Come work with me on oogenesis
As I mentioned in some of my previous posts, I am a PhD student working on a project aimed at producing human oocytes in vitro. My current focus is on differentiating human iPSCs to ovarian supporting cells to form “ovaroids” to support oocyte development.
The overall goal of in vitro oogenesis is to produce oocytes artificially from people who can’t normally make them.1 In the shorter term, in vitro oogenesis could provide a large supply of human oocytes for research purposes, enabling experiments that were previously infeasible. The prospect of producing oocytes from genetically edited stem cell lines is particularly interesting for developmental biology studies.
Right now, the bottleneck in the project is the amount of time I have available to work on it. I’m basically working as much as I can, and I feel like I’m on the edge of burning out. The project could definitely benefit from additional skilled labor.
If you have experience in stem cell culture, reproductive biology, or RNA-seq data analysis, and you are looking for a job in Boston, please email your resume/CV to metacelsus@protonmail.com
Our lab is looking to hire at least one technician, possibly more depending on funding.
If you are an undergraduate at Harvard, MIT, or Northeastern interested in joining this project, you can also contact me by email at the above address.
E.g. infertile women, and eventually men as well, although this will be more difficult.
I'm not in biology, but I find this interesting as a layman.
I have a couple of questions. If they're too complex to answer, feel free to ignore.
- "[...] eventually men as well, although this will be more difficult." What makes it more difficult?
- What about the other way around, what's the status of spermatogenesis?