Program

Saturday, January 14

09:00 – 17:00 IETS Board of Governors meeting

Sunday, January 15

08:00 – 17:00 IETS Board of Governors meeting
09:00 – 13:00 HASAC Research Subcommittee Meeting
13:50 – 18:45 Preconference Virtual Workshop – Advances in Reproductive Technologies in Camelids
14:00 – 19:00 HASAC Regulatory Subcommittee Meeting
19:00 – 20:00 HASAC Forms and Certificates Subcommittee Meeting

Monday, January 16

07:30 – 18:15 Preconference Workshop, Module 2 – Reproductive Technologies in Alpaca
08:50 – 17:00 HASAC Preconference – Media news or new media – How safe are in vitro-produced embryos for international trade?
09:00 – 18:30 DABE Preconference – Modeling embryo function in vitro
13:00 – 18:00 Exhibitor setup
13:00 – 18:00 Poster setup
17:00 – 20:30 IETS Foundation Board of Trustees meeting
19:00 – 20:00 HASAC Emerging Technologies Subcommittee Meeting

Tuesday, January 17

07:00 – 08:30 Poster Setup
07:00 – 08:30 Past Presidents’ Breakfast
07:00 – 08:30 Graduate and Undergraduate Student Competition Presenters’ Breakfast, with IETS Foundation Education Chair
09:00 – 18:00 Commercial Exhibits
08:30 – 08:45 Opening and Welcome
SESSION 1 Getting a head start – Requirements for generating healthy offspring
08:45 – 09:30 Maternal metabolic health and fertility: we should not only care about but also for the oocyte!
Jo Leroy, University of Antwerp, Belgium
09:30 – 10:15 Maternal nutrition and developmental programming of offspring
Lawrence Reynolds, North Dakota State University, USA
07:00 – 08:30 Graduate and Undergraduate Student Competition Presenters’ Breakfast, with IETS Foundation Education Chair
10:15 – 11:00 Refreshment Break/Poster Viewing and Exhibits
11:00 – 12-:30 Student Competition Presentations
12:30 – 13:30 HASAC IETS Manual Subcommittee Meeting
12:30 – 14:00 Lunch Break
12:30 – 14:00 IETS Committee Luncheon with Partner Society
12:30 – 14:00 Morulas and Mentor Lunch
SESSION 2 Great things start small – Building competent gametes
14:00 – 14:45 Intra- and intercellular signals governing sperm maturation
Clémence Belleannée, Université Laval, Canada
14:45 –15:30 Non-invasive assessent of oocyte developmental competence
Kylie Dunning, University of Adelaide, Australia
15:30 – 16:00 Refreshment Break/Poster Viewing and Exhibits
16:00 – 16:30 Selected short presentations
16:30 – 17:00 Distinguished Service Award
17:00 – 18:00 Welcome Reception
18:30 – 20:00 Student Mixer

Wednesday, January 18

07:00 – 08:00 Organizational Breakfast Meeting of the IETS Foundation
08:00 –17:00 Exhibits
SESSION 3 Settled in for the long run – Pregnancies and where they take the wrong turn
08:00 – 08:45 Lethal variants of equine pregnancy: Is it the placenta or fetus leading the conceptus in the wrong direction?
Amanda de Mestre, Royal Veterinary College, University of London, United Kingdom
08:45 – 09:30 Decisive points for pregnancy losses in beef cattle
Ky Pohler, Texas A&M University, USA
09:30 – 10:00 IETS Business Meeting
10:00 – 12:00 Poster session I
10:00 – 12:00 Exhibits
12:00 – 13:30 Lunch Break
12:00 – 13:30 IETS Exhibitors’ Luncheon with IETS Board of Governors
12:00 – 13:30 Data Retrieval Committee Meeting Luncheon
12:00 – 13:30 Morulas Career Luncheon
SESSION 4 All in the details – Molecular prerequisites for the future
13:30 – 14:15 Metabolism-epigenetic interactions on in vitro produced embryos
Marcella Pecora Milazzotto, Federal University of ABC - Brazil
14:15 – 15:00 Genomic selection in beef cattle creates additional opportunities for embryo technologies to meet industry needs
Stephen Miller, AGBU, a joint venture of NSW Department of Primary Industries and University of New England, Australia
15:00 – 15:30 Peter Farin Trainee Award Winners Presentations
15:30 – 16:00 Refreshment Break/Poster Viewing and Exhibits
16:00 – 18:00 Concurrent Forum
Practitioners’ Forum –
Co-chairs: Carolina Herrera, Clinic for Reproductive Medicine, Vetsuisse, University of Zurich and Gabriel Bo, Instituto De Reproducción Animal Córdoba

Reducing pregnancy losses in an OPU-IVP program

Influence of oocyte quality on pregnancy losses
Daniela Demetrio, RuAnn Genetics, USA

How does an IVF laboratory management affect pregnancy loss?
Hanna Grothmann, Masterrind GmbH, Germany

Recipient management in an OPU-IVF program
Alvaro García-Guerra, The Ohio State University, USA

Questions and Discussion
16:00 – 16:45 Concurrent Forum
Companion Animals, Non-Domestic & Endangered Species, (CANDES)
Chair: Dragos Scarlet, Vetsuisse Faculty Zürich, Switzerland

Neuroendocrine control of ovulation in South American camelids,
Rodrigo Carrasco, University of Saskatchewan, Canada
16:45 – 17:00 Isolation and in vitro induction into pluripotency of adult camelid (Lama glama) fibroblasts
Nayanne Sant Clair Cardoso da Silva, University of São Paulo, Brazil
17:00 – 17:15 Machine Learning-Aided Ultrasonography for Assessing Follicular Status in an Endangered Anuran
Li-Dunn Chen, Mississippi State University, USA
17:15 – 17:30 A transcriptomic quest to untangle equine oocyte maturation
Alejandro de la Fuente -Lara, University of California, Davis, USA
17:30 – 17:45 Regions of the oviduct of creole turkeys hen, with and without sperm storage tubules, secrete extracellular vesicles, according to tissue, reproductive status and origin of collection (in vivo-in vitro)
Makarena Aurora Rubilar Quezada, Universidad de Concepción, Columbia
17:45 – 18:00 Ending remarks, Housekeeping
18:00 – 19:30 HASAC Open Meeting
18:00 – 19:30 Morulas Forum

Thursday, January 19

07:00 – 08:00 Organizational Meeting of the IETS Board of Governors
08:30 – 13:00 Commercial Exhibits
SESSION 5 Where ends meet – R(a)ising of the next generation
08:00 – 08:45 Selected oral presentations
08:45 – 09:30 Programming effects of late gestation heat stress in dairy cattle
Geoffrey Dahl, University of Florida, USA
09:30 – 10:00 Selected oral presentations
10:00 – 12:00 Poster session II
12:00 – 13:30 Lunch Break
12:00 – 13:30 2023, 2024, 2025 IETS Program Committee Lunch
13:30 – 16:00 Commercial Exhibit and Poster Takedown
13:45 – 14:15 Pioneer Award
SESSION 6 George E. Seidel, Jr. Keynote Lecture
14:15 – 15:00 Sperm RNA-mediated epigenetic inheritance in mammals: challenges and opportunities
Qi Chen, University of California, Riverside, USA
  Awards Presentation and Updates
15:00 – 15:45 IETS Foundation Early Career Achievement Award Winners Presentations
15:45 – 16:15 IETS Foundation Student Competition Awards, CANDES, DABE and HASAC Updates
16:15 – 16:30 Closing Ceremony
20:00 – 02:00 Closing Party
 

IETS Health and Safety Advisory Committee Pre-Conference Symposium

Monday, January 16, 2023
Co-Chairs: George Perry and Marc-André Sirard

Media news or new media—
How safe are in vitro-produced embryos for international trade?

Already, especially for cattle, global production of in vitro-produced (IVP) embryos exceeds collection of in vivo-derived (IVD) embryos.

Yet only a handful of countries have shown willingness to import livestock IVP embryos by developing import conditions for sanitary trade in these embryos. Some countries still have outdated regulations preventing importation of IVP embryos. In addition, many of the existing import conditions are now outdated, being based on research performed when co-culture cells and serum were the norm for culturing IVP embryos.

Recent technological developments have resulted in significant changes to the way oocytes are commercially processed to IVP embryos. Unfortunately, there is no published research into how this affects the risk of infection with and transmission of pathogens.

Many livestock breeders are now recognizing the vast improvements and advantages that IVP embryos bring to their breeding herds and to animal production. This daylong symposium is designed to provide researchers, practitioners, and regulators with the latest information on how the sanitary status of IVP embryos of cattle, small ruminants, and horses has improved to the extent that IVP embryos are now deemed by many experts to be safer from a sanitary perspective than IVD embryos.

We look forward to your attendance at this very important symposium. For those who cannot travel to Lima, Peru, there will be provision for a virtual conference. Accommodations can be booked at the Westin Lima Hotel and Convention Center, where the symposium will be held.

Draft Program

SESSION 1 Developments in IVP embryos in the past decade
08:50 – 09:00 Introduction
Marc-André Sirard, Université Laval
09:00 – 09:15 Global production of IVP embryos vs. IVD embryos
João Viana, Embrapa
09:15 – 09:40 Recent advances in bovine IVP embryos—Toward cell-free and serum-free media
Luciano Bonilla, Vytelle
09:40 – 10:05 Recent advances in ovine and caprine IVP embryos
Alejo Menchaca, Instituto Nacional de Investigación Agropecuaria (INIA)
10:05 – 10:30 Recent advances in equine IVP embryos
Giovanna Lazzari, AVANTEA
10:30 – 10:50 Break
SESSION 2 Sanitary controls during collection and processing of IVP embryos for international trade
10:50 – 11:15 Introduction
George Perry, Consultant
11:15 – 11:40 The researcher’s perspective
Jennifer Barfield, Colorado State University
11:40 – 12:05 The practitioner’s perspective
Kyle Clymer, Trans Ova Genetics
12:05 – 12:30 The regulators’ perspective
Laszlo Kuster, EU Commission
12:30 – 13:30 Lunch, on your own
SESSION 3 Certification—Developing an international veterinary certificate for IVP embryos
13:30 – 13:45 Introduction
Daniela Demetrio, DD Embryos
13:45 – 14:10 The exporter’s perspective
Edwin Coles, ABS Global
14:10 – 14:35 The importer’s perspective
Ashley Swenson, Midwest Embryo Transfer Service
14:35 – 15:00 The regulators’ perspective
Etienne Bonbon, President, OIE Terrestrial Animal Health Standards Commission
15:00 – 15:30 Break
SESSION 4 Discussion forum
15:30 – 16:30 Panel discussion, Q & A session
Marc-André Sirard, Université Laval
16:30 – 17:00 Closing remarks
Cesare Galli, AVANTEA

 

 

Domestic Animal Biomedical Embryology (DABE) Preliminary Pre-conference Program

"Modeling embryo function in vitro."

9:00 – 9:15 Introduction to the pre-conference
9:15 – 10:45 Use of blastoids for studying embryo development
Dr. Jun Wu, University of Texas Southwestern (USA)
10:45 – 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 – 12:30 Extended embryo culture: from Pre-Gastrulation to Late Organogenesis
Dr. Jacob Hanna, Weizmann Institute of Science (Israel)
12:30 – 13:30 Lunch
13:30 – 14:00 Science Slam presentations
14:00 – 15:30 Selected abstract presentation
15:45 – 17:00 Round table on the perspectives of using synthetic/in vitro modeling embryos in practice
Moderated by Dr. Cody Kime, TransOva Genetics (USA)
17:00 – 17:30 Closing remarks and Science Slam award
17:30 – 18:30 Social
 

2023 Preconference Workshop
Advances In Reproductive Technologies In Camelids

Sunday, January 15, 2023
Module 1, Seminar, Virtual Format
Tentative schedule

Chair: J. Manuel Palomino, Universidad Científica del Sur, Lima, Perú

13:50 – 14:00 Introduction
14:00 – 14:50 Advances in reproductive technologies in the old-world camelids
Julian Skidmore, Camel Reproduction Centre, Dubai, United Arab EmiratesJulian Skidmore, Camel Reproduction Centre, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
14:50 – 15:40 Advances in reproductive technologies in the South American camelids
Wilfredo Huanca, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima, Peru
15:40 – 16:00 Break
16:00 – 16:50 Embryo transfer in alpacas
Jane Vaughan, CriaGenesis, Melbourne, Australia
16:50 – 17:40 Advances in semen cryopreservation in camelids
Alexei Santiani, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima, Peru
17:40 – 18:30 Advances in the study of ovulation inducing factor
Gregg Adams, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada
18:30 – 18:45 Concluding remarks

Seminars will be given in English with simultaneous translation to Spanish

Monday, January 16

Module 2, Workshop, (Live demonstrations)
Attendance limited

Location: Facultad de Medicina Veterinaria,
Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos

Transportation will be provided

Tentative schedule
This event will comprise four concurrent wet lab sessions of around 2 hours each. Each session will consist in the demonstration of one reproductive technology in alpaca which will include 2 or 3 specific activities. Each attendee will participate in all of the sessions throughout the day.

Station A: In vitro embryo production (IVP)
Leader: Wilfredo Huanca
Activities: Oocyte retrieval from Alpaca ovaries, COCs search, and alpaca embryo evaluation.

Station B: Ultrasound-guided follicle aspiration (OPU)
Leader: J. Manuel Palomino
Activities: Setting up OPU system, demonstration of OPU in alpacas, oocyte search.

Station C: Alpaca male handling
Leader: Willian F. Huanca
Activities: Setting up artificial vagina, male restraint, semen collection.

Station D: Semen handling in the lab
Leader: Alexei Santiani
Activities: Conventional and advanced evaluation in fresh and frozen alpaca semen.

News

2023 posters and videos are now available for review

Meeting registration required

2022 IETS Business Meeting Minutes
CEUs

Precon Module 1 - 4 CEU
Precon Module 2 - 8 CEU
HASAC Precon - 6 CEU
DABE Precon - 6 CEU
IETS Annual Conference - 19 CEU

Program Book
Poster Guidelines
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2023 Exhibitor & Sponsor Prospectus
HASAC Preconference

Media news or new media—
How safe are in vitro-produced embryos for international trade?

DABE Preconference
Preconference Virtual Seminar and On-site Workshop