Profile
Laura Schulz’s laboratory focuses on understanding how the maternal hormonal and nutritional environment during pregnancy affects the function of the placenta, and, in turn, the development and future health of the fetus. Major projects include using mouse models to determine how maternal nutrition, particularly maternal diabetes and the hormone leptin, influences placental development and offspring metabolic health. Her lab also collaborates with the Roberts, Ezashi, and Schust labs to better understand human placental development using pluripotent stem cell models. In addition, Dr. Schulz's lab continues to work with the Phillips lab in biochemistry to elucidate the impact of the maternal environment on offspring bone health.
More about Dr. Laura Schulz
Academic Information
Research Interests
- Placental Development
- Trophoblast Invasion
- Preeclampsia
- Developmental Origins of Health and Disease
- Gestational Diabetes
- Leptin
Areas of Expertise
- Placental histology
- Trophoblast differentiation
- Trophoblast invasion
- Developmental Origins of Health and Disease
- Physiology of pregnancy
Education & Training
Fellowship
2005, Boston University
2009, University of Missouri
Post-Graduate School
2002, Ph.D. Molecular and Integrative Physiology, Univ. of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Awards & Honors
- Chair, Public Affairs Committee, Society for the Study of Reproduction 2013-2016
- Member, Society for the Study of Reproduction, Society for Reproductive Investigation, American Diabetes Association
- American Society for Reproductive Medicine New Investigator Award 2009