SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM
August 20th – Thursday
WORKSHOPS
10:00 – 17:00
Room E
10:00 – 17:00
Auditorium
Antônio Casaccia
Room C+D
10:00 – 17:00
10:00 – 17:00
10:00 – 17:00
Lupicínio
Rodrigues theatre
Room A+B
Workshop 1. Artificial Insemination (Coordinator: José Luiz Moraes Vasconcelos,
UNESP).
Workshop 2. GIFT: Genomic selection for reproductive traits (Coordinator: Marcelo
Nogueira, UNESP).
Workshop 3. Cloning and transgenesis (Coordinators: Marcelo Bertolini, UFRGS
and Luiz Sérgio Camargo, EMBRAPA)
Workshop 4. In vitro embryo production (Coordinators: Yeda Watanabe, WTA and
Maurício Peixer, BIO)
Workshop 5. Andrology and semen technology (Coordinator: Alexandre Rosseto
Garcia, EMBRAPA and Rubens Paes de Arruda, USP).
MAIN SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM
August 20th – Thursday
19:00
Lupicínio
Rodrigues theatre
Opening and welcome ceremony (Margot A. N. Dode, President of SBTE; Embrapa,
Brazil)
19:20
Lupicínio
Rodrigues theatre
Lupicínio
Rodrigues theatre
Status of embryo production in the world (Patrick Blondin, President of IETS)
19:40
20:20
Opening lecture – Gamete derivation from embryonic stem cells: state of the art (Gerald
P. Schatten – University of Pittsburgh)
Fabio Batista Paulus room
Opening cocktail
August 21st – Friday
9:45
SBTE Science (Room E)
SPERMATOZOA
Sperm physiology and sperm-oocyte interaction
(Fernando Juan Peña Vega – University of
Extremadura, Spain)
Selected abstract 1
Snooping on a private conversation between the
oviduct and gametes/embryos (Carmen Almiñana
Brines – INRA, France)
Round table
10:00
Fabio Batista Paulus room
10:40 – 11:30
Lupicínio
Rodrigues theatre
Lupicínio
Rodrigues theatre
08:00 – 10:00
8:00
8:45
9:00
11:30 – 12:00
12:00
Restaurant
SBTE Technology (Lupicínio Rodrigues theatre)
EMBRYO PRODUCTION
Updates on embryo production strategies (Pietro
Baruselli – USP)
Selected abstract 2
In vitro and in vivo embryo production in cows
superstimulated with FSH for 7 days (Reuben Mapletoft
- Western College of Veterinary Medicine)
Round table
Coffee break
Plenary session 1 – Bovine IVP and genomic selection – GIFT (Haja Kadarmideen –
University of Copenhagen)
Lecture sponsored by a private company
Lunch
1
15:45
SBTE Science (Room E)
OOCYTE
Comunication mediated by transzonal projections
between cumulus cells and oocyte (Claude Robert
– Université Laval)
Selected abstract 3
Bovine oocyte/embryo metabolism (Melanie
Sutton-McDowall – The University of Adelaide)
Round table
16:00
Fabio Batista Paulus room
16:40 – 17:30
Lupicínio
Rodrigues theatre
Lupicínio
Rodrigues theatre
Plenary session 2 – Stem cell therapeutic possibilities: future therapeutic options for
male-factor and female-factor infertility (Gerald P. Schatten – University of Pittsburgh)
Lecture sponsored by a private company
18:00 – 21:00
Érico
room
Poster presentation
21:00
Restaurant
14:00 – 16:00
14:00
14:45
15:00
17:30 – 18:00
Veríssimo
SBTE Technology (Lupicínio Rodrigues theatre)
EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT AND CRYOPRESERVATION
What is new in the cryopreservation of embryos? (Carmen
Almiñana Brines – INRA, France)
Selected abstract 4
Developmental programing in the preimplantation period
(Peter Hansen – University of Florida)
Round table
Coffee break
Dinner
August 22nd – Saturday
9:45
SBTE Science (Room E)
EMBRYO
Metaboloepigenetics
of
the
early
embryo:
establishing the developmental trajectory for life
(Hannah Brown – The University of Adelaide)
Selected abstract 5
What have we learned about the embryonic
transcriptome? (Claude Robert – Université Laval)
Round table
10:00
Fabio Batista Paulus room
10:40 – 11:30
Lupicínio
Rodrigues theatre
Lupicínio
Rodrigues theatre
08:00 – 10:00
8:00
8:45
9:00
11:30 – 12:00
12:00
Coffee break
Plenary session 3 – Uterine health in cows (Rodrigo Bicalho – Cornell)
Lecture sponsored by a private company
Restaurant
Lunch
15:00 – 16:00
15:00
15:15
15:30
15:45
SBTE Science (Room E)
Epigenetic control of initial embryonic development
(Poul Hyttel – University of Copenhagen)
Student’s competition
Science abstract 1
Science abstract 2
Science abstract 3
Science abstract 4
16:00
Fabio Batista Paulus room
14:00 – 15:00
SBTE Technology (Lupicínio Rodrigues theatre)
State of art of fixed-time AI protocols (Mike Day – The
Ohio State University)
Student’s competition
Technology abstract 1
Technology abstract 2
Technology abstract 3
Technology abstract 4
Coffee break
16:40
16:55
17:10
17:25
17:40
SBTE Science (Lupicínio Rodrigues theatre)
Large scale data generated for genomic studies
on animal reproduction. What to do with them?
Claude Robert (Université Laval)
Poul Hyttel (University of Copenhagen)
Haja Kadarmideen (University of Copenhagen)
José Bento Stermann Ferraz (USP)
Round table
18:00 – 19:30
Lupicínio Rodrigues theatre
Assembly
20:00
Restaurant
Dinner
22:00
Érico Veríssimo room
Closing ceremony
16:40 – 18:00
SBTE Technology (Lupicínio Rodrigues theatre)
HEALTH
Research challenges to understand and manage
pathogen-embryo interactions (Julie Gard - Auburn
University)
Selected abstract 6
Practical approaches to prevent or to treat uterine
infection in cows (Rodrigo Bicalho – Cornell)
Round table
SBTE Technology (Auditorium Antônio Casaccia)
Follicle population and fertility
Marcelo Seneda (UEL)
Ciro Barros / Marcelo Nogueira (UNESP)
Pietro Baruselli (USP)
Gabriel Bó (IRAC)
Round table
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