Titles and Education

1. Case Western Reserve University,Cleveland, OH 2001-02 Postdoctoral fellow Repro & Molecular Endocrinology
2. Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 2001 PhD
    
3. North Carolina State University, Residency in Large Animal Internal Medicine. 1997 Board Certification as a Diplomate in the American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine (ACVIM). 
4. University of Wisconsin School of Veterinary Medicine 1993 DVM (with honors)
     
5. University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 1988 BS Biochemistry (with honors)
    

Research

The Jorgensen lab uses cell and molecular biology tools to understand ovary and testis development with a goal to understand the fetal basis of adult infertility and disease.

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Responsibilities

Professor

• Pharmacology

Clinical Interests

Boarded Diplomate Large Animal Internal Medicine (ACVIM)

Graduate Training

• Cellular and Molecular Biology
• Endocrinology and Reproductive Physiology Graduate Program
• Center for Women's Health Research
• Comparative Biomedical Sciences Graduate Program
• Molecular Pharmacology Graduate Program
• Molecular and Environmental Toxicology Center

   

Recent Publications

1. Carney CM*, Muszynski JL*, Strotman LN*, Lewis SR, O’Connell RL, Beebe DJ, Theberge AB‡, Jorgensen JS‡.  2014  Cellular Microenvironment Dictates Androgen Production By Murine Fetal Leydig Cells In Primary Culture. Biol. Reprod. DOI.114.118570. [Epub ahead of print]
   
2. Lewis SR, Hedman CJ, Ziegler T, Ricke WA, Jorgensen JS. 2014 Steroidogenic Factor 1 promotes aggressive growth of castration resistant prostate cancer cells by stimulating steroid synthesis and cell proliferation. Endocrinology, DOI:10.1210/en. 2013-1583.
3. Jorgensen JS. 2013 Defining the neighborhoods that escort the oocyte through its early life events and into a functional follicle. Mol. Reprod. Dev., 80:960-976. PMID: 24105719. Selected for cover image.
4. Kim B, Kim Y, Sakuma R, Hui CC, Rüther U, Jorgensen JS. 2011 Primordial germ cell proliferation is impaired in Fused Toes mutant embryos. Dev Biol 349:417-426. PMID: 20969841.
5. Kim B, Kim Y, Cooke PS, Rüther U, Jorgensen JS. 2011 The Fused Toes locus is essential for somatic-germ cell interactions that foster germ cell maturation in developing gonads. Biol Reprod 84:1024-1032. PMID: 21293032. Selected for calendar image, 2012 BOR calendar