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Appendix C: Workshop Agenda and Speaker Biographical Information
Pages 144-153

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... c Workshop Agenda and Speaker Biographical Information 144
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... Overview of Embryology Moderator: Irving Weissman Speaker: Virginia Papaioannou, Professor of Genetics and Development, Columbia University 8:50 a.m. Discussion 9:00 am Scientific Issues Underlying Cloning Moderator: David Galas, Vice President, Keck Graduate Institute of Applied Life Sciences and Panel Member Speakers: Rudolffaenisch, Professor of Biology, MIT Whitehead Institute Eric Schon, Professor of Genetics and Development, Columbia University 9:45 a.m.
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... Discussion 11:30 am Cloning for Stem Cells Moderator: Anne McLaren, Principal Research Associate, The Wellcome Trust and Research Campaign, Institute of Cancer and Developmental Biology, University of Cambridge and Panel Member Speakers: Jose Cibelli, Vice-President of Research, Advanced Cell Technologies Peter Mombaerts, Head of Laboratory of Developmental Biology and Neurogenetics, Rockefeller University Alan Trounson, Deputy Director, Institute of Reproduction and Development, Monash Institute, Australia 12:00 p.m. Discussion 12:15 p.m.
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... Discussion 3:00 p.m. Assisted Reproductive Technologies Moderator: Arthur Beaudet, Chair, Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine and Panel Member Speakers: Andre Van Steirteghem, Professor of Embryology and Reproductive Biology, Brussels Free University, Brussels, Belgium Alan Trounson, Deputy Director, Institute of Reproduction and Development, Monash Institute, Australia Jay Cross, Associate Professor, Dept.
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... Before her arrival at UW in 1989, Professor Charo served as associate director of the Legislative Drafting Research Fund of Columbia University, Fulbright Junior Lecturer in American Law at the Sorbonne in Paris, legal analyst for the Biological Applications Program of the congressional Office of Technology Assessment, American Association for the Advancement of Science, and Diplomacy Fellow for the Policy Development Division of the Office of Population at the US Agency for International Development. She was a member of the 1993 National Institutes of Health Human Embryo Research Panel and since 1996 has been a member of the presidential National Bioethics Advisory Commission.
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... That work led to Dolly, the world's first sheep cloned from an adult somatic cell; Polly and Molly, the first cloned transgenic livestock; Diana and Cupid, the first livestock with targeted genetic changes; and Millie and others, the first cloned pigs. lay Cross is an associate professor of biochemistry and molecular biology at the University of Calgary, an investigator of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, and a senior scholar of the Alberta Heritage Foundation of Medical Research.
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... His studies at Texas A&M included observations on the clinical and pathological features of the world's first somatic cell-cloned calves, production of a calf cloned from a 21-year-old Brahma bull, and observations on the causes of failure in first-trimester cloned pregnancies. He has extensive clinical and research experience with the in vitro production of embryos via cloning and in vitro fertilization, in viva embryo collection, embryo transfer, pregnancy monitoring, and neonatal care.
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... Eugene Pergament is a medical geneticist and professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Northwestern University Medical School. He received a BS from Yale University, a PhD in genetics from Purdue University, and an MD from the University of Chicago.
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... In the last 2 decades, the VUB Centre for Reproductive Medicine has developed into one of the world's largest centers of assisted reproductive technology. Major developments at the Centre included the first clinical application of intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI)
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... Panayiotis Michael Zavos is a professor emeritus of reproductive physiology-andrology at the University of Kentucky; founder, director, and chief andrologist of the Andrology Institute of America; cofounder and codirector of the Kentucky Center for Reproductive Medicine and IVF; and president and CEO of ZDL, Inc., a private corporation that markets infertility products and technologies worldwide. He received a BS in biology and chemistry in 1970, an MS in biology and physiology in 1972, and an EdS in 1976 from Emporia State University, in Kansas.


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