Program Highlights

Keynote Address

Azim Surani (Gurdon Inst, UK)

Lonnie Russell Memorial Lecture

Takashi Shinohara (Kyoto Univ, Japan)

Plenary Sessions & Speakers

I. Origins of the Testis and Spermatogenic Cells

Blanche Capel (Duke Univ, USA)
David Page (Whitehead Inst, USA)
Amander Clark (UCLA, USA)Amander Clark (UCLA, USA)

IV. Regulation of Testis Function

Wei Yan (Univ Nevada, USA)
Norman Hecht (Univ Pennsylvania, USA)
Kate Loveland (Monash Univ, Australia)
V. Papadopoulos (McGill Univ, Canada)

II. Meiotic Events – Reproductive and Clinical Ramifications

Xin Chen (Johns Hopkins Univ, USA)
James Turner (MRC, UK)
Mary Ann Handel (Jackson Lab, USA)
Carmen Rubio (IVI, Spain)

V. Environmental Impacts on Testicular Function

Janice Bailey (Laval Univ, Canada)
Patricia Hunt (Wash. State Univ, USA)
Bernard Robaire (McGill Univ, Canada)
Michael Skinner (Wash. State Univ, USA)

III. Programming and Packaging the Paternal Genome

William Kelly (Emory Univ, USA)
Jacquetta Trasler (McGill Univ, Canada)
Brad Cairns (Univ Utah, USA)
Steven Ward (Univ Hawaii, USA)

PLUS:

Ten short talks from submitted abstracts
Two poster sessions
Trainee travel awards available
Don't miss this 'must attend' meeting!