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The Connors-BRI Center for Research on Women’s Health and Sex/Gender Medicine is hosting a series of exciting talks and presentations by local researchers, including a keynote address from Rebecca Shansky, PhD, Professor of Psychology at Northeastern University.
For more information, please email bri@bwh.harvard.edu.
Abstracts, session timing, and poster listings are all available on the Poster Session Website. The full posters in PDF form will be added after the event.
AGENDA
2:30-3:30 PM Keynote Address
3:30-4:30 PM Featured Talks
4:45-6:00 PM Poster Session and Reception
Click here for directions to the Wolf Conference Center and Hale Cafe Atrium.
KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Keynote Address: What can we learn by considering sex as a biological variable? Lessons from neuroscience.
Rebecca Shansky, Ph.D.
Professor of Psychology,
Northeastern University
Rebecca Shansky earned her Ph.D. in Neurobiology at Yale University and completed postdoctoral work at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine before joining the faculty in the Psychology Department at Northeastern in 2011. She directs the Laboratory of Neuroanatomy and Behavior, where her team uses rodent models to explore the links between brain structure and function, focusing on how individual differences in response to trauma shape long-term memories. She is a vocal advocate for gender and sex equity in experimental design, highlighted in her Science Magazine Perspective piece, “Are hormones a ‘female problem’ for animal research?”
FEATURED TALKS
- Holly Crowe, PhD, MPH: Bidirectional analysis of the association between migraine and posttraumatic stress disorder in Nurses’ Health Study II
- Gabrielle Gilmer: Sex-informed mechanisms and treatment for knee osteoarthritis: loss of estradiol and progesterone with menopause drives cartilage degeneration
- Rebecca Harris, MD, PhD, MA: Single cell analysis of immune cells from trans- and cisgender individuals delineates genome-wide regulation of gene expression by sex chromosomes and sex hormones
- Varun Lingadal, BS: Sex-Biased Effects of PCOS Genetic Risk Factors on Cardiometabolic Conditions
- Encarnacion Torres Jimenez, PhD: Characterization of vasomotor symptoms-like temperature changes in a mouse model of menopause
POSTER SESSION
Posters will be presented in two rounds from 4:45 – 6:00 in Hale Cafe Atrium. The listing of posters in each round will be published on our digital poster site.
DIRECTIONS
Marshall A. Wolf Conference Center (Talks)
Hale Building for Transformative Medicine (Hale BTM)
From 60 Fenwood Road:
Enter at 60 Fenwood Rd lobby entrance.
STAIRS:
Take the lobby staircase to the 2nd floor. Walk past the balcony overlooking the atrium and take the stairs on the left (Stair 2) to the 3rd floor. Once on the 3rd floor, exit the stairwell and take a right. The room is to your right through the double glass door, straight ahead.
ELEVATOR:
Take S Elevator to 3rd floor. Take a right out of the elevator. The room is past the stairwell, on your right through the double glass doors.
Hale Cafe Atrium (Poster Session)
Hale Building for Transformative Medicine (Hale BTM)
From 60 Fenwood Road:
Enter at 60 Fenwood Rd lobby entrance.
ELEVATOR:
Take the S elevators to the 1st floor, and the atrium will be on your right. OR at the 60 Fenwood Rd lobby take the stairs up one flight to the 1st floor, and the open atrium will be on your left.
STAIRS:
Take the stairs up one flight to the 1st floor, and the open atrium will be on your left.
