Carol Elias, 

PhD. Professor, Molecular & Integrative Physiology. Professor Obstetrics & Gynecology

Enough energy for sex? It is time to grow up

Carol Elias received her PhD in Neurosciences and Behavior in the University of São Paulo, and performed a postdoctoral training at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center/Harvard Medical School, Boston-MA in Neurosciences and Neuroendocrinology. Following her postdoctoral training, she returned to Brazil to establish her independent research program in the Institute of Biomedical Sciences at the University of Sao Paulo, where she worked for about 10 years. 

In 2006, she went back to the United States (University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center/UTSW, Dallas - TX) for 1-year sabbatical and was invited to join the faculty at the Division of Hypothalamic Research. In November of 2012, she  moved her laboratory to the University of Michigan, Ann Abor, MI and became a faculty in the Department of Molecular & Integrative Physiology and the Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology. 

Since 2017, she is the co-director of the Reproductive Sciences Program. Her main research interest is neuroendocrinology and reproductive physiology. Her laboratory aims to determine the neural and molecular mechanisms by which the metabolic imbalance disrupts reproductive physiology. To accomplish these goals, Carol's group uses molecular biology tools, genetically modified mouse models and viral vectors for brain mapping and targeted deletion or re-expression of related genes.