2025 ERP Annual Research Symposium
Thursday, August 28th 8:30am-4:00pm
Fluno Center
ERP is committed to making our events accessible to everyone. If you require an accommodation or service to fully participate, please contact Bootsy Harden at charden@wisc.edu or 608-239-6729.
View the 2025 ERP Symposium Program Booklet and see below for Schedule at a Glance
Dear Symposium Participant,
On behalf of the graduate students of the Endocrinology and Reproductive Physiology Graduate Program, we would like to welcome you to the 2025 ERP Annual Research Symposium. We are delighted to have Dr. Geetu Tuteja and Dr. Tanja Dominko as our invited speakers. In addition, we have numerous trainees coming from every corner of campus to present posters and give talks. We thank all of the presenters for their scientific contributions to this year’s symposium.
Please take the time to view the various posters that are displayed during their respective sessions. Our exhibitors have worked hard to present their research at this symposium, many of whom have not had the opportunity to travel to a national or international meeting yet. We expect that you will ask meaningful questions, provide constructive feedback, and exchange ideas.
We hope that you will enjoy the program that we have planned, spend time with new and old friends, and come away with new ideas for your research that you may not have considered before.
If you have feedback on how we can improve the event for next year, please take advantage of the survey we will provide and/or email the leadership committee at ahofmann2@wisc.edu.
2025 ERP Symposium Planners
Bootsy Harden
ERP Student Leadership Committee
Schedule at a Glance:
| 8:30 – 9:00 | Registration and Poster Set-up |
| Morning Session: Howard Auditorium | |
| 9:00 – 9:10 | Welcome Remarks |
| 9:10 – 10:10 | Keynote Speaker: Geetu Tuteja, PhD Professor, Department of Genetics, Development and Cell Biology Iowa State University of Science and Technology “Sifting for Signals: From Genomic Data to Functional Discovery in the Placenta and Beyond” |
| 10:10 – 10:20 | Break |
| 10:25 – 10:40 | Siyu Song – Department of Nutritional Science “Physiological functions of peroxisomes in the intestines” |
| 10:40 – 10:55 | Kasey Mitchell – McArdle Laboratory for Cancer Research “Creating New Models for Male Breast Cancer: Hormone-Dependent Tumorigenesis using the ACI rat” |
| 10:55 – 11:10 | Thomas Niepsuj – Departments Psychology “Extended Release Gonadotropin-Releasing Hormone Agonist in Juvenile Sprague Dawley Improves Behavioral Flexibility and Modulates Puberty” |
| 11:10 – 11:25 | Siyan Zhang – Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology “Roles of LINC00704 in Human Endothelial Cells” |
| 11:30-12:30 | Lunch Fluno Executive Dining Room |
| Afternoon Session: Howard Auditorium | |
| 12:35 – 1:35 | Poster Session in the Atrium: Even Posters |
| 1:35 – 1:40 | Break |
| 1:40 – 2:40 | Poster Session in the Atrium: Odd Posters |
| 2:45 – 3:45 | Keynote Speaker: Tanja Dominko, DVM, PhD Professor, Department of Animal and Dairy Sciences, CALS Professor, Department of Surgery/Transplantation, SMPH Faculty Director, Center for Biomedical Swine Research and Innovation (CBSRI), SMPH University of Wisconsin-Madison “Crossing developmental boundaries – a journey from a fibroblast to a stem cell and back” |
| 3:45 – 4:00 | Closing Remarks and Awards |
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