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Meeting Schedule

THURSDAY, JUNE 12th
7:00 AM Editorial board meeting through 8:00 AM
7:30 AM Continental breakfast through 8:30 AM
9:00 AM Registration through 5:00 PM
9:00 AM Poster set up through 3:00 PM (Oxford)
Presidential Symposium (Windsor/Alcove)
  Autoimmunity, Inflammation, and Pregnancy
8:30 AM

Guillermina Girardi, PhD, Department of Pharmacology, Weil Medical College of Cornell University
Autoimmunity and pregnancy

9:15 AM

Charles Lockwood, MD, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Yale University School of medicine
Abruption-associated Pre-term PROM

10:00 AM Tea/coffee break
Plenary Session 3 (Windsor/Alcove)
  Autoimmunity
10:30 AM

Animesh Barua, PhD, Department of Pharmacology, Rush University Medical Center
Anti-ovarian and anti-tumor antibodies in the egg-laying hen

11:00 AM

Alison Finnegan, PhD, Department of Internal medicine, Section of Immunology/Microbiology, Rush University Medical Center
Role of B cells in autoimmunity and animal models of rheumatoid arthritis

11:30 AM

Selected abstracts

12:00 PM Lunch through 2:00 PM
12:00 PM

Students and Mentors Luncheon through 2:00 PM
Topic: Funding Opportunities and Grant Strategies

Speaker 1: Mark Mirando, USDA
Speaker 2: NIAID NIH (to be confirmed)

Plenary Session 4 (Windsor/Alcove)
  Vaccines
2:00 PM

Ingegerd Hellstrom, MD, PhD, Department of Pathology, University of Washington
Historical perspective on vaccine development and update on ovarian cancer

2:30 PM

Rajesh Naz, PhD, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, West Virginia University
Status of contraceptive vaccines

3:00 PM

Jay Kirkpatrick, PhD, Science and Conservation Center, Montana
Zona pellucida vaccines in wildlife populations

3:30 PM Tea/coffee break
Plenary Session 5 (Windsor/Alcove)
  Hormones and Pregnancy
4:30 PM

Peter Hansen PhD, Department of Large Animal Clinical Sciences, University of Florida
Hormonal and Local Control of Uterine Immune Function in Ruminants – Relevance to Understanding Evolution of the Epitheliochorial Placenta

5:00 PM

Selected abstracts

6:00 PM Executive Council meeting through 9:00 PM (Grand Park)

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