Renata Prunskaite-Hyyryläinen, PhD 19.03.2015

The main goal of the PhD student is to get the degree

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University of Oulu

Ph.D. studies in Developmental Biology

The Role of Wnt4 signaling in mammalian sex determination, ovariogenesis and female sex

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Lack of Wnt-4 signaling leads to female-to-male sex reversal phenotype

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Wnt4 is Expressed in the Ovarian Follicles

Science predisposed thinking versus stepping-out-of-the-box

PhD is a part of you life

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There is no right choice There is no wrong choice

There is Your choice!

I choose to stay in science and continuing for Post-doc

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Post-doc, Houston (Tx), USA

Thank you!