Laura Orama Méar
PhD student
Department of Reproduction Biology
Short curriculum vitae
Laura Orama Méar is PhD candidate at the Department of Reproduction Biology, under the supervision de PD Dr. Beate Braun and Prof. Dr. Jennifer Schoen. Her current research focuses on non-invasive hormone monitoring for the optimization of artificial reproductive techniques in wild felids, mainly Iberian lynx and Jaguar.
Laura earned her Veterinary degree at Universidad Católica de Valencia (Spain). Her thesis project explored the correlation between seminal parameters and parenchymal echotexture in dromedary camels at the Camel Reproduction Center (Dubai, UAE). She then pursued a Master degree in Veterinary Medicine (Animal Reproduction) at National Taiwan University (Taiwan) where she applied a multi-omics approach for the optimization of cryopreservation protocol in Orangutan and Chimpanzee sperm. She then worked as a research specialist assistant at the Lab of Conservation Reproductive Biology & Regenerative Medicine (National Taiwan University) where she focused on preservation and transcriptomic analysis of reproductive organs in Leopard cat and Pangolin. She then joined the Leibniz-IZW as a scientist where she worked on the optimization of feline oviduct cell culture and building her PhD project.
· 2014 – 2020: Degree in Veterinary Medicine, Universidad Católica de Valencia, Spain
· 2021 – 2023: MSc degree in Veterinary Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
· 2023-2024: Research assistant at Lab of Conservation Reproductive Biology & Regenerative Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
· 2024-2025: Scientist in the Department of Reproduction Biology, Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research, Berlin, Germany.
· 2025-present: PhD degree, Freie University, Berlin, Germany
· Molecular biomarker (Wildlife endocrinology)
· Wildlife metabolomics: establishment and further expansion of the MS-based wildlife monitoring platform
· Reproduction biology of lynx – basic research for conservation breeding of Iberian lynx
· One plan approach
· Use of artificial reproductive techniques for species conservation
· Non-invasive hormone monitoring
· Imaging techniques (ultrasound)
· Biobanking and fertility preservation
● Méar LO, Chang YC, Yu JF, Hsieh YC, Hsu CL, Hsu CC, Tsai PS. Cross-species multi-omic analyses of great ape ejaculates reveal novel strategies for enhancing sperm cryopreservation in Bornean orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus). Zoological Lett 12, 7 (2026). https://doi.org/10.1186/s40851-026-00262-x
● Méar LO, Tseng I, Lin KS, Hsu CL, Chen SH, Tsai PS. Transcriptomic Characterization of Male Formosan Pangolin (Manis pentadactyla pentadactyla) Reproductive Tract and Evaluation of Domestic Cat (Felis catus) as a Potential Model Species. Animals (Basel). 2024 Sep 6;14(17):2592. doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/ani14172592 . PMID: 39272377; PMCID: PMC11394312.
● Méar LO, Tsai PS, Tamessar CT, Schjenken JE, Nixon B. Epididymosomes: Composition and Functions for Sperm Maturation. Adv Anat Embryol Cell Biol. 2024 Sep 24. doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/102_2024_7 . Epub ahead of print. PMID: 39312087.
● Méar LO, Gnemmi G, Echegaray A, Skidmore JA, Malo C. (2024). Exploring novel approaches for fertility and subfertility prediction in dromedary male camels (Camelus dromedarius). Small Ruminant Research, 240, 107371. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.smallrumres.2024.107371.