Dr. Weiner holds a PhD in Animal Science from the University of Maryland and is currently postdoctoral associate in the Animal Sciences department at the University of Maryland. She is broadly interested in reproductive metabolism and has worked with a variety of species throughout her career. Her overarching research goals are to understand and improve assisted reproductive practices as a means to facilitate ex situ conservation efforts for threatened and endangered species. She currently studies early-embryo metabolism using the bovine as a model. She is published in the premier journal for reproductive sciences, Biology of Reproduction, and in the Journal of Evolutionary Biology. Dr. Weiner has taught at the university level in several capacities and on an international level. Beginning her time in the classroom as a graduate student at the University of Maryland where she assisted in the instruction of laboratory and classroom-based courses, she went on to serve as an assistant professor at Tokyo Metropolitan University in Japan where she served on the Biology Department’s curriculum development committee and taught scientific communication and experimental design.