42nd Annual Conference of the IETS

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1 42nd Annual Conference of the IETS The Galt House Hotel, Louisville, Kentucky January 23 26, 2016 Local Organizing Committee Co-Chairs: Edward Squires and Debi Seymour Program Co-Chairs: Marcelo Bertolini and François-Xavier Grand Embryo Resilience in the Face of Biotechnology Thursday, January 21, :00 17:00 IETS Board of Governors Meeting Friday, January 22, :00 15:00 IETS Board of Governors Meeting 09:00 18:00 HASAC Research Subcommittee Meeting 16:00 19:00 Registration Saturday, January 23, :00 18:00 Registration 08:00 17:30 CANDES Preconference Symposium 09:00 17:00 Commercial Exhibit Setup and Poster Setup 13:30 17:00 IETS Foundation Board of Trustees Meeting 14:00 17:00 Morulas Preconference Workshop Sunday, January 24, :30 08:00 Poster Setup 07:00 08:25 HASAC Forms and Certificates Subcommittee Meeting 07:00 18:00 Registration 07:00 08:30 Past-Presidents Breakfast 07:00 08:30 Graduate and Undergraduate Student Competition Presenters Breakfast, with IETS Foundation Education Committee Chair 09:00 19:00 Commercial Exhibition 08:45 09:00 Opening and Welcome 09:00 10:30 Session I: Effect of the environment on gamete competence and embryo development 09:00 09:45 Causes and consequences of oxidative stress in spermatozoa John Aitken, University of Newcastle, Australia 09:45 10:30 Fertility and genomics: Comparison of gene expression in contrasting

2 reproductive tissues in female cattle Alex Evans, University College, Dublin, Ireland 10:30 11:00 Refreshment Break/Poster Exhibit and Exhibition 11:00 12:30 IETS Foundation Student Competition Presentations 12:30 14:00 Lunch Break 12:30 14:00 IETS Board Luncheon with Affiliate Society Representatives 12:30 14:00 HASAC Emerging Technologies 12:00 14:00 Morulas Career Luncheon 14:00 15:30 Session II: Differentiation pathways and early embryo developmental competence 14:00 14:45 Mechanisms of epigenetic remodeling during preimplantation development Pablo Ross, University of California, Davis, USA 14:45 15:30 Measuring embryo metabolism to predict embryo quality Jeremy Thompson, University of Adelaide, Australia 15:30 16:00 Refreshment Break/Poster Exhibit and Exhibition 16:00 18:00 Concurrent Forums 16:00 18:00 Practitioners Forum Co-Chairs: Peter J. Hansen, University of Florida, and Kevin A. Lindell, Tufts University Research focus on recipient synchronization Pietro Baruselli (Universidade de Sao Paolo), and Milo Wiltbank (University of Wisconsin) Panel discussion on practical aspects of handling IVP embryos and semen for IVF Jeremy Block (Ovatech), Kevin McSweeney (Bovine Repro. Specialists), Shantille Kruse (L Alliance Boviteq), and John Schmidt (Transova) Selected short presentations from the audience (limited to 2 slides total per person). Selection will be based on relevance. 16:00 18:00 Domestic Animal Biomedical Embryology (DABE) Forum Chair: Carol Keefer, University of Maryland Contributions from new investigators

3 18:00 19:00 Welcome Reception Monday, January 25, :30 16:00 Registration 07:30 08:30 HASAC Regulatory Subcommittee Meeting 08:00 17:00 Commercial Exhibits 08:00 09:30 Donor selection and treatment to improve oocyte collection and in vitro embryo production in cattle 08:00 08:15 Influence of breed and season on in-vitro embryo production Gabriel Bo, Instituto de Reproductión Animal Córdorba (IRAC), Argentina 08:15 08:30 The importance of follicular differentiation to obtain fully competent bovine oocytes Marc Andre Sirard, Université Laval, Canada 08:30 08:45 Superstimulation strategies for OPU in Holstein donors Lais Vieira, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil 08:45 09:00 Optimizing donor efficiency with FSH superstimulation in a commercial IVF program in Holsteins F.X. Grand, Boviteq, Canada 09:00 09:30 Roundtable discussion 08:00 09:30 Concurrent Sessions 08:00 08:30 Equine reproduction: Pre- and post-ovulatory influences on fertility 08:00 08:30 Anti-Müllerian hormone: Implications for follicular reserve, follicular function and fertility in the mare Barry Ball, Gluck Equine Research Institute; University of Kentucky, USA 08:30 09:00 Factors influencing the success of equine ICSI in a clinical program K. Hinrichs, Texas A&M University, USA 09:00 09:15 Effects of low circulating progesterone concentrations during early diestrus on the endometrial transcriptome of the mare Alex Esteller-Vico, University of Kentucky, Lexington, USA 09:15 09:30 The mare model for luteinized unruptured follicle syndrome: Intrafollicular endocrine milieu

4 Eduardo Gastal, Southern Illinois University, USA 08:00 09:30 Concurrent Sessions 08:00 09:30 From bench to barn: Effects of bull fertility or sperm factors on embryo development and cattle agriculture 08:00 08:20 Systems Biology of Sperm and Bull Fertility Erdoğan Memili, Mississippi State University, USA 08:20 08:40 Seminal plasma proteins: Functional attributes and potential markers of fertility Arlindo A. Moura, Federal University of Ceará, Brazil 08:40 09:00 Genomic evaluation of fertility traits and discovery of haplotypes that affect fertility of U.S. dairy cattle G. R. Wiggans, Agricultural Research Service, USDA, USA 09:00 09:30 Discussion 08:00 09:30 Concurrent Short Presentations from Submitted Abstracts 09:30 10:15 Distinguished Service Award 10:15 10:45 Refreshment Break/Poster Exhibit and Exhibition 10:15 12:15 Poster Session I 12:15 14:00 Lunch Break 12:15 14:00 IETS Data Retrieval Committee Meeting 12:15 14:00 HASAC Manual Meeting 12:15 14:00 Morulas and Mentors Luncheon 14:00 15:30 Session III: Between ET and pregnancy recognition through elongation: Impact on pregnancy outcome and/or early embryo mortality 14:00 14:45 Determinant molecular markers for peri-gastrulating bovine embryo development Isabelle Hue, INRA, France 14:45 15:30 The role of progesterone in embryo development in cattle Patrick Lonergan, University College Dublin, Ireland 15:30 16:00 Poster Exhibit and Exhibition and Break 16:00 17:00 IETS Business Meeting 17:00 18:30 HASAC Open Meeting

5 17:00 18:30 Morulas Forum 19:00 Morulas Student Mixer Tuesday, January 26, :00 08:30 Organizational Meeting of the IETS Board of Governors 08:00 15:00 Registration 08:00 13:00 Commercial Exhibits 08:00 09:30 Session IV: From pregnancy recognition to fetal phase through implantation: Decisive conceptus-endometrial interactions 08:00 08:45 Adaptability and potential for treatment of placental functions to improve embryonic development and postnatal health James C. Cross, University of Calgary, Canada 08:45 09:30 Pregnancy losses in cattle: Potential for improvement Michael G. Diskin, Animal and Grassland Research and Innovation Centre, Ireland 09:30 10:00 Pioneer Award 10:00 10:30 Break 10:00 12:00 Poster Session II/Exhibition 12:00 12:30 14th Annual IETS Running Competition 13:00 17:00 Commercial Exhibit and Poster Take-Down 12:00 13:30 Lunch Break 12:00 13:30 Organizational Lunch Meeting of the IETS Foundation 12:00 13: , 2017, 2018 IETS Program Committee Lunch 13:30 15:00 Session V: Long-term outcomes of early developmental events 13:30 14:15 Breeding animals for quality products: Not only genetics Pascale Chavatte-Palmer, INRA, France 14:15 15:00 Livestock in biomedical research: History, current status and future prospective Irina Polejaeva, Utah State University, Logan, UT, USA 15:00 15:45 Session VI: Keynote Address Assisted reproductive with gametes and embryo: What research is needed and fundable? George Seidel, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA 15:45 16:15 Awards Presentations and Updates

6 15:45 16:15 IETS Foundation Student Competition Awards, CANDES, DABE, and HASAC Updates 16:15 16:30 Closing Ceremony 18:30 22:30 Closing Party