30th Annual Minisymposium on Reproductive Biology

* Presenting author underlined 9:00 AM T1 Identification of a unique integrator of the mitogenic effects of steroid hormone and growth factor pathways in the mammary gland and a potential oncogene of breast tumorigenesis, L. Anandan, Q. Li2, A. Kannan, J.P. Lydon, I.C. Bagchi, M.C. Bagchi, Department of Molecular & Integrative Physiology, Department of Veterinary Bioscience, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL; Department of Molecular & Cellular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX. 9:15 AM T2 The estrogen receptor alpha plays a central role in controlling stromal differentiation in the mouse and human endometria during early pregnancy, MJ Laws, A Das, Q Li, RN Taylor, FJ DeMayo, JP Lydon4, MK Bagchi, and IC Bagchi, Vet Bioscis, Univ of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL; Mol & Integrative Physiology, Univ of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL; Ob/Gyn, Emory Univ Sch of Med, Atlanta, GA; Mol & Cell Biol, Baylor Coll of Med, Houston, TX. 9:30 AM T3 The selective progesterone receptor modulator CDB4124 inhibits proliferation and induces apoptosis in uterine leiomyoma cells, Xia Luo, Ping Yin, John Coon V, You-Hong Cheng, Ronald D. Wiehle, Serdar E. Bulun, Division of Reproductive Biology Research, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois; Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Qilu Hospital, Shandong University, Jinan, People’s Republic of China; Repros Therapeutics, Inc., Woodlands, Texas. 9:45 AM T4 Estrogen promotes breast cancer cell survival through the Estrogen Receptor, NFκB and regulation of Inhibitors of Apoptosis (IAPs), Adina Stanculescu, Kristina Borgen, Elizabeth Wiley, Jonna Frasor, Department of Physiology and Biophysics; Department of Surgical Pathology, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois. 10:00 AM T5 Activation of EGFR is essential for LHR-induced decrease in aromatase expression, N. Andric, M. Thomas, and M. Ascoli, Department of Pharmacology and Obstetrics and Gynecology, Carver College of Medicine, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA. 10:15 10:30 AM Coffee Break 10:30 AM Northwestern Alumni Speaker – Dr. Alan B. Diekman, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR ORAL SESSION II: Follicle Assembly and Ovarian Development Session Moderators: Ayelet Ziv-Gal, Department of Veterinary Clinical Medicine, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL and Adina Stanculescu, Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL 10:45 AM T6 The aryl hydrocarbon receptor may regulate genes involved in cell cycle and X chromosome inactivation during follicle assembly in the neonatal mouse ovary, B.N. Karman and J.A. Flaws, Department of Veterinary Biosciences, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL.