William H. Kinsey Biography

Dr. William “Bill” H. Kinsey was a Professor of Cell Biology and Physiology at the University of Kansas Medical Center. Dr. Kinsey received his PhD from the University of Washington in Seattle, followed by a post-doctoral fellowship at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland. Bill moved to the University of Miami in Florida in 1980 and remained there until his move to KUMC in 1991. Dr. Kinsey was both an outstanding researcher and educator, making seminal contributions to the field of gamete biology and sperm-oocyte signaling while also being one of few faculty who spent countless hours in Anatomy lab with first and second year medical students. 

Keynote Lecturer

October 23, 2025

Rafael A. Fissore, D.V.M., Ph.D.

Professor
Chair, GRC on Fertilization and Activation of Development-2025 
Department of Veterinary and Animal Sciences
University of Massachusetts

Title: Egg Activation and Developmental Initiation: A Role for Multiple Divalent Cations

August 29, 2024

John S. Davis, Ph.D.

Professor and Director of Research and Development, Olson Center for Women's Health
Senior Research Career Scientist, Omaha VA Medical Center
Director, Nebraska Center for Women's Health Research
University of Nebraska Medical Center

"LH-responsive, Organelle-specific pathways essential for luteal steroidogenesis"