Thanks to Dr. Maria Belen Rabaglino, School of Agriculture and Food Science, University College Dublin (UCD), for sharing her work and imparting valuable knowledge as a guest speaker in the online seminar “Long-term molecular consequences for calves of being derived from an in vitro produced embryo”
Many thanks from the EUROVA Network of oocyte lovers!
Biosketch: I graduated as a Veterinarian in 2003 from the National University of Rio Cuarto (UNRC). Later, I completed a specialization in Bovine Reproduction at the National University of Cordoba (UNC) in 2006 (Argentina). In 2007, a Fulbright scholarship allowed me to enroll at UF to study for the M.S. degree (with a major in Veterinary Medical Sciences) in 2009. The subject of my thesis was the reproductive management of dairy heifers, directed by Dr. Carlos Risco. Then, through an AMCB fellowship, I graduated with a PhD in Animal Molecular and Cell Biology in December 2012. My PhD research, mentored by Dr. Charlie Wood, was focused on determining global changes in gene expression in the ovine fetal brain during late gestation using microarray technology.
After my PhD degree, and to fulfill the conditions of the Fulbright program, I returned to Argentina with a Repatriation fellowship. I enrolled as an Assistant Professor of Animal Reproduction in the Veterinary College at UNRC. I earned a permanent position as a researcher at CONICET (a governmental agency that promotes scientific activities). Also, I was hired as an Assistant Professor of Embryology, Histology, and Cellular Biology in the College of Medical Sciences at UNC. I have collaborated in graduate courses and organized, developed, and taught a graduate course on the bioinformatic analysis of public transcriptomic data intended for investigators outside the area of Computational Biology. As a visiting scholar, I was invited twice (in 2015 and 2017) to offer a workshop on this subject at the UF Dept. of Physiology of Functional Genomics.
To push my career forward, I embraced the opportunity of following a two-year Post-doctoral Fellowship at the Department of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, Technical University of Denmark (DTU), between 2019 and 2021 to analyze transcriptomic and epigenomic data from in vitro and in vivo produced bovine embryos and calves derived from them as part of the EliteOVA project (PI Prof. Poul Hyttel: UCPH). In February 2021, I was awarded a two-year Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Individual Fellowship to further my professional career at the School of Agriculture and Food Science, University College Dublin (UCD), with Prof. Patrick Lonergan. I took up this position in September 2021.
