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Day 1,
February 7, 2008 (Thursday) |
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8:00 onwards |
Registration |
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9:00- 9:45 |
Inaugural
Function
Key Note Address by Prof MK Bhan, Secretary, DBT, India
Prof TD Dogra, (Director AIIMS), Prof R C Deka,(Dean) ,
Prof CV Rao,
Prof Nafis Rhaman, Prof Anand Kumar |
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9:45 – 10:30
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Plenary
Lecture Chair: JS Bajaj
G.P. Talwar (New
Delhi, India)
Immunological approaches and
against hCG for control of fertility & advanced stage
cancers expressing ectopically hCG subunits |
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10:30-10:45 |
Coffee break |
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10:45-13:15 |
Scientific Session 1
Gonadotropin biology
Chairpersons:
BN Chakrobarty & Ahamed
Farooq |
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10:45 |
W A Dik (The
Netherlands),w.dik@erasmusmc.nl
Human Chorionic gonadotropins as a source
of immunoregulatory oligopeptides |
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11:10 |
Michael
Thomas (France)
michael.thomas@cea.fr
LH receptor expression in
human adrenal glands |
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11:35 |
KMJ Menon (USA)
kmjmenon@umich.edu
Regulation of LH/hCG Receptor
expression in the ovary by an RNA binding protein |
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12:00 |
Pieter M
Verbost,
(The Netherlands)
pieter.verbost@organon
Non-peptidic modulators of gonadotropin receptors |
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12:25 |
Rajan R Dighe(
India)
rdighe@mrdg.iisc.ernet.in
Structure-function relationship of gonadotropins and their
receptor |
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12:50 |
Smita Mahale (India)
smitamahale@hotmail.com
Structural and functional
determinants in the extracellular domain of FSH receptor |
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13:15-14:00 |
Lunch break &
Poster session |
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14:00-16:25 |
Scientific Session 2
Gonadotropins and
Ovary
Chairpersons:
Stephen G Hillier & Satish Gupta |
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14:00 |
BN
Chakrobarty,(India)
bnc@irmbnc.org
The role of recombinant and
urinary gonadotropins in the current management
of ART |
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14:25 |
Selva Nataraja (Serono, USA)
selva.nataraja@emdserono.com
Orally Active Molecules that Modulate Recombinant FSH and
Recombinant LH action on Ovarian Function
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14:50 |
Vasantha Padmanabhan (USA)
vasantha@umich.edu
Rescue of
ovarian function with gonadotropins: Role of FSH
heterogeneity |
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15:15 |
Rita Singh
(New Delhi)
ghrika_s@yahoo.com
Role of LH in
etiology of PCOS: Intra ovarian insulin resistance in human
PCOS
patients without peripheral insulin resistance (Rita Singh;
India) |
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15:40 |
Tarala D Nandedkar (India)cellbioirr@rediffmail.com
Regulation of
ovarian function: Possible application of nanotechnology |
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16:05 |
Samir
Bhattacharrya
(India)
smrbhattacharya@yahoo.com
Myt1 deactivation and Cdk1 activation lead to G2-M
transition in maturing oocyte |
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16:25-16:40 |
Coffee break |
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16:40- 18:20 |
Scientific Session 3
Gonadotropins and Pregnancy
Chairpersons
GP Talwar & Ikuo Konishi: |
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16:40 |
Loganath Annamalai
(Singapore)
obgannam@nus.edu.sg
Role of
gonadotropins in Hydatidiform mole |
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17:05 |
Surendra Sharma
(USA)
ssharma@wihri.org
hCG as an
angiogenic factor: dysregulation in pre-eclampsia |
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17:30 |
Howard Carp (Israel)
carp@netvision.net.il
The pros &
cons of hCG treatment in recurrent miscarriage |
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17:55 |
Carlo Ticconi
(Italy)
Novel
regulatory actions of HCG in human non-pregnant and pregnant
myometrium |
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20:00 |
Dinner |
