SRI 2015 Annual Meeting
SRI 2015 Annual Meeting

Society of Reproductive Investigation (SRI)

2015 Annual Scientific Meeting: Immunology and Women’s Health Satellite Meetings

Placental Association of the Americas Satellite Symposium 2015:
The Placenta as a Tumor

Program Director: Helen N Jones Ph.D., Divisions of Reproductive Sciences and General and Thoracic Surgery, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, USA

Morning Session: 08.30 - 12.00

Chairs:
Donald McDonald M.D., Ph.D.
Department of Anatomy, University of California, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A
Helen Jones Ph.D.
Divisions of Reproductive Sciences and General and Thoracic Surgery, CCHMC, University of Cincinnati, OH, USA
08.30 - 09.30 Angiogenesis in Tumors: Lessons and Surprises

Donald McDonald M.D., Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Anatomy
University of California, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A
09.30 - 10.00 Break
10.00 - 10.30 Dark Side of Invasion: An Essential Process in Placental Development and Tumor Progression

Mehboob Ali Ph.D.
Research Scientist
The Research Institute
Nationwide Children's Hospital
Columbus, OH, U.S.A
10.30 - 11.00 How Elucidating Tumor Biology Can Help Feed the World: Unraveling CXCL12/CXCR4 Signaling

Ryan Ashley Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Animal and Range Sciences
New Mexico State University
La Cruces, NM, U.S.A
11.00. - 12.00 Trophoblast Immune Interactions

Gil Mor M.D., Ph.D., M.Sc.
Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences;
Division Director, Reproductive Sciences
Director, Reproductive Immunology Unit and Discovery to Cure,
Yale School of Medicine
New Haven, CT, U.S.A
12.00. - 13.30 Lunch
Afternoon session: 13.30 - 17.00

Chairs:
Vadivel Ganapathy Ph.D.
Signaling & Angiogenesis Program; Biochemistry and Molecular Biology;
Physiology, Surgery and Obstetrics and Gynecology, GRU Cancer Center, Georgia Regents University,
Augusta, GA, U.S.A
Helen Jones, Ph.D.
Divisions of Reproductive Sciences and General and Thoracic Surgery, CCHMC,
University of Cincinnati, OH, USA
13.30 - 14.30 Amino Acid Transporters in Cancer and Their Relevance to mTOR Signaling

Vadivel Ganapathy Ph.D.
Department Chair, Graduate Program in Biochemistry and Cancer Biology
Leader, Signaling & Angiogenesis Program
Regents’ Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Professor of Physiology, Surgery and Obstetrics and Gynecology
GRU Cancer Center
Georgia Regents University
Augusta, GA, U.S.A
14.30 - 15.30 When a Pregnancy Leads to a Tumor: the Genetics of Gestational Trophoblastic Diseases

Rima Slim Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
McGill University Health Centre
Research Scientist, Human Reproduction and Development Axis
Montreal General Hospital
Montreal, QC, Canada
15.30 - 16.00 Break
16.00 - 17.00 The Human Placental Project

Alan E. Guttmacher, M.D.
Director, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development National Institutes of Health
Bethesda, MD, U.S.A