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**Updated July 14, 2024. Please check the mobile app or website program agenda for more details and locations.

MONDAY, JULY 15, 2024

Pre-Conference Session: Ovarian Workshop (ticketed event)
12:00 PM – 6:00 PM

Pre-Conference Session: DADE Workshop (ticketed event)
12:45 PM – 6:00 PM

TUESDAY, JULY 16, 2024

Pre-Conference Session: Ovarian Workshop (Ticketed event)
8:30 AM – 11:45 AM

Pre-Conference Session: DADE Workshop (Ticketed event)
8:30 AM – 12:45 AM

Trainee Grants Workshop(Ticketed event)
11:00 AM to 12:00 PM

Board Meeting (Including working lunch)
11:45 AM to 1:45 PM

Trainee Forum (Ticketed event)
12:00 PM – 1:00 PM

Trainee-Mentor Lunch (Ticketed event)
1:15 PM – 2:15 PM

Board/Committee Chair Meeting
2:15 PM – 3:15 PM

Session Chair and Program Chair Meeting
2:30 PM – 3:15 PM

Plenary Session: Opening Ceremonies
3:30 PM – 5:45 PM
Welcome
Keynote Lecture  –  Richard Prum, Yale University
Recognition of Janice Bahr Junior Science Travel Award, Fuller W. Bazer International Scientist Award, Distinguished Fellows and Travel Award Recipients
Presentation of C.G. Hartman Award

Opening Reception
7:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Doors open at 6:30 PM – The EPIC Museum

WEDNESDAY, JULY 17, 2024

Light Continental Breakfast
7:30 AM – 9:15 AM

Breakfast for SSR Committees
7:00 AM – 8:00 AM

Poster Session A | Trainee Poster Competition
8:00 AM – 9:45 AM

AM Concurrent Focus Sessions
10:00 AM – 12:00 PM

Invited Speakers by Topic:

• Sex Chromosomes - Julie Cocquet, Inserm & Jacob Mueller, University of Michigan
• John Eppig Symposium on Oocyte Quality and Function – Carla Tatone, University of L'Aquila & Eva Hoffman, University of Copenhagen
• Fertilization and Embryogenesis – Nathalie Beaujean, Inserm & Cameron Schmidt, East Carolina University
• Environmental Effects – Aileen Keating, Iowa State University & Neil Gemmell, University of Otago
• Evolution – Vincent Lynch, University of Buffalo & Aurora Ruiz-Herrera, Autonomous University of Barcelona
• Epigenetics  –  David Kenny, Teagasc/Agriculture and Food Development Authority & Kathleen Stewart-Morgan, University of Copenhagen
• Plus up to 24 Contributed Talks!

Diversity Lunch (ticketed event)
12:00 PM – 1:15 PM

PM Concurrent Focus Sessions
1:30 PM – 3:00 PM

Invited Speakers by Topic:

• Sperm Quality and Function -  Jordi Ribas-Maynou, University of Girona
• Ovary/Oocyte Technologies  – Shoukhrat Mitalipov (ASRM Exchange Lecture), Oregon Health & Science University & Ahmed Balboula, University of Missouri (2023 V.B. Mahesh SSR  New Investigator)
• SRB Exchange Session on Placenta – Kirsty Pringle, University of Newcastle & Joanna James, University of Auckland
• Endometrium – Philippa Saunders, University of Edinburgh
• Embryo Epigenetics  – Kevin Sinclair, University of Nottingham
• Exotic Animals  –  Thomas Hildebrandt, Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research &  Jane Fenelon, Colossal Biosciences
• Plus up to 18 Contributed Talks!

Break with Exhibitors
3:00 PM – 3:30 PM

Trainee Career Consultation Center
3:00 PM – 3:30 PM

Plenary Session: Plenary I
3:30 PM – 5:00 PM
Katsuhiko Hayashi, Kyushu University (State-of-the-Art Lecture)
Presentation of SSR Research Award and V.B. Mahesh SSR New Investigator Award
Roser Vento-Tormo, Sanger Institute

Trainee Platform Competition
5:30 PM – 7:00 PM

Biology of Reproduction Reception (Invitation only)
7:00 PM – 8:00 PM

THURSDAY, JULY 18, 2024

Repro Fitness Walk/Run
6:30 AM – 7:30 AM

BOR Assoc. Editors Breakfast  
7:00 AM – 8:00 AM

Light Continental Breakfast  
7:30 AM – 9:15 AM

Poster Session B
8:00 AM – 9:45 AM

AM Concurrent Focus Sessions
10:00 AM – 12:00 PM

Invited Speakers by Topic:

• Spermatogenesis – Noora Kotaja, University of Turku
• SRF Exchange Session on Oogenesis  – Binyam Mogessie, Yale University & Suzanne Madgwick, Newcastle University
• Pregnancy – Implantation to Parturition – Stephen Butler, Teagasc|Agriculture and Food Development Authority & Kimberly Davenport, Washington State University (Anita Payne New Perspectives in Reproductive Biology Lecture)
• Trophoblast – Vimal Selvaraj, Cornell University
• Toxicology – Ylva Sjunnesson, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences & Shuo Xiao, Rutgers University
• Plus up to 26 Contributed Talks!

WinRS Training Workshop on Imposter Syndrome - Lunch (Ticketed event)
12:00 PM – 1:15 PM

PM Concurrent Focus Sessions
1:30 PM – 3:00 PM

Invited Speakers by Topic:

• Male Fertility – Sean Fair, University of Limerick
• William Hansel Session on Ovarian Biology - Wei Xie, Tsinghua University
• Immunology – Amanda de Mestre, Cornell University
• Reproductive Tract Organoids – Andrew Kelleher, University of Missouri
• Artificial Intelligence – Charles Bormann, Mass General Brigham
• Plus up to 18 Contributed Talks!

Break with Exhibitors
3:00 PM – 3:30 PM

Trainee Career Consultation Center
3:00 PM – 3:30 PM

Plenary Session: Plenary II
3:30 PM – 5:00 PM
Marcella Milazzotto, Federal University of ABC
Presentation of Jansen SSR Distinguished Leadership and Service Award & SSR Trainee-Mentor Award
Nicholas Plachta, University of Pennsylvania

New Investigator Mixer (Invitation only)
6:00 PM – 7:30 PM
Offsite – Café on Seine

Trainee Mixer (Ticketed event)
6:00 PM – 7:30 PM
Offsite – Urban Brewing

Past-Presidents Reception (Invitation only)
8:00 PM – 10:00 PM

FRIDAY, JULY 19, 2024

Presidents Breakfast (Invitation only)
7:00 AM - 7:45 AM

Light Continental Breakfast
7:30 AM - 9:15 AM

Poster Session C
8:00 AM – 9:45 AM

AM Concurrent Focus Sessions
10:00 AM – 12:00 PM

Invited Speakers by Topic:

• Yanagimachi Symposium on Assisted Reproduction – Atsuo Ogura, Bioresource Engineering Division|RIKEN & Teruhiko Wakayama, University of Yamanashi
• Ovary and Oocyte – Grazyna Ptak, Jagiellonian University
• Embryo Models – Jacob Hanna, Weizmann Institute of Science & Jianping Fu, University of Michigan
• Uterine Biology – Richard Behringer, MD Anderson Cancer Center
• Cha Health System Sponsored Session on New Technologies  – Irina Larina, Baylor College of Medicine & Reza Nosrati, Monash University
• Plus up to 24 Contributed Talks!

Heritage Lunch (Ticketed event)
12:00 PM – 1:15 PM

PM Concurrent Focus Sessions
1:30 PM – 3:00 PM

Invited Speakers by Topic:

• Gates Foundation Sponsored Session on Contraception – Lonny Levin/Jochen Buck, Cornell University
• Ovary and Time –  Bernhard Payer, Centre for Genomic Regulation
• Germ Cells – Ramiro Alberio, University of Nottingham
• Virendra B. Mahesh Session on Neuroendocrinology – Rick McCosh, Colorado State University
• Fertility Preservation – Kutluk Oktay, Yale University
• Plus up to 20 Contributed Talks!

Break
3:00 PM – 3:30 PM

Plenary Session: Plenary III
3:30 PM – 5:30 PM
President’s Invited Lecture (Cha Health Systems sponsored) – Anne Ferguson-Smith, University of Cambridge
Melina Schuh, Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Studies
Masahito Ikawa, Osaka University

Annual Business Meeting & Trainee Competition Awards
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM

Closing Banquet & Reception
7:00 PM – 11:00 PM 

Saturday, July 20, 2024

SSR Board Meeting
8:00 AM – 5:00 PM

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