XVIth Ovarian Workshop

Teresa K. Woodruff, Ph.D.

Scientific Committee Chairperson

 

 

 

 

 

Thursday, July 19, 2007

 

3:00 pm – 5:00 pm Registration

 

6:00 pm Opening Remarks

Teresa Woodruff

 

6:15 pm Keynote Address: Birth Rates, Replacement Rates, Mortality Rates – What’s Happening to the World’s Population?

Paul Van Look

 

7:00 pm Welcome Reception

 

Friday, July 20, 2007

 

7:00 – 8:00 am Breakfast

 

Session I – Origins

Session Chair, Teresa Woodruff

 

8:00 am Making and Maintaining Ovaries

Joan Jorgenson

 

8:40 am

Maintaining the Ovarian Epithelium: The Drosophila Follicle Stem Cell Niche

Todd Nystul

 

9:20 am General Discussion

 

9:40 am Break

 

Session II – Regulation and Protection of the Ovary

Session Chair, Patricia Hoyer

 

10:00 am Ovarian Follicle Assembly

Wendy Jefferson

 

10:40 am Fertility Risk in Pediatric and Adolescent Cancers

Clarisa Gracia

 

11:20 am General Discussion

 

11:40 am Lunch

 

Session III – Egg Biology and Preservation

Session Chair, Teresa Woodruff 

 

1:00 pm Engineering the Ovarian Follicle

Lonnie Shea

 

1:40 pm Cryopreservation of the Egg

Steven Mullen 

 

2:20 pm General Discussion

 

2:30 – 4:30 pm Poster Session

 

5:15 pm Dinner

 

6:00 pm Keynote Address: The New Ethics in Reproductive Medicine and Regenerative Science

Laurie Zoloth

 

7:15 pm Cornelia Channing New Investigator Award Ceremony

 

Saturday, July 21, 2007

 

7:00 – 8:00 am Breakfast

 

Session IV – When Bad Things Happen to Good Eggs

Session Chair, Richard Legro

 

8:00 am Aberrant Early Folliculogenesis in Polycystic Ovaries

Katharine Hardy

 

8:40 am Biomarkers for Good vs. Bad Eggs

Alan Trounson

 

9:20 am General Discussion

 

9:40 am Break

 

Session V – Environment, Eggs,and Cancer

Session Chair, Benjamin Tsang

 

10:00 am The Environment and the Egg

Patricia Hunt

 

10:40 am Genomic/Proteomic Aspects of Ovarian Cancer – from Basic Cell Biology to Diagnosis and Treatments

Gordon Mills

 

11:20 am General Discussion

 

11:40 am Lunch

 

Session VI – Regeneration

Session Chair, Richard Legro

 

1:00 pm Germline Stem Cells and Adult Ovarian Function

Roger Gosden

 

1:40 pm Germline Cells from Fetal Porcine Skin

Julang Li

 

2:20 pm General Discussion

 

2:30 pm Adjourn