Lab News
2023.4.12. Congratulations to Sudikshya and Cristina for their impressive achievements, each earning second place in their respective categories at the 2024 Annual Animal Science Research Poster Session. Sudikshya’s poster, “The Zinc-Finger Domains of Wilms’ Tumor 1 Protein Are Critical for Uterine Receptivity During Pregnancy,” showcased her research excellence at the Ph.D. level. Meanwhile, Cristina’s poster, “Ablation of TET3 in the Uterus Impairs Endometrial Decidualization and Leads to Placental Defects,” demonstrated her outstanding work at the undergraduate level. Well done to both of you!
2024.4.4. Dr. Wang receives the USDA-AFRI Competitive Grant to study adrenomedullin regulation of conceptus elongation and implantation in pigs.
2024.3.29. Bangmin, Sudikshya and Maggie gave their platform/poster presentations at the 32nd TCRB Meeting, McKimmon Center, NCSU, Raleigh, NC.
2024.3.28. Dr. Wang receives 2024 Janice Bahr Junior Scientist Travel Award from Society of the Study of Reproduction (SSR). This award recognizes a Regular Member of the Society, and active Assistant Professor or a position of similar rank on the tenure track.
2023.11.14 Dr. Wang gave a PMS talk titled “Insights into blastocyst implantation and endometrial decidualization”, at Pregnancy Mini Series (PMS) Symposium, Duke Fertility Center, Durham, NC.
2023.10.17 Dr. Wang gave a TRBD talk titled “Regulation of age-related uterine adaptability to pregnancy”, Dr. Robert A. Godke Translational Reproductive and Developmental Biology (TRDB) Seminar Series, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA.
2023.10.13. Dr. Wang gave a IFRB talk titled “Navigating reproductive aging: Unveiling endometrial function and adaptability during pregnancy”, Interdisciplinary Faculty of Reproductive Biology, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX.
2023.9.26. Dr. Wang gave a talk titled “Data acquisition and management in Animal Science”, ANS811 Safety and Ethics, ANS, NCSU, Raleigh, NC.
2023.9.25. Dr. Wang gave a IBMP talk titled “Molecular insights into embryo implantation”, for Interdisciplinary Biochemistry Masters Program, Department of Molecular and Structural Biochemistry, NCSU, Raleigh, NC.
2023.9.1. Dr. Wang gave a talk titled “Decoding molecular mechanisms underlying regulation of embryo implantation, placentation and endometrial receptivity”, at Animal Science Departmental Seminar, NCSU, Raleigh, NC.
2023.8.17. Dr. Wang gave a talk titled “Reproductive Aging and Women’s Health: Decoding molecular mechanisms controlling age-associated uterine adaptability to pregnancy”, at CMI Research, Education & Innovation Summit, Comparative Medicine Institute, NCSU, Raleigh, NC.
2023.8.8. Dr. Wang receives an NIH R03 grant from NICHD to study a novel epigenetic regulator TET2 in uterine function and fertility.
2023.7.11.~14. Maggie, Bangmin and Sudikshya present their research work at SSR’s 56th Annual Meeting in Ottawa, Canada.
2023.6.7 Maggie receives SSR Trainee Travel Award for attending SSR’s 56th Annual Meeting in Ottawa, Canada.
2023.6.5. Welcome Skye Sgouridis to join our lab as a summer research assistant.
2023.5.16. Both Cristina Hernandez-Rubio and Mariangel Barrios choose our lab for their Summer ASSURE Research (5/15-8/4). They will investigate regulations of Wilms Tumor 1 (Wt1) and Sirtuin 1 (Sirt1) genes in murine endometrium during pregnancy.
2023.4.14. Kudos to Maggie for winning 2nd Place at the Ph.D. level of the 2023 Annual Animal Science Research Poster Session. Her poster presentation is entitled “Uterine ablation of Tet Methylcytosine Dioxygenase 2 (TET2) impairs endometrial decidualization and placentation”. Bangmin, and Sudikshya have also presented their Ph.D. work. Way to go!
2023.4.6. Congratulations to Maggie for representing Animal Science and winning the 2nd Place award in Agricultural Sciences at the 16th Annual NC State University Graduate Student Research Symposium, held in the Jane S. McKimmon Center.
2023.4.5. Welcome Mariangel Barrios to join our lab for her 2nd term rotation as an undergraduate researcher in the ASSURE Program!
2023.3.29. Our paper entitled “Uterine histotroph and conceptus development: III. Adrenomedullin stimulates proliferation, migration and adhesion of porcine trophectoderm cells via AKT‑TSC2‑MTOR cell signaling pathway” is now accepted by Amino Acids. Congratulations to Bangmin!
2023.3.24. Dr. Wang receives an R01 grant from NIH/NICHD to continuously study reproductive aging and endometrium function.
2023.2.25. Dr. Wang, as a Regional Speaker, gave a talk at the 31st TCRB Meeting on reproductive aging and uterine biology; Bangmin, Sudikshya and Maggie also presented their poster presentation, ECU, Greenville, NC. Way to go!
2023.2.20. Welcome Cristina Hernandez-Rubio to join our lab for her 1st term rotation as an undergraduate researcher in the ASSURE Program!
2022.12.12 Kudos to Sudikshya for receiving the 2023 Gwaltney Graduate Student Travel Award for Research!
2022.9.1 Welcome Kayree (Rou Pay) Ling to join our lab as an undergraduate researcher!
2022.5.12. Dr. Wang gave a talk on Animal Biochemistry and Physiology at the 2022 One Health: Emerging Research Showcase held by CALS.
2022.5.12. Sudikshya has passed her MS Thesis Defense.
2022.5.5. Our paper entitled “Uterine-specific SIRT1 deficiency confers premature uterine aging and impairs invasion and spacing of blastocyst, and stromal cell decidualization, in mice” is accepted by Molecular Human Reproduction and selected as Editor’s Choice. Congratulations to Maggie!
2022.4.26. Dr. Wang receives the 2021-22 Goodnight Early Career Innovator Award from the Provost’s Office at NC State University.
2022.4.13. Welcome Kayla Holloway to join our lab for her 2nd term rotation as an undergraduate researcher in the ASSURE Program!
2022.4.8. Dr. Wang receives two three-year grants from N.C. Agricultural Foundation, Inc. to study the new peptides to improve the uniformity of piglets at birth as well as strategies to reduce early pregnancy losses of sows under heat stress.
2022.4.8. Congratulations to Bangmin for winning 1st Place at the Ph.D. level of the 2022 Annual Animal Science Research Poster Session. His poster presentation is entitled “Functional roles of adrenomedullin in conceptus development during the peri-implantation period of pregnancy in pigs”. Maggie, and Sudikshya have also presented their Ph.D. work. Well done!
2022.4.6. Congratulations to Maggie for representing Animal Science at the 15th Annual NC State University Graduate Student Research Symposium, held in the Jane S. McKimmon Center.
2022.3.7. Welcome Mariam Giurgis to join our lab for her 1st term rotation as an undergraduate researcher in the ASSURE Program!
2022.3.5. Bangmin, and Maggie have successfully presented their poster presentation in the Triangle Consortium for Reproductive Biology (TCRB 2022) 30th Annual Meeting, ECU, Greenville, NC. Well done!
2022.2. Dr. Wang gave Zoom talks at Rutgers University and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign on SIRT1 functions and premature uterine aging.
2022.1.31. Kudos! Congratulations to Regan Mitchem for being accepted into the Food Animal Scholars program!
2022.1.3. Welcome Jordan G. Port to join our lab as an undergraduate researcher!
2022.1.1. Dr. Wang receives the USDA-AFRI Competitive Grant to study the functional role of adrenomedullin in the elongation of porcine conceptuses.
2021.12.13~18. Bangmin, and Maggie have presented their poster/platform presentations at The 54th SSR Annual Meeting, St Louis, MO.
2021.12.10. Congratulations to Bangmin for winning the 2022 McDaniel Graduate Student Travel Award for Research!
2021.10.1. Dr. Wang gave a Zoom talk at the RDBL Seminar Series held by NIH/NIEHS on uterine SIRT1 functions.
2021.9.6. Welcome River Price to join our lab as an undergraduate researcher!
2021.8.13. Maggie, Bangmin, and Sudikshya have presented their poster presentations at the CMI’s Annual Research & Innovation Summit at McKimmon Conference & Training Center. Nice work!
2021.7.16. Bangmin and Sudikshya have successfully presented their virtual poster/platform presentations at the 2021 ASAS-CSAS-SSASAS Annual Meeting and Trade Show held in Louisville, Kentucky. Well done!
2021.5.28. Our paper entitled “Temporal and spatial expression of adrenomedullin and its receptors in the porcine uterus and peri-implantation conceptuses” is now accepted by Biology of Reproduction. Congratulations to Sudikshya!
2021.5.17. Congratulations to Maggie and Sudikshya for winning the 2020 Animal Science Ph.D. Graduate Student Teaching Award, and the 2020 McDaniel/Wilk Graduate Student Travel Award, respectively!
2021.5.5. Our review article entitled “Amino Acids in Cell Signaling: Regulation and Function” is now accepted by Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology.
2021.4.30. Kudos! Congratulations to Maggie Cummings for winning the first place award in the 2021 Annual Animal Science Research Poster Session in the Ph.D. graduate student category.
2021.3.15. Dr. Wang gets a one-year Pilot Grant from the Center for Human Health and the Environment, with a focus on uterine-specific enhancers and transcription machinery for leukemia inhibitory factor.
2021.2.26. Bangmin, Sudikshya, and Maggie have successfully presented their virtual poster/platform presentations in the Triangle Consortium for Reproductive Biology (TCRB) 29th Annual Meeting. Well done!
2021.1.1. Welcome Dr. Aymen Elzawam to join our lab as the Lab Manager/Research Technician!
2020.12.21. Dr. Wang obtains a one-year Research and Innovation Seed Funding (RISF) award from North Carolina State University to study porcine uterine capacity by in vivo gene editing.
2020.9.30. Welcome Regan Mitchem to join our lab as an undergraduate researcher!
2020.7.10. Sudikshya and Bangmin give their first virtual poster presentations at The 53rd SSR Annual Meeting.
2020.6.16. Dr. Wang receives the Faculty Research and Professional Development (FRPD) award from the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at NCSU.
2020.5.15. Congratulations to Sudikshya Paudel for receiving the 2020 Animal Science M.S. Graduate Student Research Award!
2020.1.3. Dr. Wang, as a co-PI, receives USDA-AFRI Competitive Grant (PI: Dr. J.E. Gadsby) to study TNF-alpha production by corpus luteum (CL) macrophages and its control by progesterone in the porcine CL
2019.11 Welcome Nicholas H. Cournoyer and Madelaine C. Kuwada to join our lab as undergraduate volunteers!
2019.9 Welcome Jacoby C. Clark to join our lab as an undergraduate volunteer!
2019.8 Welcome Bangmin Liu and Magdalina J. Cummings to join our lab as Ph.D. students!
2019.6 Dr. Wang gives a talk at The 22nd Annual Frontiers in Reproduction Symposium on genome editing for uterine-specific enhancers of IHH expression. Great symposium for discussing science and meeting with old friends!
2019.5. Congratulations to Bangmin Liu and Magdalina J. Cummings for getting admission to the NCSU graduate program as Ph.D. students. We look forward to your arrival.
2018.11 Our paper entitled “FOXO1 regulates uterine epithelial integrity and progesterone receptor expression critical for embryo implantation” is now online in PLoS Genetics.
2018.10 Our paper entitled “SOX17 regulates uterine epithelial-stromal cross-talk acting via a distal enhancer upstream of Ihh” is now online in Nature Communications.
2018.9 Welcome Sudikshya Paudel to join us as a Graduate Student!
2018.8 Dr. Xiaoqiu Wang moved to North Carolina State University, Raleigh NC. Wang Lab opened on August 16, 2018.
2018.5 Congratulations to Sudikshya Paudel on getting admission to the NCSU graduate program. We look forward to your arrival!