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?"
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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)"
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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"
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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"
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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?"
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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"
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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"
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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"
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Joan Riley, PhD Assistant Professor of Obstetricsand Gynecology Washington University St. Louis, MO
"Uterine Natural Killer Cell Activation and Development"
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