The 106th SRD Annual Meeting will be held at Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology (TAT), Fuchu, Tokyo, on September 12 −14, 2013. We are pleased to invite you to the TAT meeting, and SRD members are encouraged to present research findings in oral (10 min presentation with 5 min for discussion) and poster (2 h on the day of their presentation) sessions. The organizing members and associated program committees have planned two regular symposia “Estrus of dairy cows – Recent findings to improve the conception rate” and “Effects of endocrine disrupting chemicals on reproduction and development”. In the open seminar, entitled: “Infertility therapy and reproductive technologies”, active gynecologists and researchers of reproduction will talk about topics at the cutting edge of human infertility therapy to allow the public a chance to consider the importance of reproductive technology and contribution of SRD to human life. We encourage all attendees to take the fullest advantage of this opportunity to share ideas across animals and specific interests, talk with each other in person, and make new acquaintances at Fuchu in the early autumn.

1. Date
2. Location
3. President
4. Contact
5. Registration Fee
6. Get-Together Party
7. Abstract submission for regular presentations and competitive presentations for SRD Outstanding Presentation Award
8. Categories for abstract submission
9. Qualification and Evaluation for Competitive presentation for SRD Outstanding Presentation Award
10. Presentation Methods
11. Regular Symposia
12. Mini symposium for students and young researchers
13. Luncheon seminar for gender equality
14. Open Seminar for Citizens
15. Directors, Councilors and Committee meetings
16. Nursery Room
17. Further information
18. Access to TAT

The 106th SRD Meeting

• 1. Date
• September 11 (Wed), 2013 Directors’ meeting, Committee meetings
  September 12 (Thu), 2013 Oral/Poster competitive presentations for SRD Outstanding Presentation Award, Regular presentations (oral and poster presentations), Councilors’ meeting, Mini symposium for students and young researchers
  September 13 (Fri), 2013 Regular presentations (oral and poster presentations), General meeting, SRD award presentations, Luncheon seminar for gender equality, Ceremony for SRD Outstanding Presentation Awards, Get-together party
  September 14 (Sat), 2013 Regular symposia (in Japanese), Regular presentations (oral presentations), Committee meetings, Open seminar for citizens (in Japanese)
• 2. Location
• Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Saiwai 3-5-8, Fuchu, Tokyo.
• 3. President Hideo Kamomae
• 4. Contact
• The 106th SRD Meeting Organizing Office:
  Laboratory of Veterinary Reproduction, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology
  E-mail: srd106@cc.tuat.ac.jp
  
  President: Hideo Kamomae (TAT)
  Secretary: Tomomi Tanaka (TAT)
  Organizing members: Gen Watanabe, Kentaro Nagaoka, Masahiro Kaneda (TAT)
• 5. Registration Fee

• Honorary member	Free
  Regular & Silver member	5,000 yen (early application)/6,000 yen (at the registration desk)
  Student member	3,000 yen (early application)/3,500 yen (at the registration desk)
  Non-member	6,500 yen

  
  
  
  
  
  Registration fee and Get-Together-Party fee are payable by this online registration system. An abstract book is included in the registration fee. The persons who had paid early application fee will receive the abstract book in advance by postage. Please receive your name card at the registration desk. The persons who will make a registration at the desk, will receive the book and name card at the desk. Regular members will receive an abstract book in advance regardless of the payment of the registration fee.
• 6. Get-Together Party
• Location: Okunitama Shrine, Keyaki-Katsura Room
  Date & time: September 13 (Fri); 19:00–21:00
  Both SRD members and non-members will be welcome to the party. Okunitama is now known as one of the major shrines in Tokyo. We are pleased to invite all attendees to join us to enjoy Japanese foods and drinks and to deepen our friendship in the party.
  
  Participation fee
  

  Honorary member	Free (Please register in advance in the website)
  Regular and Silver Member	7,000 yen (early application)/8,000 yen (at the registration desk)
  Student member	3,500 yen (early application)/4,000 yen (at the registration desk)
  Non-member	7,000 yen (early application)/8,000 yen (at the registration desk)

• 7. Abstract submission for regular presentations and competitive presentations for SRD Outstanding Presentation Award
• Abstracts for both regular and competitive presentations will be submitted to the website. After the successful submission of the abstract, confirmation mail will be sent to the author. Please use reliable e-mail address for the correspondence to reduce errors. We do not recommend using free mail address (hotmail, yahoo and Gmail etc.) or those for mobile phones. If you have any difficulty in abstract submission, please contact the Meeting Organizing Office (srd106@tuat.ac.jp).
  

  Open May 22 (Wed), 2013	14:00 (JST)
  Close June 19 (Wed), 2013	14:00 (JST)
  (Same schedule of the abstract submission for both regular and competitive presentations)

  
  Each presenter can give only one presentation regardless of the format (oral or poster presentation). Multiple abstracts with the same first author cannot be accepted. Abstract submission for regular presentation should be completed by the presenter or corresponding author at the Web site. Abstract submission for competitive presentation for the SRD Outstanding Presentation Award should be completed only by the presenter (applicant) with selecting either oral or poster presentation for the award at the Web site. The Japanese presenter (including foreign students and researchers in Japan) of both regular and competitive presentations must be a current SRD member (honorary, regular, silver or student member). Thus, we would like to recommend the Japanese presenter without membership to apply for the membership before the deadline of abstract submission. Please note that the student membership needs renewal annually. For applying for or renewing the membership, please visit http://reproduction.jp/info/membership.php (in Japanese) or contact the SRD office (srdoffice@reproduction.jp).
  Other presenters (including the foreign attendees from overseas) except Japanese presenters (including foreign students and researchers in Japan) are not required to have current SRD membership for presentation.
  
  According to the author instruction in the submission page, title and abstract should be completed in English within 140 and 1720 letters including spaces, respectively (alternatively in Japanese within 70 and 860 letters). No figures and tables are acceptable. For the application for the competitive presentation for SRD Outstanding Presentation Award (the section of oral presentation), an additional abstract (long version) for the primary evaluation MUST be prepared within 3200 letters (in English) and submitted as a file. Figures and tables cannot be included in this formatted abstract. For the applicant to the competitive presentation for the award (the section of poster presentation), however, it is NOT necessary to submit any additional abstract. Please submit your abstract as early as possible. Submission tasks in the server system will be busy just before the deadline; this may result in requirement of much time for completion of abstract submission or causing unexpected errors in the system.
  
  Please select one presentation format from the following four choices; 1) Oral presentation only, 2) Poster presentation only, 3) Oral presentation preferred (the applicant will accept poster presentation according to SRD office decision) and 4) Poster presentation preferred (the applicant will accept oral presentation according to SRD office decision). The prescribed number of oral regular presentations is 90, though that of poster presentation is not determined yet. If the number of the applicants to the presentation in the oral or poster session should be over the prescribed numbers, the SRD office would decide change of the presentation formats (oral or poster presentation) for some of the applicants who would select 3) or 4). If the presentation format should be changed, we will inform the applicants about the change.
  
  
  
• 8. Categories for abstract submission
• Please select the research category (major- and sub-classifications) for an abstract submission in both regular presentations and those for SRD Outstanding Presentation Award.
  
  Endocrinology: Neuroendocrinology, Endocrine system, Hypothalamic hormone, Pituitary hormone, Gonadal hormone, Growth factor, Receptor/Signal transduction, Endocrine disrupting chemical, Others.
  Ovary: Follicle development/atresia, Ovulation, Corpus luteum formation, Luteolysis, Others.
  Testis/Sperm: Spermatogenesis, Sertoli cell/Leydig cell, Sperm motility/Sperm metabolism, Capacitation/Acrosome reaction, Epididymis/Accessory gland/ Seminal plasma, Others.
  Egg/Fertilization: Oocyte/Egg, Oocyte maturation, Fertilization, Early embryo, Primordial germ cell, Meiosis, Others.
  Reproductive cycle/Pregnancy: Uterus, Placenta (desidua), Embryo/Fetus, Implantation, Pregnancy immunology, Pregnancy maintenance (endocrine).
  Reproductive engineering: In vitro fertilization, ICSI, Nuclear transfer, Cloning, Transgenic animal, Genomic imprinting, Epigenetics, Stem cell, Others.
  Clinical and applied reproduction: Artificial insemination, Cryopreservation, Embryo transfer, Parturition and perinatal care, Reproductive disease and disorder, Contraceptive technology, Reproductive management, Nutritional and environmental management, Others.
• 9. Qualification and Evaluation for Competitive presentation for SRD Outstanding Presentation Award
• Qualification: Age of applicants should be 32 years old or younger as of April 1, 2013 (Born on or after April 2, 1980). No situation limitations on the job situation, studentship and academic degree: e.g., salaried or unsalaried, regular staff or not, full or part time, degree (bachelor, master, or doctor). Persons who engage in tasks other than scientific activities can also apply. However, once awarded in the past, he/she cannot apply within 2 years. This means that the award winners at the 104th meeting in Morioka or the 105th meeting in Tsukuba cannot apply this year.
  Evaluation: In oral presentation section, the abstracts (long version) prepared for the primary evaluation are assessed by several evaluators. The oral presentations selected by the primary evaluation of the abstract will be made by the first author in the session for the 2nd evaluation, which will be held on September 12 (Thu). The several presentations will finally be selected for the award by the evaluators (councilors of SRD). In poster presentation section, all presentations (including discussion) will be evaluated in the poster session which will be held in September 12 (Thu), and some of them will be awarded.
  Note: For the detailed information, please visit the “Aim of SRD Outstanding Presentation Award and the Evaluation Procedure (in Japanese)” in the abstract submission website.
• 10. Presentation Methods
• Oral presentation: Presentation 10 min plus Discussion 5 min. Windows PC will be prepared for the presentation. Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2010 (Windows) will be installed. If you make a file in another version, please make sure in advance that it runs without any problem. Please bring your file to the registration desk with a USB flash memory or a CD-R.
  Poster presentation: Poster boards about 85 cm wide and 120 cm height are planned to be prepared.
• 11. Regular Symposia
• In the main meeting, we will organize two symposia entitled “Estrus of dairy cows – Recent findings to improve the conception rate” and “Effects of endocrine disrupting chemicals on reproduction and development”. We would like to offer opportunities for free and active discussions among the participants. Both symposia will be operated in Japanese.
  Date & time: September 14 (Sat); 10:00–12:00
  
  Symposium 1: Estrus of dairy cows – Recent findings to improve the conception rate
  1. Natsumi ENDO (Gifu University), Follicular and luteal dynamics and blood profiles of progesterone, estradiol-17β and LH during the estrous cycle and the periovulatory phase in lactating dairy cows.
  2. Hajime YOSHIOKA (National Livestock Breeding Center), Intensity of estrus detected by pedometer and/or mount detector and its association with ovulation in beef and dairy cows.
  3. Minoru SAKAGUCHI (Kitasato University), Relationship between postpartum early ovulation/estrus expression and conception in high producing dairy cows.
  4. Toshiaki SUMIYOSHI (NOSAI Kanagawa), Detection of optimal time for insemination based on the estrous signs during the periovulatory period in lactating dairy cows maintained with tie-stall housing system.
  5. Kiyosuke NAGAI (NOSAI Kimotsuki), Etiological studies on abnormal estrus such as postpartum silent heat for dairy cows with Shiba goat model.
  
  Symposium 2: Effects of endocrine disrupting chemicals on reproduction and development
  1. Makoto YOKOSUKA (Nippon Veterinary and Life Science University), Effects of single exposure to chemicals on sexual differentiation and postnatal development of nervous system in neonatal mouse.
  2. Mariko SHIROTA (Azabu University), Late effects of exposure to estrogenic substance during perinatal period in rats – Toxicological analysis.
  3. Maiko KAWAGUCHI (Meiji University), Effects of estrogen-like substances in the neonatal period on reproduction, emotion and learning behavior.
  4. Akira SUZUKI (National Institute for Environmental Studies), Effects of diesel exhaust emission and PM 2.5 on reproduction.
• 12. Mini symposium for students and young researchers
• Date & time: September 12 (Thu); 18:00–
  Mini symposium for students and young researchers will be held, as in the past, to promote scientific activity and friendship for young scientists. The SRD committee for the promotion of young scientists will offer interesting events to attendees. We encourage many young researchers (as well as senior researchers) to join us to talk about their interests with each other in person.
• 13. Luncheon seminar for gender equality
• Date & time: September 13 (Fri); 12:00–13:00
  SRD committee for promotion of gender equality has planned luncheon seminar to provide the opportunity to consider the significance of gender equality. We encourage attendees to join this seminar to share ideas about gender equality across ages and the current situations.
• 14. Open Seminar for Citizens
• Location: Convention Hall Asuka, Lumierre Fuchu, Fuchu
  Date & time: September 14 (Sat); 15:30–
  Reproductive technologies such as sperm sexing, embryo sexing, transgenic animal etc. have been developed for improvement of animal breeding and efficient production. They are now applied to human infertility therapy. This open seminar will provide three topics, 1) Germ cell manipulation techniques in human infertility therapy, 2) History of Germ cell manipulation techniques, 3) Current status and future perspectives of germ cell manipulation techniques. They will provide the opportunity to consider the role of reproductive technology research and its importance with citizens. The seminar will be operated in Japanese.
  
  Topic 1. Yutaka SASABE (Saiwai-cho IVF clinic), The current status of IVF in human infertility therapy.
  Topic 2. Yoshiyuki TAKAHASHI (Hokkaido University), Establishment and development of reproductive technology in animals.
  Topic 3. Hiroshi NAGASHIMA (Meiji University), Use of animals developed by reproductive engineering technology in the future.
• 15. Directors, Councilors and Committee meetings
• During the meeting, directors and all committee meetings will be organized. Detailed information will be available in the Circular 3, and also will be informed to the members by e-mail.
• 16. Nursery Room
• To have a chance to participating with children, we will prepare a nursery room. We will ask nursery staffs to take care with the children. If you will wish, or have a question about this matter, please contact the meeting organizing office in advance.
• 17. Further information
• We will provide more information in Circulars 3 in August.
• 18. Access to TAT
• For the location of TAT and transportation guidance, please visit the following website: http://www.tuat.ac.jp/en/basic_information/access/index.html#p1