Dr. Renee A. Reijo Pera is Associate Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences and a member of the UCSF Program in Development and Stem Cell Biology. She is CoDirector of the Program in Human Embryonic Stem Cell Biology. The overall goal of her research laboratory is to differentiate human embryonic stem cells to the germ cell lineage (eggs and sperm) in order to develop a genetic system to probe the mysteries of egg and sperm development and to develop the tools to understand early events in human embryo development.