The scientific program will comprise 12 symposia (listed below), plus free communications (platform talks and posters) over four days.  There will be a social program comprising a Welcome Event, Gala Conference Dinner, and cocktails at attended evening poster sessions. All delegates are invited to join a full day trip to the Great Barrier Reef after the meeting. Please see links for Full Scientific Program and Program Overview:

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Symposium I: The immune response and fetal programming

Petra Arck (Charité University, Berlin, GERMANY)   
Betty Diamond (The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research, New York, USA)     
Gus Dekker (University of Adelaide, Adelaide, AUSTRALIA)

Symposium II: Immune regulation of endometrial receptivity and embryo implantation

Lois Salamonsen (Prince Henry’s Institute of Medical Research, Melbourne, AUSTRALIA)
Sandra Blois (Charite University, Berlin, GERMANY)
Gil Mor (Yale University, New Haven, USA)

Symposium III: Immune regulation of the maternal-placental interaction

Ofer Mandelboim (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, ISRAEL)
Philippe Le Bouteiller (Centre de Physiopathologie de Toulouse, Toulouse, FRANCE)
Frans Claas (University of Leiden, Leiden, THE NETHERLANDS)
Vicki Clifton (University of Adelaide, Adelaide, AUSTRALIA)

Symposium IV: Inflammation and innate immunity in reproductive events

Vikki Abrahams (Yale University, New Haven, USA)
Kristina Adams Waldorf (University of Washington, Seattle, USA)
Mark Hedger (Monash Institute of Medical Research, Melbourne, AUSTRALIA)
Rebecca Robker (University of Adelaide, Adelaide, AUSTRALIA)

Symposium V: T regulatory cells, Th17 cells and phenotype switching in reproduction

Chen Dong (The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, USA)
Alexander Betz (Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK)
Shigeru Saito (University of Toyama, Toyama, JAPAN)
Leonardo Fainboim (University of Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, ARGENTINA)

Symposium VI: Cytokines and signalling in reproductive tissues

Susan Fisher (University of California, San Francisco, USA)
Udo Markert (Friedrich Schiller University, Jena, GERMANY)
Paul Hertzog (Monash Institute for Medical Research, Melbourne, AUSTRALIA)     
Christine Watson (Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK)                                           

Symposium VII: Self or not self? Autoimmunity and microchimerism in reproduction

Larry Chamley (University of Auckland, Auckland, NEW ZEALAND)
Jeff Mold (University of California, San Francisco, USA)
Mickie Cheng (University of California, San Francisco, USA)

Symposium VIII: Immune regulation of infertility and endometriosis

Julia Szekeres-Bartho (University of Pecs, Pecs, HUNGARY)
Nathalie Lédéé (University of Paris–Sud, Paris, FRANCE)
Ian Fraser (University of Sydney, AUSTRALIA)
Louise Hull (University of Adelaide, Adelaide, AUSTRALIA)

Symposium IX: Miscarriage and preeclampsia – old problems, new therapies?

Ian Sargent (Oxford University, Oxford, UK)             
Guillermina Girardi (Cornell University, New York, USA)
Joanne Kwak-Kim (Rosalind Franklin University, Chicago, USA)
Surendra Sharma (Brown University, Providence, USA)

Symposium X: Reproductive tract infection and sexually transmitted diseases

Chuck Wira (Dartmouth University, Lebanon, USA)
Ali Ashkar (McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada)
Andreas Meinhardt (University of Giessen, Giessen, GERMANY)

Symposium XI: Preventing reproductive tract infection – the promise of vaccines
                
J Victor Garcia (The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Texas, USA)                                       
Charu Kaushic (McMaster University, Toronto, CANADA)
Ken Beagley (Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, AUSTRALIA)

Symposium XII: The challenge of contraception and population control
                  
John Aitken (University of Newcastle, Newcastle, AUSTRALIA)
Eva Dimitriadis (Prince Henry’s Institute of Medical Research, Melbourne, AUSTRALIA)
Satish Gupta (National Institute of Immunology, New Delhi, INDIA)
Akiko Hasegawa (Hyogo College of Medicine, Nishinomiya, JAPAN)