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 newsScienceDaily, 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