Sunday Evening, July 7th
Intracellular Signal Transduction
- Discussion Leader, Mike Weber - U. of Virginia
- "Signaling genes from the cell surface: The JAK-STAT pathway", James Darnell - Rockefeller University
- "Functions of cyclins in meiotic division and embryonic development", James Maler - U. of Colorado Medical School
- "Novel mechanisms involved in TGF-Beta family signaling", Tongwen Wang - Mass. General Hospital
- "Steroid regulation of cyclins and cell proliferation in the endometrium", Joy Mulholland - Thomas Jefferson U.
Monday Morning, July 8th
Biology of Implantation and Parturition
- Discussion Leader, Fuller Bazer - Texas A & M
- "Integrins and trophoblast invasion", Susan Fisher - UCSF
- "Gene expression in periimplementation trophectoderm", Mike Roberts - U. of Missouri
- "Control of parturition",Robert Garfield - U. T. Med. Branch
- "Roles of insulin-like growth factors and their binding proteins in endometrial cyclic development and implantation", Linda Giudice - Stanford
Monday Evening, July 8th
Physiology and Development of Male Reproductive Tract
- Discussion Leader, Barry Zirkin - Johns Hopkins
- "Auto- and iso-antigens recognized by the post-vasectomy anti-sperm immune response"John Herr - U. of Virginia
- "Neonatal thyroid hormone control of adult testicular size", Rex Hess - U. of Illinois
- "Aberrant reproductive phenotypes in male mice caused by gene knockouts", Edward Mitch Eddy - NIEHS
Tuesday Morning, July 9th
Transgenic and Knockout Approaches to Reproductive Hormone Action
- Discussion Leader, Pat Donahoe - Mass. General Hospital
- "Transgenic models to study reproduction oncogenesis", Martin Matzuk - Baylor College of Medicine
- "Targeted disruption of pituitary glycoprtein hormone -alpha-subunit gene produces hypogonadal dwarfs", Sally Ann Camper - U. of Michigan
- "Progesterone receptor knockout mice", Franco DeMayo - Baylor College of Medicine
- "Molecular characterization and phenotypes of mouse with estrogen receptor disruption", John Couse - NIEHS
Tuesday Evening, July 9th
Environmental Hormone Agonists and Antigonists
- Discussion leader, John Mclachlan - Tulane U.
- "Estrogen receptor protooncogene expression", George Stancel - U. T. Health Science Center
- "Disorders of human reproductive tract: A possible involvement of environmental hormones", N. E. Skakkebaek - National University Hospital, Denmark
- "Hormone antigonists: A two-site model for reaction with steroid sex hormone receptors", Elwood Jensen - U. of Hamburg
- "Environmental antiandrogens", William Kelce - USEPA
Wednesday Morning, July10th
Extracellular Matrices and Integrins
- Discussion leader, Stanley Glasser - Baylor College of Medicine
- "Heparin sulfate proteoglycans and their binding proteins in periimplantation events", Daniel Carson - UTMDACC
- "Extracellular matrix signaling in development", Zena Werb - UCSF
- "Integrins and cell adhesion molecules in the endometrium", Bruce Lessey - U. of North Carolina
- "Basement membrane and angiogenesis: Role of estrogen", Hynda Kleinman - NIH
Wednesday Evening, July 10th
Reproductive Immunology
- Discussion leader, Richard Lyttle - Wyeth
- "Ovarian cytokines and receptors", Eli Y. Adashi - U. of Maryland
- "Functions of uterine macrophages", Joan Hunt - U. of Kansas Medical Center
- "Immunology of human implantation", Charles Loke - U. of Cambridge
Thursday Morning, July 11th
Developmental Biology
- Discussion leader, David MacLaughlin - Mass. General Hospital
- "Molecular basis of axis formation in vertebrate embryogenesis", Igor Dawid - NIH
- "The mullerian inhibitor and sexual development", Richard Behringer - UTMDACC
- Molecular analysis of imprinting mechanism on embryogenesis", Denise Barlow - Res. Institute of Molecular Pathology, Vienna
- "Gonadal sex-determining genes on mouse autosomes", David Page - MIT, Whitehead Institute
Thursday Evening, July 11th
- DNA Modification Associated with Reproduction, Development, Cancer and Death
Donald S. Coffey - Johns Hopkins
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