Session 25: How to Keep Gametes and Embryos from Environmental Harm

Session 25: How to Keep Gametes and Embryos from Environmental Harm Moderators: Mina Alikani, USA, Sharon Mortimer, CANADA, David Gardner, AUSTRALIASpeakers:“The germline and the environment"Patricia Ann Hunt, USA"Sperm on Drugs"David Mortimer, CANADA"Is the Climate Crisis Affecting Reproductive Health?"Linda Giudice, USAOrganized by ALPHA - Scientists in Reproductive Medicine Professor Pat Hunt Patricia Hunt is the Meyer Distinguished Professor in the School of Molecular Biosciences at Washington State University, Pullman, WA. She started her research career studying human chromosome abnormalities. Her goal was to understand the high incidence of chromosomally abnormal eggs produced by human females and why the incidence is so strongly impacted by advancing maternal age. She remains fascinated by this complex problem, but the accidental exposure of her mice to bisphenol A (BPA) in 1998 focused her attention on the effects of common environmental contaminants on reproduction. H