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URL:https://biology.technion.ac.il/en/seminars/faculty-seminar-dr-rachelly
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SUMMARY:Faculty Seminar-Dr. Rachelly Normand [No Categories]
DESCRIPTION:Location: Faculty Of Biology Auditorium  Dr. Rachelly Normand \
 n Affiliation: the Massachusetts General Hospital Harvard Medical School B
 road Institute of MIT and Harvad Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, USA.  \n Host
 :Dr\, Maya Maor-Nof \n Dear Biology Students\, Postdocs\, and Faculty\,\n\
 n&nbsp\;\n\nNext week for our Faculty Seminar Series at 1:00 p.m. on Monda
 y\, December 29th\, we will have a talk by Dr. Rachelly Normand of the Ma
 ssachusetts General Hospital Harvard Medical School Broad Institute of MIT
  and Harvad Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, USA.  Dr. Rachelly Normand will p
 resent a talk titled "Advancing\n\nWomen's Health One Cell at a Time: From
  Autoimmunity to Pregnancy".\n\n\nTalk Abstract: \n\n&nbsp\;\n\nWomen’s
  health has historically been marginalized in research\, and much of biome
 dical\n\nknowledge still defaults to male physiology. My goal is to build 
 a women-centered\n\nresearch program focused on two complementary areas of
  research: autoimmunity\,\n\nwhich disproportionately affects women\, and 
 pregnancy\, a critical and complex process\n\nthat shapes women’s health
  long after delivery. Autoimmunity and pregnancy share\n\nfundamental tole
 rance pathways\, making their joint study particularly powerful. In this\n
 \nseminar I will present my post-doctoral study on thyroid autoimmunity\, 
 where we show\n\nthat Hashimoto’s thyroiditis and Graves’ disease - th
 ough clinically distinct - share many\n\nfeatures in the cellular ecosyste
 m of the thyroid gland. We identified epithelial-immune\n\ncellular niches
  that form in the gland during autoimmunity and may act as a tissue\n\ntol
 erance mechanism to help preserve organ function in the setting of chronic
  immune\n\nattack. I will then share results from the largest single cell 
 placenta atlas profiled to date\,\n\nincluding five different pregnancy co
 mplications. This comprehensive atlas reveals\n\npreviously unrecognized p
 lacental cell subsets and uncovers distinct dynamics of fetal\n\nand mater
 nal cells across different complications. I will conclude by outlining my 
 future\n\nresearch program\, which will move beyond cataloging individual 
 cell types to\n\nsystematically defining the cellular niches that support 
 tissue function and tissue\n\ntolerance in diverse contexts of women’s h
 ealth.\n\n&nbsp\;\n\nLooking forward to seeing you!\nMaya 
LOCATION:Faculty Of Biology Auditorium

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