Celebrating the Silver Anniversary of the North American Testis Workshop

Bernard Robaire; Mitch Eddy; Erwin Goldberg; Michael Griswold; Leslie Heckert; John McCarrey; Marie-Claire Orgebin-Crist; Vassilios Papadopoulos; Jacquetta Trasler; William Wright; Wei Yan; Barry Zirkin

doi:10.1111/andr.12756

Celebrating the Silver Anniversary of the North American Testis Workshop

Andrology. 2020 Jul;8(4):820-824. doi: 10.1111/andr.12756. Epub 2020 Feb 7.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ Departments of Pharmacology and Therapeutics and of Obstetrics and Gynecology, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada.
² Reproductive and Developmental Biology Laboratory, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Research Triangle Park, NC, USA.
³ Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Cell Biology, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA.
⁴ School of Molecular Biosciences and Center for Reproductive Biology, Washington State University, Pullman, WA, USA.
⁵ Department of Molecular and Integrative Physiology, University of Kansas, Medical Center, Kansas City, KS, USA.
⁶ Department of Biology, University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, USA.
⁷ Department of Obstetric and Gynecology, School of Medicine, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA.
⁸ Department of Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences, School of Pharmacy, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
⁹ Departments of Genetics, of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, and of Pediatrics, McGill University, Montreal, QC, USA.
¹⁰ Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA.
¹¹ Departments of Physiology and Cell Biology, of Obstetrics and Gynecology, and of Biology, Reno School of Medicine, University of Nevada, Reno, NV, USA.

PMID: 31968155
DOI: 10.1111/andr.12756

Abstract

Objective: To provide an overview of the history of the North American Testis Workshop (NATW), of its relationship to the American Society of Andrology (ASA), and of the publications that resulted from the first 25 workshops.

Methods: The collection of volumes and journal articles that relate to the NATW was searched.

Discussion and conclusion: During the first twenty-five meetings of the NATW, a remarkable number of breakthroughs regarding every aspect of the testis were presented. We anticipate that with the acceleration of new genetic, epigenetic, and molecular knowledge of the functions of testicular cells, we will continue to learn about the discovery of new and clinically important aspects of testicular function during the next twenty-five NATWs.

Keywords: NIH; NNATW; history; testis workshop.

Publication types

Historical Article
Review

MeSH terms

Andrology*
Anniversaries and Special Events*
Congresses as Topic / history*
Education / history*
History, 20th Century
History, 21st Century
Humans
Male
Testis