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Symposium in Honor of William W. Thatcher

Graduate Research Professor, University of Florida

 

Loretta and John DeWeese Auditorium

Evelyn F. and William L. McKnight Brain Institute

University of Florida

 

April 17, 2004

 

  SCHEDULE

 

        Session 1 - Peter J.  Hansen, Moderator

 

        8:30 AM    Peter J. Hansen, Dept. of Animal Sciences, University of Florida.  Welcome.

 

        8:40 AM    Frank C. Gwazdauskas, Dept. of Dairy Science, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State     University.  Transgenesis in livestock: A Tech overview.  Virginia Tech University

 

        9:00 AM    Frank F. Bartol, Dept. of Animal Sciences and Cellular and Molecular Biosciences Program, Auburn University, When pigs fly: Uterine patterning and endometrial programming.

 

        9:30 AM    Flavio Silvestre, Dept. of Animal Sciences, University of Florida. Effects of a GnRH-agonist on uterine involution and ovarian activity in postpartum lactating dairy cows.

 

        9:45 AM    Todd Bilby, Dept. Of Animal Sciences, University of Florida, Differential effects of bST on pregnancy rates in dairy cattle: dependence upon lactational status.

 

        10:00 AM  Break

 

Session 2 - William C. Buhi, Moderator

 

        10:25 AM Aydin Guzeloglu, Dept. of Animal Sciences, University of Florida. Factors regulating PGHS-2 in the bovine endometrium in response to pregnancy and fatty acids.

 

        10:45 AM  Louis Guilbault, Société Générale de Financement du Québec Montreal, Quebec, Canada.  From research to development.

 

        11:15 AM  Frederico Moreira, Pfizer Corporation. Further development of timed insemination protocols.

 

        11:30 AM  Pushpa Kalra, Dept. of Physiology, University of Florida.  To eat or not to eat.....

 

        12:00 PM   Lunch

 

Session 3 - Carlos A. Risco, Moderator

 

        1:45 PM    Robert J. Collier, Dept. of Animal Sciences, University of Arizona. The role of prostaglandins in mammary development and lactogenesis in the dairy cow.

 

        2:15 PM    Fuller W. Bazer, Dept. of Animal Science, Texas A&M University.   Continuing saga of interferon tau and pregnancy recognition.

 

        2:45 PM    Mario Binelli, Centro de Biotecnologia em Reproduço Animal, School of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Science, University of Sao Paulo, Pirassununga, Brasil. Estradiol and luteolysis: the developing story.

 

        3:15 PM    Troy L. Ott, Dept. of Animal and Veterinary Science and Center for Reproductive Biology, University of Idaho. “Innate” communication between the conceptus, uterus and circulating immune system in domestic ruminants: Basic physiology and potential application.

 

        3:45 PM    Break

 

Session 4 - Charles R. Staples, Moderator

 

        4:00 PM    José Eduardo P. Santos, Veterinary Medicine Teaching and Research Center, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California Davis. Lipids and gossypol: Effects on establishment and maintenance of pregnancy in dairy cattle.

 

        4:30 PM    Jeffrey J. Knickerbocker, Fertility & IVF Center of Miami. From the Laboratory to Life.

 

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