nomenclature Workshop,  a committee that includes CoRe's Dr. Marla Lujan (Associate Professor, Division of  Nutritional Sciences), has published a new report in Fertility and Sterility, titled "Classification system of human ovarian follicle morphology: recommendations of the [...]