Session 1
(Sunday morning) |
INTERCELLULAR SIGNALLING |
Barbara Vanderhyden, Ottawa Regional Cancer Centre, Ottawa, Ontario: Chair/Discussion Leader
- Martin Matzuk, Departments of Pathology, Cell Biology, and Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas: "Transgenic models to study ovarian follicle development"
- Melissa Pepling, Department of Embryology, Carnegie Institution of Washington: ""The mouse ovary contains germ cell cysts that undergo programmed breakdown to form primordial follicles
- Kim Boekelheide, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island: "Intercellular signalling in the testis"
- Dipak Mahato, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina: "Studies on the role of estrogen receptor-alpha in the male"
- S.K. Dey, Department of Molecular and Integrative Physiology, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas: "Molecular signaling in embryo-uterine interactions during implantation"
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Session 2
(Sunday evening) |
INTRACELLULAR SIGNALLING |
Tom Ducibella, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts: Chair/Discussion Leader
- Randy Armant, Departments of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Anatomy and Cell Biology, C. S. Mott Center for Human Growth and Development, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, Michigan: "Intracellular signalling during blastocyst differentiation"
- Carmen Williams, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: "Identification and charcterization of A-kinase anchoring proteins in mouse oocytes, eggs, and preimplantation embryos"
- Hugh Clarke, McGill University, Royal Victoria Hospital, Montreal, Quebec: "SLBP, a potential regulator of histone synthesis, accumulates in maturing oocytes and persists in early embryos of the mouse"
- Jon Tilly, Vincent Center for Reproductive Biology, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts: "Programmed cell death signalling pathways in developing oocytes"
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Session 3
(Monday morning) |
CELL COMMITMENT |
Janet Rossant, Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Ontario: Chair/Discussion Leader
- Richard Gardner, Department of Zoology, Oxford University, Oxford, U.K.: "Asymmetries and the specification of axes in early mouse development"
- Dan Rappolee, Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago, Illinois: "The role of FGF in regulating three cell lineages in the implanting mouse embryo and cardiomyocytes during early heart development"
- Michel Guillomot, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, Jouy-en-Josas, France: "Cellular aspects of mesoderm differentiation in ovine embryos"
- Kirstie Lawson, Hubrecht Laboratory, Utrecht, The Netherlands: "Allocation to the germline"
- Jay Cross, Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Ontario: "Commitment of extraembryonic cell lineages"
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Session 4
(Monday evening) |
STEM CELLS |
John Gearhart, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland: Chair/Discussion Leader
- Austin Smith, Director, Centre for Genome Research, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, U.K.: "Pluripotency and differentiation of blastocyst-derived stem cells"
- Carmel O'Brien, Institute of Reproduction and Development, Monash Medical Centre, Clayton, Victoria, Australia: "Gene trap cloning of embryonic stem cell-restricted genes"
- Janet Rossant, Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Ontario: "Trophoblast stem cells"
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Session 5
(Tuesday morning) |
EPIGENETICS |
John McCarrey, Department of Genetics, Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research, San Antonio, Texas: Chair/Discussion Leader
- Jeannie Lee, Department of Molecular Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts: "Antisense regulation of X-chromosome inactivation"
- Brinda Dass, Department of Cell Biology and Biochemistry, Texas Tech University Health Sciences center, Lubbock, Texas: "Mammalian germ cell-specific polyadenylation: the role of CstF-64"
- Shirley Tilghman, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey: "The mechanism and implications of genomic imprinting for mammalian development"
- Jeff Mann, Division of Biology, Beckman Research Institute of the City of Hope, Duarte, California: "Lack of expression of the imprinted gene Mash2 determines midgestation death of mouse embryos with paternal duplication of distal chromosome 7"
- Stephen Krawetz, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Center for Molecular Medicine and Genetics, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, Michigan: "Potentiation of chromatin: a mediator of developmental decisions"
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Session 6
(Tuesday evening) |
METABOLIC REGULATION |
Henry Leese, Department of Biology, University of York, York, U.K.: Chair/Discussion Leader
- Michelle Lane, Colorado Center for Reproductive Medicine, Research and Development, Englewood, Colorado: "Homeostatic regulation of embryo energy metabolism"
- Steve Downs, Department of Biology, Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin: "Pyruvate consumption by mouse oocytes is influenced by meiotic status and the cumulus oophorus"
- Tom Fleming, School of Biological Sciences, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK: "Short-term maternal undernutrition during the preimplantation period of rat development causes blastocyst abnormalities and programmes postnatal growth and physiology"
- Marie Pantaleon, Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia: "Glucose, glucose transporters, and blastocyst formation"
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Session 7
(Wednesday morning) |
REPRODUCTIVE GENETICS |
Pat Hunt, Department of Genetics, School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio: Chair/Discussion Leader
- Peter J. Donovan, Kimmel Cancer Center, Thomas Jefferson University: "Meiosis I and meiosis II- two divisions poles apart"
- Terry Hassold, Department of Genetics, School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio: "Modeling human aneuploidy: studies of a murine non-disjunction prone chromosome"
- Laura Hewitson, Oregon Regional Primate Research Center, Oregon Health Sciences University, Beaverton, Oregon: "Nuclear remodeling during fertilization: implications for assisted reproduction"
- Li Yuan, Medical Nobel Institute, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden: "The SCP3 protein is required for synaptonemal complex formation, homologous chromosome synapsis, and meiotic cell cycle progression"
- Carol Brenner, Institute for Reproductive Medicine, West orange, New Jersey: "Association between spindle assembly checkpoint gene expression and maternal age in human"
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Session 8
(Wednesday evening) |
KEYNOTE SPEAKER |
- Anne McLaren, Wellcome/CRC Institute of Cancer and Developmental Biology, University of Cambridge, U.K.: "Reflections on the germ line and germ/stem cell technology"
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Session 9
(Thursday morning) |
REPRODUCTIVE TECHNOLOGY |
Roger Pedersen, Reproductive Genetics Unit, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences, University of California, San Francisco: Chair/Discussion Leader
- Carol Keefer, Nexia Biotechnologies, Inc., Ste. Anne de Bellevue, Québec: "Production of transgenic goats by nuclear transfer"
- Petr Svoboda, Department of Biology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, pennsylvania: "Selective depletion of dormant maternal mRNAs in mouse oocytes by RNA interference (RNAi)"
- Michael Griswold, Director, School of Molecular Biosciences, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington: "Promises and limitations of spermatogonial transplantation"
- James Robl, Department of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, University of Massachusetts,
Amherst, Massachusetts: "Applications for nuclear transfer in cattle"
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