8:30 a.m. – 9:30 a.m.

 

Mechanisms of Scarless Healing - Do Pericytes Hold the Key to Endometrial Repair?
Philippa Saunders, PhD
MRC Centre for Inflammation Research
University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom 

9:30 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.
 

BREAK

10:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.

Menstruation in the Spiny Mouse
Jemma Evans, PhD
Hudson Institute of Medical Research, Melbourne, Australia 

10:30 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.

 

The Uterine Microbiome; a Relevant Factor in Healthy Pregnancy?
Renate van der Molen
Dept. Laboratory Medicine
Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.

 

Discovery of a Key Surface Barrier Protein That Controls Endometrial Receptivity
Guiying Nie, PhD
Hudson Institute of Medical Research, Melbourne, Australia

12:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.

LUNCH

1:30 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.

 

Endometrium, Embryo Implantation and Genomic Studies in Reproductive Medicine
Andres Salumets, PhD
Dept. Obstetrics and Gynecology
University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia

2:30 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.

 

Organoid Systems to Study the Maternal-Fetal Interface of Human Pregnancy
Margherita Turco, PhD
Centre for Trophoblast Research
University of Cambridge, United Kingdom 

3:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.
 

Reconstructing the Human Maternal-Fetal Interface During Early Pregnancy Using Single Cell Transcriptomics
Roser Vento-Tormo
Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambridge, United Kingdom 

3:30 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.

BREAK

4:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
 

Placental Cells and Proteins and Their Impact on Endometrial/Decidual Vessels
Berthold Huppertz
Dept. Cell Biology, Histology and Embryology
Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria