Congratulations to Aina Nicolau for defending her Master’s Thesis (Studies of Meiotic Maturation in the Human Oocyte), a project developed at our lab in association with Pompeu Fabra University (www.upf.edu)!

Barragán M, Pons J, Ferrer-Vaquer A, Cornet-Bartolomé D, Schweitzer A, Hubbard
J, Auer H, Rodolosse A, Vassena R.
The transcriptome of human oocytes is related to age and ovarian reserve.
Mol Hum Reprod. 2017 Jun 6. doi:
10.1093/molehr/gax033. [Epub ahead of print]
PubMed PMID: 28586423.

Freour T, Barragan M, Ferrer-Vaquer A, Rodríguez A, Vassena R.
WBP2NL/PAWP mRNA and protein expression in sperm cells are not related to semen parameters,fertilization rate, or reproductive outcome.
J Assist Reprod Genet. 2017
Jun;34(6):803-810. doi: 10.1007/s10815-017-0902-x. Epub 2017 Mar 21.
PubMed PMID: 28444612;
PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5445044.

Agustina will be focusing on extracellular vesicles and their role in different aspects of reproduction.