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Yong Loo Lin
School of Medicine

Making Reproductive Longevity A Reality

Ageing of the ovaries happens much faster than other body systems in a woman, truncating her reproductive lifespan and resulting in deterioration of her overall healthspan. On a societal level, reproductive equality impacts women’s health, family planning, fertility, and career development. Can we intervene in that process and balance the scales?

Together with the Buck Institute’s Global Consortium for Reproductive Longevity and Equality (GCRLE) and the generous support of the Bia-Echo Foundation, the NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine and the GCRLE will showcase the science that can make reproductive longevity a reality.

This webinar series, “Making Reproductive Longevity a Reality”, aims to engage scientists, clinicians, academics, and policymakers in a collaborative dialogue to foster research to prevent or delay reproductive aging.

Watch: Reproductive longevity is more than fertility or menopause and its accompanying mortality risk. It involves a woman’s entire life experience, her career, her family, and most importantly, her health and well-being — it is about equality, Nicole Shanahan, Professor Chong Yap Seng, Dr Joon Yun

Watch: Age-Associated Ovarian Fibrosis: From Basic Mechanisms to Pre-Clinical Models, Dr Farners Amargant, and Interventions for Ovarian Aging, Professor Mary Zelinski

Watch: Metabolic Reprogramming of the Germline is Required for Female Fertility and Sugar Appetite, Dr Zita Santos, and The mRNA Translation Program and Oocyte Competence to Develop as an Embryo: Potential Defects Associated with Maternal Aging, Professor Marco Conti

Watch: Understanding the Causal Role of the Gut Microbiota on Female Reproductive Ageing, Dr Min Hoo Kim, and The Oocyte is Our Crystal Ball – Oocyte Quality as a Marker of Overall Health, Dr Lynae M. Brayboy

Watch: Connecting Early Egg Development to Reproductive Aging, Dr Gul Bikem Soygur Kaya, and Safeguarding the Cell Division Machinery in Quiescent Oocytes, Dr Iain Cheeseman

Watch: Ovarian Senescence: A Novel Driver of Female Reproductive Aging?, Dr Amanda Kallen, and Splicing Genes to Retard Reproductive Aging, Dr Arjumand Ghazi

Watch: Why We Need Age-Relevant Mouse Models of Menopause, Bérénice Benayoun, PhD, and The Molecular and Cellular Basis of High Fertility in Social Insects, Ingrid Fetter Pruneda, PhD

Watch: LINE1 Retrotransposons in Female Reproductive Aging, Assistant Professor Ivana Celic, PHD, and How Nutrients, Neuronal Circuits, and the Microbiome Shape Nutritional Decisions and Reproduction​, Dr Carlos Ribeiro

Watch: Identifying Novel Drivers in Central Control of Female Reproduction, Professor Holly Ingraham and Unexpected Role of Steroid Hormones in Reproduction and Aging, Associate Professor Polina Lishko

Watch: Defining a “Clock” for Female Reproductive Decline, Professor Coleen Murphy