Women's Health Seminar Series 2025/26
Overview
The Women's Health Research Cluster's "Women’s Health Seminar Series" offers you the opportunity to expand your breadth of knowledge about women’s health by attending monthly seminars that bring you the latest multidisciplinary research from experts around the world. Each seminar includes a 45 minute lecture by a leading expert, followed by an interactive 15 minute dialogue where you get to engage with the speaker.
You are welcome to attend one session, or join us for all–they are all free! Those who attend 75% or more seminars will receive a certificate to honour their achievement.
On the tickets page, please select for each seminar you would like to attend for this 2025/26 seminar series.
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September 15 2025: Sex, Anxiolytics, and Psychosocial Stress Vulnerabilities
(12PM EDT) This talk will focus on the AD exposome and how different environmental factors can contribute to AD risk through a sex difference lens. Dr. Hunsberger will begin discussing the sex-specific impact of anxiety on cognitive decline, and then will focus on drugs that are used to treat affective disorders and how those drugs could be harmful in AD patients. From there, she will consider novel therapeutics that could be used to treat both mood and cognitive decline. Next, she will examine how stress exacerbates anxiety and AD phenotypes and how AD male and female mice respond to different stressors. Lastly, she will talk about menopause as a risk period for developing cognitive decline, mood disorders, and dementia as a future direction.
October 20, 2025: Dimensional Affective Sensitivity to Horomones
(12PM EDT) This talk introduces the DASH (Dimensional Affective Sensitivity to Hormones) framework, which conceptualizes hormone sensitivity as a dimensional, transdiagnostic risk factor for mood symptoms across the menstrual cycle. Drawing on experimental evidence, I show how multiple distinct hormonal triggers help explain the female-biased risk for mood disorders and suicidality, challenging traditional diagnostic boundaries and informing precision psychiatry.
November 18, 2025: Using Brain Organoids to Study Sex Differences
(10AM EST) In this seminar, I will discuss our findings on studying sex differences and the sex-specific effects of estradiol during human neurodevelopment, using brain organoid models generated from human pluripotent stem cells.
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