HUGODECA meeting on sex differentiation on May 12, 2022
We are pleased to invite you to join us at the HUGODECA meeting on sex differentiation on May 12, 2022 at:
Renaissance Paris Arc de Triomphe Hotel
39 Avenue de Wagram
75017 Paris – France
Registration open
Registration is now open and will close on May 2, 2022.
Registration is on a first-come first-serve basis. Due to limited space, we are able to accept only 60 participants.
Program
| 8:30-9:00 | Registration and welcome coffee |
| 9:00-9:15 | Welcome and introduction Alain Chédotal (INSERM Institut de la Vision, Paris) |
| 9:15-9:45 | Blanche Capel (Duke University, Durham) The Battle of the Sexes: Setting the gonad on the testis or ovary pathway |
| 9:45-10:15 | Antoine Rolland (INSERM IRSET, Rennes) Decoding somatic cell lineage specification in the human fetal gonad |
| 10:15-10:45 | Roser Vento-Tormo (Wellcome Sanger Institute, Cambridge) Single-cell roadmap of human gonadal development |
| 10:45-11:15 | Coffee break |
| 11:15-11:30 | Selected short talk 1 |
| 11:30-12:00 | Julie Bakker (GIGA Neurosciences, University of Liège) The role of kisspeptin and nNOS neurons in the neural circuit underlying reproductive behavior |
| 12:00-12:30 | Anu Bashamboo (Pasteur Institute, Paris) Genetics of human testis development and its “anomalies” |
| 12:30-14:00 | Lunch (buffet) for all participants |
| 14:00-14:30 | Humphrey Yao (National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Durham) From Glowing Penis to Oocyte-Producing Testis: The Power of Mouse Genetics to Study Sex Differentiation |
| 14:30-15:00 | Alain Chédotal (INSERM Institut de la Vision, Paris) 3D analysis of human sex differentiation |
| 15:00-15:15 | Selected short talk 2 |
| 15:15-15:45 | Severine Mazaud-Guittot (INSERM IRSET, Rennes) Manipulation of the Desert Hedgehog signaling pathway in the human fetal testis |
| 15:45-16:00 | Selected short talk 3 |
| 16:00-16:30 | Martine Cools (Universitair Ziekenhuis Gent) Gonadal histology at the crossroads of male and female sexual differentiation |
| 16:30-17:00 | Coffee Break |
| 17:00-17:30 | Final discussion |
