Special Interest Working Group – Oxytocin
Washington University in St. Louis
Host/Lab: England
The purpose of this group meeting is to congregate investigators with an interest in oxytocin signaling in order to share resources and identify potential collaborators
| 9:30 am | Sarah England, PhD Professor Department of Ob/Gyn |
Introduction |
| 9:40 am | Arvind Palanisamy, MD Assistant Professor Department of Anesthesiology |
“Oxytocin and fetal neurodevelopment” |
| 9:55 am | Nathan Kopp DBBS Pre Doc Trainee Dougherty Lab Department of Genetics |
“Investigating the role of oxytocin in mouse models of Williams syndrome” |
| 10:10 am | Celia Santi, MD, PhD Associate Professor Department of Ob/Gyn |
“Oxytocin inhibits the potassium channel SLO2.1: A novel mechanism of regulating uterine excitability” |
| 10:25 am | Manasi Malik MSTP Student England Lab Department of Ob/Gyn |
“The effect of genetic variants on oxytocin receptor function” |
| 10:40 am | Wrap up and discussion on future direction | |