Symposia Speakers

Dan earned his Ph.D. at Johns Hopkins University, where he studied the hormonal regulation of neural plasticity in songbirds. As a postdoc at Northwestern University, he investigated seasonal reproduction in Siberian hamsters. His emerging interests in FSH regulation by activins and inhibins led him to a Research Associate position, also at Northwestern. He started his first independent lab at the Population Council and Rockefeller University in 2001, focusing on the molecular mechanisms of activin-stimulated FSH synthesis. In 2006, he moved to his current position in the Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics at McGill University. His lab continues to study regulation of FSH by TGFβ family ligands as well as GnRH signaling in gonadotrope cells.