Symposium Overview
| 7:00 – 8:00 am | Registration and Continental Breakfast |
| 8:00 – 8:15 am | Welcome and Opening Remarks Milan K. Bagchi, Ph.D., Deborah Paul Endowed Professor and Director, School of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
| 8:15 – 8:40 am | Alumni speaker: Dr. Patrick Hannon Assistant Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Kentucky Introduced by: Andressa Gonsioroski, University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana |
| 8:40 am | Oral Session I: Factors regulating ovarian and pituitary function (3 talks) Session Moderators: Alison Neff, Ph.D., University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana Emily Zaniker, Northwestern University |
| 8:40 am | T1 Hyaluronan in the mouse preantral follicle regulates follicle growth Farners Amargant, M. Larmore, M.T. Pritchard and F.E. Duncan Northwestern University and University of Kansas Medical Center |
| 8:55 am | T2 Oscillations in PP1 activity are essential for accurate progression through murine oocyte meiosis Nicole Camlin and Janice P. Evans, Purdue University |
| 9:10 am | T3 Ovary glycoprotein hormone subunit alpha 2 (GPHA2): a pituitary stem cell-expressed hormone regulated by notch signaling Xiyu Ge, Karen Weis and Lori Raetzman, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
| 9:25 am | Alumni speaker: Dr. Janelle Mapes Assistant Professor of Anatomy, Pacific Northwest University Introduced by: Irene Infancy, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
| 9:50 – 10:10 am | Break |
| 10:10 – 11:10 am | A.V. Nalbandov Memorial Lecture: Dr. Hugh Taylor Anita O’Keeffe Young Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Yale University Introduced by: Arpita Bhurke, Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
| 11:10 – 11:55 am | Oral Session II: Novel insight into uterine physiology (3 talks) Session Moderators: Madison Gowett, Northwestern University Pratyusa Das, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale |
| 11:10 am | T4 Uterine glycogen metabolism during the preimplantation period in mice Ziting Chen, Kassandra Sandoval and Matthew Dean University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
| 11:25 am | T5 Extracellular Vesicles Secreted by Uterine Decidual Cells Carry Critical Information for Establishment of Pregnancy Qiuyan Ma, Jacob R. Beal, Arpita S. Bhurke, Athilakshmi Kannan, Jie Yu, Robert N. Taylor, Indrani C. Bagchi, and Milan K. Bagchi University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and University at Buffalo |
| 11:55 – 1:00 pm | T6 Determining the Genetic Contribution of Endometriosis that leads to Characteristic Phenotypes Hannah B. McDowell, Angel A. Alverez, Magdy Milad, J. Julie Kim Northwestern University |
| 11:55 – 1:00 pm | Lunch |
| 1:00 – 1:25 pm | Alumni speaker: Dr. Sandeep Pawar Principal Scientist at Tempus, Inc. Introduced by: Manead Khin, University of Illinois at Chicago |
| 1:25 – 2:10 pm | Oral Session III: Male reproductive tract physiology (3 talks) Session Moderators: Emily Zaniker, Northwestern University Manead Khin, University of Illinois at Chicago |
| 1:25 pm | T7 Sperm bound to immobilized oviduct glycans can fertilize porcine oocytes Sandra Soto-Heras, Larissa J Volz, David J Miller University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
| 1:40 pm | T8 Left-right asymmetry in masculinization program for the paired male reproductive tract Jillian Wilbourne, Shuai Jia, Fei Zhao University of Wisconsin at Madison |
| 1:55 pm | T9 The cAMP/PKA/SIK/CRTC/CREB pathway stimulates fetal leydig cell androgen synthesis during the masculinization programming window in mouse fetal testis Keer Jiang, Anbarasi Kothandapani, Joan Jorgensen University of Wisconsin at Madison |
| 2:10 – 2:35 pm | Alumni speaker: Dr. Jennifer Wood Professor of Animal Sciences, University of Nebraska Introduced by: Pratyusa Das, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale |
| 2:35 – 3:25pm | Coffee Reception and Poster Presentations I (odd poster numbers) |
| 3:25 – 4:05 pm | Coffee Reception and Poster Presentations II (even poster numbers) |
| 5 Minute Break | Take down the posters and return to the seminar hall |
| 4:10 – 5:10 pm | Janice Bahr lecture: Dr. T. Rajendra Kumar Professor & Edgar L., Patricia M. Makowski and Family Endowed Chair, University of Colorado, Denver. Denver-Anschutz Medical Campus Introduced by: Alison Neff, Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
| 5:10 – 5:20 pm | Awards for Posters and Oral presentations |
| 5:25 pm | Closing Remarks Romana A. Nowak, Ph.D., Professor in the Department of Animal Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Chair of the 2021 ISRS |
