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2009 Plenary Speakers

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Jerome Strauss III, MD, PhD
Osborn Address
Dean, School of Medicine Virginia Commonwealth University

"PCOS Genes: Relationships to Obesity and Diabetes"

Alberto Darszon PhD
Developmental Genetics and Molecular Physiology
National Autonomous
University of Mexico

"Ion channels involved in capacitation and the acrosome reaction in mammalian sperm"

Louis DePaolo, PhD
Branch Chief, NICHD Reproductive Sciences Eunice Kennedy Shriver NICHD, NIH

"The Specialized Cooperative Centers Program in Reproduction and Infertility: A Program for Tomorrow’s Science?"

Keith Latham, PhD
Professor, Biochemistry Professor, Fels Institute for Cancer Research and Molecular Biology
Temple University

“Effects of Assisted Reproduction Technologies on Oocyte, Embryo, and Cumulus Cell Phenotype”

Ajay Nangia, MD
Associate Professor
Department of Urology
University of Kansas Medical Center

“MALE INFERTILITY TREATMENT
Where are we now and where are we going?

Stephanie Seminara, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine faculty member of the Reproductive Endocrine Unit at Massachusetts General Hospital
Harvard Medical School

"Genes for Puberty: A Story Told Through Mice and Men"

Thomas Spencer, PhD
Professor, Physiology of Reproduction & Texas AgriLife Research Faculty Fellow
Texas A&M University

“Endogenous Retroviruses:
From Infectious Elements to Essential Genes