Symposium Organizer (PREBIC): Ramkumar Menon, PhD
University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston
Moderator: Craig Pennell, MD, PhD
President - PREBIC
The University of Western Australia
8:30a.m. - 9:00 a.m.
Air Pollution and Preterm Labor: A Mexico City Cohort Study
Felipe Vadillo-Ortega, MD
Instituto Nacional de Medicina Genómica
9:00 a.m. - 9:30 a.m.
Environmental Toxins as Risk Modifiers for Preterm Birth
Morgan R. Peltier, PhD
Winthrop University Hospital
9:30 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.
Coffee Break
Exosomes in Reproductive Biology
10:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.
Vesicle-Based Molecular Communication During Pregnancy
Yoel Sadovsky, MD, PhD
University of Pittsburgh
10:30 a.m. - 11:00 p.m.
Exosomal Signaling in Pregnancy Complications: A Novel Biomarker for Preterm Birth
Carlos Simon, PhD, MSc
University of Queensland, Australia
Myometrium / Parturition: 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. and 1:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Symposium Organizers and Moderators: R. Ann Word
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Rachel M Tribe, PhD
King’s College, London
12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
Lunch
1:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Gestational Changes in Cysteine Metabolism Suggest New Gastrotransmitter Roles in Parturition
K. Joseph Hurt, MD, PhD
University of Colorado Denver
PREBIC: 2:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Moderator: Nanbert Zhong, MD, PhD
Board Member, PREBIC
Institute for Basic Research in Developmental Disabilities
2:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.
Leveraging an Instrumented "Fetal Membrane on a Chip" for Studying Membrane Immunology
David M. Arnoff, MD, FIDSA
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
2:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Ex Vivo Modeling of the Vaginal Microbiomes During Pregnancy
Richard B. Pyles, PhD
University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston
3:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
New Observations on Mechanisms of Inflammation-Induced Birth in Animal Models
Emmet Hirsch, MD
University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine
3:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Coffee Break
4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Intra-Amniotic Inflammation: Causes, Diagnosis and Treatment
Roberto Romero, MD, D Med Sci
Wayne State University
