Lectures

Session: Reproductive challenges (part 1) Chaired by: Professor Sarah Bray

Nick Hopwood

Proof and publicity in claims to human in vitro fertilization

(note: video of the talk not available due to unpublished research displayed)

Ashley Moffett

Border control: biological mechanisms that define the territorial boundary between the mother and her fetus

Session: Reproductive challenges (part 2) Chaired by: Professor Ginny Bolton

Emily Jackson

Bypassing regulation: DIY assisted conception and cross-­‐border reproduction

David Emilyn Parfitt

Decoding human fertility: zeroing in on the genetic markers of reproductive failure and success

Session: Development conundra (part 1) Chaired by: Professor Sarah Franklin

Gina Glover

A.R.T outside the frame

Andrew Sharkey

‘No one is an island entire of itself….’ Embryology and John Donne

Session: Development conundra (part 2) Chaired by: Professor Virginia E. Papaioannou

Evelyn Houliston

Inside-­out and upside‐down: a jellyfish perspective on mammalian egg and embryo polarity

Nancy Papalopulu

Dynamics of gene expression lead to a new understanding of cell state transitions

(note: video of the talk not available due to unpublished research displayed)

Open Public Lecture Chaired by: Professor Anne Ferguson‐Smith

Azim Surani

Germline: the eternal link between all generations