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