Ryan Ashley

Associate Professor
Animal and Range Sciences
New Mexico State University
Mexico

Biography

Education B.S., Animal Science, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM, 1999 M.S., Animal Science, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM, 2002 Ph.D., Biomedical Sciences, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, 2007 Post-doctoral fellow, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, 2007-2010 Experience Associate Professor: July 2016 to present. ANRS Department, New Mexico State University Assistant Professor: September 2010 to July 2016. ANRS Department, New Mexico State University Post-doctoral Fellow: January 2007 to September 2010. Department of Biomedical Sciences, Colorado State University. Animal Reproduction and Biotechnology Laboratory (ARBL). Mentor: Dr. Thomas Hansen Graduate Research Assistant / NIH Fellowship Trainee: January 2002 to 2007. Department of Biomedical Sciences, Colorado State University Animal Reproduction and Biotechnology Laboratory (ARBL) Graduate Research/Teaching Assistant: June 1999 to December 2001. Department of Animal and Range Sciences, New Mexico State University

Research Intrest

Reproductive Physiology with an emphasis in recognition and maintenance of pregnancy

List of Publications
Bairagi, S., K.E. Quinn, A.R. Crane, R.L. Ashley, P.P. Borowicz, J.S. Caton, R.R. Redden, A.T. Grazul-Bilska, L.P. Reynolds. 2016. Maternal environment and placental vascularization in small ruminants. Theriogenology. 86(1). 288-305. PubMed PMID: 27173956.
Quinn, K.E., L.P. Reynolds, A.T. Grazul-Bilska, P.P. Borowicz, and R.L. Ashley. 2016. Placental development during early pregnancy: Effects of embryo origin on expression of chemokine ligand twelve (CXCL12). Placenta. 43. 77-80. PMID: 27324103
Salazar, M.S., A. Lerma-Ortiz, G. M. Hooks, A. Alire, A. K. Ashley and R. L. Ashley. 2016. Progestinmediated activation of MAPK and AKT in nuclear progesterone receptor negative breast epithelial cells: the role of membrane progesterone receptors. Gene. 591(1):6-13. PMCID: PMC4992424
Quinn, K.E., S.Z Prosser, K.K. Kane, and R.L. Ashley. 2017. Inhibition of chemokine (C-X-C motif) receptor four (CXCR4) at the fetal-maternal interface during early gestation in sheep: alterations in expression of chemokines, angiogenic factors and their receptors. J. Anim. Sci. 95(3):1144-1153. PMID: 28380526