Binyam Mogessie, Ph.D., Assistant Professor,          Yale University, Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology

My laboratory’s mission is to provide fundamental mechanistic insights into oocyte chromosome segregation. We seek to understand why female meiosis is especially susceptible to errors, and to define the origins of age-related egg aneuploidy. In this talk, I will discuss our recent discoveries of actin-based structures that prevent egg aneuploidy.