Program Area 1: Contraception, conservation, and assisted reproductive technologies
Focus Session Title: I’m from the future: emerging contraceptive technologies
Invited Speaker: Jeffrey Lee- Assistant Professor, University of Toronto
Focus Session Title: Back to contraception: Integrating biology, technology, and society
Invited Speaker: Gunda Georg- Regents Professor, University of Minnesota
Focus Session Title: The wild west: contraception in model organisms and conservation
Invited Speaker: Douglas Eckery- Assistant Director, US Department of Agriculture
Focus Session Title: Evolution of control: Male and female contraception in science and society
Invited Speaker: Alicia VandeVusse- Professor; Senior Research Scientist, The Guttmacher Institute
Program Area 2: Cutting-edge technology for reproductive sciences: artificial intelligence, single-cell sequencing, multiomic analysis, imaging platform, genomics, epigenomics, proteomics, organoids/organ-on-a-chip technology, etc
Focus Session Title: Multiomics led systems biology
Invited Speaker: Michael Angelo- Associate Professor, Department of Pathology, Stanford University
Focus Session Title: Epigenetics of development
Invited Speaker: Yonatan Stelzer- Associate Professor, Weizmann Institute of Science
Focus Session Title: Translational outcomes through machine learning
Invited Speaker: Robert Waterland- Professor, Baylor College of Medicine
Focus Session Title: Functional imaging technologies
Invited Speaker: Michal Neeman- Professor, Weizmann Institute of Science
Program Area 3: Environmental impacts on reproduction: reproductive toxicology, endocrine disruptors, obesity, epidemiology, health disparities, developmental original of health & diseases, etc
Focus Session Title: Environmental influences on reproductive epigenetics
Invited Speaker: Ramji Bhandari- Associate Professor, University of Missouri System
Focus Session Title: Environmental causes of pregnancy and placental disruptions
Invited Speaker: Jamie Lo- Associate Professor, Oregon Health & Science University
Focus Session Title: How the environment impacts female reproductive health and beyond
Invited Speaker: Patrick Hannon- Assistant Professor, University of Kentucky College of Medicine
Focus Session Title: Environmental impacts on male reproductive health
Invited Speaker: Sethu Pitchiaya- Assistant Professor, University of Michigan
Program Area 4: Neuroendocrine development and regulation of reproduction: pituitary, hypothalamus, puberty, reproductive hormone action, neuroendocrine diseases, etc
Focus Session Title: Neuroendocrine Reproductive Diseases
Invited Speaker: Dequina Nicholas- Assistant Professor, University of California Irvine
Focus Session Title: Nutrition/Energy Balance and Neuroendocrine Function
Invited Speaker: Stephanie Correa- Assistant Professor, University of California, Los Angeles
Focus Session Title: Pituitary Gonadotropins
Invited Speaker: Dan Bernard- Professor, McGill University
Focus Session Title: Neuroendocrine Control of Puberty
Invited Speaker: Stan Hileman- Professor, West Virginia University, Health Sciences
Program Area 5: Female reproductive tracts: oviduct, uterus, implantation, placenta development, pregnancy, reproductive tract diseases, reproductive tract development, etc
Focus Session Title: Shaping Implantation: From Glandular Origins to Uterine Models
Invited Speaker: Ripla Arora- Associate Professor, Michigan State University
Focus Session Title: Embryo–Maternal Signaling: Molecular Beginnings to Implantation Success
Invited Speaker: Niamh Forde- Professor, University of Edinburgh
Focus Session Title: From Immune Modulation to Labor Onset: Mapping the Path to Parturition
Invited Speaker: Adrian Erlebacher- Professor, University of California San Francisco
Focus Session Title: Trophoblast Origins in Focus – Stem Cell Foundations to Placental Development
Invited Speaker: Rowan Karvas- Assistant Professor, University of Colorado Anschutz
Program Area 6: Ovary and female gamete: oogenesis, meiosis, folliculogenesis, ovarian development, ovarian cancer, ovarian hormones, ovarian aging, etc
Focus Session Title: Mechanisms of Early Ovarian Development
Invited Speaker: Eszter Posfai- Assistant Professor, Princeton University
Focus Session Title: From Niche to Egg: Microenvironmental Drivers of Oocyte Health
Invited Speaker: Farners Amargant i Riera- Assistant Professor, Washington University School of Medicine
Focus Session Title: Folliculogenesis and Corpus Luteum Function
Invited Speaker: Alvaro Garcia-Guerra- Associate Professor- The Ohio State University
Focus Session Title: Novel Technologies for Ovarian Biology
Invited Speaker: Ariella Shikanov- Professor, University of Michigan
Focus Session Title: Mechanisms and Modulators of Ovarian Aging
Invited Speaker: Michael Stout- Assistant Professor, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation
Program Area 7: Male reproductive system: testis, testis development, spermatogenesis, epididymis, male accessory glands, reproductive tract development, fertilization, sperm mobility, testicular hormones, etc
Focus Session Title: Molecular and Cellular Control of Testis Biology
Invited Speaker: Klementina Fon Tacer- Assistant Professor, Texas Tech University
Focus Session Title: Mechanisms of Sperm-Egg Interaction and Fertilization
Invited Speaker: Paula Stein- Biologist, NIEHS (NIH)
Focus Session Title: Cross-Species Perspectives on Male Fertility
Invited Speaker: Martha Sofia Ortega Obando, Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Focus Session Title: Frontiers in Male Reproductive Biology
Invited Speaker: Christiane Pleuger, Post-Doctoral Researcher, University of Giessen
Focus Session Title: Integrative Regulation of Sperm Physiology and Function
Invited Speaker: Polina V Lishko, Professor, Washington University- Medicine
Applicants will also have the option to choose “Topic not included in the above areas”