Prof Rebecca Robker is a biomedical scientist whose vision is to improve health of women and children by discovering how the ovary generates oocytes and then releases them for fertilisation and the creation of a new individual. She is Head of Reproduction and Development at the University of Adelaide, and Theme Leader of Early Origins of Health within the Robinson Research Institute. Her team has uncovered cellular mechanisms by which obesity impairs female fertility by identifying how lipid metabolism and lipid excess affect ovulation and early embryo development. She has characterized immune cells in adipose tissue and the ovary and shed light on their roles in ovarian fibrosis that occurs with obesity and aging. Currently her team is identifying therapeutic modalities to protect embryogenesis from the effects of obesity and bring these into use in reproductive medicine.