NASCE 2011: The inaugural meeting of the North American Society for Comparative Endocrinology (La Societé Nord-Americaine d'Endocrinologie Comparée; La Sociedad Norteamericana de Endocrinologia Comparada)

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, July 13 - 16, 2011

NASCE 2011 Plenary Speakers


Louis J. Guillette, Jr.
Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Medical University of South Carolina, USA
Scrambled genes and ovaries: Environmental contaminants
and the developing gonad.


Carmen Clapp
Professor, Institute de Neurobiologia
Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM), Mexico
Prolactin: New functions for an old hormone.

Michael B. O'Connor
Professor of Genetics, Cell Biology, and Development,
Ordway Chair in Developmental Biology
University of Minnesota Medical School, USA
Vesicle mediated release of ecdysone from the Drosophila prothoracic gland.

Vincent Laudet
Professor, Ecole normale supérieure de Lyon
Institut de Génomique Fonctionnelle de Lyon, France
Origin and evolution of metamorphosis and thyroid hormones.

Robert Millar (GCE 50th Anniversary)
Professor and Director, MRC Human Reproductive Sciences Unit
The University of Edinburgh, Scotland
Molecular structural and functional plasticity:
Lessons from comparative endocrinology.


Tony D. Williams
Professor, Ecological and Evolutionary Physiology
Simon Fraser University, British Columbia, Canada
Hormones, life-history, and phenotypic variation.

Elizabeth Adkins-Regan
Professor, Department of Psychology and the
Department of Neurobiology and Behavior
Cornell University, USA
Hormonal organization and activation: evolutionary implications and questions.