Targetting GPCR to generate life, preserve the environment and improve animal breeding: technological and pharmacological challenges

Reproduction is the key event in biology and G protein-coupled receptors (GPCR) are deeply involved therein. Mastering the processes governing animal and human reproduction ensures sustainable animal breading and allows fertility control, infertility therapy and demographic equilibrium. This interdisciplinary workshop analyzes the current challenges around this theme and, bringing the GPCR in the center of the scene, envisions novel pathways not only to optimize reproduction at large but also to reduce the environmental and societal burden of the current technologies.

This international conference is organised in the framework of the ARD 2020 Biopharmaceuticals Programme.

Convenors

• Prof. Manuela Simoni, LE STUDIUM / Marie Skłodowska-Curie Research Fellow
  FROM: Unit of Endocrinology, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia - IT
  IN RESIDENCE AT: Physiology of Reproduction and Behaviour (PRC) / Centre INRA Val de Loire, CNRS, University of Tours, IFCE - FR
• Dr Frédéric Jean-Alphonse, LE STUDIUM Research Fellow / ARD 2020 BIOPHARMACEUTICALS Programme
  FROM: Laboratory for GPCR biology, University of Pittsburgh - US
  IN RESIDENCE AT: Physiology of Reproduction and Behaviour (PRC) / Centre INRA Val de Loire, CNRS, University of Tours, IFCE - FR
• Dr Pascale Crépieux & Dr Eric Reiter, 
  Physiology of Reproduction and Behaviour (PRC) / Centre INRA Val de Loire, CNRS, University of Tours, IFCE - FR