Marine Biological Laboratory

2007 FIR Mini Symposium

Our Chemically Modified Environment: What is happening to reproductive homeostasis?

June 1, 2007, 2-5 PM
Speck Auditorium, Rowe Laboratory
Organizer/Convener: David F. Albertini, Frontiers in Reproduction (Course Co-Director)

This schedule is preliminary and subject to change


Time:				Speaker and Topic:

2:00 PM				Introduction - David F. Albertini

2:15 PM				“A Historical Perspective of the Environmental Estrogen Problem” Joan V. Ruderman, Harvard Medical School

2:45 PM				“Environmental Estrogens and Reproductive Tract Disorders” Carlos Sonnenschein, Tufts Medical School

3:15 PM				“From water bottles to meiotic recombination: the case of Bisphenol A and oocyte meiosis” Pat Hunt, Washington State University

3:45 PM				“How cavalier is the pre-implantation conceptus? Effects of TCDD on the cytoskeleton and cell cycle” Karla Hutt, Kansas University Medical Center

4:15 PM				Coffee Break

4:30 PM				“Public perception of the good, the bad, and the ugly in science today” Stephen Hall, author of Merchants of Immortality

5:00 PM				Round Table Discussion

5:45 PM				Reception and Banquet in Swope