The Utah International Symposium on the Genetics of Male Infertility

2006 Course Faculty

THURSDAY JANUARY 26

Keynote Speaker
  • "The Genetics of Male Infertility: From Bench to Bedside"
    David de Kretser, M.D., Monash University, Victoria, Australia

FRIDAY JANUARY 27

Meiosis
  • "The Genetics of Male Infertility in the Era of Genomics: Tools for Progress"
    Douglas T. Carrell, Ph.D., University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, Utah
  • "Meiotic Errors and Male Infertility"
    Terry Hassold, Ph.D., Washington State University, Pullman, Washington
  • "The Clinical Relevance of Sperm Aneuploidy"
    Renee Martin, Ph.D., University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada
  • "Environmental Influences on Meiosis"
    Pat Hunt, Ph.D., Washington State University, Pullman, Washington
Spermatogenesis
  • "The Use of cDNA Libraries in Evaluating Spermatogenesis"
    Norman Hecht, Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania Medical Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
  • "Protein Interactions Between DAZL and PUM2 Distinguish Embryonic Stem Cells from Germ Cells."
    Mark Fox, Ph.D., University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, California
  • "Physiological and Proteomic Approaches to Sperm Function"
    Christopher Barratt, Ph.D., Birmingham Women's Hospital, Birmingham, United Kingdom
  • TRAINEE AWARD FOR EXCEPTIONAL ABSTRACT
    "Functional Characterization of the Zona Pellucida Binding Protein (ZPBP) Gene Family"
    Yi-Nan Lin, Wei Yan, and Martin M. Matzuk
    Presenter-Yi-Nan Lin, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas
  • TRAINEE AWARD FOR EXCEPTIONAL ABSTRACT
    "Meiotic Synapsis and Crossing-over Map to Different Chromosomal Regions"
    Petrice W. Brown, Rhea Vallente, and Terry J. Hassold
    Presenter-Petrice Brown, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington
  • "Epididymal Gene Expression and Sperm Maturation"
    Gail Cornwall, Ph.D., Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas
  • "Animal Models of Male Infertility"
    Martin Matzuk, Ph.D., Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas
  • "The Role of UTP14c, an X Chromosome Derived Retrogene, in Male Infertility"
    Jan Rohozinski, Ph.D., Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas
  • "The Chromatoid Body and microRNA Pathways in Male Germ Cells"
    Paolo Sassone-Corsi, Ph.D., University Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, France
  • "Sperm Reveal Their Secrets: From Chromatin to Novel Transcripts, a Truly Unique Delivery System"
    Stephen Krawetz, Ph.D., Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, Michigan

SATURDAY JANUARY 28

Clinical
  • "Polymorphisms as Risk Factors of Male Infertility"
    Csilla Krausz, M.D., Ph.D., University of Florence, Florence, Italy
  • "Microarray Analysis of a Large Number of Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms in Human Spermatozoa"
    Honghua Li, Ph.D., UMDNJ Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, New Jersey
  • "The Role of HOX Genes in Male Infertility"
    Mario Capecchi, Ph.D., University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, Utah
  • PRIZE ABSTRACT SELECTED FOR ORAL PRESENTATION
    "SUMO-1, Human Male Germ Cell Development and the Androgen Receptor in the Testis of Men with Normal and Abnormal Spermatogenesis"
    Margarita Vigodner, Tomomoto Ishikawa, Peter N. Schlegel and Patricia L. Morris
    Presenter- Patricia Morris, Ph.D., The Rockefeller University, New York, New York
  • PRIZE ABSTRACT SELECTED FOR ORAL PRESENTATION
    "Ghrelin and Leptin Interplay in Proper Gonadal Function"
    Shannon Whirledge, Roy G. Smith, Dolores J. Lamb
    Presenter- Shannon Whirledge, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas
  • "The Genetics of Abnormal Protamine Expression"
    Vincent Aoki, Ph.D., Seattle Reproductive Medicine, Seattle, Washington
  • "Chromatin Damage and Male Infertility"
    Denny Sakkas, Ph.D., Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut
  • PRIZE ABSTRACT SELECTED FOR ORAL PRESENTATION
    "Identification of Rat Cysteine Rich Secretory Protein-4 (Crisp4) as the Ortholog to Human CRISP1 and Mouse Crisp4"
    Michael A. Nolan, Hyun J. Bang, Kenneth P. Roberts, Terry T. Turner, Gregory S. Kopf and Daniel S. Johnston
    Presenter-Michael A. Nolan, Ph.D., Wyeth Research, Collegeville, Pennsylvania
  • PRIZE ABSTRACT SELECTED FOR ORAL PRESENTATION
    "Male Infertility and Genes on the X Chromosome"
    K. Stouffs, W. Lissens, H. Tournaye, A. Van Steirteghem and I. Liebaers
    Presenter-Katrien Stouffs, Ph.D., Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium
  • "The Genetics of Cryptorchidism"
    Alexander Agoulnik, Ph.D., Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas
  • "Clinical Evaluation of the Genetics of Male Infertility"
    Peter N. Schlegel, M.D., Cornell University Weill Medical College, New York, New York
  • "Y Chromosome Microdeletions and Haplotypes"
    Ken McElreavey, Ph.D., Institute Pasteur, Paris, France
  • "Genomic Instability"
    Dolores Lamb, Ph.D., Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas
  • "The Future of the Diagnosis of Male Infertility"
    Christopher De Jonge, Ph.D., University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota