Presentation Instructions, Roommate Referral Service, Schedule Updates

Presentation Instructions

If you are presenting a poster, platform, or invited talk at SSR 2014, visit the Presentation Instructions page for important rules, tips, and guidelines.

Roommate Referral Service

Are you an SSR Trainee Member seeking a roommate for SSR 2014? If so, then join the Trainee Facebook group and post a message to the Roommate Referral Service event. If you need help accessing the event or the Facebook group, contact your Trainee Affairs Committee Chairs, Annie and Tony, at trainees@ssr.org.

Schedule Updates

The following modules have swapped time slots:

Sunday, 20 July 2014. 3:35–4:55 p.m.
Module Session I-B. Translation of Basic Science to Real-World Practice. Humans/Nonhuman Primate Models. Chair: Asgerally T. Fazleabas, Ph.D. (Michigan State University, Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA).

• Invited Talk. Jun Wang, Ph.D. (Beijing Genomics Institute, Beijing, China). "To Explore the Unexploreable."
• Platform. Speaker and title to be announced.
• Invited Talk. Krina T. Zondervan, Ph.D. (University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom). "Endometriosis in Humans and the Rhesus Macaque."

Monday, 21 July 2014. 5:00–6:20 p.m. Module Session IV-B. Translation of Basic Science to Real-World Practice. Wildlife, Feral Species, Companion Animals. Chair: Pierre Comizzoli, Ph.D. (Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, Washington, D.C., USA).

• Invited Talk. Michelle Kutzler, D.V.M., Ph.D. (Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, USA). "Gonad-Sparing Sterilization Techniques in Dogs: Benefits of Contraception Without Risks of Gonadectomy."
• Platform. Speaker and title to be announced.
• Invited Talk. Katarina Jewgenow, Ph.D. (Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research, Berlin, Germany). "The Miracle of Lynx Reproduction: Life Cycle of Corpora Lutea in Feline Species."

A title has been provided for the following scientific session:

SSR New Investigator Lecture.

• Invited Talk. Kanako Hayashi, Ph.D. (Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Illinois, USA). "The Impact of Epithelial Genes in Endometrial and Ovarian Cancer."