Greenwald Symposium
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Greenwald Symposium > Schedule
Thursday, October 11: KUMC Campus
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| 5:00-5:15 p.m. | Welcome/Introductory Remarks, G013 SON |
| 5:15-6:00 p.m. | Keynote Lecture - R. Michael Roberts, PhD, "Trophoblast from Pluripotent Stem Cells: Can Induced Pluripotent Cells Provide a Glimpse into a Past Pregnancy?" |
| 6:00-6:15 p.m. | Keynote Q&A |
| 6:30 - 9:00 p.m. | Reception (Beller Conference Center) campus map (pdf) |
| 7:30-9:00 p.m. | Poster Session/Competition (Beller Conference Center) campus map (pdf) |
Friday, October 12: Kansas City Public Library
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| 7:30-8:00 a.m. | Breakfast |
| 8:00-8:20 a.m. | Welcome, Introductory Remarks |
| SESSION I | |
| 8:20-8:55 a.m. | Kyle Orwig, PhD, "Translating Spermatogonial Stem Cell Transplantation to the Clinic" |
| 8:55-9:05 a.m. | Q&A |
| 9:05-9:25 a.m. | Fernando Pierucci-Alves, DVM, "Cellular Signaling by Transforming Growth Factor Beta in the Male Excurrent System - Evaluating the Potential for High Levels of Signaling Activity & Possible Impacts on Reproductive Function" |
| 9:25-9:30 a.m. | Q&A |
| 9:30-9:38 a.m. | Trainee Oral Presentation: Pengli Bu, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Kansas Medical Center, "Origin of a Species-Specific Rheostat Controlling Testicular Growth and Steroidogenesis" |
| 9:38-9:40 a.m. | Q&A |
| 9:40-10:00 a.m. | Morning Break |
| SESSION II | |
| 10:00-10:35 a.m. | Bruce D. Murphy, PhD, "Liver-Receptor Homolog-1 Rules Reproductive Processes" |
| 10:35-10:45 a.m. | Q&A |
| 10:45-11:05 a.m. | Michael S. Bloom, PhD, "Environment and Assisted Reproduction: Do 'Trace' Exposures to Toxic Elements Interfere with IVF?" |
| 11:05-11:10 a.m. | Q&A |
| 11:10-11:18 a.m. | Trainee Oral Presentation: Daniel Mathew, MS, Graduate Student, Division of Animal Sciences, University of Missouri-Columbia, "Activation of the Transcription Factor Nuclear Factor kappa B (NFKB) by Novel Porcine Recombinant Cytokines in Alveolar Macrophages and Uterine Epithelium" |
| 11:18-11:20 a.m. | Q&A |
| SESSION III | |
| 11:20-11:55 a.m. | Francesco J. DeMayo, PhD, "Molecular Mechanisms Involved in Pregnancy Establishment and Maintenance (Lessons from Mouse Models)" |
| 11:55 a.m.-12:05 p.m. | Q&A |
| 12:05-1:45 p.m. | Lunch |
| 1:45-2:05 p.m. | Courtney Griffin, PhD, "Transcriptional Regulation of Vascular Development by Chromatin-Remodeling Complexes" |
| 2:05-2:10 p.m. | Q&A |
| 2:10-2:18 p.m. | Trainee Oral Presentation: Biswarup Saha, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Kansas Medical Center, "Defining Functional Importance of a Histone Modification During First Mammalian Cell Lineage Specification" |
| 2:18-2:20 p.m. | Q&A |
| SESSION IV | |
| 2:20-2:55 p.m. | Yoel Sadovsky, MD, "Feto-placental Defense: A Macro Role for microRNAs" |
| 2:55-3:05 p.m. | Q&A |
| 3:05-3:35 p.m. | Afternoon Break |
| 3:35-3:55 p.m. | Joan Riley, PhD, "Uterine Natural Killer Cell Activation and Development" |
| 3:55-4:00 p.m. | Q&A |
| 4:00-4:08 p.m. | Trainee Oral Presentation: Caitlin Linscheid, BS, MD/PhD Student, Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, University of Kansas Medical Center, "Syncytiotrophoblast Expression of the Minor Histocompatability Antigen HA1 is Increased in the Placentas from Preeclamptic Women" |
| 4:08-4:10 p.m. | Q&A |
| 4:10-4:20 p.m. | Poster Award Presentations (2 postdoc, 2 grad student awards) |
| 4:20-4:30 p.m. | Closing Comments/Adjourn |
Please email GreenwaldSymposium@kumc.edu if you have questions.