“Commitment of the gonad to ovary or testis fate” TOMORROW 2pm

Tuesday 1 September Pizza lunch 12-1pm and Seminar @ 2-3pm, level 3 Boardrooms Hudson Institute
Prof Blanche Capel (Duke Univ. Med Centre, USA)

Professor Blanche Capel, PhD, is a James B. Duke Professor of Cell Biology at Duke University Medical Center. Her graduate training was in mouse genetics and stem cell biology with Beatrice Mintz at Fox Chase Cancer Center Robin Lovell-Badge at the National Institute for Medical Research, Mill Hill, London.

Prof Capel is prominent in the field of sex determination and the cell fate and patterning decisions that underlie the development of the early bipotential mammalian gonad into either testis or ovary. She is an editor of Developmental Biology, and serves on the editorial boards of Developmental Dynamics and Sexual Development. She was a founding member of the DEV1 study section at NIH, and has served on numerous other NIH and NSF panels. She is a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and a representative to FASEB from the Society for Developmental Biology.