Full Program

- List of Confirmed Speakers

Opening Conference

Sylvie Breton (USA) Monitoring cell-cell communication in the epididymis

Closing Conference

Bernard Robaire (Canada) Androgen action in the epididymis

Conferences

J.Michael Bedford (USA) Reflections on the functions and the form of the epididymis

Terry Turner (USA) - Present and Future of Research on the Epididymis (FINAL REMARKS)

SYMPOSIA – Confirmed Speakers

- Barry T Hinton (USA) Morphogenesis of the developing Wolfian/epididymal duct

- Thomas J Carrol (USA) Wnt signalling, cell polarity and tubule morphogenesis

- Michelle Welsh (UK) New insights into the role of androgen on wolffian duct stabilization

- Yong-Lian Zhang (China) The small RNAs in epididymis

- Jean-Luc Gatti (France) Transcriptomic, Proteomic : What else ?

- Robert Sullivan (Canada) Gene expression in the epididymis of normal and vasectomised men: what can we learn about human sperm maturation?

- Barry Shur (USA) SED-1 and epididymal epithelium integrity

- Louis Hermo (Canada) Epididymal morphogenesis and epididymal barriers

- Rex Hess (EUA) Estrogens and the epididymis

- Joel R Drevet (France) Epididymis glutathione peroxidases control sperm DNA integrity and embryo viability

- Gail Cornwall (USA) CRES aggregation in the epididymis: a new amyloid?

- MC Avellar (Brazil) Epididymis: receptors and innate immunity

- Mark P. Hedger (Australia) Physiology and pathology of inflammation in the male reproductive tract

- Brett Nixon (Australia) Understanding the evolutionary significance of epididymal sperm maturation

- Debora Cohen (Argentina) Participation of CRISP proteins in the fertilization process

- Matti Poutanen (Finland) From in silico gene discovery to novel mouse models for epididymal proteins

- Ilpo Huhtaniemi (UK) KO models for understanding epididymal function

- Michael O'Rand (USA) – Epididymal protein targets: a road to male contraceptives?

- Wilma Kempinas (Brazil) Epididymis, environment and fertility

- 4 Young Investigators (Selected Abstracts – Young Investigator Symposium)