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Schedule

 

Thursday, October 11: KUMC Campus

3901 Rainbow Blvd., Kansas City, KS 66160
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 

14 West 10th St., Helzberg Auditorium, 5th Floor, Kansas City, MO 64105
                              
 Parking garage is located on the NW corner of 10th & Baltimore, just West of the library.
Kansas City Public Library map (pdf)
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.

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