SRF Focus Session on Gametes

Session Chair(s)

• MP

  Melissa Pepling, PhD (she/her/hers)

  Professor
  Syracuse University

Session Co-Chair(s)

• 

  Brooke Rudloff, BA (she/her/hers)

  Graduate Student
  Animal Science
  University of Nebraska Lincoln
  Lincoln, Nebraska, United States

Presentations:

• 10:00 AM – 10:30 AM IST

  Actin-dependent Mechanisms of Chromosome Segregation in Mammalian Oocytes
  

  Invited Oral Speaker: Binyam Mogessie, PhD (he/him/his) – Yale University
• 10:30 AM – 11:00 AM IST

  Application of Imaging Mass Cytometry to Reveal Protein Networks in Competent and Non-Competent Meiosis I Oocytes
  

  Invited Oral Speaker: Suzanne Madgwick, PhD (she/her/hers) – Newcastle University
• 11:00 AM – 11:15 AM IST

  Diminished Autophagy Activation Contributes to Weakened DNA Damage Repair in Full-grown Oocytes
  

  Oral Presenter: Ahmed Z. Balboula, PhD (he/him/his) – University of Missouri

  Author: Fei Sun, MS (she/her/hers) – University of Missouri-Columbia
• 11:15 AM – 11:30 AM IST

  PHB/JAK Axis Regulates Meiotic Recombination via the Modulation of Histone Modifications in Spermatogenesis
  

  Oral Presenter: Hong Chen, MD, PhD – Shanghai Medical College of Fudan University, P. R. China
• 11:30 AM – 11:45 AM IST

  Single-Cell and Bulk Transcriptional Profiling of Mouse Ovaries Reveals Novel Genes and Pathways Associated with DNA Damage Response in Oocytes
  

  Oral Presenter: Ewelina Bolcun-Filas, PhD (she/her/hers) – The Jackson Laboratory
• 11:45 AM – 12:00 PM IST

  Identification of New Targets for Non-Hormonal Contraceptive Drug Development Using a Phenotypic Assay of Murine Oocyte Meiotic Maturation
  

  Oral Presenter: Jeffrey Pea, PhD (he/him/his) – Northwestern University