Abstract & LEMTTF Deadline Extensions, Schedule Updates

Deadline Extensions

Due to the severity of the storm in the Eastern United States and its effect on infrastructure, deadlines for the following have been extended to the end of the day, 24:00h US Eastern Time (GMT -5:00), on Wednesday, 19 February 2014:

• SSR 2014 abstract submission
• Qualification for Trainee awards
• Larry Ewing Memorial Trainee Travel Fund (LEMTTF) applications

Schedule Updates

Speakers and/or titles have been provided for the following optional events and scientific sessions:

Diversity Lunch Symposium.

• Invited Talk. José F. Cordero, M.D. (University of Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico). Topic: To be announced.

Module 3: Translation of Basic Science to Real-World Practice.
Session F. Cancer.

• Invited Talk. Ronald J. Buckanovich, M.D., Ph.D. (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA). "Teaching Old and New Dogs a New Trick."

Module 4: Interrelationship of Reproduction and the Environment.
Session A. Toxicology.

• Invited Talk. Louis J. Guillette Jr., Ph.D. (Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina, USA). "Endocrine Disrupting Contaminants and the Developing Reproductive System."

Session D. Obesity/Nutrition 1.

• Invited Talk. Kartik Shankar, Ph.D. (University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, Arkansas, USA). "Like Mother, Like Son: How Maternal Obesity Programs Offspring Obesity Risk."

Module 5: Developmental Origins of Health and Disease.
Session B. Programming Effects of ARTs on Development.

• Invited Talk. Paolo Rinaudo, M.D., Ph.D. (University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA). "Can IVF Affect Offspring's Metabolic Health? Experience from a Rodent Model."
• Invited Talk. Kevin D. Sinclair, Ph.D. (The University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom). "Epigenetics and Reproductive Health: Linking Nutritional Biochemistry to Long-Term Development."