Media Briefing to Offer Highlights of Reproductive Conference

What: From the laboratory to the cradle -- more than 1,000 health researchers and officials are grappling with some of the most personal and controversial issues in science as they gather this week on campus for the annual meeting of the Society for the Study of Reproduction. A panel of conference coordinators and participants will provide reporters with an overview of the meeting during a media briefing. "The panel will address topics ranging from contraception and infertility to the impact of environmental toxicants on reproduction," said Lynn Wiley, a professor of obstetrics and gynecology in the UC Davis Institute of Toxicology and Environmental Health. "They also will outline research strategies for investigating these areas of human and animal health." Participating in the media briefing will be Jan Roser, a UC Davis professor of animal science; C. Wayne Bardin, vice president of the Population Council in New York; Gary Jackson, a professor in the School of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Illinois, Urbana; and Jerry Robinson of the National Institute of Environmental Health and Safety. When: Monday, July 10, 10 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. Where: Mee Room, third floor of the Memorial Union, UC Davis Directions and From Interstate 80, take Highway 113 north toward Woodland. Parking: Take the second exit onto Russell Boulevard. Go about eight blocks until you come to the stoplight at Howard Way. Turn right onto Howard Way and go one block. Turn left into the parking structure and park in any metered or regular parking space, but not in a handicap space. A press card should be placed on the dashboard for free parking. * Correction: The mini-symposium on "Steroid Control of Sexual Behavior" for this conference will be held Monday, July 10, not July 20 as was listed in the previous news release.

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Pat Bailey, Research news (emphasis: agricultural and nutritional sciences, and veterinary medicine), 530-219-9640, pjbailey@ucdavis.edu