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 – 19:00 |
Commercial Exhibits |
08:30 – 08:45 |
Opening and Welcome |
Session I |
The Past - 50 years of IETS, how far have we come |
08:45 – 09:05 |
Looking back at five decades of embryo technology in practice
John Hasler, Vetoquinol, USA |
09:05 – 09:25 |
IETS management of the challenges associated with embryo pathogen interaction
Michel Thibier, France |
09:25 – 09:45 |
How did I overcome problems in in vitro fertilization of livestock animals
Takashi Nagai, Japan |
09:45 – 10:15 |
Discussion with the three speakers |
10:15 – 11:00 |
Poster Viewing and Exhibits |
11:00 – 12:30 |
IETS Foundation Student Competition Presentations |
12:30 – 14:00 |
Lunch Break |
12:30 – 14:00 |
IETS Board Luncheon with Partner Society |
12:30 – 14:00 |
Morulas and Mentor Lunch |
12:30 – 14:00 |
Emerging Technology and Issues subcommittee meeting |
Session II |
Determinants of pregnancy establishment |
14:00 – 14:45 |
Molecular and cellular programs underlying the development of bovine pre-implantation embryos Zongliang Jiang, University of Florida, USA |
14:00 – 14:45 |
Paternal determinants of early embryo development
Sofia Ortega, Wisconsin State University, USA |
15:30 – 16:00 |
Poster Viewing and Exhibits |
16:00 – 16:45 |
Selected short presentations |
16:45 – 17:15 |
Distinguished Service Award |
17:30 – 19:30 |
Welcome Reception |
19:30 – 20:30 |
Student Mixer |