Alexandra Peters
@AlexEPeters
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PhD candidate studying oocyte ageing and autophagy at @PRCRepro @Uni_Newcastle @HMRIAustralia 🔬👩🏼🔬 she/her
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Joined January 2013
Excited to announce my first research paper on macroautophagy in aged pre-ovulatory oocytes is out! 🔬🥚Using comprehensive image analysis methods, we found key components of the #macroautophagy pathway are altered in aged mouse pre-ovulatory oocytes(1/2)
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Accompanying the precipitous age-related decline in human female fertility is an increase in the proportion of poor-quality oocytes within the ovary. The mac...
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Re-emerging on science twitter to show off my pretty poster (if I do say so myself) for @ESASRB @ReproductionSRB 2022 💅🏻 I am having an awesome time! 🤩 #srb2022
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Another incredible presentation in the @ReproductionSRB @ANZPRA1 New Investigator Award session by @LachlanSchofie4 Sharing his exciting work on the role of Pro-Renin Receptor in placental development and pathology 👏🏼👏🏼
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SRB Newcastle Award Session: @scientistjessie on the wonderful work her group did in ovary biology and egg ageing, and a new avenue towards fertility education for preventable infertility. @ESASRB #SRB2022
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Huge thank you to my amazing coauthors! ☺️ @scientistjessie @CaesarsScience @BrettNixon13 @egbromfield @eileenamcl @shandi92
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We also generated an in vitro chloroquine treatment model to mimic the mechanism of these changes.🧫📊 Overall, our findings indicate that autophagy is dysfunctional in aged oocytes + provides new info to aid with improvement of #pooroocytequality in #agerelatedinfertility! (2/2)
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We found some #MayThe4thBeWithYou celebrations on campus at @Uni_Newcastle and couldn't resist!
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My amazing Mum graduated with a Masters of Public Health last night!!! So proud of her! ☺️💗
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SO PROUD OF YOU EMMA!!!!! ❤️
I submitted my thesis today! Thank you to everyone who has been there for me along the way. Especially my supervisors @scientistjessie @synapse101 @CaesarsScience and @eileenamcl and my lab mates @_emilyrfrost @AlexEPeters @NATrigg @shandi92 and @BMihalas
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Congratulations Emma I am very proud of you!!!! 😌❤️ it was an honour to nominate you the MVP award! You are very deserving ☺️
I won MVP (most valuable postgrad) in the UNSA awards! Thank you so much for nominating me Alex! Thanks Emily & Sarah for being my supports! To win an award for being successful in an endeavour I never knew even existed in 2014 is an amazing way to finish off this experience.
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It’s national fertility week! My research focuses on the contribution of autophagy to poor egg quality; a hallmark of female fertility decline with age. Here’s a little pic of me and the eggs I’m working on today 🥚💖#fertilityweek2020 #femalefertility #fertilityresearch
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Dr Karl, a man after my own heart 🍵❤️
Neither. I drink real tea, made from loose tea leaves.
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Ready for @ReproductionSRB virtual awards day 3 💻 Supporting our own @RoisinGriffin5 in the ART gamete award 🔬
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Does your lab have a designated photo spot? 📸 It appears ours does 🤣 and a talented photographer (@EmmaOolemma) @DavidSkerrettB @AlexEPeters
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The positivity I need right now 🙌🏼🙏🏻
No, we are NOT doomed. 1) SARS-CoV-2 has a fatty coating, so soap & alcohol will disrupt it 2) Case Fatality Rate is 0.5%, not 30% like MERS, not 85% like Cholera in 1800s in France 3) it’s not as transmissible as measles 4) we will get vaccine, but must do social distancing now
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A huge congrats to Emily for all of her hard work on this paper!! 😊🎉
SO excited to share the news that my first first author paper is published online today @CSIROPublishing !! Finally able to present my Honours work on the role of JAK/STAT in the human ovary 🥳🥳🥳
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Evidence shows burden on female academics from March 2020 with % accepted papers with female lead dropping by 27%. We must acknowledge the gender inequity in academia and consequence of #COVID on #womeninSTEM
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Scientists seem to spend so long making figures look pretty and formatting. Shouldn't the journal just pay a person to do this? Your time is valuable, your graphics skills don't matter to quality of the science, there are people trained in this, and journals have the money.
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