Pre-conference Meetings 2nd Sept

Two Pre-conference meetings are planned on the 2nd of September, one on equine and one focused on bovine species.

Pre-conference  registration fee: 95 euro if you also register for the main conference. 

Registration is available here

After last year's successful AETE Horse ART preconference in Cork, we are happy to announce that we will again organize a horses ART event in Rennes.

The program involves a plenary session that addresses global economics and welfare around OPU/ICSI in horses, and practical wetlabs on embryo quality, OPU and cryopreservation.

Be sure to join this interesting horse ART event with a limited number of places.

Program

08.00: Bus departure from Le Couvent des Jacobins

08.30: OPU economics around the world (Roberto Sanchez, Henrique Pontes, Giovanna Lazzari, Katrin Hinrichs) 

10.30: Coffee break 

11.00: OPU welfare towards task force (Niamh Lewis, James Crabtree)

12.00: Lunch 

13.30: Start of 3 parallel workshops with changing groups every 60 minutes

WS1   OPU equipment and technique (Roberto Sanchez)

WS2     Embryo quality (Katrin Hinrichs, Niamh Lewis)

WS3     Oocyte collection and quality (Carolina Herrera)

14.30: Same as above with swapped groups

15.30: Coffee break

16.00: Same as above with swapped groups

17.00: HAPPY HORSE HOUR

18.00: Bus departure to Le Couvent des Jacobins

18.30: Arrival at Rennes

 The bovine pre-conference will give the first registered members the opportunity to visit the modern SYNETICS facilities for bovine embryo production and to participate in various interactive sessions related to in vitro embryo production. 

Program

08.00: Departure from Rennes to Sucè-sur-Erdre.

          Meeting point with the bus: 1 Bd Marèchal de Lattre de Tassigny- Rennes

09.45: Arrival at SYNETICS Embryo Production Station / Coffee break

10.00: Welcome and SYNETICS presentation (Jean Yves Dreau, CEO Synetics)

10.30: Start of 3 parallel sessions with changing groups

S1     Visit of the station (Alexandre Morel, Synetics)

S2     Virtual visit of the IVF lab (Helene Quinton, Synetics, and Marie-Eve Ducharme, Boviteq)

S3     virtual visit of the OPU room (Jean-Michel Pol,Synetics, and Rob Simmons, Boviteq)

12.30: Lunch

14.00: Start of 4 wet labs

14.00: Managing  the stress during in vitro embryo production (Thais   Rodriguez and Anne-Marie Bellefleur, Boviteq)

14.35: Use of Sexed semen in embryo production (In Vivo and In vitro) (Pablo Ross, Sexing Technologies)

15.10: Coffee break

15.25: Embryo Quality Assessment and adjudication (Hanna Grothmann, Synetics)

16.00: Cumulus-Oocyte Complex Quality Assessment and adjudication (Hanna Grothmann, Synetics)

16.45: Departure from Sucé-sur-Erdre to Rennes

18.30: Arrival at Rennes