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Dr. Mysorekar is the inaugural E.L. Wagner Endowed Professor in Infectious Diseases in the Department of Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine (BCM). Dr. Mysorekar serves as Chief of Research in the Section of Infectious Diseases in the Department, Vice Chief of the Section, Professor in the Huffington Center on Aging and in the Department of Molecular Virology and Microbiology, and Co- Director of an NIAID T32 Infectious Diseases Training Program.  Indira grew up in India and Tanzania before moving to Sweden where she received her BS and MS degrees from the University of Lund, Sweden. She then moved to the United States and was awarded her PhD at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis where she went on to become the  James P. Crane Endowed Professor of Maternal Fetal Medicine and Director of the Centre for Reproductive Health Sciences which she developed as a hub for outstanding translational research in women’s and reproductive health.  At both institutions, she has helped recruit fellows, students, and junior faculty to foster their interest in women’s health and maternal-fetal health and integrate basic and clinical research by identifying and promoting the common spaces and bridging gaps.  

Larry Chamley is Professor of Reproductive Biology and Reproductive Immunology and Head of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, and is the Director of the Hub for Extracellular Investigations (HEVI) at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. He completed his PhD in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology (Auckland) studying the role of antiphospholipid antibodies in causing stillbirths and recurrent miscarriages. He was then awarded a Health Research Council (NZ) Overseas Fellowship and moved to the Department of Immunology, University of Liverpool (UK), where he investigated the involvement of complement regulatory proteins in early pregnancy failure. In 1996 Larry returned to Auckland to the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology to establish his own laboratory studying the role of the placenta in both healthy and diseased pregnancies.

Larry is a Fellow of the Society for Reproductive Biology (FSRB) . He serves as Editor of the 'Trophoblast Research' and  Associate Editor of the Journal 'Reproduction'.  He is a member of the Editorial Boards of the Journals; 'Placenta' and the 'American Journal of Reproductive Immunology' and serves as the Chair of the ASRI Publications Committee. He is also a Council Member of the International Society of the Immunology of Reproduction.

My name is Melanie and I’ve been a member of the ASRI for several years. My first ASRI meeting was in 2014 where I met many members of the society. For the 2022 meeting in Nashville, I was honoured to be part of the Program Planning Committee, and it was here that I got to know many more members of this awesome group. The Nashville meeting was terrific, and connecting on a deeper level with fellow reproductive immunologists made me want to give back to the community. For these reasons I’m running for a position on the ASRI council. I’m very interested to learn more about the society, to bring in new ideas and to contribute in any way that I can.

Jiahui (Candy) Ding, MD, PhD, is an assistant professor at the department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Wayne State University. Her research focuses on viral infections during pregnancy and their impact on the development of the fetal immune system. Dr. Ding has developed several animal models of maternal inflammation during pregnancy and has served as reviewers for 10+ journals.

Charu Kaushic is a tenured full Professor in Department of Medicine in McMaster University in Hamilton, Canada. She is also a member of the McMaster Immunology Research Centre and the Michael De Groote Institute of Infectious Disease Research. Dr. Kaushic has a PhD in Immunology from National Institute of Immunology, India and did her post-doctoral training in mucosal immunology from Dartmouth Medical School. She joined McMaster University as faculty in 2002. Since then she has done extensive teaching and training in immunology and built an interdisciplinary, high impact research program in women’s reproductive health, specifically basic, clinical and translational research examining susceptibility and immune responses to sexually transmitted viruses, HIV-1 and HSV-2. Since 2018, Dr. Kaushic has also been serving as the Scientific Director of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR)-Institute of Infection and Immunity. In her role as the Scientific Director for CIHR-III, Dr. Kaushic is responsible for making decisions for CIHR’s strategic investments in the area of infection and immunity, nationally and internationally. She also represents CIHR and Government of Canada at various national and international forums related to infectious diseases. 

Liza Konnikova is clinically a neonatologist with a research focus on how fetal immunity contributes to homeostasis at the maternal fetal Interfase. Liza has greatly enjoyed being part of the ASRI for the past two years and have been impressed by how diverse, welcoming and progressive the society is. As a neonatologist with a deep understanding of fetal immunology, she would bring a unique perspective to the society and aid in advancing its mission in studying immunological aspects of the reproductive process. She is excited to contribute to the ASRI.

Jun Lei is an Assistant Professor in the  Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences at the University of Maryland School of Medicine.  She gained her undergraduate and MD degrees from the Hubei University of Traditional Chinese Medicine in China. She completed her MS and PhD programs at the Huazhong University of Sciences and Technology, Tongji Medical College in China. Following her post-doctoral fellowships at the University of Toledo and Johns Hopkins University, she became a faculty (tenure track ) at Johns Hopkins University. 

Dr. Lei is a member of the Society for Reproductive Investigation and the American Society for Reproductive Immunology. She is the recipient of the Dr. John Gusdom Memorial New Investigator Award for Basic Science from the American Society for Reproductive Immunology, NIH Young Investigator Award, and President’s Presenter’s Award from the Society for Reproductive Investigation. She has authored many peer-reviewed research publications in the field of Reproductive Sciences. Dr. Lei's research interests include the diagnosis, mechanisms, and therapeutic treatments of maternal infection/inflammation-associated adverse fetal outcomes.