Fetal Physiology Satellite Symposium 2013
The Black Holes of Fetal Programming: Filling the Gaps
Wednesday, March 20, 2013
Hilton Orlando Bonnet Creek, Orlando, FL, USA

Organizer:
Kent L. Thornburg, Ph.D., M. Lowell Edwards Chair, Professor and Associate Chief
for Research, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine,
Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR, USA

Morning Session Moderator:
Sandra T. Davidge, Ph.D., Professor of Ob-Gyn and Physiology,
University of Alberta, Alberta, Canada

8:15 a.m. - 8:30 a.m.
Introduction: Kent L. Thornburg, Ph.D., M. Lowell Edwards Chair, Professor and Associate Chief.
                        for Research, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine,
                        Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR, USA

8:30 a.m. - 9:30 a.m.
Big Black Holes in Our Understanding of Epigenetics
David IK Martin, M.D., Deputy Director
Children's Hospital Oakland Research Institute, Oakland, CA, USA

9:30 a.m - 10:00 a.m.
Coffee Break

10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
What We Know and Don't Know About Fetal Growth and Programming
Michelle Lampl, M.D., Ph.D. Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Anthropology
Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA

11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Programming Type 2 Diabetes: The Remaining Gaps
Rebecca A. Simmons, M.D., Professor of Pediatrics
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA

12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
Lunch Break

Afternoon Session Moderator:
Stephen J. Lye, Ph.D., Professor of Ob-Gyn, Physiology & Medicine
Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

1:30 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.
Maternal Nutrition and the Preimplantation Embryo
Tom Fleming, Ph.D., Chair in Developmental Biology
University of Southampton, Southampton, UK

2:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Fetal Programming: The Black Holes in the Placenta
Thomas B. Jansson, M.D., Ph.D., Associate Professor of Ob-Gyn
University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, USA

3:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Coffee Break

4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
The Gut Microbiota of Pregnant Women and Their Infants
Omry Koren, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Associate, Department of Microbiology
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA

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