AETE 2026 Scientific Program
Tuesday September 1st 2026
15.00-18.30 Registration
Wednesday, September 2nd 2026
8:00-18:30 Equine and bovine pre-conference meetings
18.30-20.00 Registration
19.00-22.00 Welcome Reception
Thursday, September 3rd 2026
08.00-17.00 Registration
08:15-8:30 Opening meeting - AETE President Hilde Aardema and Chair do the Local Organizing Comitee Helene Quinton
SESSION 1
08.30- 9.15 First invited lecture: Joanna de Souza-Fabjan, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil
In vivo versus in vitro embryo production in small ruminants: strengths, limitations, and practical outcomes
9.15-10.30 Short oral communications: Student Competition
Nuria Martínez de los Reyes, BMP signalling is dispensable for embryonic disc and anterior visceral hypoblast development during post-hatching in vitro development in sheep (Poster 1)
Nathaly Hernández-Díaz, Oviductal and uterine organoid platforms emulate the maternal secretome and maintain baseline in vitro bovine embryo development (Poster 2)
Inés Flores-Borobia, CDX2 is dispensable for first lineage differentiation but required for conceptus elongation in cattle (Poster 3)
Lien Loier, Mitochonic acid 5 (MA-5) alters mitochondrial stress response and reduces BNIP3 expression in bovine oocytes (poster 4)
Gislaine Dos Santos, 3D bovine oviductal organoids preserve regional transcriptomic identity better than 2D monolayers (Poster 5)
10.30-11.30 POSTER SESSION 1, exhibition and coffee break
SESSION 2
11.30-12.15 Second invited lectures: Dawit Tesfaye, Colorado State University, USA
Molecular and developmental consequences of heat stress on oocyte and embryo competence
12.15-13.00 Short oral communications (SO) and flash talks (FT)
Patricia Kubo Fontes, The impact of oocyte metabolic stress on post-hatching embryo DNA methylation: a focus on miRNA encoding genomic regions (SO, poster 47)
Carlos Irala, Cytosine base editor achieves higher genetic introgression rates of SLICK alleles than CRISPR-assisted HDR in cattle embryos (FT, poster 62)
Kaylee Nieuwland, Free fatty acids affect the steroid production and the delicate interaction between bovine cumulus cells and the oocyte (SO, Poster 17)
Silke Roofthooft, Impact of maternal obesity on DNA methylation levels in F1 offspring oocytes: insights from an outbred mouse model (FT, Poster 26)
13.00-14.15 Lunch/Student lunch
SESSION 3
14.15-15.00 Third invited lecture: Manuel Alvarez-Rodrigues, INIA, Spain
Biomarkers of fertility in pigs
15.00-15.45 Short oral communications (SO) and flash talks (FT)
Paula Morán-Morán, Supplementing the storage media for pig semen with grape marc extracts affects in vitro and fertility results after artificial insemination (SO, Poster 10)
Jeanlin Jourdain, Recessive variants affecting female abilities for embryo production and transfer (SO, Poster 79)
Yasmine Mahiddine Feriel, Single-cell proteomics reveals distinct profiles in ovine oocytes originating from in vivo and in vitro developed antral follicles (SO, poster 81)
15.45-16.30 POSTER SESSION 2, exibition and coffee break
16.30-18.00 Workshop I: In vitro embryo production in horses
chaired by Katrien Smits and Josè Buratini
Workshop II: Artificial intelligence to train veterinarians in animal reproduction management
Main speaker Simon De Graaf
19.30-01.00 Gala Dinner at Château d’Apigné-Le Rheu
Friday, September 4th 2026
08.00-17.00 Registration
SESSION 4
8.30-9.15 Fourth invited lecture: Niamh Forde, University of Edinburgh, UK.
Modelling bovine implantation in vitro using uterine organoids
9.30-10.30 Short oral communications (SO) and flash talks (FT)
Sandra Guisado-Egido, Estrous cycle–dependent effects on viability and secretory activity in bovine endometrial organoids (SO, Poster 16)
Alexia Siegmund Sabater, Establishment and characterization of endometrial organoids from pregnant ewes during conceptus elongation (FT, Poster 53)
Sergio Navarro-Serna, Efficient derivation and long-term expansion of rabbit oviductal and uterine organoids (SO, Poster 57)
Luna Ehrhardt, Are sperm-oviduct interactions conserved across mammals? A cross-species analysis (FT, Poster 6)
Maryam Rahimi, Blastomere isolation of 2- and 4-cell stage embryos following Cas9 RNP-electroporation of bovine zygotes – implications for genome editing efficiency and incidence of mosaicism (SO, Poster 61)
Michelle Van den Hauwe, Isolation and short-term in vitro culture of porcine primordial follicle as a model for in vitro gametogenesis (FT, Poster 27)
Manuela Canovas Garcia, Exogenous Interleukin-4 during in vitro maturation enhances porcine embryonic development and modulates embryo transcriptome (FT, Poster 20)
10.30-11.15 POSTER SESSION 3, exihibition and coffee break
11.15-12.00 General Assembly
12.00-12.15 Sponsor presentation
12.15-13.45 Lunch/Student Lunch
SESSION 5
13.45-15.20 Short oral communications (SO) and flash talks (FT)
Amelie Bonnet-Garnier, Validation of a new 3D, label-free microscopy technique for studying mammalian oocytes (SO, Poster 76)
Micaela Elizabeth Vita, Characterization of extracellular vesicles in mare uterine fluid throughout the estrous cycle (FT, Poster 82)
Laurence Guilbert-Julien, Evaluation of bluetongue virus transmission risk via In Vitro produced embryos in an epidemiological context of viral circulation (SO, Poster 8)
David Ramírez-González, Disruption of the glutamine–glutamate–glutathione axis during long-term refrigeration of ram spermatozoa (FT, Poster 73)
Ewelina Warzych, Effects of maternal dietary n-3 fatty acid supplementation on blastocyst lipid metabolism assessed by DESI-MSI and RNA-seq analyses (SO, Poster 41)
Linde Rombaut, Does male factor matter? Evaluation of inter-individual ram variability in sperm quality and ovine in vitro embryo production outcomes (FT, poster 30)
Sonia Gago, Temperature-specific vitrification protocols derived from mathematical modelling preserve meiotic spindle integrity in equine in vitro matured oocytes (SO, Poster 69)
Adelina López-Jara, Effects of reduced-liquid nitrogen cryopreservation and -80°C storage protocols on boar sperm quality (SO, Poster 74)
15.20-16.20 POSTER SESSION 4, exhibition and coffee break
16.20-17.20 Fifth invited lecture: Serge Lacaze, AURIVA Elevage, France
Forty years in the field: reproductive biotechnologies shaping genetic progress in cattle
17.20-17.35 Pioneer Award 2026 – Serge Lacaze AETE Medalist Presentation,
introduced by Claire Ponsart (France)
CLOSING SESSION
17.35-18.00 Results of competitions and invitation to the AETE Conference 2027
20.00-24.00 Farewell party at The roof /Origines
You can find here a digital archive of our previous events.