Scientifc Program • Friday 01 June, 2012
| 09.00–11.15 | New Investigator Award |
| Chairs | M. E. Solano (Hamburg, DE) |
| J. Kwak-Kim (Vernon Hills, IL/US) | |
| 09.00 | No protective effect of NIMA on antibody production in women transfused for severe hemolytic disease of the fetus |
| E. Verduin (Leiden, NL) | |
| 09.15 | To clot or not to clot: Procoagulant vesicles in human seminal fuid |
| C. Franz (Heidelberg, DE) | |
| 09.30 | Induction of the G-protein coupled estrogen receptor (GPER) by stress hormones, infammatory cytokines and estrogen explains its up-regulation in endometriosis |
| S. Heublein (München, DE) | |
| 09.45 | IL-7 promotes HIV-1 transmission to cervico-vaginal tissue ex vivo |
| A. Introini (Bethesda, MD/US) | |
| 10.00 | Immunomodulation by placental microvesicles in adverse pregnancy outcomes (preeclampsia and recurrent pregnancy loss) |
| S. Baig (Singapore, SG) | |
| 10.15 | The miRNome of trophoblast cells |
| D. Morales-Prieto (Jena, DE) | |
| 10.30 | Progesterone-Induced Blocking Factor (PIBF) controls trophoblast invasion |
| M. Halasz (Pecs, HU) | |
| 10.45 | Mast cells mediate spiral artery remodeling |
| K. Woidacki (Magdeburg, DE) | |
| 11.00 | Acetaminophen application during murine pregnancy triggers metabolic and immunological changes in dams and impairs fetal development |
| T. Kessler (Hamburg, DE) | |
| 11.15–12.00 | Coffee Break |
| 12.00–13.00 | Cell incognito: Do we underestimate the Function of Fetal and Maternal Cross Talk and Microchimerism? |
| Chairs | P. Arck (Hamburg, DE) |
| T. Ott (University Park, PA/US) | |
| 12.00 | Tolerance to noninherited maternal antigenes in mice and humans |
| W. Burlingham (Madison, WI/US) | |
| 12.30 | Fetal microchimerism of pregnancy associated progenitor cells: A new model to study stem cell response to tissue injury |
| K. Khosrotehrani (Brisbane, AU) | |
| 13.00–14.30 | Lunch Break |
| 13.00–14.30 | Poster-Session 2 |
| Chairs | K. Rothe (Hamburg, DE) |
| U. Markert (Jena, DE) | |
| Poster-Walk 1 | |
| Checkpoints during Trophoblast Invasion: from Normalcy to Pre-eclampsia | |
| Immune Aspects of Male Reproduction and Contraception | |
| Macro- and Micro-Environmental Challenges in Reproduction – Part 1 | |
| Poster-Walk 2 | |
| Macro- and Micro-Environmental Challenges in Reproduction – Part 2 | |
| 14.30–16.30 | Immune Regulation during Gestation: what’s new on NK cells? |
| Chairs | S. Blois (Berlin, DE) |
| J. Fitzgerald (Jena, DE) | |
| 14.30 | Insights into angiogenesis regulation at the maternal-fetal interface using a porcine model of sponatneous fetal loss |
| C. Tayade (Kingston, CA) | |
| 15.00 | NK-T-DC cross talk in pregnancy |
| S. Saito (Toyama-shi, JP) | |
| 15.30 | Granule heterogeneity of angiogenic and cytolytic dual-function mouse uterine Natural Killer cells |
| P. Lima (Campinas, BR) | |
| 15.45 | Defining Risk for Recurrent Gestational Failure by Blood Natural Killer Cells Subsets. |
| Silvia Sánchez-Ramón (Madrid, ES) | |
| 16.00 | Sexual Intercourse with Pyospermia Decreases Uterine CD16-/CD56bright Natural Killer Cells in Women with Infertility |
| E. Yamaguchi (Aomori, JP) | |
| 16.15 | Detailed analysis of peripheral blood natural killer cells in women with repeated IVF failure |
| G. Sacks (Sidney, AU) | |
| 16.30–17.00 | Coffee Break |
| 17.00–19.00 | Sexually Transmitted Diseases and Genital HIV Infection |
| Chairs | Gerard Chaouat (Paris, FR) |
| L. Krishnan (Ottawa, CA) | |
| 17.00 | Endocrine Modulation of Immune Function: Influence of sex hormones on Susceptibility to HIV infection in the Human Female Reproductive Tract |
| C. R. Wira (Lebanon, NH/US) | |
| 17.30 | Targets for HIV-1 infection in the frst trimester pregnancy human uterine mucosa and control of transmission |
| E. Menu (Paris, FR) | |
| 18.00 | Role of Semen in HIV-1 Transmission: Inhibitor or facilitator? |
| G. Doncel (Arlington, VA/US) | |
| 18.30 | Current Concept of HIV Pathogenesis in the Female Genital Tract |
| A. L. Landay (Chicago, IL/US) | |
| 20.00 | Conference Dinner |