Location: Bonnet Creek XII

Morning Session: 8:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

Moderator:
Hanns Helmer, MD
Medical University Vienna

Placental Aging and Stillbirth
Professor Roger Smith, AM. MBBS, Hons., PhD, FRACP, FRANZCOG, FSRB
University of Newcastle

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

Clocks, Alarms and the Onset of Parturition
Robert N. Taylor, MD, PhD
Wake Forest School of Medicine

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

Coffee Break

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

Novel Targets for Preventing Spontaneous Preterm Birth
Martha Lappas, PhD
University of Melbourne

10:30 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.

Infection, Inflammation and Preterm Birth: Pharmacological Prevention and Treatment Strategies
Jeffrey Keelan, PhD
University of Western Australia

PREBIC Keynote Lecture

11:00 a.m. - 11:45 a.m.

Cell Fate Diversity and Aging
Judith Campisi, PhD
University of Southern California

11:45 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

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

Lunch

Afternoon Session: 1:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Moderator:
Nanbert Zhong, MD, PhD
PREBIC
New York State Institute for Basic Research in Developmental Disabilities

1:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.

New Generation Biomarkers for Early (1st/2nd Trimester) and Late (3rd Trimester) Risk Prediction of Preterm Birth and Its Mechanism
Carl P. Weiner, MD, MBA
University of Kansas School of Medicine

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

Evaluation of the Systemic Inflammatory Response Associated to Air Pollutants Exposure During Pregnancy
Felipe Vadillo-Ortega, MD
Instituto Nacional de Medicina Genomica

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

Cell-Based Non-Invasive Prenatal Testing Using Fetal Cells Isolated From Maternal Blood
Ripudaman Singh, PhD, MBA
ARCEDI Biotech ApS

Progesterone Debate

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

Progesterone - Exploiting its Action to Prevent Preterm Birth
Sam Mesiano, PhD
Case Western Reserve University

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

Coffee Break

4:00 p.m. - 4:20 p.m.

Progesterone - Why it Still Has a Role in Preterm Birth Prevention
Cynthia Gyamfi-Bannerman, MD, MSc
Columbia University

4:20 p.m. - 4:45 p.m.

Progesterone - Why We Shouldn't Depend on it to Prevent Preterm Birth
Jane E. Norman, MD, FRCOG, FRCPE, FMedSci
University of Edinburgh MRC Centre for Reproductive Health
Queen's Medical Research Institute

4:45 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Discussion