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Greehey CCRI Seminar Series: Kate Lawrenson, PhD (UTHSA, Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology)

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Dr. Lawrenson

Dr. Lawrenson’s career has been dedicated to studying unmet needs in women’s health. Her laboratory focuses on gene regulation endometriosis and ovarian cancer – and the pathways linking these two diseases. Her laboratory’s multidisciplinary and collaborative research brings together genomics and epidemiology to identify new translational opportunities. The Lawrenson laboratory team includes both wet-lab and dry-lab researchers focused on studying the interplay between the genome, the epigenome, and the transcriptome using large-scale ChIP-seq, CUT&TAG/RUN, RNA-seq, spatial in situ, and single-cell ‘omics’ technologies on population-based cohorts of disease-relevant human tissues specimens. Candidate genes, regulatory elements, and genetic variants are validated using functional assays that include organoid modeling, genome editing, and in vivo modeling. Her team’s recent work has been published in Nature Genetics and Cell Reports Medicine. Awards from the NIH, the Department of Defense, and others fund her research.

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Greehey CCRI Host: Patrick Sung, DPhil