The 3rd Illinois Symposium on Reproductive Sciences (ISRS) will be held at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign on Monday, October 10, 2011. The venue of the meeting is the I-Hotel Conference Center.
The 3rd Illinois Symposium on Reproductive Sciences (ISRS) will be held at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign on Monday, October 10, 2011. The venue of the meeting is the I-Hotel Conference Center. The organizing committee is composed of faculty, postdoctoral fellows and graduate students drawn from the School of MCB, College of Veterinary Medicine and College of ACES. We are expecting approximately 200 scientists from Illinois and adjoining states to attend the meeting this year.
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign will host this rotating annual statewide symposium for the first time. It provides an opportunity to celebrate our strong research and educational heritage, and to foster the exchange of scientific information in the reproductive sciences and women's health-related research. It will also facilitate the career development of the next generation of Illinois reproductive scientists and help establish a promising future for reproductive sciences research in the state of Illinois. We hope to leverage our collective institutional strengths to maintain Illinois in a preeminent nationwide position in this critical research field.
The great importance of this annual meeting is the opportunity it affords for interaction between faculty and trainees at several Illinois institutions, including The University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, The University of Illinois, Chicago, and Northwestern University. Pioneers in reproductive sciences, including Andy Nalbandov and Jack Gorski, did groundbreaking discoveries at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and made this institution a forefront center in reproductive sciences. A new generation of scientists has taken up this mantle, succeeding at obtaining a significant fraction of research funded by the NIH and at generating highly respected research programs, including the "Center for Research in Reproduction and Infertility" and "Botanical Research Center".
The student organizing committee members are from several state institutions, and have worked professionally and effectively together to plan an outstanding meeting. We are very pleased to have almost one hundred abstracts, a record number for this meeting, submitted not only from throughout Illinois but also from several neighboring states.