Scientific Program
V International Symposium on Animal Biology of Reproduction (ISABR 2014)
Focus: Fertility: from Gametogenesis to Embryo Development
October 8 to 11, 2014, Campinas, SP, Brazil
October 8, 2014 - Wednesday
14:00 to 18:00: Welcome desk open
19:00 to 20:00: Opening ceremony. Keynote lecture and tribute to:
Dr. Rex A. Hess (University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, USA)
Lecture 1: Small tubules, surprising discoveries: from efferent ductules in the turkey to the discovery that estrogen receptor alpha is essential for fertility in the male.
October 9, 2014 - Thursday
08:00 to 18:00: Welcome desk open
· Session I: Development
08:30 to 09:15
Dr. Gustavo Manuel Somoza (Laboratorio de Ictiofisiología y Acuicultura, IIB-INTECH, Chascomús, Bs As, Argentina)
Lecture 2: Sex determination in teleost fish cortisol and androgens are involved in the masculinization process
09:15 to 10:00
Dr. Paul S. Cooke (Department of Physiological Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA)
Lecture 3: Role of estrogen and progesterone receptors in early uterine development.
10:00 to 10:30: Coffee break
10:30 to 11:15
Dr. Marie-Claude Hofmann (UT MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA)
Lecture 4: Regulation of germ line stem cell homeostasis
11:15 to 12:00
Dr. Susana Chuva de Sousa Lopes (Leiden University Medical Center, The Netherlands)
Lecture 5: Current status of in vitro differentiation of stem cells into gamete
12:00 to 14:00 - Lunch break
· Session II: Epigenetics
14:00 to 14:45
Dr. Pablo Juan Ross (College of Biological Sciences, University of California, Davis, CA, USA)
Lecture 6: Transcriptional and epigenetic remodeling during embryonic genome activation.
14:45 to 15:30 - Frontiers in Reproduction
Dr. Sarah Kimmins (Reproduction and Development Departments of Animal Science, and Pharmacology and
McGill University, Montreal, QB, Canada)
Lecture 7: The paternal sperm epigenome: implications for development and disease
15:30 to 16:00: Coffee break
16:00 to 17:00: Oral presentations - Session I (Papers 1-4)
17:00 to 18:30: Poster Session I
October10, 2014 - Friday
08:00 to 18:00 - Welcome desk open
· Session III: Endocrine Disruptors and Human Fertility
08:30 to 09:15
Dr. Bernard Jégou (Campus de Beaulieu, Universite de Rennes I, Rennes, France)
Lecture 8: Concordance of the toxicity of endocrine disruptors in humans and in animals
09:15 to 10:00 - The Lonnie Russell Lecture
Dr. Richard M Sharpe (The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK)
Lecture 9: Determinants of adult male reproductive health -it´s all in the womb
10:00 to 10:30: Coffee break
10:30 to 11:15
Dr. Niels Joergensen (University Department of Growth and Reproduction, National University Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark)
Lecture 10: Testicular function of normal European men - A matter of concern
11:15 to 12:00 - The Outstanding Latin American Lecture.
Dr. Sandro Esteves (ANDROFERT - Andrology & Human Reproduction Clinic, Campinas, SP, Brazil)
Lecture 11: Testicular failure in humans: current management and future perspectives
12:00 to 14:00 - Lunch break
· Session IV: Gamete Physiology
14:00 to 14:45:
Dr. Rudiger W. Schulz (Utrecht University, Science Faculty, Utrecht, The Netherlands)
Lecture 12: Endocrine and paracrine regulation of zebrafish spermatogenesis: the Sertoli cell perspective
14:45 to 15:30:
Dr. Robert Sullivan (Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproduction, Université Laval, Quebec, QB, Canada)
Lecture 13: The sperm journey in the excurrent duct: functions of microvesicles in sperm maturation and in gene expression along the epididymis.
15:30 to 16:00: Coffee break
16:00 to 17:00: Oral presentations - Session II (Papers 5-8)
17:00 to 18:30: Poster Session II
October 11, 2014 - Saturday
08:00 to 12:00 - Welcome desk open
· Session V: Macro topics
08:30 to 09:15
Dr. Pierre Comizzoli (Smithsonian Conservatin Biology Institute, USA)
Lecture 14: Non-Traditional Animal Models for Advancing Fertility Preservation Studies in Humans
09:15 to 10:00
Dr. Johan Smitz (University of Brussels, Brussels, Belgium)
Lecture 15: In vitro maturation of oocytes from small follicles, a field for active research interaction between veterinary and human reproductive medicine
10:00 to 10:30: Coffee break
10:30 to 11:15:
Dr. Ina Dobrinski (University of Calgary, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Calgary, AB, Canada)
Lecture 16: Germ line modification in domestic animals
11:15 to 12:00
Dr. Jannette M. Dufour (Department of Cell Biology and Biochemistry, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, Lubbock, TX, USA)
Lecture 17: Therapeutic and immunoregulatory potential of Sertoli cells
12:00 to 12:30: Closing Ceremony