Lectures and seminars Neuroscience seminar for doctoral students with Dr. Ivana Jaric

Abstract:

How does the brain feel the ovarian rhythm, and what happens when it goes flat? Dr Jaric will show how cycling hormones, and their natural or pharmacological disruption, shape hippocampal plasticity and female vulnerability to anxiety and depression, and why accounting for endocrine state is key to reproducible, translatable neuroscience.

Dr Ivana Jaric is a Group Leader at the Institute of Laboratory Animal Science, University of Zurich. Her research has two main focuses: developing evidence-based guidelines to make rodent studies that include both sexes more translationally relevant, and investigating the epigenetic mechanisms underlying female-specific susceptibility to psychiatric disorders, with a particular focus on the role of ovarian hormone status.