Speakers

R. Michael Roberts, PhD
Keynote Speaker
Curator’s Professor, Animal Sciences University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, MO

"Trophoblast from Pluripotent Stem Cells: Can Induced Pluripotent Cells Provide a Glimpse into a Past Pregnancy?"

Francesco J. DeMayo, PhD
Dan L. Duncan Professor & Gordon Cain Professor of Molecular & Cellular Biology
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, TX

"Molecular Mechanisms Involved in Pregnancy Establishment and Maintenance (Lessons from Mouse Models)"

Courtney Griffin, PhD
Assistant Member, Cardiovascular
Biology Research Program Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation Adjunct Assistant Professor of Cell Biology University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center
Oklahoma City, OK

"Transcriptional Regulation of Vascular Development by Chromatin-Remodeling Complexes"

Kyle Orwig, PhD
Associate Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences,
and Developmental Biology,
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA

"Translating Spermatogonial Stem Cell Transplantation to the Clinic"

Michael S. Bloom, PhD
Assistant Professor of Environmental Health Sciences University of Albany (SUNY) School of Public Health
Rensselaer, NY

"Environment and Assisted Reproduction: Do 'Trace' Exposures to Toxic Elements Interfere with IVF?"

Bruce D. Murphy, PhD
Director of the Center for Research in Animal Reproduction Veterinary Biomedicine University of Montreal
St. Hyacinthe, Quebec, Canada

"Liver-Receptor Homolog-1 Rules Reproductive Processes"

Fernando Pierucci-Alves, DVM
Research Assistant Professor of Anatomy & Physiology College of Veterinary Medicine
Kansas State University
Manhattan, KS

"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"

Yoel Sadovsky, MD
Director, Magee-Womens Research Institute
Elsie Hilliard Hillman Chair of Women’s Health Research; Professor of OBGYN, Microbiology and Molecular Genetics and Clinical and Translational Science; Department of OBGYN and Reproductive Sciences, University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA

"Feto-placental Defense: A Macro Role for microRNAs"

Joan Riley, PhD
Assistant Professor of Obstetricsand Gynecology Washington University
St. Louis, MO

"Uterine Natural Killer Cell Activation and Development"