2012 45th Annual Meeting
Applied Reproductive Biology: Making It Relevant
12–15 August 2012
State College, Pennsylvania
The Pennsylvania State University
Featured Speakers
Keynote Address
Anthony Atala, M.D. (Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA). Renegerative Medicine: New Approaches to Healthcare.
President’s Symposium
Patrick Lonergan, Ph.D. (University of Dublin, Dublin, Ireland). Current Challenges and Translational Research Associated with Dairy Cattle Infertility.
W. Hamish Wallace, M.D (Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Edinburgh, Scotland, Great Britain). Fertility Preservation for Young People with Cancer: What Are the Remaining Challenges?
Special Plenary Speaker
Lori T. Raetzman, Ph.D. (University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, USA). Development of the Pituitary, Gatekeeper of Gonadotropins.
Minority Affairs Symposium
Sarah K. England, Ph.D. (Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, USA). The Timing of Labor; a Scientist’s Perspective.
Devon Payne-Sturges, Dr.P.H. (Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC, USA). Humanizing Science: Making Research Relevant for Achieving Heath Equity.
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
ASRM Distinguished Research Scientist
Joe Leigh Simpson, M.D. (March of Dimes Foundation, White Plains, NY, USA). Genetic Causes of Premature Ovarian Failure (POF).
2012 SRF New Investigator
Petros Marangos, Ph.D. (University of Ioaninna, Ioannina, Greece). The DNA Damage Response in Mammalian Oocytes.
SSR New Investigator
Jon M. Oatley, Ph.D. (Washington State University, Pullman, Washington, USA). Title to be announced.