2025 Annual Meeting Agenda + Focus Sessions

10:00 am – Jessica Rickard, The University of Sydney
10:30 am – Mariana Wolfner, Cornell University
11:00 am – Erica Mantle, University of Missouri – Columbia | Conventional and Novel IVF Models to Characterize Pro-Mitophagy Sperm Proteins.
11:15 am – Chloe Gardner, University of Missouri – Columbia | Identification and Characterization of Post-Fertilization Sperm Mitophagy Determinants
11: 30 am – Natalie Zelenkova, Czech University of Life Sciences in Prague | Rab2A and Lactadherin: Potential Players in Sperm-Zona Pellucida Interaction in Pigs?
11:45 am – Gabriela Macay, University of Florida | Seminal Plasma Supplementation at Insemination Programs Offspring Performance in First Lactation Cattle

10:00 am – Hugh Clarke, McGill University
10:30 am – Kanako Morohaku, Shinshu University
11:00 am – Leah Rosin, National Institutes of Health | Chromosome-Specific Bias in Double Crossover Events During Meiosis in the Holocentric Pantry Moth
11:15 am – Shelbie Wenner, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center | MEIOC Regulates HSPA2 to Coordinate the Timing of Early Meiosis
11:30 am – Paula Nhan, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences | Meiotic divisions and round spermatid formation do not require centriole duplication in mice
11:45 am – Huanyu Qiao, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign | Meiotic Silencing is Regulated by Asynapsis Levels and Gel-like Phase Separation

10:00 am – Priscilla Day-Walsh, University of Cambridge | In conversation with the fetus: Implications of host-microbial bi-directional interactions “eavesdropping” in pregnancy physiology.
10:30 am – Laura Schulz, University of Missouri
11:00 am – Deirdre Logsdon, University of Colorado at Boulder | Trisomic Expression of Nuclear Receptor Interacting Protein (NRIP1) in Down Syndrome Trophoblasts Dampens Estrogen Signaling and Disrupts Cell Fusion
11:15 am – Paolo Rinaudo, UCSF | Understanding IVF-Induced Placental Transcriptional Changes at Single-Nucleus Resolution
11:30 am – Asef Jawad Niloy, University of Kansas Medical Center | Intermediate Conductance Calcium-Activated Potassium Channel is Critical to Balance Trophoblast Development During Human Placentation.
11:45 am – Rachel West, Auburn University | Chronic prenatal cannabinoid exposure in rats drives differences in fetal and placental size, placental oxidative stress genes, and placental SIRT1 expression

10:00 am – Leo Han, Oregon Health and Science University | Validating the Non-Human Primate as a Model for Testing Non-Hormonal Contraception
10:30 am – Jianjun Sun, University of Connecticut | A Drosophila ovulation platform for screening nonhormonal female contraceptives
11:00 am – Amy McDonald, Uniformed Services University | Cost-Effectiveness of Salpingectomy vs. Vasectomy for Permanent Contraception
11:15 am – Philippe Godin, Massachusetts General Hospital | Directed Evolution-Engineered Muscle-Tropic AAVs for Feline Anti-Mullerian Hormone (AMH)-Based Contraception
11:30 am – Jiyang Zhang, Rutgers University | A Platform of High-throughput Ex Vivo Mammalian Ovulation Screening to Discover Novel Ovulatory Signaling Pathways and Identify Non-hormonal Contraceptive Targets
11:45 am – Nongnuj Tanphaichitr, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute | Potential Use of 17BIPHE2, a Protease-Resistant Cathelicidin Antimicrobial Peptide, as an MPT Agent in the Female Reproductive Tract

10:00 am – Davis Laundon, University of Southampton
10:30 am – Oliver Wieben, University of Wisconsin – Madison
11:00 am – Brooke Mitrisin, University of Kansas Medical Center | Graphene-Based Nanobiosensor for Early Detection of Ovarian Cancer
11:15 am – Smithika Reddy Karru, Rutgers University | Simulated Microgravity Interferes with Oocyte Meiotic Maturation in a 3D Ex Vivo Mouse Folliculogenesis System
11:30 am – Ov Slayden, Oregon Health & Science University | Systemic Delivery Of KDR-Targeted Magnetic Nanoparticles In Rhesus Macaques: A Novel Approach For Non-Invasive Imaging Of Endometriosis
11:45 am – Jake Turley, Mechanobiology Institute, National University of Singapore | Biophysics and Deep Learning Approach to Investigate Tissue Dynamics During Ovulation of Young and Aged Follicles.

10:00 am – David Handelsman, ANZAC Research Institute
10:30 am – Lisa Mehlman, University of Connecticut Health Center
11:00 am – Monika Kaczmarek, Institute of Animal Reproduction and Food Research, Polish Academy of Science | Maternal Undernutrition During Lactation Shapes Single-Cell Transcriptomic Profile of the Postnatal Offspring Hypothalamus in a Sexually Dimorphic Manner in Mice
11:15 am – Robin Kruger, University of Michigan | Parental Testosterone Treatment Induces Multi-Generational Reproductive and Metabolic Effects in a Mouse Model of Gender-Affirming Hormone Therapy
11:30 am – Rithika Nurani, University of Wisconsin-Madison | The Impacts of Extended-Release Leuprolide Acetate on Juvenile Rodent Reproductive Hormones and Organ Development: A Focus on Puberty Blocker Effects
11:45 am – Muhammad Shahab, Shaheed Benazir Bhutto University | Testosterone Positively Regulates Hypothalamic Gonadotropin-Inhibitory Hormone Expression in the adult Male Rhesus Monkey (Macaca mulatta)

1:30 pm – Carl Dahlen, North Dakota State University
2:00 pm – Pablo Ross, STgen
2:30 pm – Dominika Gutkowska-Kawka, Institute of Animal Reproduction and Food Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences | Impact of Maternal Undernutrition During Lactation on Kisspeptin and Estrogen Receptor Alpha Expression in Distinct Hypothalamic Regions of Female Offspring
2:45 pm – Haidee Tinning, University of Leeds | Single Nuclei Multiome Analysis of the Endometrium and Placenta in Bovine Reveals Novel Cellular Phenotypes

1:30 pm – Claire Stenhouse, Pennsylvania State University
2:00 pm – Priscila Ramos Ibeas, INIA, CSIC | A Single-Cell Transcriptomic Atlas of Sheep Symmetry Breaking, Gastrulation and Conceptus Elongation
2:15 pm – Maria Tyree, The Pennsylvania State University |  Characterization of Temporal Changes in Tissue Non-specific Alkaline Phosphatase Activity and Phosphate Concentration in Utero-placental Tissues and Fetal Fluids in Cattle
2:30 pm – Abdallah Abdelhady, University of Missouri |  Establishment of a Trophoblast Stem Cell Model to Study Placenta Development in Cattle
2:45 PM Alexandria Ross, Texas A&M University |  Porcine Endometrium Responds to Conceptus IFNG and Transitions from a Nidatory Inflammatory State to Anti-Inflammatory State between Days 15 and 20 of the Peri-Implantation Period of Pregnancy

1:30 PM  –  Lydia Grmai, University of Pittsburgh
2:00 PM  –  Kathy Niakan, University of Cambridge | Molecular mechanisms that regulate the first cell fate decisions in human development
2:30 PM  –  Bluma Lesch, Yale University | Sperm Lacking Protamine 2 Fail to Support Normal Fertilization and Embryogenesis in Mouse
2:45 PM  –  Shams Saad, Purdue University | Nexilin: An Actin-Binding Protein as a Potential Common Molecular Mediator Between Cardiomyocyte and Oocyte Health

1:30 pm – Brian Hermann, University of Texas at San Antonio | Development of RBM46 Small Molecular Degraders for Reversible Male Contraception
2:00 pm – Erick Jose Ramo da Silva, UNESP | Unveiling the Roles of Semenogelin-1 on Sperm Function: From Experimental Studies to Applications in Male Contraception.
2:30 pm – Opeyemi Dhikhirullahi, Wayne State University | Targeting MEIG1-SC35 Interaction for the Development of Male-based Contraceptives
2:45 pm – Xin Li, International Institutes of Medicine, The Fourth Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, | Unrecycled Ribosome-Mediated UTR Nicking Links piRNA Biogenesis to Polycistronic Translation in Germ Cells

1:30 pm – Rodolfo Cardoso, Texas A&M University | Effects of Prenatal and Early Postnatal Nutrition on Brain Development and Puberty in Beef Heifers
2:00 pm – Hanne Hoffman, Michigan State University | Neuroendocrine and Immune Consequences of Circadian Dysregulation in Pregnancy
2:30 pm – Yangfan Jin, McGill University | Regulation of follicle-stimulating hormone β subunit transcription by newly discovered enhancers
2:45 pm – Sarah West, Texas A&M University | Ovariectomized Bos taurus, Bos indicus, and Crossbreed beef heifers have similar sensitivity to progesterone negative feedback on LH pulsatile secretion

1:30 pm – Kylie Dunning, University of Adelaide
2:00 pm – Jacob Pru, University of Missouri | Epithelial Estrogen Receptor Alpha is Required for Uterine Epithelial Development
2:15 pm – Dilara Anbarci, University of Michigan | Maternal and Paternal CENP-A Equalization is Critical for Proper Mammalian Embryo Development
2:30 pm – Islam Saadeldin, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center | The protective effects of cord blood-derived exosomes on oocyte and ovarian granulosa cells during cisplatin chemotherapy