2023 Symposium Speakers
Keynote Lecture
Yoel Sadovsky, MD
Executive Director, Magee-Womens Research Institute
Elsie Hilliard Hillman Chair of Women’s Health Research
Distinguished Professor of OB-GYN, Microbiology and Molecular Genetics
Vice Chair (research), Department of OB-GYN and Reproductive Sciences
Associate Dean, Women's Health Research and Reproductive Sciences
University of Pittsburgh
"The ins and outs of placenta-specific miRNAs"
Symposium Speakers
Juan Gnecco, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering
Tufts University
"Leveraging tissue engineered organoid systems to dissect the human endometrium and disease"
Kristina Adams Waldorf, MD
Professor, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
University of Washington
"A critical need for reproductive scientists"
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Chen Chen, PhD
Associate Professor, Reproductive and Developmental Sciences Program
Michigan State University
"PIWI-interacting RNAs in germ cell development"
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Nardhy Gomez-Lopez, PhD
Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Washington University, St. Louis
"Deciphering Term and Preterm Parturition through Single-Cell RNA Sequencing"
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Peter J. Hansen, PhD
Distinguished Professor & L.E. "Red" Larson Professor of Animals Sciences, Department of Animal Sciences
University of Florida
"From zygote to blastocyst: setting the stage for subsequent development"
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David Pépin, PhD
Associate Director of the Pediatric Surgical Research Laboratories, Massachusetts General Hospital
Associate Molecular Biologist, Massachusetts General Hospital
Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School
