Scientific Sessions
(In Progress—Information is subject to change.)
- Keynote Address
- President’s Symposium
- Special Plenary Speaker
- Historical Perspectives Lecture
- State-of-the-Art Lecture
- Minority Affairs Symposium
- Exchange Lectures
- Module Speakers
- Trainee Forum
Keynote Address
- Martin M. Matzuk, M.D., Ph.D. (Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas). Therapeutics, Small RNAs, and Reproductive Global Health.
President's Symposium
- Jackson Kirkman-Brown, Ph.D. (University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, England). One Hundred Million to One: Physical Factors That Determine the Fertilizing Sperm.
- Lonnie D. Shea, Ph.D. (Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois). Engineering the Follicle Microenvironment.
- Jerry Taylor, Ph.D. (University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri). A Population Approach to the Identification of Loss of Function Alleles That Lead to Embryonic Loss.
Special Plenary Speaker
- Sabra L. Klein, Ph.D. (Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland). SeXX Affects Our Immune System and Outcome of Infection and Vaccination.
Historical Perspectives Lecture
- JoAnne S. Richards, Ph.D. (Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas). Mechanisms of Ovulation.
State-of-the-Art Lecture
- Mitinori Saitou, M.D., Ph.D. (Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan). Mechanism and Reconstitution In Vitro of Germ Cell Development in Mammals.
Minority Affairs Symposium
- Tyrone Hayes, Ph.D. (University of California–Berkeley, Berkeley, California). From Silent Spring to Silent Night: A Tale of Toads and Men.
Exchange Lectures
ASRM Distinguished Research Scientist
- Serdar E. Bulun, M.D. (Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois). Cellular and Molecular Origins of Uterine Fibroids.
2012 SRF New Investigator
- Adam Watkins, Ph.D. (University of Nottingham, Leicestershire, United Kingdom). Periconceptual Environment and Offspring Health.
SSR New Investigator
- Stephanie A. Pangas, Ph.D. (Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas). Bone Morphogenic Protein Signaling in Ovary Development and Disease.
Module Speakers
Gametes
- Masahito Ikawa, Ph.D. (Osaka University, Osaka, Japan). Testis Specific Endoplasmic Reticulum Chaperones and Sperm-Fertilizing Ability (tentative).
- Kateryna Makova, Ph.D. (The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania). Mechanisms Underlying Spontaneous Mutations: Male Mutation Bias, Microsatellites, and Common Fragile Sites (tentative).
- Mellissa Mann, Ph.D. (University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada). Impact of Assisted Reproductive Technologies on Genomic Imprinting.
- John R. McCarrey, Ph.D. (University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas). Epimutations in ART Offspring—Where Do They Come From and Where Do They Go?
- Lisa Mehlmann, Ph.D. (University of Connecticut Health Center, Farmington, Connecticut). Meiotically Arrested: Role and Regulation of GPR3 in the Maintenance of Meiotic Arrest.
- Makoto Nagano, D.V.M., Ph.D. (McGill University Royal Victoria Hospital, Montréal, Québec, Canada). Spermatogonial Stem Cell Identity.
- Betsy Navarro, Ph.D. (Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts). Progress in CatSper, the Spermatozoan-Specific Calcium Channel.
- Moira K. O'Bryan, Ph.D. (Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia). Katanin and Fertility.
- Sophie Rousseaux, M.D., Ph.D. (Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France). Post-Meiotic Male Genome Programming: Molecular Basis and Implications in Fertility.
- Nucharin Songsasen, D.V.M., Ph.D. (Smithsonian National Zoo, Front Royal, Virginia). Challenges and Progress in Reproductive Studies in Domestic and Wild Canids.
- Carole Yauk, Ph.D. (Environmental Health Centre, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada). Identifying and Characterizing Heritable Mutagenic Hazards.
Gonads
- Robert Blelloch, M.D., Ph.D. (University of California–San Francisco, San Francisco, California). MicroRNA Regulation and Induction of Pluripotency.
- Wai-Yee Chan, Ph.D. (Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong). The Epigenome, Non-Coding RNA, and Testicular Tumorigenesis.
- Andrea S. Cupp, Ph.D. (University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska). Role of VEGFA Isoforms in Vascular and Avascular Development/Function of the Testis and Ovary.
- Kate Hardy, Ph.D. (Imperial College, London, United Kingdom). Regulation of the Onset of Follicle Growth.
- Brian P. Hermann, Ph.D. (University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas). Spermatogonial Stem Cell Transplantation—Closer to Clinical Reality?
- Reinhold J. Hutz, Ph.D. (University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin). Environmental Endocrine Disruptors of the Ovary, Familiar and Novel: Xenoestrogens, Dioxins, and Gold Nanoparticles.
- Diana J. Laird, Ph.D. (University of California–San Francisco, San Francisco, California). Wnt Signaling in Primordial Germ Cell Development.
- Shanna H. Swan, Ph.D. (Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York). Anogenital Distance as a Readout of the Fetal Hormonal Environment.
- Minoru Tanaka, Ph.D. (National Institute for Basic Biology, Okazaki, Aichi, Japan). Germ Cells and Sex Differentiation.
- Margrit Urbanek, Ph.D. (Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois). Current Status of Genetic Studies of PCOS.
- Jennifer L. Watts, Ph.D. (Washington State University, Pullman, Washington). Diet and Germ Cells: Negative Effects of Specific Dietary Fatty Acids on C. elegans Germ Cells.
Hormones
- Gregg P. Adams, D.V.M., Ph.D. (University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada). The Chemistry of Sex: OIF in Seminal Plasma.
- Marcel Amstalden, Ph.D. (Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas). Emerging Neuroendocrine Pathways Controlling the Onset of Puberty in Ruminants.
- Daniel J. Bernard, Ph.D. (McGill University, Montréal, Québec, Canada). Mechanisms of FSH Synthesis In Vitro and In Vivo.
- Warren B. Nothnick, Ph.D. (University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas). MicroRNAs in Uterine Development, Function and Disease.
- Vansantha Padmanabhan, Ph.D. (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan). Developmental Programming of Reproductive Dysfunction.
- Manjeet K. Rao, Ph.D. (The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas). MicroRNAs: Novel Androgen-Responsive Transacting Factors in the Testis.
- Mark S. Roberson, Ph.D. (Cornell University, Ithaca, New York). GnRH Receptor Signaling and Control of Fertility.
- Michael Timothy Sellix, Ph.D. (University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, New York). Breaking a Few Eggs: Cell-Specific Deletion of Bmal1 Reveals Clock Function in the Ovary.
- Stephanie Seminara, M.D. (Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts). The Hypothalamic Control of Reproduction: A Kiss to Remember.
- Lee Smith, Ph.D. (University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland). Androgens and Testis Function—New Models, New Insights.
- Kelly A. Young, Ph.D. (California State University–Long Beach, Long Beach, California). Photoperiod Stimulated Recrudescence: Contribution of Intra-Ovarian Factors.
Reproductive Tracts
- Vikki M. Abrahams, Ph.D. (Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut). The Role of Pattern-Recognition Receptors in Trophoblast Responses to Infection.
- Hsaio Chang Chan, Ph.D. (Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong). Epithelial Sodium Channel (ENaC) in Embryo Implantation and Implantation Failure.
- B. Anne Croy, D.V.M., Ph.D. (Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada). Spiral Arterial Remodeling: Neither the Beginning Nor End of Uterine NK Cell Roles in Pregnancy.
- Nicolas Da Silva, Ph.D. (Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts). Towards Elucidating the Role of Mononuclear Phagocytes in the Epididymis.
- Idhaliz Flores, Ph.D. (Ponce School of Medicine, Ponce, Puerto Rico). Dissecting the Genetic and Epigenetic Etiology of Endometriosis.
- Shannon M. Hawkins, M.D., Ph.D. (Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas). Small RNAs in Female Reproduction and Cancer.
- J. Julie Kim, Ph.D. (Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois). The Role of AKT in Endometriosis.
- Nicholas Stephen Macklon, M.D. (University of Southampton, Southampton, Great Britain). The Endometrium as a Sensor of Embryo Quality.
- Romana Nowak, Ph.D. (University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois). Microvesicles: Communication Across the Distance.
- Robert Sullivan, Ph.D. (Laval University, Québec City, Québec, Canada). Functions of Extracellular Microvesicles in Sperm Maturation.
- Ted Tollner, Ph.D. (University of California–Davis, Davis, California; William Jessup University, Rocklin, California). Sperm-Surface Beta-Defensin: Implications for Infertility and Reproductive Health (tentative).
Trainee Forum
Panel Members
- Sarah Robertson, Ph.D. (University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia).
- Bruce Murphy, Ph.D. (University of Montréal, Montréal, Québec, Canada).
- Fuller Bazer, Ph.D. (Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas).
- Humphrey Yao, Ph.D. (National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina).
- Mary Ann Handel, Ph.D. (The Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, Maine).
- Charlotte Schubert, Ph.D. (freelance science writer).