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Program at a glance (ASPIRE 2012) Program(ASPIRE 2012)

Program at a glance (ASPIRE 2012)

August 30 (Thu.), 2012 August 31 (Fri.), 2012 September 1 (Sat.), 2012 & September 2 (Sun.), 2012
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Program (ASPIRE 2012)

[August 31, 2012]

Pre-congress 1
Investigate commonality of reproductive cell going through evolution

10:50-16:00
Room D (Osaka International Convention Center 10F 1003)

Pre-congress 2
How to write a manuscript (tentative)

9:00-17:00
Room E (Osaka International Convention Center 10F 1004-5)

Opening Ceremony

17:10-17:50
Room A (Osaka International Convention Center 5F Main Hall)
Speaker: Bruno Lunenfeld (Israel)
Shin Yong Moon (Korea)
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[September 1, 2012]

Room A (5F Main Hall)

Presidential Lecture: From mitochondria to integrated medicine in reproductive medicine

8:30-9:00
Chairperson: Shuetsu Suzuki (Japan)
Speaker: Yoshiharu Morimoto (Japan)

Symposium 1: iCOS - Individualized controlled ovarian stimulation for maximizing a patients' chance of having a live birth

9:00-10:30
Sponsored by Merck Serono
Chairperson: P. C. Wong (Singapore)
Nobuhiko Suganuma (Japan)
Speaker: Yuji Takehara (Japan)
Jaideep Malhotra (India)
Geoffrey Trew (UK)

Educational Lecture 1: Treatment of patients with primary ovarian insufficiency with psychological aspects

10:50-11:20
Chairperson: Pasquale Patrizio (USA)
Speaker: Bunpei Ishizuka (Japan)

Educational Lecture 2: What are the risks of ART and how can they be minimized?

11:20-12:00
Chairperson: Bunpei Ishizuka (Japan) (tentative)
Speaker: Robert Rebar (USA)

Plenary Lecture 1: Developmental competence for the human oocyte and early embryo and stage-specific molecular reorganization of the plasma membrane

13:10-13:50
Chairperson: David Albertini (USA)
Speaker: Jonathan Van Blerkom (USA)

Plenary Lecture 2: FERTILIZATION: The normal events during conception, abnormalities causing infertility, and ART strategies to overcome infertility

13:50-14:30
Chairperson: Takahide Mori(Japan)
Speaker: Gerald Schatten (USA)

Special Lecture 1: Nutrition, famine, obesity and reproduction

14:50-15:30
Chairperson: Bruno Lunenfeld (Israel)
Speaker: Robert Norman (Australia)

ASRM Symposium: Controversies in infertility

15:40-17:00
Chairperson: Robert Rebar (USA)
Speaker: Roger Lobo (USA)
Dolores Lamb (USA)

Room B (5F Sub Hall)

Symposium 2: Stem cell

9:00-10:30
Chairperson: Kwang Yul Cha (Korea)
Hisashi Narahara (Japan)
Speaker: Yasuhisa Matsui (Japan)
Shin Yong Moon (Korea)
Yoshihiko Hosoi (Japan)

Session 1: Implantation failure

11:00-12:00
Chairperson: Robert Norman (Australia)
Harumi Kubo (Japan)
Speaker: Milton Leong (Hong Kong)
Tsunehisa Makino (Japan)

Session 2: Pregnancy & implantation

14:50-16:40
Chairperson: Jaideep Malhotra (India)
Harumi Kubo (Japan)
Speaker: Claire Roberts (Australia)
Timur Gurgan (Turkey)
Khaleque Khan (Japan)
Maryam Kabir-Salmani (Iran)

Room C (10F 1001-2)

Workshop 1: IVM basic

9:00-10:30
Sponsored by IVF JAPAN
Chairperson: Eimei Sato (Japan)
Midori Yoshizawa (Japan)
Speaker: Huai Feng (USA)
Jie Qiao (China)
Eimei Sato (Japan)

Session 3: Immunology

11:00-12:00
Chairperson: Hideharu Kanzaki (Japan)
Hiroaki Yoshida (Japan)
Speaker: Mayumi Sugiura - Ogasawara (Japan)
Shigeru Saito (Japan)

Luncheon Seminar

12:10-13:00
Sponsored by Ferring Pharmaceuticals Co., Ltd.
Speaker: Atsushi Tanaka (Japan)

Session 4: Quality assessment

14:50-15:50
Chairperson: Hisao Osada (Japan)
Takafumi Utsunomiya (Japan)
Speaker: Katsuhiko Takahashi (Japan)
Kimiko Murakami (Japan)

Session 5: World registry

15:50-17:00
Chairperson: Osamu Tsutsumi (Japan)
G. David Adamson (USA)
Speaker: G. David Adamson (USA)
Manish Banker (India)
Osamu Ishihara (Japan)

Room D (10F 1003)

Workshop 2: Imaging

9:00-10:30
Chairperson: Young Min Choi (Korea)
Yasuyuki Mio (Japan)
Speaker: Kyu Sup Lee (Korea)
Narendra Malhotra (India)
Tasuku Mitani (Japan)

Session 6: Genome & epigenome

11:00-12:00
Chairperson: Peter Leung (Canada)
Hirohisa Kurachi (Japan)
Speaker: Chii-Ruey Tzeng (Taiwan)
Takafumi Utsunomiya (Japan)

Luncheon Seminar

12:10-13:00
Sponsored by Roche Diagnostics K.K.
Chairperson: Nobuyuki Amino (Japan)

Symposium 3: IVM clinical

14:50-16:50
Sponsored by Cook Medical
Chairperson: Milton Leong (Hong Kong)
Colin Soon Soo Lee (Malaysia)
Speaker: Aisaku Fukuda (Japan)
Ri-Cheng Chian (Canada)
Rubens Fadini (Italy)
Seang Lin Tan (Canada)
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[September 2, 2012]

Room A (5F Main Hall)

Symposium 4: Embryo culture

8:40-10:10
Chairperson: Johan Smitz (Belgium)
Hidekazu Saito (Japan)
Speaker: Natachandra Chimote (India)
Yasuyuki Mio (Japan)
Andon Hestiantoro (Indonesia)

Special Lecture 2: What regulates the maturation of early human oocytes and embryos

10:10-10:50
Chairperson: Ri-Cheng Chian (Canada)
Speaker: Outi Hovatta (Sweden)

Plenary Lecture 3: Mechanism and reconstitution in vitro of germ cell specification in mice

11:10-11:50
Chairperson: Minoru Irahara (Japan)
Speaker: Mitinori Saitou (Japan)

Plenary Lecture 4: Value of IVM techniques in human

11:50-12:30
Chairperson: Yuji Taketani (Japan) (tentative)
Speaker: Johan Smitz (Belgium)

Special Lecture 3: How to improve the biological inefficiency of IVF

13:20-14:00
Chairperson: Leonid Kuzmichev (Russia) (tentative)
Speaker: Pasquale Patrizio (USA)

Special Lecture 4: Clinical application of human stem cells

14:00-14:40
Chairperson: Gerald Schatten (USA)
Speaker: Kwang Yul Cha (Korea)

Closing Lecture: Investing in a healthy start to life

14:50-15:30
Chairperson: Yoon Seok Chang (Korea)
Speaker: Robert Norman (Australia)

Room B (5F Sub Hall)

ISFP Symposium: Fertility preservation: harmony of sciences and clinical practice

8:40-10:10
Chairperson: S. Samuel Kim (USA)
Nao Suzuki (Japan)
Speaker: David Albertini (USA)
Nao Suzuki (Japan)
S. Samuel Kim (USA)

Special Lecture 5: Potential role of GnRH in implantation

10:10-10:40
Chairperson: Jie Qiao (China)
Speaker: Peter Leung (Canada)

Workshop 4: Cryopreservation

13:20-14:50
Sponsored by LG Life Sciences, Ltd.
Chairperson: Seang Lin Tan (Canada)
Sheila Loh (Singapore)
Speaker: Mark Larman (USA)
Tetsunori Mukaida (Japan)
Tae Ki Yoon (Korea)

Room C (10F 1001-2)

Workshop 3: Andrology

8:40-10:10
Room C (Osaka International Convention Center 10F 1001-2)
Chairperson: Koji Koyama (Japan)
Tomohiko Ichikawa (Japan)
Speaker: Tomohiko Ichikawa (Japan)
Tomomoto Ishikawa (Japan)
Mohammad Nasr-Esfahani (Iran)

Special Lecture 6: Infertility, ovulation induction treatments and the incidence of breast, ovarian and endometrial cancers - 40 years of follow up

10:10-10:40
Chairperson: Yukio Tsunoda (Japan)
Speaker: Bruno Lunenfeld (Israel)

Lancheon Seminar

12:30-13:20

Session 7: Cytoplasmic transfer

13:20-14:20
Chairperson: Jonathan Van Blerkom (USA)
Kiyotaka Toshimori (Japan)
Speaker: Atsushi Tanaka (Japan)
Takumi Takeuchi (Japan)

iCSi (Open Lecture): Patients' perspectives on ART

15:00-16:30
Akiko Matsumoto (Japan)
Yukari Semba (Japan)
Sandra Dill (Australia)
Petra Thorn (Germany)


Room D (10F 1003)

Symposium 5: PCO

8:20-10:50
Sponsored by MSD
Chairperson: Bill Yee (USA)
Asma Munir (UAE)
Speaker: Budi Wiweko (Indonesia)
Benjamin Tsang (Canada)
P.C. Wong (Singapore)
Minoru Irahara (Japan)
Young Min Choi (Korea)

Lancheon Seminar

12:30-13:20

Symposium 6: PGD

13:20-14:50
Chairperson: Hari Kishore Shrestha (Nepal)
Hideaki Sawai (Japan)
Speaker: Inn Soo Kang (Korea)
Kou Sueoka (Japan)
Yoshiharu Nakaoka (Japan)

Room E (10F 1004-5)

Luncheon Seminar

12:30-13:20
Sponsored by Hisamitsu Pharmaceutical co.,Inc.
Speaker: Makoto Kitawaki (Japan)

Room F (10F 1006-7)

Luncheon Seminar

12:30-13:20
Sponsored by MOCHIDA PHARMACEUTICAL Co., LTD.
Speaker: Hisashi Narahara (Japan)

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