Detailed Program

Tuesday, March 16, 2027

1:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Registration

 

Hall 5
Ground Level

2:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.

      

WES/SRI Precongress Course
$100.00 Registration Fee Applies, Pre-Registration Required

The Microbiome and Metabolome in Endometriosis

 

M1
First Level

 

2:00 p.m.

Welcome
Professor Andrew Horne
WES President

 

2:05 p.m. - 2:35 p.m.

The gut–endometriosis axis: dysbiosis, the estrobolome, and visceral pain
Professor Siobhain O'Mahony
APC Microbiome Ireland, UCC, Ireland

2:35 p.m. - 3:05 p.m.

The metabolome as a non-invasive diagnostic window in endometriosis
Professor Philippa Saunders
University of Edinburgh, UK

3:05 p.m. - 3:35 p.m.

The role of the vaginal microbiome in endometriosis
Professor Sarah Leeber
University of Antwerp, Belgium

3:35 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.

Coffee Break

4:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.

Diet, microbiome manipulation, and therapeutic opportunities in endometriosis: from evidence to clinical application
Professor Maíra Casalechi
IRCCS Fondazione Ca' Granda, Milan, Italy

4:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.

The social dimensions in endometriosis: patient experience, health inequalities, and the microbiome narrative
Professor Annalise Weckesser
Birmingham City University, UK

Wednesday, March 17, 2027

7:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.

Registration

Hall 5
Ground Level

8:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Satellites
*Registration Fee Applies

 

 

Fetal Physiology

Boisdale
Ground Level

Placenta Satellite

Lomond
Ground Level

Endometrial Satellite

Carron
First Level

Ovarian Biology Satellite

Dochart
First Level

Joint Satellite - Preterm Birth International Collaborative (PREBIC) and Parturition/Myometrium Satellite

Alsh
Ground Level

5:15 p.m. - 6:15 p.m.

Early Career Forum

Alsh
Ground Level

6:30 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.

Welcome Reception
Civic Reception hosted by The Rt Hon The Lord Provost of Glasgow and Glasgow City Council.

Glasgow City Chambers
82 George Square, Glasgow

 
© Glasgow Life / Paul Watt Photography
 

Thursday, March 18, 2027

7:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.

Registration

Hall 5
Ground Level

8:00 a.m. - 8:10 a.m.

Presidential Welcome

Dino Giussani, MA PhD ScD FRCOG
University of Cambridge

Hall 2
Ground Level

8:10 a.m. - 9:00 a.m.

President's Distinguished Lecture I

GDF15 and the Nausea and Vomiting of Pregnancy
Professor Sir Stephen O'Rahilly, FMedSci FRS
University of Cambridge - Institute of Metabolic Science
Learn More

 

Hall 2
Ground Level

9:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.

President's New Investigator Plenary
Supported by the Past Presidents' Fund
Moderators:
SRI Past Presidents

Hall 2
Ground Level

 

9:00 a.m. - 9:15 a.m.

O-001: Abstract Title Coming Soon
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9:15 a.m. - 9:30 a.m.

O-002: Abstract Title Coming Soon
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9:30 a.m. - 9:45 a.m.

O-003: Abstract Title Coming Soon
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9:45 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.

O-004: Abstract Title Coming Soon
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10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

Poster Session I

Hall 5
Ground Level

12:10 p.m. - 1:10 p.m.

Career Development Lunch & Learn
Your Passport to Global Impact
*
Boxed lunches available for purchase through online registration only.

Hall 2
Ground Level

  Keynote Address: Research with Reach: Transforming Women’s Health
Professor Dame Lesley Regan, MD DBE
Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Imperial College London,
Honorary Consultant in Gynecology at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust,
Women’s Health Ambassador for England, and Chair of Wellbeing of Women
 

1:15 p.m. - 3:15 p.m.

Concurrent Mini-Symposia I

 

 

Weight-loss interventions and Reproduction

Moderators:
Owen Vaughan, PhD  |  University College London
Nanette Santoro, MD  |  University of Colorado

M1
First Level

1:15 p.m. - 1:45 p.m.

Subfertility mechanisms/management
Nanette Santoro, MD
University of Colorado

 

1:45 p.m. - 2:15 p.m.

Neuroendocrinology, HPG axis & Incretins 
Su Han, PhD
University of St. Andrew's

2:15 p.m. - 2:45 p.m.

Perinatal Outcomes: Bariatric surgery
Makrina Savvidou, MD
Imperial College London

2:45 p.m. - 3:15 p.m.

DOHAD impacts of GLP1 agonists
Susan Ozanne, PhD
University of Cambridge

 

Microplastics across the reproductive life course

Moderators:
Shruthi Mahalingaiah, MD, MS  |  Massachusetts General Hospital
Margeaux Marbrey, PhD  |  Duke University

Boisdale
Ground Level

1:15 p.m. - 1:45 p.m.

Microplastics and fertility treatment outcomes
Shruthi Mahalingaiah, MD, MS
Massachusetts General Hospital

 

1:45 p.m. - 2:15 p.m.

Tubal and granulosa cell responses to micro/nanoplastic exposure – from inflammation to precancerous changes
Bo Rueda, PhD
Massachusetts General Hospital

2:15 p.m. - 2:45 p.m.

Placenta microvascular pathology and micro/nanoplastics
Men-Jean Lee, MD
Rutgers New Jersey Medical School

2:45 p.m. - 3:15 p.m.

Microplastics, Chemicals and Ovarian Function.
Pauliina Damdimopoulou 
Karolinska Institutet

 

How Microbiome and Metabolism Shape Reproductive Health  

Moderators:
Amanda N. Kallen, MD  |  University of Vermont Larner College of Medicine
Moderator II

Alsh
Ground Level

1:15 p.m. - 1:45 p.m.

The Diet-Microbiome-Reproductive Axis: Linking Gut Metabolites to Ovarian Function
Eldin Jašarević, PhD
University of Pittsburgh

 

1:45 p.m. - 2:15 p.m.

Epigenetic Metabolism: How Nutritional States Shape Programming and Fertility
Ayele Argaw Denboba, PhD
Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics

2:15 p.m. - 2:45 p.m.

Metabolism and pregnancy programming
Jorge López-Tello, PhD
Autonomous University of Madrid, Spain

2:45 p.m. - 3:15 p.m.

Microbiome–immune interactions in the reproductive tract
Melissa Herbst-Kralovetz, PhD
The University of Arizona

3:15 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.

Coffee Break

Hall 5
Ground Level

3:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.

Concurrent Oral Presentations I

 

5:45 p.m. - 7:15 p.m.

Connection Corners
*Ticketed

Hall 5
Ground Level

Friday, March 19, 2027

7:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.

Registration

Hall 5
Ground Level

8:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.

Poster Session III

Hall 5
Ground Level

10:00 a.m. - 10:55 a.m.

President's Distinguished Lecture II

Decoding the sperm RNA code: emerging tools and the future of paternal epigenetic inheritance
Qi Chen, MD, PhD
University of Utah School of Medicine
Learn More

 

Hall 2
Ground Level

11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.

Concurrent Oral Presentations II

 

12:40 p.m. - 1:40 p.m.

Lunch & Learn Forum
Global Collaboration in an Era of Funding Constraints
*Boxed lunches available for purchase through online registration only.

Moderated by the Committee for Strategic Initiatives

Hall 2
Ground Level

 

Panelists:

 

Stephen G. Matthews, PhD
University of Toronto

Additional Panelist Information Coming Soon

1:45 p.m. - 3:45 p.m.

Concurrent Mini-Symposia II

 

 

Immunometabolism in Reproduction

Moderators:
Stephen McCartney, MD, PhD  |  University of Washington
Theresa Powell, PhD  |  University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus

M1
First Level

1:45 p.m. - 2:15 p.m.

Harnessing immunometabolism for ovarian cancer therapeutics
Kunle Odunsi, MD, PhD
University of Chicago Medicine Comprehensive Cancer Center

 

2:15 p.m. - 2:45 p.m.

Maternal lipids in overweight and obesity: implications for offspring's body composition
Petra Arck, MD
University Medical Center Hamburg

2:45 p.m. - 3:15 p.m.

Dynamic decidual immunometabolism
Stephen McCartney, MD, PhD
University of Washington

3:15 p.m. - 3:45 p.m.

Spatial and Functional Dissection of Immune-metabolic Dynamics in the Human Endometrium across the Menstrual Cycle.
Corinna Mayer, PhD
Karolinska Institutet

 

Advanced Reproductive Imaging

Moderators:
Janna Morrison, PhD  |  Adelaide University
Anna David, PhD FRCOG FMedSci  |  University College London

Lomond
Ground Level

1:45 p.m. - 2:15 p.m.

New models and methods for imaging the placenta
Andrew Melbourne, PhD
King's College London

 

2:15 p.m. - 2:45 p.m.

Novel real-time in vitro imaging in the embryo
Samuel Ojosnegros
Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC)

2:45 p.m. - 3:15 p.m.

Real world translation of AI-based imagining endometriosis diagnostics to transform patient care
Louise Hull, BSc MBChB, PhD, FRANZCOG, CREI
University of Adelaide

3:15 p.m. - 3:45 p.m.

Talk Title Coming Soon
Rocío Trinidad
IVI RMA Global Research Alliance

 

Lifelong and Transgenerational Health

Moderators:
Lawrence P. (Larry) Reynolds, PhD  |  North Dakota State University
Jennifer Thompson, PhD  |  University of Calgary

Alsh
Ground Level

1:45 p.m. - 2:15 p.m.

PCOS across generations
Elisabet Stener-Victorin
Karolinska Institutet

 

2:15 p.m. - 2:45 p.m.

Extreme Heat and Pregnancy: Short-term complications and long-term consequences.
Caitlin Wyrwoll
University of Western Australia

2:45 p.m. - 3:15 p.m.

Impact of lifecourse & sex differences on human metabolic disease
Wiebke Arlt, MD DSc FRCP FMedSci
MRC London Institute of Medical Science

3:15 p.m. - 3:45 p.m.

Developmental Programming in the Offspring of Women with Obesity
Paola Casanello, PhD
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

3:45 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.

Coffee Break

Hall 5
Ground Level

4:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.

Concurrent Oral Presentations III

 

5:45 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.

Presidential Address and Awards Ceremony

Hall 2
Ground Level

 

Presidential Address

 

Dino Giussani, MA PhD ScD FRCOG
University of Cambridge

 

Awards Ceremony

  • DeCherney Society Lifetime Distinguished Service Award
  • President's Achievement Award
  • SRI Mentorship Award
  • SRI Distinguished Scientist Award
 

8:30 p.m. - 11:00 p.m.

The Featles

  

Location Coming Soon

Saturday, March 20, 2027

7:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.

Registration

Hall 5
Ground Level

7:30 a.m. - 8:15 a.m.

SRI Member Business Meeting
*All SRI Members are invited to attend, including in-training members. Breakfast will be available starting at 7:15 a.m.

Hall 2
Ground Level

8:30 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.

Poster Session III

Hall 5
Ground Level

10:35 a.m. - 12:05 p.m.

Concurrent Oral Presentations IV

 

12:15 p.m. - 1:10 p.m.

The March of Dimes Richard B. Johnston Jr. MD Prize 

Hall 2
Ground Level

1:10 p.m. - 2:10 p.m.

Hot Topics & Awards Ceremony
*Light Lunch Provided

Moderators:
Helen Jones, PhD  |  University of Florida
Amanda Kallen, MD  |  University of Vermont Larner College of Medicine

Hall 2
Ground Level

 

1:15 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.

O-161: Abstract Title Coming Soon
Author Block Coming Soon

 

1:30 p.m. - 1:45 p.m.

O-162: Abstract Title Coming Soon
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1:45 p.m. - 2:15 p.m.

Awards Ceremony
Supported in part by the SRI Foundation

  • President's Presenter Awards
  • Early Career Investigator Awards
  • The Carole Mendelson Award
  • The Robert N. Taylor Award
  • Laxmi Baxi Award
  • The Kusum Lata Excellence Award
  • Poster Awards