News & Activities
Jeff received People's Choice Award
Jeff presented his "Elevator Pitch" at the Greenwald Symposium, KUMC. He received 1st place for the People's Choice Award. He is also a travel award recipient. 11/7/2024
Kalli presented her research at the Greenwald Symposium
Kalli presented her work on the oviductal assembloids at the Greenwald Symposium, KUMC. 11/7/2024
Dr. Winuthayanon participated "STEM Goes Red" event as a mentor
Dr. Winuthayanon shared her experience as a mentor for 8th grade students in mid-Missouri at the STEM Goes Red event. 10/18/2024
Columbia Public School Teachers visit at the NextGen
Dr. Winuthayanon shared her research with Columbia Public School Teacher. 10/3/2024
Kalli's research on oviductal EVs has just been published in FASEB J
Congrats kalli. 09/06/2024
Jeff's research was selected as Supplementary Journal Cover for ACS Med Chem Lett
Jeff's research image from his 3D modeling was selected as Supplementary Journal Cover for ACS Medicine Chemistry Letters. 07/25/2024
Kalli received abstract award at GRC: Mammalian Reproduction
Kalli received the abstract award at the GRC: Mammalian Reproduction, Castelldefels, Spain. 07/24/2024
Jeff presented his research at GRC Mammalian Reproduction
Jeff presented his research at the 2024 GRC: Mammalian Reproduction, Castelldefels, Spain. 07/22/2024
Kalli presented her research at GRC Mammalian Reproduction
Kalli presented her research at the 2024 GRC: Mammalian Reproduction, Castelldefels, Spain. 07/24/2024
Ryan's abstract was selected for a platform presentation at the GRS: Mammalian Reproduction
Ryan's abstract was selected for a platform presentation at the GRS: Mammalian Reproduction. But due to the global tech outage with airlines, he was unable to attend the meeting. 07/19/2024
Erin's NIH F31 grant received 26th percentile
Erin submitted her NIH F31 grant and received an impact score of 34 with a 26th percentile, 07/16/2024
Ryan defended his dissertation
Dr. Finnery defended his dissertation for the Translational Biosciences PhD Program. He is the 1st PhD student graduated from this program. 07/10/2024 Congratulations, Ryan!!
Jeff presented his research at the National Contraception Meeting
Jeff presented his research at the 2023 National Contraception Meeting in Houston, TX. 11/14/2023
Erin presented her research at the National Contraception Meeting
Erin shared her research at the 2023 National Contraception Meeting in Houston, TX. 11/14/2023
Ryan presented his research at the Health Science Research Day
Ryan presented his research poster at the School of Medicine, Health Science Research Day at the University of Missouri. 11/10/2023
Erin received Poster award at the Greenwald Symposium
Erin received a poster presentation award at the Greenwald Symposium. 11/3/2023
Daniel presented his research at the Greenwald Symposium
Daniel presented research poster at the Greenwald symposium (KUMC), Kansas City, KS. 11/2/2023
Ryan presented his research at the Greenwald Symposium
Ryan presented research poster at the Greenwald symposium (KUMC), Kansas City, KS. 11/2/2023
Ryan presented an elevator pitch at the Greenwald Symposium
Ryan presented an elevator pitch at the Greenwald symposium (KUMC), Kansas City, KS. 11/2/2023
Erin presented her research poster at the Greenwald Symposium
Erin presented an elevator pitch at the Greenwald symposium (KUMC), Kansas City, KS. 11/2/2023
Erin presented an elevator pitch at the Greenwald Symposium
Erin presented an elevator pitch at the Greenwald symposium. 11/2/2023
Jeff presented his research at Show Me Research Week
Jeff presented his research at the University of Missouri Show Me Research Week. 04/19/2023
Ryan presented his research at Show Me Research Week
Ryan presented his research at the University of Missouri Show Me Research Week. 04/19/2023
Erin won 1st place: Life Sciences category at Show Me Research Week
Erin presented her research at the University of Missouri Show Me Research Week. She won 1st place for the Life Sciences category! 04/19/2023
Kalli won WSU SURCA research presentation
Kalli presented her undergraduate research at WSU SURCA event and received the presentation award. 03/2023
Kalli interviewed by Dr. Universe
Kalli is our student that is currently at Washington State University. She was interviewed by "Ask Dr. Universe" at WSU about "How long do you have to train to become a scientist?" 1/4/2023
Emily won 1st place at SSR 2022
Emily McGlade (post-doc) won 1st place at the platform competition for her research on progesterone and its impact on early embryo development at the SSR meeting in Spokane, WA, 7/28/2022
Ryan presented flash-talk at SSR
Ryan Finnerty (PhD candidate) presented his research flash-talk on sperm/embryo mediated oviductal response at the SSR meeting in Spokane, WA, 7/27/2022
Jeff presented flash-talk at SSR
Jeff Erickson (PhD student) presented his research flash-talk on the potential novel non-hormonal contraceptive for women at the SSR meeting in Spokane, WA, 7/28/2022
Kalli presented her poster at SSR
Kalli Stephens (undergraduate student) presented her research poster on extracellular vesicles in the oviduct at the SSR meeting in Spokane, WA, 7/28/2022
Ryan's abstract was selected for a talk at NWRSS
Ryan Finnerty (PhD candidate) presented his research on sperm-mediated inflammatory response in the oviduct at the Northwest Research Science Symposium (NWRSS) in Stevenson, WA, 5/19/2022
Daniel presented his poster at NWRSS
Daniel Carulli (PhD student) presented his research on estrogen and aquaporin (scRNA-seq) expression in the oviduct at NWRSS in Stevenson, WA, 5/19/2022
Erin presented her poster at NWRSS
Erin Carulli (PhD student) presented her research on the impact of kallikrein gene cluster deletion on reproduction at NWRSS in Stevenson, WA, 5/19/2022
Jake presented his poster at NWRSS
Jacob Pru (Undergraduate student) presented his research on the impact of a loss of estrogen signaling in the oviductal muscle at NWRSS in Stevenson, WA, 5/19/2022
Jenna presented her Honors project at NWRSS
Jenna Jeffries (Undergraduate student) presented her Honors thesis on the effect of protease inhibitor and acrosomal reaction at NWRSS in Stevenson, WA, 5/19/2022
Kalli received poster presentation award at NWRSS
Kalli Stephens (Undergraduate student) received an award for her poster presentation on extracellular vesicles in the oviduct during pregnancy at NWRSS in Stevenson, WA, 5/19/2022
Kalli won 1st place at SURCA
Kalli Stephens presented her research at WSU SURCA. She received the Crimson (1st place) award🥇for the Proposal Category, 3/28/2022
Kalli received Barry Goldwater Scholarship
Kalli Stephens is the recipient of the Barry Goldwater Scholarship. 433 universities and colleges submitted nominations, 3/25/2022
Ryan won 2nd place for 3MT
Ryan Finnerty won 2nd place 🏅 on 3-minute thesis (3MT) at the Departmental level, WSU, 2/18/2022
Research highlighted in the news
Our findings on AEBSF & its inhibitory action on human semen liquefaction are highlighted in US news, ScienceDaily, HealthDay, and at EOS Wetenschap (Dutch’s scientific magazine), 02/10/2022
Emily accepted to FIR course
Emily McGlade was accepted to the program Frontiers in Reproduction (FIR). This is a competitive program and there are applicants from international institutes, 01/27/2022
Ryan enjoyed IETS meeting
Ryan presented his poster at the International Embryo Technologies Society (IETS) meeting and met Dr. Akio Miyamoto from Obihiro University of Agriculture & Veterinary Medicine, Japan. The meeting was in Savannah, GA, 1/12/2021
Emily presented her poster at SSR
Emily McGlade presented her research poster at the SSR in St. Louis, MO, 12/14/2021
Jeff gave a talk at the SSR
Jeff Erickson's abstract was selected for a platform presentation at the SSR in St. Louis, MO, 12/14/2021
Ryan presented a poster at SSR
Ryan Finnerty presented his research poster at the SSR in St. Louis, MO, 2/18/2021
A lot of fun at SSR
We also found time to have fun at the meeting in St. Louis, MO, 12/14/2021
Joy received RA and $10K award
Joy was one of the recipients for WSU RA&$10K competitive award from the Office of Research, 10/15/2021
Emily's was awarded NIH F31
Emily McGlade's NIH F31-Diversity application received an impact score of 16 and ranked at 4th percentile. She is awarded from 11/1/21-10/31/23.
Jeff won poster presentation award
Jeff Erickson won a poster presentation at the Virtual SSR Contraceptive Symposium, 8/6/2021
Lab cherry picking in Idaho
Our lab went cherry picking in Troy Idaho, 7/12/2021
Ryan presented at the Uterine Workshop
Ryan Finnerty (graduate student) presented his research at the virtual Uterine Workshop, 12/4/2021
Joy was recruited as CRB director
Joy was recruited to lead the Center for Reproductive Biology (CRB) at WSU, 7/1/2021
Emily presented at the Uterine Workshop
Emily McGlade (graduate student) presented her research at the virtual Uterine Workshop, 05/2021
Prashanth presented at the Uterine Workshop
Prashanth Anamthathmakula (post-doc scholar) presented his research at the virtual Uterine Workshop, 04/2021
Emily won 1st place on 3MT
Emily Harris-McGlade (graduate student) presented her research for the 3-minute thesis competition and won 1st place at the Departmental level and 3rd place at the College level.
Joy was highlighted for AAPI month
Joy was highlighted at the SSR for the Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, 5/12/2021 - read full blog
Joy received tenure & promotion
Joy received tenure & promotion to the Associate Professor Level at the WSU, 7/1/2021
Joy received the Dean's Award
Joy received the Dean's Outstanding Junior Research Faculty Award at the College of Veterinary Medicine, WSU, 9/17/2020
Joy received mentoring award
Joy received the Excellence in Undergraduate Mentoring Award from School of Molecular Biosciences, WSU, 5/9/2020. This award is nominated by the students - read the nomination letter here.
Brooke won 1st place at the National Collegiate Honors Council Meeting
Brooke Barton (senior student) presented her research poster at the National Collegiate Honors Council Annual Meeting in New Orleans — she won First Place!, 11/2019
Emily presented poster at SMB retreat
Emily Harris (PhD student) presented her poster for the research project that she has been doing for the past Summer! The presentation is at the SMB 20 years Anniversary and Fall Conference, WSU, Pullman, WA, 08/2019
Devinae, Jenna, Brooke presented won 1st place at SURCA
Brooke Barton, Jenna Rock, and Devinae McNeil (all undergraduate students) presented their research findings on the novel contraceptive at the WSU SURCA 2019. They received “Crimson” (1st) Award in the Molecular, Cellular, & Chemical Biology category, 03/2019
Lab Cherry picking
We went cherry picking in Troy Idaho, 07/2018
Gerardo received award at ABRCMS
Gerardo Herrera (Undergraduate student) presented this research at WSU SURCA and won a “Gray” award in the Organismal, Population, Ecological & Evolutionary Biology category, 03/2018
He also presented at the ABRCMS (Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students) meeting in Phoenix, AZ, 11/1/2017 - he received outstanding presentation award
Jacob presented at SURCA
Jacob Lizarraga (Undergraduate student) presented his research findings at 2017 WSU SURCA (The Showcase for Undergraduate Research and Creative Activities), Compton Union Building, Pullman, WA, 03/2017
Li gave a talk at SSR
Shuai Li (post-doc scholar) gave a talk for his research on semen liquefaction defect in our mouse model at the SSR Annual Meeting in San Diego, CA, 07/2016
Winuthayanon lab at TMP banquet
Left to right: Marleny Garcia (Undergraduate student), Shuai Li (Post-doctoral fellow), Joy Winuthayanon (Faculty mentor), Keila Tam (Undergraduate student), and Jacob Lizarraga (Undergraduate student) at 2016 Team Mentoring Program (TMP) end-of-year banquet , Compton Union Building, Pullman, WA, 12/2016
Marleny won an award at ABRCMS
Marleny Garcia (Undergraduate student) presented her research at ABRCMS meeting and won outstanding presentation award, Tampa, FL 11/2016
Sofia presented her research at SURCA
Sofia O'Neill (Undergraduate student) presented her research at WSU SURCA, 03/2016