International Symposium on Maternal Nutrition and Fetal Development

Date:  Saturday, May 21, 2011

Place: Meeting Room of Ministry of Agriculture Feed Industry Centre, China Agricultural University （中国农业大学西校区农业部饲料工业中心报告厅）

Hosted by:

State Key Laboratory of Animal Nutrition (SKLAN), China

College of Animal Science and Technology (CAST), China Agricultural University (CAU)

Ministry of Agriculture Feed Industry Centre (MAFIC)

Program for the symposium:

8:30-8:45    Opening ceremony

Junjun Wang:                              Opening Speech

Defa Li (Dean of CAST and Director of MAFIC): Welcome Address

8:45-12:00   Morning session

Host: Zongyong Jiang&Weiyun Zhu

8:45-9:35    Fuller W. Bazer (Seoul National University): Novel pathways for implantation and maintenance of pregnancy in mammals

9:35-10:15    De Wu (Sichuan Agricultural University): Nutritional regulation of fetal survival in early pregnancy in gilts

10:15-10:30   Group photo session and break

Host: Jian Peng&Hai Lin

10:30-11:20  Gregory A. Johnson (Texas A&M University): Uterine secretions: molecular regulation of nutrient transport and physiological significance

11:20-12:00  Xiangfeng Kong (Institute of Subtropical Agriculture, CAS): Key regulatory role of arginine metabolic pathway on placenta development in gilts

12:00-13:30  Lunch break

13:30-17:30  Afternoon session

Host: Qingyan Jiang&Xu Zhou

13:30-14:20   Robert C. Burghardt (Texas A&M University): Integrin signaling in pregnancy

14:20-15:00   Ruqian Zhao (Nanjing Agricultural University): Metabolic programming of myofiber characteristics and epigenetic mechanisms in the pig

15:00-15:10   Break

Host: Zhiliang Tan&Yongqing Hou

15:10-16:00   Lawrence P. Reynolds (North Dakota State University): Altered placental angiogenesis and vascularity in compromised pregnancies

16:00-16:40   Junjun Wang (China Agricultural University): New nutritional regulatory insights from researches on developmental changes of fetal and neonatal piglets

Host: Guoyao Wu

16:40-17:30   Opening discussion on maternal nutrition and fetal development