Organized under the Roof of the Virtual Center for Reproductive Medicine, Lower Saxony
15:00 - 20:00 Reception and Registration
| 08:30 - 08:45
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Introduction
(Rath, Germany) |
| 08:45 - 09:25
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Review on international trade with boar semen
(Riesenbeck, Germany) |
| 09:25 - 09:55
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The current value of frozen boar semen for commercial companies
(Knox, USA) |
| 09:55 - 10:25
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Coffee break and industry exhibition
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| 10:25 - 11:05
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New cryopreservation strategies: a view from biothermical and biomedical process technology
(Glasmacher, Germany) |
| 11:05 - 11:45
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Physiological sperm functions are affected by cryopreservation
(Gadella, The Netherlands) |
| 11:45 - 13:00
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Oral communications
OC1: Freezing-thawing induces alterations of the nucleoprotein-DNA binding through the breaking of disulfide bonds in boar perm (E Flores, L Ramió-Lluch, D Bucci, JM Fernández-Novell, A Peña, JE Rodríguez-Gil) OC2: Cryopreservation of boar semen does not modify the regulation of GSK-3 mediated sperm motility (MC Gil, D Martín-Hidalgo, MJ Bragado, LJ García-Marín) OC 3: Negative effect of glycerol on the peri-nuclear theca of boar sperm (O Gutiérrez-Pérez, MA Arenas, S Anzaldúa, ME Trujillo-Ortega, ML Juárez-Mosqueda) OC4: Field fertility of frozen boar sperm: A retrospective report spanning 2007 to 2010 comprising over 2000 AI services (BA Didion, G Braun, M Duggan) OC 5: A simple post-thawing quality threshold can improve in vivo fertility of frozen boar semen. (S Ferchaud, S Boulot, V Furstoss, Y Billon, P Guillouet, H Gilbert) |
| 13:00 - 14:15
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Lunch
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| 14:15 - 14:45
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Effects of freezing on nuclear sperm DNA
(Fraser, Poland) |
| 14:45 - 15:15 | Colloid centrifugation of boar semen
(Morell, Sweden) |
| 15:15 - 16:30 | Poster Session with coffee and industrial exhibition |
| 16:30 - 17:00
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Antioxidant mechanisms and their benefit on post thaw sperm quality
(Bathgate, Australia) |
| 17:00 - 17:30
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Stress-preconditioning of semen to increase cryo-tolerance
(Pribenszky, Hungary) |
| 17:30 -18:00
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Genetic selection for freezability and its controversity with selection for performance
(Safranski, USA) |
| 18:30 - 20:00 | Sight seeing tour Bonn |
| 20:00
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Barbecue and Science
25 years of ICBSP - Cryopreservation and sex preselection (Johnson, USA) |
| 08:00 - 08:40
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Advancements of commercial semen processing
(Hansen, Denmark) |
| 08:40 - 09:10
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Stress factors for sperm during processing
(Buhr, Canada) |
| 09:10 - 09:40
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Assessment of storage and temperature effects in preserved boar semen
(Waberski, Germany) |
| 09:40 - 10:00 | Coffee Break and Industry |
| 10:00 - 10:30
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Do CASA systems satisfy consumers demands? A critical analysis
(Feitsma, The Netherlands) |
| 10:30 - 11:00
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New aspects of boar sperm encapsulation
(Faustini, Italy) |
| 11:00 - 12:30 | Oral Communications
OC 6: Changes of sperm motility, membrane integrity and lipid peroxidation during liquid storage of boar semen B Szczesniak-Fabianczyk, M Bochenek, P Gogol, Z Smorag OC 7: Effects of AMP-activated kinase inhibitor compound C in the quality of extended boar semen after long-term torage at 17 ºC D Martin-Hidalgo, A Hurtado de Llera, MC Gil, MJ Bragado, LJ Garcia-Marin OC 8: Incidence of sperm with cytoplasmic droplets in boar ejaculates is associated with reduced responsiveness to bicarbonate in vitro H Henning, A Lübcke, A Shevchenko, D Waberski OC 9: Expression analysis of porcine aromatase (CYP19) as a specific target gene in testis A Gunawan, MU Cinar, K. Kaewmala, MJ Uddin, D Tesfaye, E Tholen, C Looft, K Schellander OC 10: Characteristics of boar semen stored at different temperatures FJ McPherson, PJ Chenoweth, S Nielsen OC 11: Post epididymal maturation of boar spermatozoa L Dewaele, G Tsikis, S Ferchaud, V Labas, L Spina, AP Teixeira-Gomes, X Druart, N Gérard |
| 12:30 - 13:30 | Lunch |
| 13:30 - 14:00 | Seminal plasma markers of relative boar fertility
(Dyck, Canada) |
| 14:00 - 14:30
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Application of molecular tests to increase boar stud efficiency
(Kuster, USA) |
| 14:30 - 15:00
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Field data analysis of boar semen quality
(Broekhuijse, The Netherlands) |
| 15:00 - 15:30
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Infectious diseases and AI: Protection strategies for worldwide semen trade
(Althouse, USA) |
| 15:30 - 17:00
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Poster Session with Coffee and Industry
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| 17.30 - 18:30
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Shuttle to river Rhine and boarding |
| 18:30 - 23:00 | River Rhine Boat Tour |
| 09:00 - 09:40
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Mechanisms of sperm storage in the female reproductive tract: An interspecies comparison
(Holt, UK) |
| 09:40 - 10:10 | Memorial tribute to Vernon Pursel
(LA Johnson) |
| 10:10 - 10:30 | Coffee break and industrial exhibition |
| 10:30 - 12:00 | Oral communications
OC 12: Actin cytoskeleton and Tyrosine phosphorylation in sex-sorted boar spermatozoa (D Bucci, JE Rodriguez-Gil, C Vallorani, G Galeati, C Tamanini, M Spinaci) OC 13: Age-related changes in quality and fertility of porcine semen (IA Tsakmakidis, TAA Khalifa, CM Boscos) OC 14: Membrane lipid peroxidation in boar spermatozoa subjected to different handlings (I Parrilla, L Sijses, D del Olmo, MJ Martinez, C Cuello, JM Vazquez, EA Martinez, J Roca) OC 15: Relationship between numbers of inseminated motile boar sperm cells and reproductive performance of sows (JI Leenhouwers, H Feitsma) OC 16:The effect of prostaglandin addition to low number of frozenthawed boar sperm on fertility following PG600® induced estrus (BM Yantis, RV Knox) OC 17: Differences in the lipid fingerprinting of boar and bull sperm detected by MALDI-TOF MS (LS Amorim, CR Ferreira, EC Cabral, FC Gozzo, EJ Pilau, RO Pinho,SEF Guimarães, PS Lopes, JD Guimarães, MN Eberlin) |
| 12:00 - 12:30
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Maternal communication with gametes and embryo; from in vivo to in silico"
(Fazeli, UK) |
| 12.30 - 13:00
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Low dose insemination with fresh and frozen and sex sorted boar semen
(Roca, Spain) |
| 13:00 - 13:15
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Conclusions
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| 13:15 - 14:15
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Lunch and end of the conference
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