Recent presentations by faculty in animal science and NDSU’s Center for Nutrition and Pregnancy include the following:
Frontiers in Reproduction Summer Course for Advanced Students, Postdocs and Junior Faculty, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Mass. Larry Reynolds, Dale Redmer, Pawel Borowicz and Anna Grazul-Bilska were on the faculty for the summer course in May.
Perinatal Programming of Offspring Symposium, American Society of Animal Science, in Denver, Colo. Reynolds attended and helped organize symposium in July.
8th International Ruminant Reproduction Symposium, Anchorage, Alaska. Reynolds attended and helped organize symposium in September.
Aspen Perinatal Biology Symposium, “Impact of Plane of Nutrition on Perinatal Programming of Offspring,” Reynolds.
School of Veterinary of the Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal, “Angiogenesis in the placenta and uterus: Animal models,” Anna Grazul-Bilska.
2nd Aspen Perinatal Biology Symposium on Intrauterine Stress and Adverse Fetal Outcome, Aspen, Colo. Reynolds and Joel Caton organized and attended in August. Reynolds presented “Linked by Perinatal Mechanisms of Adaptation.” Grazul-Bilska presented “Maternal diet effects on fetal ovaries: cell proliferation, apoptosis, vascularization and gap junctions.” Borowicz presented “Recent advances in placental vascular imaging.”
Institute Seminar, Rowett Research Institute, Bucksburn, Aberdeen, Scotland, “Uteroplacental vascular development and placental function: An update,” Reynolds.
National Farm Business Management Meeting, Fargo, “Impact of developmental programming in livestock production,” Reynolds.
University of Hawaii-Manoa animal sciences department seminar, “Nutrition, placental programming, and in vitro produced sheep embryos as models for understanding the basis of compromised pregnancies, lifelong health and productivity,” Reynolds.
U.S. National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Md., Reynolds was a member of the Pregnancy and Neonatology Study Section and chaired the Pregnancy and Reproduction Special Emphasis Panel.
Society for the Study of Reproduction, Milwaukee, Wis., Reynolds, Mary Lynn Johnson, Dar Redmer, Grazul-Bilska, Borowicz, attended in August. Johnson, Reynolds, Redmer and Grazul-Bilska presented “Gap junctional connexin expression in utero-placental tissues during early pregnancy in sheep.” Grazul-Bilska, Johnson, Borowicz, Redmer and Reynolds presented “Global methylation in placental tissues during early pregnancy in sheep.”
Recent publications include:
Biology of Reproduction, “Placental growth throughout the last two thirds of pregnancy in sheep: vascular development and angiogenic factor expression,” by Borowicz, Johnson, Grazul-Bilska, Redmer and Reynolds, was one of the most highly cited papers that appeared in the 2007-2008 issue.
Reproduction, “Placental development during early pregnancy in sheep: vascular growth and expression of angiogenic factors in maternal placenta,” Grazul-Bilska, Borowicz, Johnson, Redmer and Reynolds.
Reproduction, “Markers of ovarian antral follicular development in sheep: Comparison of follicles destined to ovulate from the final or penultimate follicular wave of the estrous cycle,” Grazul-Bilska in collaboration with researchers from the University of Saskatoon, Canada.
Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology, “Changes in cell proliferation, but not in vascularisation are characteristic for human endometrium in different reproductive failure,” Grazul-Bilska in collaboration with researchers from the University of Heidelberg, Germany.
International Journal of Developmental Biology’s special issue “Placental Development Biology,” “Utero-placental vascular development and placental function: An update,” Reynolds, Borowicz, Caton, Kimberly Vonnahme, Grazul-Bilska, Redmer and David Buchanan, animal science department.
Journal of Animal Science, “Developmental programming: The concept, large animal models, and the key role of utero-placental vascular development,” Reynolds, Borowicz, Caton, Vonnahme, Carrie Hammer, Kasey Maddock Carlin, Grazul-Bilska and Redmer.
