2026
Speaker: Farners Amargant i Riera, Washington University in St. Louis, School of Medicine
Title: Mechanical Regulation of Follicle Development and Aging
Speaker: Kara McKinely, Harvard University
Title: Regeneration in the uterus
Speaker: Cameron A. Schmidt, PhD | Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, East Carolina University
Title: Why semen analysis sucks and what we can do about it.
Speaker: Zhiyuan (ZY) Chen, PhD | Assistant Professor, Division of Developmental Biology and the Reproductive Sciences Center, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital
Title: Polycomb Repressive-Deubiquitinase Complex safeguards oocytes epigenome and female fertility by restraining Polycomb activity
Speaker: Kahina Boukherroub, PhD, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Assistant Professor
Title: An Integrative Approach to Investigating the Avian Female Reproductive Tract in Health and Disease
Speaker: Sofia Ortega, PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Assistant Professor
Title: Beyond Standard Semen Analysis: Sperm Protein Aggregates and Their Influence on Preimplantation Embryo Development
Speaker: Renata Prunskaite-Hyyryläinen, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland, Assistant Professor, PhD
Title: Molecular reproduction: Extracellular matrix as a uterine function biomarker and a peek into genetic factors controlling male fertility
Speaker: Yi Athena Ren Cornell University, Assistant Professor
Title: New Blood, New Life: Remodeling of the ovarian vasculature for successful ovulation
2025
Maria Agustina Battistone
Massachusetts General Hospital Harvard Medical School
Miguel Brieno-Enriquez
University of Pittsburgh
Kathryn Grive
Women & Infants Hospital of Rhode Island/Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University
Devanshi Jain
Rutgers University
Andrew Kelleher
University of Missouri
Tessa Lord
University of Newcastle
Binyam Mogessie
Yale University
Diana Monsivais
Baylor College of Medicine
2024
Speaker: Dr. Amanda Patterson, University of Missouri School of Medicine
Title: Towards understanding mesenchymal-epithelial transition in endometrial epithelial regeneration.
Speaker: Dr. Xiaoqiu (Churchill) Wang, North Carolina State University
Title: Decoding molecular mechanisms controlling uterine aging.
Speaker: Dr. Haiqi Chen, UT Southwestern Medical Center, USA
Title: Spatially resolved, functional dissection of the spermatogonial stem cell niche
Speaker: Dr. Fei Zhao, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
Title: Cell fate decisions in sex duct development
Speaker: Dr. Britt Goods, Dartmouth College, USA
Title: Using single-cell transcriptomics to understand ovulation and drive contraceptive discovery
Speaker: Dr. Azusa Inoue, RIKEN, Yokohama, Japan
Title: Genomic imprinting mediated by maternal histone modifications
Speaker: Dr. Katy Patras, Baylor College of Medicine, USA
Title: Gestational diabetes disrupts maternal immunity and the vaginal microbiota to promote bacterial infection.
Speaker: Dr. Daniel Mathew, University of Tennessee, USA
Title: The In Vitro Produced Conceptus: What the Endometrium Can Tell Us
2023:
Speaker: Dr. Ripla Arora, Assistant Professor, Department of Obstetrics, Michigan State University
Title: Illuminating the (uterine) path: from embryo movement to implantation
Speaker: Dr. Bérénice Benayoun, Assistant Professor of Gerontology, USC
Title: Sex-differences in immune aging: are we missing half of the picture?
Speaker: Dr. Matthew Dean, Department of Animal Sciences, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Title: Storing Sugar in the Uterus: Glycogen Metabolism during Early Pregnancy
Speaker: Dr. Ryan Flannigan, Department of Urologic Sciences, University of British Columbia
Title: Opportunities for Innovation in microTESE Negative Males With Non-Obstructive Azoospermia
Speaker: Kylie Dunning, PhD heads the Reproductive Success Group within the Robinson Research Institute at the University of Adelaide, Australia
Title: From devices to diagnosis: Revolutionizing reproductive science using light
Speaker: Dr. Toshihiro Kobayashi, The Institute of Medical Science, The University of Tokyo (IMSUT).
Title: Induction of functional germ cells from rat pluripotent stem cells