CONFERENCE SCHEDULE * April 23-27, 2012

MONDAY, April 23th

9:30 – 11:00 am REGISTRATION

11:00 – 11:30 am KEYNOTE ADDRESS – Melissa Hines (Cambridge, UK) – Gender development and behavior

Testis and Ovary Organogenesis

11:30 – 12:00 pm Session Chair/invited talk – Blanche Capel – (Durham, NC) – Molecular and cellular mechanisms of gonad formation

12:00 – 12:15 pm – short talk

12:15 – 12:30 pm – short talk

LUNCH

2:00 – 2:30 pm – Invited talk – Allan Spradling (Baltimore, Maryland) – Genetic regulation of genital tract differentiation in Drosophila

2:30 – 2:45 pm – short talk

2:45 – 3:00 pm – short talk

3:00 – 3:15 pm – short talk

BREAK

3:35 – 3:50 pm – short talk

3:50 – 4:05 pm – short talk

4:05 – 4:20 pm – short talk

4:20 – 4:35 pm – short talk

4:35 – 5:15 pm – short talk

6:30 – 10:00 pm WELCOME RECEPTION

TUESDAY, April 24th

7:30 – 8:00 am REGISTRATION

8:00 – 8:30 am CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST

Sex Determination/Transcriptional Regulation

8:30 – 9:00 am Session Chair – Vivian Bardwell (Minneapolis, Minnesota) – DMRT regulation of sex determination

9:00 – 9:15 am – short talk

9:15 – 9:30 am – short talk

9:30 – 9:45 am – short talk

9:45 – 10:00 am – short talk

BREAK

10:20 – 10:50 am - Invited talk – Vincent Harley (Melbourne, Australia) – Molecular mechanisms of sex determination

10:50 – 11:05 am – short talk

11:05 – 11:20 am – short talk

11:20 – 11:35 am – short talk

11:35 – 11:50 am – short talk

LUNCH

Sex Determination/Differentiation

1:30 – 2:00 pm Session Chair, Michael Clinton (Edinburgh, Scotland) – Sex determination and differentiation in chicken

2:00 – 2:15 pm – short talk

2:15 – 2:30 pm – short talk

2:30 – 2:45 pm – short talk

2:45 – 3:00 pm – short talk

BREAK

3:20 – 3:50 pm – Invited speaker – Turk Rhen (Grand Forks, North Dakota) – Sex determination mechanisms in reptiles

3:50 – 4:05 pm – short talk

4:05 – 4:20 pm – short talk

4:20 – 4:35 pm – short talk

WEDNESDAY, April 25th

8:00 – 8:30 am CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST

Sex Chromosomes Evolution, Genetics, and Genomics

8:30 – 9:00 am Session Chair, Tariq Ezaz (Canberra, Australia) – Evolution of vertebrate sex chromosomes

9:00 – 9:15 am – short talk

9:15 – 9:30 am – short talk

9:30 – 9:45 am – short talk

9:45 – 10:00 am – short talk

10:00 – 10:15 am – short talk

BREAK

10:35 – 11:05 am Session Chair/Invited talk – Manfred Schartl (Würzburg, Germany) – Evolution of sex determination mechanisms in fish

11:05 – 11:20 am – short talk

11:20 – 11:35 am – short talk

11:35 – 11:50 am – short talk

11:50 – 12:05 am – short talk

12:05 – 12:20 pm – short talk

AFTERNOON FREE

6:00 – 10:00 pm POSTER SESSION

THURSDAY, April 26th

8:00 – 8:30 am CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST

Sex Determination of the Germ Line and Soma Interactions

8:30 – 9:00 am Session Chair/invited speaker - Josephine Bowles (Brisbane, Australia) – Retinoid regulation of germ cell development

9:00 – 9:15 am – short talk

9:15 – 9:30 am – short talk

9:30 – 9:45 am – short talk

9:45 – 10:00 am – short talk

BREAK

10:20 – 10:50 am – Invited speaker – Kellee Siegfried (Boston, Massachusetts) – Genetics of sexual development in zebrafish

10:50 – 11:05 am – short talk

11:05 – 11:20 am – short talk

11:30 – 11:45 am – short talk

11:45 – 12:00 pm – short talk

LUNCH

Environmental Effects on Sex Determination, Differentiation and Fertility

2:00 – 2:30 pm Session Chair, Tyrone Hayes (Berkeley, CA) – Environmental effects on amphibian sexual development

2:30 – 2:45 pm – short talk

2:45 – 3:00 pm – short talk

3:00 – 3:15 pm – short talk

3:15 – 3:30 pm – short talk

3:30 – 3:50 pm BREAK

3:50 – 4:20 pm – Invited speaker – Alan Conley (Davis, California) – Hormonal control of hyena sexual differentiation

4:20 – 4:35 pm – short talk

4:35 – 4:50 pm – short talk

4:50 – 5:05 pm – short talk

6:30 – 10:00 pm CONFERENCE DINNER

FRIDAY, April 27th

8:00 – 8:30 am CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST

Human Disorders of Sexual Development

8:30 – 9:00 am Session Chair/Invited speaker – Eric Vilain (Los Angeles, CA) – Human disorders of sexual development

9:00 – 9:15 am – short talk

9:15 – 9:30 am – short talk

9:30 – 9:45 am – short talk

9:45 – 10:05 am BREAK

10:05 – 10:35 am – Invited speaker - Tsutomu Ogata (Tokyo, Japan) – Molecular genetics of human X chromosome syndromes

10:35 – 10:50 am – short talk

10:50 – 11:05 am – short talk

CONFERENCE ENDS