Sponsored by the Departments of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Cell Biology, and the Genome Institute, Duke University
For students, post-doctoral fellows, clinical fellows, residents, faculty, clinical researchers, physician-scientists, basic scientists, translational investigators
Objective: To stimulate interest and knowledge in state of the art, pioneering reproduction science
October 17, 2007
Friederike Jayes, DVM. PhD, NIH, NIEHS, Receptor Biology Group
“Estrogen Receptor Function within the Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Ovarian Axis”
Gautam Chaudhuri, MD, PhD, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology UCLA
“Hormone Therapy and Cardiovascular Disease: The Estrogen Paradox”
Note: To Be Held in Room M224
Blanche Capel, PhD, Department of Cell Biology, Duke University, SOM
"The Battle of the Sexes: Antagonistic Signals Regulate Sex Determination"
Darlene Dixon, DVM, PhD, NIH, NIEHS, Comparative Pathobiology Group
“Differential Expression of Receptor Tyrosine Kinases (RTKs) and IGF-I Pathway Activation in Human Uterine Leiomyomas.”
William Catherino, MD, PhD, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences and NIH, NICHD
“Unraveling the Origins of Uterine Leiomyomas: Beyond Genomic Screening to Human Modeling”
Note: To Be Held in Room M224
Susan Murphy, PhD, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Duke University, SOM
“From Conception to Senescence: Plasticity of the Epigenome”