Program

Hyatt Regency Denver at Colorado Convention Center
Co-Chairs: Daniela Demetrio and Dawit Tesfaye
“Past, present and future of reproductive biotechnologies - IETS 50th Anniversary”

Sunday, January 7

08:00 – 18:00 IETS Board of Governors meeting
08:00 – 17:00 HASAC Research subcommittee meeting

Monday, January 8

08:00 – 18:00 IETS Board of Governors meeting
08:00 – 18:00 Registration
08:00 – 18:30 Interactive Preconference Symposiums, National Western Stock Show

Tuesday, January 9

08:30 – 17:00 Preconference Symposium
08:30 – 17:00 CANDES / Morulas Preconference Symposium
08:00 – 13:00 HASAC Regulatory subcommittee meeting
13:00 – 17:00 Exhibitor setup
13:00 – 17:00 Poster setup
13:30 – 15:00 Manual subcommittee meeting
15:30 – 17:00 Forms and Certificate subcommittee meeting
17:30 – 20:00 IETS Foundation Board of Trustees meeting
17:30 – 19:30 Abnormal Calf Syndrome meeting (invitation only)

Wednesday, January 10

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

Thursday, January 11

07:00 – 08:00 Organizational Lunch Meeting of the IETS Foundation
08:00 – 19:00 Exhibits
Session III The present technologies that changed the direction of the ET industry
08:00 – 08:45 Reproduction in the era of genomics and automation
Ricardo Chebel, University of Florida, USA
08:45 – 09:30 Mammalian embryo culture media: now and into the future
Deirdre Zander-Fox, Monash IVF Group, Australia
09:30 – 10:00 Break, Poster Viewing with Exhibits
Session IV Fetal growth and placental function
10:00 – 10:45 Understanding conceptus-maternal interactions: what tools do we need to develop?
Niamh Forde, University of Leeds, United Kingdom
10:45 – 11:30 Understanding placentation in ruminants: a review focusing on cows and sheep
Gregory Johnson, Texas A&M University, USA
11:30 – 12:30 HASAC Open Meeting
11:30 – 12:30 Morulas Forum
12:30 – 14:00 Lunch Break
12:30 – 14:00 IETS Data Retrieval Committee Meeting
12:30 – 14:00 IETS Exhibitors’ Luncheon with IETS Board of Governors
12:30 – 14:00 Morulas Career Luncheon
14:00 – 14:30 Peter Farin Trainee Award Winners Presentations
14:30 – 15:00 IETS Business Meeting
15:00 – 17:00 Concurrent Forum
Practitioners’ Forum
Chair: Matthew Wheeler, University of Illinois
Matching the embryo stage to the recipient
15:00 – 17:00 Concurrent Forum
DABE
17:00 – 19:00 Poster session I
17:00 – 19:00 Exhibits

Friday, January 12

07:00 – 08:00 Organizational Meeting of the IETS Board of Governors
08:30 – 13:00 Commercial Exhibits
Session V New Advancements in reproductive technologies
08:00 – 08:45 Production of light-colored, low heat-absorbing Holstein Friesian cattle by precise embryo-mediated genome editing
Goetz Laible, AgResearch, New Zealand
08:45 – 09:30 From fertilized oocyte to cultivated meat – harnessing bovine embryonic stem cells in the cultivated meat industry
Eldar Zehorai, Aleph Farms, Israel
09:30 – 10:30 Selected oral presentations
10:30 – 12:30 Poster Session II
12:00 – 13:30 Lunch Break
12:00 – 13:30 2024, 2025, 2026 IETS Program Committee Lunch
13:30 – 16:00 Commercial Exhibit and Poster Take down
13:45 – 14:15 Pioneer Award
Session VI George E. Seidel Jr. Keynote Lecture: The Future of Embryo Technologies
14:15 – 15:00 The oocyte: the key player in the success of assisted reproduction technologies
Trudee Fair, University College Dublin, Ireland
  Awards Presentation and Updates
15:00 – 15:50 IETS Foundation Early Career Achievement Award Winners
15:50 – 16:10 IETS Foundation Student Competition Awards
16:10 – 16:30 CANDES, DABE and HASAC Updates
16:30 – 16:45 Closing Ceremony
18:00 – 23:00 Closing Party, Denver Museum of Nature & Science
Closing remarks and a toast to the future of IETS, Dr. Reuben Mapletoft, University of Saskatchewan