07:30-08:30
Registration
08.30-08.35
Welcome
Basak Balaban
08.35-08.45
Memorial Lynette Scott
Basak Balaban
08:45-09:25
Key note lecture
The promise of embryonic stem cells
Anna Veiga
09:25-12:00
Main topic I: Role of the clinical embryologist
Chair: Basak Balaban + Anna Veiga
 
09:25-09:45
The 21st century Embryologist - technician or scientist?
Alan Thornhill
09:45-10:15
COFFEE
 
10:15-11:30
Is there a need for an international standardization of the “Embryologist”?
 
Round table presentation and discussion:
ACE–UK -      Rachel Cutting
ASEBIR -       Manuel Ardoy
NILS -           Sirpa Mäkinen
Alpha -          Thomas Ebner
ESHRE -        Anna Veiga / Kersti Lundin
ACE USA -     Peter Nagy
AAB USA -     Barry Behr
Australia -     David Gardner
Canada -       David Mortimer
Kersti Lundin
(moderator)
 
 
11:30-11:45
CFAS Winning abstract
F. Ashkar
11:45-12:00
ACE UK Winning abstract
S. Sargeant 
12:00-13:00
LUNCH
 
13:00-14:00
Grant for Fertility Innovation:
Developing innovative technologies to become best in class in take home baby rate
Chair: Diego Ezcurra
 
 Rapid inexpensive DNA fragmentation analysis of sperm & cumulus cells
Dagan Wells
 
 Selection of embryos by 3D modelling to evaluate cell to cell contact between blastomeres
Goedele Paternot
Lipidomics: A new Non-Invasive Diagnostic Method of Human Endometrial Receptivity
Carlos Simon
14:00-16:30
Main topic II: Non-invasive selection of gametes and embryos - New techniques and strategies
Chair: Peter Nagy and Daniel Brison
 
 
Subsession A: Spermatozoa
 
14:00-14:30
Hyularonic Acid binding: the science and the practice
Gabor Huszar
14:30-15:00
IMSI: impact on clinical outcomes
Pierre Vanderzwalmen
 
Subsession B: Oocytes and Embryos
 
15:00-15:30
Biomarkers of human oocyte developmental competence
Markus Montag
15:30-16:00
Polar bodies: back to the future?
Dagan Wells
16:00:16:30
Can proteomics and/or metabolomics help shape the future of human ART?
David Gardner
16:30-17:00
COFFEE
 
17:00-18:00
Free communications
Chair: Aidita James + Rachel Cutting
Selected from abstract submissions: 4x15 min
 
20:00
Opening ceremony
Alan Thornhill