32nd Annual Meeting
The Banff Centre
Bamff, Alberta, Canada
Welcome – PRS President Margaret McLaughlin, PhD
Mead Johnson Speaker
Thomas Musci, MD – Getting the Message Across: Translational Regulation During Early Embryogenesis
Abbott Ross Speaker
Caroline McMillen, MD PhD – Fetal Neuroendocrine and Cardiovascular Adaptations to Alterations in Nutrient Supply – the Fetal Origins of Adult Disease?
March of Dimes Speaker
Lisa G. Shaffer, PhD –Uniparental Disomy: Mechanisms and Clinical Consequences
NICHD Speaker
Kent L. Thornburg, PhD – What Can We Learn From a One Millimeter Heart? Experiments in Early Cardiac Development
Liley Lectureship and Award Winner
S. Lee Adamson, PhD – Hemodynamics in the Fetal Placental Circulation
Medical Research Council of Canada Speaker
Sylvain Chemtob, MD PhD – Nuclear G Protein-Coupled Receptors: Biological Implications of Novel Targets
Invited Guest Speakers
Eva M. Eicher, PhD – What Genes Determine Whether We Make Ovaries or Testes?
Dorothy Vawter, PhD – The Use of Embryos and Fetuses in Research and Tissue Donation: Three Decades of Ethical and Policy Questions
Julie A. DeLoia, PhD –Cellular and Molecular Insights into Uterine Receptivity
Leadership 2000
President – Margaret McLaughlin, PhD
Secretary-Treasurer – Lowell E. Davis, MD