Parturition and Myometrium Satellite

SESSION I

Moderator:
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8:30 a.m. - 9:00 a.m.

Vaginal microbiome: player or bystander in preterm birth
Michal Elovitz, MD
Dean, Women's Health Research
Director, Women’s Biomedical Research Institute
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

9:00 a.m. - 9:30 a.m.

Extracellular vesicles as a mode of microbe-host communication to upper levels of the female reproductive tract
Hannah Zierden, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
University of Maryland

9:30 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.

COFFEE BREAK

Session II

Moderator:
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10:00 a.m. - 10:40 a.m.

Placental dysfunction, fetal growth restriction and the risk of spontaneous preterm birth
Gordon C S Smith, MD PhD DSc FMedSci
Professor & Head of Department, Obstetrics and Gynaecology
Cambridge University

10:40 a.m. - 11:20 a.m.

BUMP omics: unifying expression analysis across uterine sites for profiling spontaneous labour
Pei Lai, PhD
Research Associate, Department of Metabolism, Digestion and Reproduction
Imperial College London

11:20 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

Multi-Omics Studies of the Myometrium in Human Parturition
Huishu Liu, MD, PhD
Professor and Chair, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology Guangzhou Women and Children's Medical Center
Guangzhou Medical University

12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.

LUNCH BREAK

Session III

Moderators: 
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1:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.

A genomics approach uncovers transcription factors that regulate myometrial contraction-associated gene expression
Jennifer Mitchell, PhD
Professor, Department of Cell and Systems Biology
University of Toronto
Toronto, Ontario, Canada

2:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.

Oxytocin and TRPV4: Partners in human myometrial contraction
David Cornfield, MD
Professor, Department of Pediatric and Pulmonary Medicine,
Stanford University School of Medicine

2:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.

The search for oxytocin receptor pharmacoperones to enhance or restore oxytocin signaling in myometrial smooth muscle cells
Erin Reinl, PhD
Instructor, Center for Reproductive Health Sciences
Washington University in St. Louis

3:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. 

Novel tocolytic approaches for the management of preterm labor using combination and dual-ligand therapies
Scott Barnett, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Biochemistry
University of Nevada-Reno

3:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.

COFFEE BREAK

Session IV

Moderator:
Christine O’Brien, PhD
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Instructor of Radiology
Center for Women’s Health Engineering
Washington University in St. Louis

4:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.

Digital Twin Models for Preterm Birth Prediction
Kristin Myers, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering,
Columbia University, New York, New York, United States

4:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Preterm birth related to the cervix: an opportunity for improved treatment
Michael House, MD
Professor, Tufts Medicine
Principal Investigator, Mother Infant Research Institute
Tufts Medical Center