SUNDAY |
2:00 pm - 11:00 pm | Arrival and Check-in |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 7:45 pm | Chair's Introduction: Jeffrey W. Pollard (Albert Einstein College of Medicine, NY) |
7:45 pm - 8:40 pm | KEYNOTE: SEX DETERMINATION |
7:45 pm - 8:30 pm | Robin Lovell-Badge (MRC Research Laboratories, UK)
"Sex Determination in Males" |
8:30 pm - 8:40 pm | Discussion |
8:40 pm - 9:30 pm | NEW TECHNOLOGIES I |
8:40 pm - 9:20 pm | Jeffrey E. Segall (Albert Einstein College of Medicine, NY)
"Peeking into the black box - watching cells move in vivo" |
9:20 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
MONDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | DEVELOPMENT OF THE MALE AND FEMALE REPRODUCTIVE TRACT |
9:00 am - 9:10 am | Discussion Leader: Fuller W. Bazer (Texas A&M University, TX) |
9:10 am - 9:40 am | Matt Hardy (Population Council, Rockefeller University, NY)
"Leydig Cell Development" |
9:40 am - 9:50 am | Discussion |
9:50 am - 10:20 am | David Sassoon (Pitié-Salpétrière, Paris, France)
"Wnt Signalling in the Female reproductive tract-early cytoarchitecture is the target" |
10:20 am - 10:30 am | Discussion |
10:30 am | Coffee Break |
11:00 am - 11:20 am | Gen Yamada (Kumamoto University, Japan)
"External genitalia formation; a glamorous developmental model system?" |
11:20 am - 11:30 am | Discussion |
11:30 am - 11:50 am | Robert Viger (Laval University, Canada)
"Role and regulation of the GATA4 transcription factor during testicular development" |
11:50 am - 12:00 pm | Discussion |
12:00 pm - 12:20 pm | Thomas Spencer (Texas A&M University, TX)
"Developmental Biology and Functional Role of Endometrial Glands in the Uterus" |
12:20 pm - 12:30 pm | Discussion |
12:30 pm | Group Photo / Lunch |
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session (A-G) |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | GONAD AND ACCESSORY GLAND DEVELOPMENT |
7:30 pm - 7:40 pm | Discussion Leader: Geula Gibori (University Illinois at Chicago, IL) |
7:40 pm - 8:10 pm | Norman Hecht (University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, PA)
"Post-transcriptional regulation and non-coding RNAs in the mammalian testis" |
8:10 pm - 8:20 pm | Discussion |
8:20 pm - 8:45 pm | Alexander Agoulnik (Baylor College of Medicine, TX)
"Genetic and hormonal control of testicular descent" |
8:45 pm - 8:55 pm | Discussion |
8:55 pm - 9:20 pm | Barry Hinton (University Virginia School of Medicine, VA)
"Tubular Morphogenesis of the Developing Wolffian/Epididymal Duct" |
9:20 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
TUESDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | PLACENTATION |
9:00 am - 9:10 am | Discussion Leader: James Cross (University of Calgary, Canada) |
9:10 am - 9:40 am | Michael Soares (Kansas University Medical Center, KS)
"Placental Hormones" |
9:40 am - 9:50 am | Discussion |
9:50 am - 10:20 am | Daniel Constam (Swieck, Switzerland)
"Paracrine Signaling and Maintenance of Trophblast Stem Cells" |
10:20 am - 10:30 am | Discussion |
10:30 am | Coffee Break |
11:00 am - 11:30 am | John Kingdom (Univesity Toronto, Canada)
"Molecular Mechanisms of Human Placental Pathologies" |
11:30 am - 11:40 am | Discussion |
11:40 am - 11:55 am | Hanna Mikkola (UCLA, MA)
"The Placenta as a Hematopoietic Organ" |
11:55 am - 12:05 pm | Discussion |
12:05 pm - 12:20 pm | Kathleen Caron (University of North Carolina, NC)
"Emerging technologies for Molecular and Physiological Phenotyping of Mouse Placentas" |
12:20 pm - 12:30 pm | Discussion |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session (H-L) |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | REPRODUCTIVE AGING |
7:30 pm - 7:40 pm | Discussion Leader: Nanette Santoro (Albert Einstein College of Medicine, NY) |
7:40 pm - 8:10 pm | Barry Zirkin (John Hopkins University School of Public Health, MD)
"Male Reproductive Aging: Mechanisms and Consequences" |
8:10 pm - 8:20 pm | Discussion |
8:20 pm - 8:45 pm | J. Lisa Tenover (Emory University, GA)
"Aging and the human male reproductive axis" |
8:45 pm - 8:55 pm | Discussion |
8:55 pm - 9:20 pm | Gerson Weiss (New Jersey Medical School, NJ)
"Hypothalamic Aging during the Menopausal Transition" |
9:20 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
WEDNESDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | IMMUNE INFLUENCES ON THE REPRODUCTIVE SYSTEM |
9:00 am - 9:10 am | Discussion Leader: Joan Hunt (Kansas University Medical Center, KS) |
9:10 am - 9:40 am | Jane Salmon (Cornell University, NY)
"Complement Activation as a Mediator of Pregnancy Complications" |
9:40 am - 9:50 am | Discussion |
9:50 am - 10:20 am | Carole Mendelson (University of TX Southwestern Medical Ctr., TX)
"Macrophages and Parturition" |
10:20 am - 10:30 am | Discussion |
10:30 am | Coffee Break |
11:00 am - 11:35 am | Mark Hedger (Monash University, Australia)
"Inflammation and the Testis" |
11:35 am - 11:45 am | Discussion |
11:45 am - 12:20 pm | John Atkinson (Washington University School of Medicine, MO)
"Complement Activation on Human Spermatozoa" |
12:20 pm - 12:30 pm | Discussion |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session (M-SI) |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:00 pm - 7:30 pm | Business Meeting |
| (Nominations for the next Vice Chair; Fill out Conference Evaluation Forms; Discuss future Site & Scheduling preferences; Election of the next Vice Chair) |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | HORMONE ACTION |
7:30 pm - 7:40 pm | Discussion Leader: Sylvia Curtiss-Hewitt (NIEHS, National Institutes of Health, NC) |
7:40 pm - 7:55 pm | Hiro Kiyokawa (Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, IL)
"Hormonal and Developmental Control of the Cell Cycle in Reproductive Organs" |
7:55 pm - 8:00 pm | Discussion |
8:10 pm - 8:40 pm | Ellis Levin (University Cal-Irvine, CA)
"Membrane Estrogen Receptors" |
8:40 pm - 8:50 pm | Discussion |
8:50 pm - 9:20 pm | Holly Ingraham (University California San Francisco, CA)
"SF1 Nuclear Factor" |
9:20 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
THURSDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | IMPLANTATION |
9:00 am - 9:10 am | Discussion Leader: Susan Kimber (University Manchester, UK) |
9:10 am - 9:40 am | Colin L. Stewart (National Cancer Institute, NIH, MD)
"LIF and Implantation" |
9:40 am - 9:50 am | Discussion |
9:50 am - 10:20 am | Lois Salamonsen (Prince Henry's Institute of Medical Research, Australia)
"Inhibition of Gene Expression during Implantation by Morpholinos" |
10:20 am - 10:30 am | Discussion |
10:30 am | Coffee Break |
11:00 am - 11:35 am | Francesco DeMayo (Baylor College of Medicine, TX)
"Hedgehog Signaling in Implantation" |
11:35 am - 11:45 am | Discussion |
11:45 am - 12:20 pm | John Rasweiler (SUNY Downstate, NY)
"Implantation in Fruit Bats: Relevant Models for the Study of Human Implantation?" |
12:20 pm - 12:30 pm | Discussion |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session (SO-Z) |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:10 pm | NEW TECHNOLOGIES II |
7:30 pm - 7:35 pm | Discussion Leader: James Cross (University of Calgary, Canada) |
7:35 pm - 8:15 pm | Myles A. Brown (Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard, MA)
"Genome-wide Analysis of Steroid Hormone Action" |
8:15 pm - 8:25 pm | Discussion |
8:25 pm - 9:05 pm | Monica Justice (Baylor College, TX)
"Forward genetic screens for mouse mutations affecting reproduction" |
9:05 pm - 9:15 pm | Discussion |
FRIDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am | Depart |