2019 Program

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8:30 AM – Check-in and continental breakfast

9:00 AM – Ann A. Kiessling, PhD – “First Evidence for Circadian Rhythms in Early Human Embryos”

9:20 AM – Joseph Takahashi, PhD – Keynote: “Circadian Clock Mechanisms in Mammals and Their Relevance to Aging and Longevity”

10:20 AM – Coffee Break

10:35 AM – David Albertini, PhD – “Oocyte Contributions to Embryogenesis: Mother’s Legacy”

11:15 AM – Carla Green, PhD – “Post-transcriptional Regulation of Protein Expression by the Circadian Clock”

12:00 PM – Lunch & Posters

1:15 PM – Shoukhrat Mitalipov, PhD – Keynote: “Contributions of Oocyte Cytoplasm to Reprogramming and Development”

2:15 PM – David Whitmore, PhD – “Embryonic Circadian Clocks: Do They Control Anything Important?”

3:00 PM – Coffee Break

3:20 PM – Jonathan Lipton, MD, PhD – “The Circadian Clock as a Window into Neurodevelopment Disorders: Mechanisms and Opportunities”

4:10 PM – Rudolf Jaenisch, PhD – “Human / Mouse Chimeras for Disease Modeling”

5:00 PM – Happy Hour and Posters

6:00 PM – Dinner and Arthur Applbaum, PhD: “Gene Editing Human Embryos: Who Should Decide?”

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