Sunday, July 2 (9:00 A.M.-12:30 P.M.) | Female Reproductive Tract: Novel Mechanisms of Growth
Control in the Ovary |
8:30 A.M. Conference Photo
Session Chair: Dr. Geula Gibori, University of Illinois
9:00 A.M. Dr. JoAnne Richards, Baylor College of Medicine
"Ovarian follicular development and ovulation: cellular signaling cascades and gene expression"
9:45 A.M. Dr. Nava Dekel, Weizmann Institute of Science
"Regulation of the meiotic cell cycle in rat oocytes"
10:30 A.M. Coffee break
11:00 A.M. Dr. Hiroaki Kiyokawa, University of Illinois
"Roles of cell cycle-regulatory proteins in ovarian function"
11:45 A.M. Dr. Sergio Ojeda, Oregon Regional Primate Research Center
"Neutrophins and ovarian development"
Poster session I: 4:30 P.M.-6:00 P.M. Subject: IMPLANTATION/PLACENTA
Sunday, July 2 (7:30 P.M.-10:15 P.M.) | Male Reproductive Tract: Factors that Regulate
Development of the Sex Cells and Reproductive Organs |
Session Chair: Dr. Patricia Donahoe, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School
7:30 P.M. Dr. Debra Wolgemuth, Columbia University
"Cell cycle control during mitosis and meiosis in the mammalian germ line"
8:15 P.M. Dr. Salli Tazuke, Stanford University Medical School
"Characterization of two genes, zero population growth (zpg) and early germ cell overproliferation (ego), that regulate stem cell biology in Drosophila gametogenesis"
8:30 P.M. Dr. Renee Reijo Pera, University of California San Francisco
"Genetic analysis of infertility in men"
9:15 P.M. Dr. Holly Ingraham, University of California San Francisco
"Hormone signaling in reproductive tract morphogenesis"
10:00 P.M. Dr. Axel Thomson, Medical Research Council (Edinburgh, UK)
"Regulation of prostatic development by Fgf10"
Monday, July 3 (9:00 A.M.-12:30 P.M.) | Grand Rounds in Reproductive Tract Biology |
Session Chair: Dr. Linda Giudice, Stanford University
9:00 A.M. Dr. Patricia Donahoe, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School
"New insights into mullerian inhibiting substance and its mechanisms of action"
9:45 A.M. Dr. Corey Teuscher, University of Illinois
"Genetic basis of strain differences in murine hormone responsiveness"
10:30 A.M. Coffee break
11:00 A.M. Dr. Donna Baird, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
"Uterine fibroids-a challenge for women's health"
11:45 A.M. Dr. Hugh Taylor, Yale University
"Role of Hox genes in implantation"
Poster session II: 4:30 P.M.-6:00 P.M. Subjects: STEROID RECEPTORS/ANTAGONISTS, GONADS/GERM CELLS/EMBRYOS, PREGNANCY, ENDOMETRIUM/UTERUS/OVIDUCT
Monday, July 3 (7:30-9:45 P.M.) | Signaling Mechanisms that Mediate Critical Transitions
in the Mammary Gland |
Session Chair: Dr. Zena Werb, University of California San Francisco
7:30 P.M. Dr. Jeane Djiane, Unite d'Endocrinologie moleculaire, Institut National de la recherche Agronomique (France)
"Lactogenic hormones and their receptors during mammary gland development"
8:15 P.M. Dr. G. Shyamala, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
"Progesterone signaling and mammary gland morphogenesis"
9:00 P.M. Dr. Lothar Hennighausen, National Institutes of Health
"Influence of progesterone receptor on cell-fate determination during mammary development"
Tuesday, July 4 (9:00 A.M.-12:30 P.M.) | Genes that Regulate Placental Development |
Session Chair: Dr. Susan Fisher, University of California San Francisco
9:00 A.M. Dr. Vincent Giguere, Royal Victoria Hospital (Montreal)
"Placental abnormalities in mouse embryos lacking the orphan nuclear receptor ERRß"
9:45 A.M. Dr. James Cross, Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto
"Pathways controlling trophoblast differentiation"
10:30 A.M. Coffee break
11:00 A.M. Dr. Richard Behringer, University of Texas, MD Anderson Cancer Center
"Genetic regulation of placental development"
11:45 A.M. Dr. Colin Stewart, National Cancer Institute
"Regulation of blastocyst implantation and uterine receptivity"
"Old Chairs" Session
4:00 P.M Dr. Ken Korach, NIEHS
4:30 P.M. Dr. John McLachlan, Tulane University
5:00 P.M. Dr. Michael Roberts, University of Missouri
5:30 P.M. Dr. Fuller Bazer, Texas A&M University System Health Science Center
Tuesday, July 4 (7:30 P.M.-9:45 P.M.) | Uterine Responses that Are Critical to Implantation and Placentation |
Session Chair: Dr. Koji Yoshinaga, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
7:30 P.M. Dr. S.K. Dey, University of Kansas
"Molecular signaling in implantation: role of cyclooxygenase"
8:15 P.M. Dr. Anne Croy, Ontario Veterinary College
"Use of pregnant, alymphoid mice as transplant recipients is a powerful modeling approach for understanding the functions and recruitment of lymphocytes in the pregnant uterus"
9:00 P.M. Dr. Birgit Gellersen, University of Hamburg (Germany)
"Signaling crosstalk in decidualization of human endometrial stroma"
Wednesday, July 5 (9:00 A.M.-12:30 P.M.) | Biology of the Reproductive Tract of Large Animals |
Session Chair: Dr. Fuller Bazer, Texas A&M University System Health Science Center
9:00 A.M. Dr. Thomas E. Spencer, Texas A&M University System Health Science Center
"Endometrial gland morphogenesis and function in the mammalian uterus: lessons learned from the ovine uterine gland knockout (UGKO) model"
9:30 A.M. Dr. David Brigstock, Ohio State University
"Connective tissue growth factor in uterine biology"
10:00 A.M. Dr. Thomas "Tod" Hansen, University of Wyoming
"ISG17: A ubiquitin-like regulatory protein that is induced in the ruminant uterus by conceptus-derived interferon-τ"
10:30 A.M. Coffee break
11:00 A.M. Dr. Rodney D. Geisert, Oklahoma State University
"Sex steroid regulation of protease inhibitors, kallikreins and implantation in pigs"
11:30 A.M. Dr. Asgerally Fazleabas, University of Illinois at Chicago.
"Uterine receptivity in the primate: modulation by embryonic signals"
12:00 A.M. Dr. Ronald Magness, University of Wisconsin
"The interactions of angiogenic growth factors and nitric oxide synthase in the regulation of ovine uterine and placental blood flow"
Wednesday, July 5 (7:30 P.M.-9:30 P.M.) | Keynote Address and Panel Discussion |
7:30 P.M. Dr. Zena Werb, University of California San Francisco
"Matrix metalloproteinases: common mechanisms in maternal-embryonic interactions in implantation and stromal-epithelial interactions in breast cancer progression"
8:30 P.M. Panel Discussion: "Reproduction has a past, but does it have a future?"
Moderator: Dr. Michael Roberts, University of Missouri and the United States Department of Agriculture
Participants:
- Dr. Fuller Bazer, Texas A&M University System Health Science Center
- Dr. Henning M. Beier, WRTH University of Aachen (Germany)
- Dr. Elizabeth A. Bonney, Emory University
- Dr. James Cross, Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto
- Dr. Denise Faustman, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School
- Dr. Stanley R. Glasser, Texas A&M University System Health Science Center
- Dr. Kenneth Korach, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
- Dr. Phyllis Leppert, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
- Dr. John McLachlan, Tulane and Xavier Universities
Thursday, July 6 (9:00 A.M.-12:30 P.M.) | Nuclear Receptors as Master Regulators of Hormone Actions |
Session Chair: Dr. S.K. Dey, University of Kansas
9:00 A.M. Dr. Ok-Kyong Park-Sarge, University of Kentucky
"Steroid receptors: ovulatory overture"
9:45 A.M. Dr. Manuel Mark, Institute of Genetics and Molecular and Cellular Biology (France)
"Retinoic acid receptors in reproduction and placentogenesis"
10:30 A.M. Coffee break
11:00 A.M. Dr. Dean Edwards, University of Colorado
"The role of co-regulatory proteins in steroid receptor action"
11:45 A.M. Dr. Beatrice Desvergne, University de Lausanne
"The role of PPARs in placenta development"
Brief closing remarks
12:00 PM - 1:00 P.M. Lunch
1:00 P.M. Bus departs
|