2023 Program

8:30 AM – Check-in and Continental Breakfast

9:00 AM – Session 1

• 9:00 AM – Ann A. Kiessling, PhD, Bedford Research Foundation, “The Beginning of Reverse Transcription”
• 9:25 AM – David Keefe, MD, NYU Grossman School of Medicine, Oocyte Keynote – “Retrotransposition and early embryo development”

10:20 AM – Coffee Break

10:35 AM – Session 2

• 10:35 AM – Eric Bittman, PhD, Center for Neuroendocrine Studies, UMass Amherst – “Time is of the Essence: Circadian coordination up and down the reproductive axis.”
• 11:20 AM – Björn Heindryckx, PhD, Ghent University Hospital, Belgium –“Overcoming dysfunctional oocyte cytoplasm causing failed fertilization or embryo developmental arrest”

12:05 PM – Lunch, Posters & Lunch Talk with Dan Wikler, PhD, Harvard School of Public Health, “A.I.D, A.I.H, A.I.V, A.I.P… and the Turkey Baster Baby”

1:30 PM – Session 3

• 1:30 PM – Oliver Rando, PhD, UMass Chan Medical School, Sperm Keynote – “Epigenetic contributions of sperm to early development in mammals”
• 2:25 PM – Gianpiero D. Palermo, MD, PhD, Weill Cornell Medicine – “Clinical Aspects of Early Fertilization”

3:10 PM – Coffee Break & Posters

3:30 PM – Session 4

• 3:30 PM – Tiziana A.L. Brevini, PhD, Università degli Studi di Milano – “Expression profile and mechanosensing related pathways in parthenogenetic cells”
• 4:15 PM – Corrado Spadafora, PhD, Bedford Research Foundation, Visiting Scientist – “Sperm-mediated Epigenetic Inheritance, Genesis and Propagation of Extrachromosomal Information”

5:00 PM – Happy Hour and Poster Session

6:00 PM – Dinner & Dinner Speaker – David Albertini, PhD, Journal of Assisted Reproduction and Genetics –“Human Egg Research: Past, Present and Future”

Email questions to: aes@bedfordresearch.org