2021 Contraceptive Symposium
July 21 Session
User Needs for Improved Contraceptive Choice
4:00 – Welcome and Opening Comments, Diane Duffy, Eastern Virginia Medical School
4:05 – Jenny Higgins, PhD, MPH , University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
Sex Matters: Sexual Acceptability’s Role in Contraceptive Needs, Choices, and Behaviors
4:50 – Giovanni Traverso, MB, BChir, PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
Novel Drug Delivery for a Once-a-Month Oral Contraceptive
5:05 – Heather Jaspan, University of Washington, USA
Effects of Contraception on Mucosal Microbiome
5:20 – David Turok, Univeristy of Utah, USA
Utah – Contraception As You Want It
5:35 – Oral Presentation
5:45 – Oral Presentation
5:50 – Closing Comments
July 28 Session
Leveraging Unique Female Physiology to Discover New Contraceptive Targets
4:00 – Welcome and Opening Comments, Darryl Russell, The Univerity of Adelaide, Austrailia
4:05 – Francesca Duncan, Northwestern University, USA
Harnessing In Vitro Follicle Development and Ovulation for Ovarian Contraceptive Discovery
4:50 – Joy Winuthayanon, Washington State University
Blocking Semen Liquefaction: The Development of a Novel Contraceptive for Women
5:05 – Eric Reiter, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA), France
Towards Nonhormonal Contraception by Nanobody-Mediated Modulation of Ovarian GPCRs
5:20 – Leo Han, Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU), USA
Development of High Throughput Screening for Cervix-Based Contraceptives
5:35- Alaknanda Emery, The University of Adelaide, Australia
Targeting N-Cadherin During Ovulation- a Non-Hormonal Contraceptive
5:45 – Eliza Curnow, Univerisity of Washington, USA
Development of a Non-Hormonal Female Contraceptive by Targeting Oocyte Specific Metalloprotease
5:50 – Closing Comments
August 4 Session
Application of Novel Models of Male Reproductive Function for Contraceptive Discovery
4:00 – Welcome and Opening Comments
4:05 – Paula Cohen, Cornell University, USA The Boys Are Back In Town: (Re-)Visiting Strategies For Male Contraception
4:50 – Maxwell Edmonds, Northwestern University, USA Engineering the Testis: Current State and Future Perspectives
5:05 – Margarida Fardilha, University of University of Aveiro, Portugal Modulation of sperm Motility with Bioportide that Target Protein Phosphatase 1 Complexes
5:20 – Jeffrey Lee, University of Toronto, Canada Nanobodies to Block Sperm-Egg Fusion
5:35- Jiyang Zhang, Northwestern University, USA
Mouse Ovarian Follicles from Encapsulated in Vitro Follicle Growth (eIVFG) Preserve Molecular Signatures of Mammalian Ovulation