Tête-à-tête with Geert Hamer

We are delighted to introduce an interview with Dr. Geert Hamer, a plenary speaker at 17th NYRA meeting. Dr. Hamer is a Research Associate at the Amsterdam Reproduction & Development and Associate Professor at the Reproductive Biology Laboratory, Amsterdam UMC. His work focuses on genome stability maintenance and development of germ cells and human preimplantation …

Read more

Tête-à-tête with Anne Jørgensen

Get to know Dr. Anne Jørgensen, one of the plenary speakers at the upcoming 17th NYRA Meeting. Dr. Jørgensen is a Senior Researcher at Herlev and Gentofte Hospital in Denmark. Her current research focuses on mechanisms leading to the arrest of normal fetal gonocyte differentiation and development of GCNIS cells using an ex vivo culture model of …

Read more

Meet the NYRA School trainers: Chloé Mayere

We are proud to present Dr. Chloé Mayere from the University of Geneva as a faculty member and trainer of the first NYRA-EAA-Andronet School in Omics of male germ cells. Her expertise includes Single cell sequencing, sex differentiation and spermatogenesis. Her research focus lies on investigating gonadal sex differentiation by single cell transcriptomics in mice …

Read more

Meet the NYRA School trainers: Lena Arévalo

We are delighted to introduce Dr. Lena Arevaló as a faculty member in first NYRA School in Omics of Male Germ Cells. Lena is a young PI who recently founded her lab at the Department of Animal Reproduction INIA-CSIC in Madrid, Spain. Her research focuses on molecular processes of mammalian reproduction in an interdisciplinary approach at …

Read more

Tête-à-tête with Nina Neuhaus

Get to know Prof. Nina Neuhaus, one of the invited speakers to the upcoming 16th NYRA Meeting in Brussels (May 27th-29th), through this interview. Prof. Neuhaus is the group leader of the Germline Stem Cells Group at CeRA, Münster. Her research focuses on male infertility and fertility preservation of immature testicular tissue. When and why did you …

Read more

Sperm Toolbox & why we needed it

In recent years, our knowledge about male reproductive health has made big advances. However, two main questions still remain unanswered: ‘When will we have an effective male contraceptive pill?’ and ‘Can we cure patients with abnormal spermiogram parameters?’ A recent study by Gruber et al. (https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0297666) brings us a step closer to answering both questions. …

Read more