Dr. Sissy W
swamaitha.bsky.social
Dr. Sissy W
@swamaitha.bsky.social
Stem Cell / Developmental Biologist. Migrant. she/her/Dr
PhD: Niakan Lab, Francis Crick Institute | Postdoc: Clark Lab, UCLA MCDB
Fellow @leadingedgeprogram.bsky.social | UC PPFP
Just out @pnas.org : our work on primate testis maturation during fetal development.

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Testicular somatic and germ cell maturation during rhesus macaque development | PNAS
The formation of bilateral testes in animals is critical for puberty, reproductive capacity, and testosterone production across the life course. In...
www.pnas.org
June 28, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Thank you Andrea Riz and @binyammogessie.bsky.social for your @dev-journal.bsky.social perspective on our primate ovary preprint (and for giving me a great reason for a belated first post) !
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In preprints: rethinking the foundations of the ovarian reserve
For decades, the prevailing view of ovarian reserve formation – the process that provides the full complement of oocytes a female will carry for life – has been rooted in a mouse-centric model: a line...
journals.biologists.com
June 26, 2025 at 9:19 PM