Advanced Topics in Reproductive Sciences (ATRS)

3 units

This course provides a survey of special topics in human reproduction with an emphasis on disease states, their cellular and molecular underpinnings, current therapies (or lack thereof), and state-of-the-art research in respective fields. Faculty experts will provide lectures on their own research and related pressing research in their field of expertise, including high-tech advances. Students will be instructed on a range of topics, some of which will be new to the students and others will be expanded upon from what they learned in HRP. These topics may include: gamete development, stem cell biology, fertility preservation, preimplantation genetic diagnosis, preeclampsia, placental pathology, non-invasive diagnostic tools including imaging and ultrasound, the aging reproductive tract, preterm birth, uterine contractility, immunology of pregnancy, epigenetics, reproductive cancers, engineering as an approach to improve reproductive health, and the role of reproductive sciences in society.