Royan International Twin Congress
9th International Congress on Reproductive Biomedicine
and
4th International Congress on Stem Cell Biology & Technology
August 27, 2008
August 27, 2008, 8:00 – 9:00, Main Hall
Opening Ceremony
8:00 – 8:05 / Holy Quran8:05 – 8:10 / Iranian National Anthem
8:10 – 8:20 / Congress Chairman
8:20 – 8:30 / President of ACECR
8:30 – 8:40 / Congress Honorary Chairman
8:40 – 8:50 / Educational Deputy of Ministry of Health
8:50 – 9:00 / President of ISRM
August 27, 9:00 – 10:30, Main Hall
Keynote lectures
Chair Persons:Safa Al-Hasani, Abdolhossein Shahverdi, Mohammad Hossein Nasr Esfahani9:00 – 9:30
M. H. Nasr Esfahani (Iran) / New era in sperm selection procedures for ICSI.
9:30 - 10:00
Ali Honaramooz (USA) / Testis tissue xenografting - a novel in vivo culture to study testis function.
10:00 – 10:30
Ashok Agarwall (USA) / Efficacy of antioxidant treatment in male/female infertility: evidence based medicine.
10:30-11:00: Coffee Break, Exhibition & Poster Reading
August 27, 11:00 – 13:00, Main Hall
Controlled Ovarian Stimulation
Chair Persons:Mohammad Ali Karimzadeh, Marzieh Aghahosseini, Ashraf Al-Yasin, Saghar Salehpour, Seyed Mehdi Ahmadi11:00 – 11:30
Yakoub Khalaf (UK) / New methods for controlled ovarian stimulation.
11:30 – 12:00
Stephen Hillier (UK) / The biology of ovarian ageing.
12:00 – 12:30
Samir Sawalhe (Italy) / Perpetual question of the uterine myomas: to treat or not to treat.
12:30 – 13:00
Toufik Nakad (Lebanon) / Recent trends in controlled ovarian stimulation.
August 27, 11:00 – 13:00, Hegmataneh Hall
Embryonic Stem Cells
Chair Persons:Konrad Hochedlinger, Juergen Hescheler11:00 – 11:30
Konrad Hochedlinger (USA) / Embryonic Stem Cells and Pluripotency
11:30 – 12:00
Chad Cowan (USA) / Understanding the Differentiation Propensity of Human Embryonic Stem Cells
12:00 – 12:25
Juergen Hescheler (Germany) / Functional Genomics of Embryonic Stem Cells and Derived Mesodermal Lineages
12:25-12:50
Hossein Baharvand (Iran) / Embryonic Stem Cell Research at Royan Institute
12:50 – 13:00
Ali Fathi (Iran)
Iranian Award Winner / The molecular mechanisms controlling embryonic stem cells (ESCs) proliferation and differentiation.
August 27, 11:00 – 13:00,Hall A
Reproductive Imaging
Chair Persons:Ahmad Vosough Dizaj, Firoozeh Ahmadi, Shahram Akhlaghpour, Seyed Ali Golestaneh, Mohsen Moini11:00 – 11:15
Seyed Ali Golestaneh (Iran) / Embolysation of myoma
11:15 – 11:30
Shahram Akhlagh pour (Iran) / Embryo reductionin multiple gestations.
11:30 – 11:45
Mojgan Kalantari (Iran) / Histerosonography
11:45 – 12:00
Tahereh Larijani (Iran) / First trimester fetal anomalies.
12:00 – 12:15
Firoozeh Ahmadi (Iran)
Ahmad Vosough (Iran) / TB in histerosaplingography
12:15 – 12:30
Masoumeh Salamati (Iran) / 3D-4D ultrasound in uterine anomalies.
12:30 – 12:45
Farzaneh Fattahi (Iran) / Screening of down syndrome.
12:45 – 13:00 / Free Discussion
August 27, 11:00 – 13:00,Hall B
Gamete update
Chair Persons:Faramarz Farahi, Seyed Mahdi Kazemeini, Mansoureh Movahedin11:00 – 11:20
Fabio Pasqualotto (Brazil) / Vasectomy reversal vs ICSI: which is the best?
11:20 – 11:40
Leen Vanhoutte (Belgium)
Award Winner in Embryology Field / Nuclear and cytoplasmic maturation of in vitro matured human oocytes after temporary nuclear arrest by phosphodiesterase 3-inhibitor
11:40 – 12:00
R. S. Sharma (India) / Effects of levonorgestrel butanoate alone and in combination with testosterone buciclate on spermatogenesis in the bonnet monkey.
12:00 – 12:15
Arash Khaki (Iran) / Effect of Growth Hormone on Testicular Dysfunction and Apoptosis Induced By Methotrexate In Rats.
12:15 – 12:30
M.A. Rezvanfar (Iran) / Chromatin abnormality and DNA damage recognition in the rat cauda epididymal sperm following chronic paternal cyclophosphamide exposure: the protective role of Satureja khuzestanica essential oil as a potent natural antioxidant.
12:30 – 12:45
Fahimeh M. Ghasemi (Iran) / Leuprolide protects mouse spermatogenic cells from apoptosis induced by busulfan.
12:45 – 13:00
Omid Amini Rad (Iran) / The antioxidantal effect of pomegranate juice on sperm parameters and fertility potential in mice.
13:00-14:00: Lunch Break, Prayer, Exhibition & Poster Reading
August 27, 14:00 – 16:00, Main Hall
Cloning and Transgenic Animals
Chair Persons:Mohammad Hossein Nasr Esfahani,Bjorn Oback, Hossein Eimani, Morteza Hosseini14:00 – 14:30
Bjorn Oback (New Zealand) / Contrasting stories: increasing cloning efficiency in cattle vs. mouse.
14:30 – 14:45
Sebastian Balbach (Germany) / Chromosome stability differs in cloned mouse embryos and derivative ES cells: implications for therapeutic cloning.
14:45 – 15:00
Yahya Khazaei (Iran) / Molecular construction of tenecteplase coding sequence in order to express of its product (as thrombolytic agent) in the milk of a transgenic livestock.
15:00 – 15:15
Somayeh Tanhaii (Iran) / Proxisomal protein cDNA cloning: Toward understanding of its molecular aspects.
15:15 – 15:30
Shahin Eghbalsaied (Iran) / Lipofectamine does not enhance bovine sperm transfection efficiency.
15:30 – 16:00
Bjorn Oback (New Zeland) / Similar stories: Cloning from stem cells in cattle and mice.
August 27, 14:00 – 17:00, Hegmataneh Hall
Embryonic Stem Cells
Chair Persons: Toru Nakano, Ghasem Hosseini Salekdeh14:00 – 14:30
Toru Nakano (Japan) / Regulation of DNA methylation during early embryogenesis
14:30 – 15:00
Wei Cui (UK) / Genetic Modification of Human Embryonic Stem Cells
15:00 – 15:30
Juergen Hescheler (Germany) / Embryonic Stem Cells for Regenerative Therapy of the Heart - Force Measurementsin an In Vitro Transplantation Model
15:30 – 16:00
Ghasem Hosseini Salekdeh (Iran) / Comparative Proteome and Transcriptome Analyses of Embryonic Stem Cellsduring Embryoid Body-based Differentiation
16:00-16:30
Hossein Hosseinkhani (USA) / Biodegradable nanoparticles for long term tracking of stem cells for biological applications
16:30-16:40
Christoph Moroni (Swiss) / Inducible RNA interference in embryonic stem cells to study transcriptional and posttranscriptional regulators of differentiation
16:40-16:50
Fardin Fathi (Iran)
Iranian Award Winner / Characterizing Endothelial Cells Derived From the Murine Embryonic Stem Cell Line CCE
16:50-17:00
Shohreh Mashayekhan (Japan) / Enrichment of Undifferentiated Embryonic Stem Cells on a Culture Surface with Glucose-displayed Dendrimer
August 27, 14:00 – 16:00,Hall A
Recurrent Miscarriage
Chair Persons:Ashraf Moini, Jaleh Zolghadr, Seyed Mehdi Kalantar, Mahnaz Yavangi, Fatemeh Ghalambor14:00 – 14:30
Yaqub Khalaf (UK) / Recurrent Failure Implantation.
14:30 - 14:50
Mahmoud Jeddi Tehrani (Iran) / Immunological aspects of recurrent miscarriage.
14:50 – 15:05
Roya Sherkat (Iran) / Evaluation of Auto & Alloimmune Factors in Women with Recurrent Abortion.
15:05 – 15:25
Navid Al-madani (Iran) / Genetical view of recurrent miscarriage.
15:25 – 15:40
Roya Sherkat (Iran) / Immunologic markers and immunotherapy outcome in patients with unexplained infertility, primary and secondary recurrent pregnancy loss.
15:40 – 16:00
Seyed Mehdi Kalantar (Iran) / The genetic role of male side on unexplained repeated pregnancy loss.
August 27, 14:00 – 16:00,Hall B
Cryopreservation & Implantation
Chair Persons:Noureddin Nematollahi, Maryam Kabir Salmani, Lois Salamonsen14:00 – 14:30
Safa Al-Hasani (Germany) / Cryopreservation of human oocytes : an overview.
14:30 – 14:45
Farzad Rajaei (Iran) / The effects of vitrification on mouse blastocyst DNA fragmentation.
14:45 – 15:00
Mansoureh Movahedin (Iran) / Cryopreservation of spermatogonia.
15:00– 15:20
Lois Salamonsen (Australia) / Endometrial-embryo interactions essential for implantation.
15:20– 15:40
Ingolf Nielsen (Denmark) / Vitrification.
15:40 – 16:00
Helen Mardon (UK) / Ligand-receptor interactions in implantation of human embryo.
August 28, 2008
August 28, 8:30 – 10:30, Main Hall
Implantation & Basic Research
Chair Persons: MarziehAghahosseini, Ahmad Hosseini, Marefat Ghafari,Helen Mardon8:30 – 9:00
Roya Rozati (India) / Isolation and Phenotypic Characterization of Human Endometrial Epithelial and Stromal Cells.
09:00 - 09:15
Nasrin Ghasemi (Iran) / TLR9 in ciliated cells of human fallopian tube.
09:15- 09:30
Gholamreza Saeed (Iran) / Treatment of Uterine Fibroma by Using Herbal Compound (Called F2).
9:30 – 10:00
Lois Salamonsen (Australia) / Proteomic approaches to understanding endometrial receptivity.
10:00 – 10:30
Helen Mardon (UK) / The molecular basis of implantation of the human embryo: clues from in vitro models.
August 28, 8:00 – 10:30, (300)B
Adult Stem Cells
Chair Persons: K. Ali Moghadam, Katarina Le Blanc8:00 – 8:30
Lei Xiao (China) / Combinatorial signals of Activin/Nodal and BMP regulate the early lineage segregation of human embryonic stem cells
8:30 – 9:00
K. Ali Moghadam (Iran) / Stem Transplatation in Iran
9:00 – 9:30
Katarina Le Blanc (Sweden) / Mesenchymal stem cells for treatment of acute GvHD
9:30 – 10:00
Gerald de Haan
(Netherlands) / Aging of hematopoietic stem cells
10:00-10:30
Shinichi Nishikawa (Japan) / Dissecting differentiation pathway of hematopoietic stem cells in vivo and in vitro
August 28, 8:30 – 10:45, Hall A
Endometriosis
Chair Persons: Saeed Alborzi, E. Sh.Tehrani Nejhad, Roya Rozati, Sirus Rostami, Laya Farzadi8:30 – 9:00
Anasthasia Ussia (France) / Endometriosis and Infertility.
9:00 – 9:15
Leila Roshangar (Iran) / Ultrastructural study of endometrium in women with and without endometriosis.
9:15 – 9:30
Saeed Alborzi (Iran) / Pentoxifylline therapy after laparoscopic surgery for different stages of endometriosis: A prospective, double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled study.
9:30 – 9:45
E. Sh. Tehrani Nejad (Iran) / The outcome of IVF/ICSI in endometriosis associated and tubal factor infertility.
9:45 – 10:00
Marzieh Mehrafza (Iran) / Medical Treatment of Endometriosis.
10:00 – 10:15
Ali Salmassi (Germany) / Comparison of c-DNA microarray analysis of gene expression between eutopic endometrium and ectopic endometrium (endometriosis).
10:15 – 10:45
Roya Rozati (India) / Molecular and Toxicology Evaluation of Patients with Endometriosis.
August 28, 8:30 – 10:30, Hall B
Psychological Aspects, Consultation and Epidemiology
Chair Persons: Babak Eshrati, Petra Thorn, Shahrzad Alizadegan, Mohammad Hossein Forouzanfar8:30 – 9:00
Petra Thorn (Germany) / Infertility Counseling: How can psychosocial care contribute to
alleviate the emotional burden of infertility and infertility treatment?
9:00 – 9:30
Shahrzad Alizadegan (Iran) / Post traumatic stress disorder causing avoidance to get pregnant – case report and discussion.
9:30 – 9:45
M. Vijeh (Iran) / The effect of counseling on quality of marital relationship in infertile couple who are visited of Vali-e-AsrReproductiveHealthResearchCenter in Tehran.
9:45 – 10:00
Simin Taavoni (Iran) / Anxiety during pregnancy in primigravidas and women with history of fetal or neonatal death.
10:00 – 10:15
Kourosh Kamali (Iran) / Epidemiological research in reproduction field.
10:15 - 10:30
Sara Gilani (Pakistan) / Practice of female population towards breast cancer: An experience at a tertiary care hospital in Rawalpindi.
August 28, 8:30 – 10:30, Hall C
Varicocele & Clinical therapy
Chair Persons: Mohammad Reza Norouzi, Amir Mohsen Ziaei, Farid Dadkhah, Homayoun Abbasi8:30 – 9:00
Fabio Passqualotto (Brazil) / Role of varicocelectomy in patients with male infertility.
9:00 – 9:15
Zahra Mirhosseini (Iran) / Relationship between expression levels of HSPA2 gene and chromatin structure in patients with varicocele.
9:15 – 9:30
Maryam Bahmanzadeh (Iran) / The Effects of Nitric Oxide Synthase Inhibitor (L-NAME) on epidididymal sperm count,motility, morphology and in vitro fertilization capacity of Varicocelized Rat.
9:30 – 9:45
Leila Hatami (Iran) / Existence of leptin’s receptor (Ob-R) in spermatozoa from infertile males.
9:45 – 10:00
Siavash Razaghi (Iran) / The effect of low doses of acetylsalicylic acid on sperm quality.
10:00 – 10:15
Sinsen Joseph (UAE) / Efficacy of Individualized Homeopathic Therapy in Oligospermia (male infertility).
10:15 – 10:30
Fabio Passqualotto (Brazil) / Testicular apoptosis in infertile men with varicocele and the relationship with HPV infection.
10:30-11:00: Coffee Break, Exhibition & Poster Reading
August 28, 11:00 – 13:00, Main Hall
Reproductive Surgery: Endoscopy
Chair Persons: E. Sh. Tehrani Nejhad,Hossein Asefjah, Aboutaleb Saremi, Anastasia Ussia, Soheila Arefi11:00 – 11:20
Saeed Alborzi (Iran)
Award Winner in Female Infertility Field / Laparoscopic metroplasty in bicornuate and didelphic
Uteri.
11:20 – 11:50
Anastasia Ussia (France) / Surgical Treatment for Infertility.
11:50 – 12:20
Hossein Asefjah (Iran) / Video-presentation of laparoscopic operation.
12:20 – 12:45
Saeed Alborzi (Iran) / Laparoscopic Microsurgery.
12:45 – 13:00
Saideh Sadri (Iran) / Office hysteroscopy for diagnosis and treatment of infertility.
August 28, 11:00 – 13:00, Hegmataneh Hall
Adult Stem Cells
Chair Persons: Ali Khademhosseini, M. R. Baghban Eslami Neghad11:00 – 11:30
Gerald de Haan
(The Netherlands) / Genome- wide analysis of gene networks during hematopoietic development
11:30 – 12:00
Ali Khademhosseini (USA) / Microengineered hydrogels for tissue engineering
12:00-12:10
Majid Katebi (USA) / Adenosine A2A Receptor Play an Active Role in Mouse Bone Marrow Stromal Cell Proliferation and Differentiation to Mesenchymal Stem Cells
12:10-12:20
Pranela Rameshwar (USA) / Functional similarities among genes regulated by OCT4 in human mesenchymal and embryonic stem cells,
12:20- 12:30
Laleh Khodadadi (Iran) / Intra-epidermaltransplantation of autologousmelanocytes improved pigmentation of vitiligo patients.
12:30-12:40
Brigitte Putzer (Germany) / Selective Targeting of Adenoviral Vectors to Neural Precursor Cells in the Hippocampus of Adult Mice: New Prospects for In Situ Gene Therapy,
12:40-12:50
M. Gh. Golmohamadi (Iran) / Endogenous Adult Neural Stem Cells Comprise the Minority of Label Retaining Cells in the Adult Mouse Brain,
12:50-13:00
Amir Reza Aref (UK) / Label free optical technique to monitor stem-cell substartum interactions,
August 28, 11:00 – 13:00,Hall A
ART Outcome and complication
Chair Persons:Ashraf Al-Yasin, Abbas Aflatounian,H. Amirarjmand, Leila Karimian11:00 – 11:30
Abbas Aflatounian / OHSS
11:30 – 11:45
Marzieh Tavalaee / Influence of sperm chromatin anomalies on ART outcome.
11:45 - 13:00
Q&A panel / Coordinators: Abbas Aflatounian, Ashraf Al-Yasin, Ghandi, Akbari, Taheri panah, Leila Karimian, Amirarjmand
August 28, 11:00 – 13:00, Hall B
Reproductive Ethics and Law
Chair Persons: Seyed TahaMerghati, Fatemeh Ramezan Zadeh, Mahanaz Ashrafi, Reza Omani Samani11:00 – 11:30
Reza Omani Samani (Iran) / Human dignity, Payment and Contracts in Assisted Reproductive Techniques.
11:30 – 12:00
Shaik Jaiboon (India) / Profiling Sexual, Reproductive and Mental Health of Islam Adolescent Girls.
12:00 – 12:15
Leila Alizadeh (Iran) / Debate in embryo donation: Source of donated embryos.
12:15 – 12:30
Robab Latifnejad (Iran) / Do not approach us like “lab rats” or “numbers”: Infertile women’s expectation from health professionals to meet their religious and spiritual needs.
12:30 – 12:45
Sanjin Dekovic (Bosnia) / Ethicsand commercialsurrogate motherhood.
12:45 – 13:00
Bentolhoda Fereydouni (Iran) / Public opinion regarding oocyte donation in Iran.
August 28, 11:00 – 13:00, Hall C
Male Reproduction Biology and Infertility Research
Chair Persons: Mohammad AliSadighi, Safa Al- Hasani, Mohammad Hossein Nasr-Esfahani, Rajabali Sadrkhanlou11:00 – 11:25
Ashok Agarwall (USA) / Sperm DNA Damage Testing in Assisted Reproduction: Evidence Based Medicine.
11:25 – 11:50
Safa Al- Hasani( Germany) / Human sperm instability.
11:50 – 12:15
Tsutomu Ogata (Japan)
Award Winner in Andrology Field / Haplotype analysisof the estrogen receptor alpha gene in male genital and reproductive abnormalities.
12:15 – 12:30
Franz Theuring (Germany) / AKR1B7 (mouse vas deferens protein) is dispensable for mouse development and reproductive success.
12:30 – 12:45
Elke Heytens (Belgium) / First evidence of disturbed expression of the oocyte-activating factor PLCζ in globozoospermic men.
12:45 – 13:00
Mehrdad Shariati(Iran) / The Effect of Phoenix Dactylifera Pit Powder on Testosterone Level and Germ Cells in Adult Male Rats.
13:00-14:00: Lunch Break, Prayers, Exhibition & Poster Reading
August 28, 14:00 – 16:00, Main Hall
Polycystic OvarySyndrome
Chair Persons:Mohammad Ebrahim Parsa Nezhad, Mohammad Ali Karimzadeh, Saghar Saleh Pour, Tahereh Madani14:00 – 14:30
Tahereh Madani (Iran) / Nutrition and polycystic ovarian syndrome.
14:30 – 14:45
Marziyeh Farimani (Iran) / Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors in Women with Polycystic Ovary Syndrome
14:45 - 15:10
M. E. Parsanezhad (Iran) / Clomid failure in polycystic ovarian syndrome.
15:10 – 15:35
Mohammad Ali Karimzadeh (Iran) / Metformin and polycystic ovarian syndrome.
15:35 – 16:00
Saghar Salehpour (Iran) / Treatment options in polycystic ovarian syndrome.
August 28, 14:00 – 17:00, Hegmataneh Hall
Adult Stem Cells
Chair Persons:Chad Cowan,Kamran Ghaedi14:00 – 14:30
Toru Nakano (Japan) / PI3K/Akt signaling in germ cell development
14:30 – 15:00
Shinichi Nishikawa (Japan) / In vitro recapitulation of stem cell niche
15:00 – 15:30
Oliver Brüstle (Germany) / From pluripotent cells to stable neural stem cells
15:30 – 16:00
Chad Cowan (USA) / Modeling Disease with Human Pluripotent Cells
16:00 – 16:30
Lei Xiao (China) / Generation of iPS cell from adult cells and potential applications of iPS cell technology
16:30-16:50
Mark Zern (USA) / Differentiation and Enrichment of Hepatocypte-Like Cells from Human Embryonic Stem Cells In Vitro and In Vivo
16:50 – 17:00
Ismail (Indonesia) / Bone marrow stromal stem cells (bMSCs) transplantation into intervertebral disc and intervertebral disc distraction to reverse intervertebral disc degeneration in rabit model.
August 28, 14:00 – 16:15, Hall A
Cancer & Reproduction
Chair Persons: Batool Rashidi, Mina Jafarabadi, Robabeh Taheripanah, P. Eftekhari Yazdi14:00 – 14:30
Masoud Iravani (Iran) / Cancer and fertility preservation.
14:30 – 14:45
Leila Karimian / Freezing and Reproduction.
14:45 – 15:15
Stephen Hillier (UK) / Ovulation and ovarian cancer.
15:15 – 15:30
Maryam Rezvanifar (Iran) / Possible association between in vitro fertilization therapy and cancer incidence in women and their offspring.
15:30 – 16:00
Benkhalifa Moncef (France) / Genome profiling of ovarian cancer.
16:00 – 16:15
Leila Roshangar (Iran) / Ultrastructural study of germinal epithelium in male mice treated with anticancer drug and GnRH antagonist.
August 28, 14:00 – 16:00, Hall B
Preimplantation and prenatal genetic diagnosis
Chair Persons: Hamid Gourabi, Benkhalifa Moncef, Mohammad Hossein Sanati14:00 – 14:30
Benkhalifa Moncef (France) / Single gene point mutation analysis using oligo array and hair loup Technique.
14:30 – 15:00
Smita Mahale (India)
Award Winner in Genetic Field / Structural, functional and molecular aspects of follicle stimulating hormone receptor: applications in designing receptor targets and management of female infertility.
15:00 – 15:20
M. Hossein Modarresi (Iran) / Contamination during PGD: how we can deal with?
15:20 – 15:40
Gianmaria Sitar (Italy) / Simultaneos fetal cell detection and genetic diagnosis by immunophenotyping and chromosomal fluorescence luorescence in situ hybridization.
15:40 – 16:00
Masoud Houshmand (Iran) / Prenatal genetic diagnosis.
August 29, 2008
August 29, 8:30 – 10:30, Main Hall
Panel: Poor response to C.O.S.
Chair Persons: Tahereh Madani, Saghar Salehpour, Farnaz Sohrabvand, Robabeh Taheri Panah8:30 – 9:00
Tahereh Madani (Iran) / Comparison of microflare with other protocols in poor responders.
9:00 – 9:15
Aisha Javed (Pakistan) / Significance of human chorionic gonadotropin in the growth and maturation of preantral follicles and enclosed oocytes during optimized in vitro cultures: a randomized study.
9:15 – 10:30
Q&A Panel / Tahereh Madani, Marzieh Aghahosseini, Farnaz Sohrabvand, Robabeh Taheri Panah
August 29, 8:30 – 10:30, Hegmataneh Hall
Regenerative Medicine
Chair Persons: Nasser Aghdami, Oliver Brüstle8:30 – 9:00
Katarina Le Blanc (Sweden) / hematopoietic stem cell transplants
9:00 – 9:30
Ali Honaramooz (Canada) / Lessons learned from transplantation of spermatogonial stem cells
9:30 – 10:00
Nasser Aghdami (Iran) / Cell therapy clinical trials at Royan institute
10:00 – 10:30
Oliver Brüstle (Germany) / From neural stem cells to brain repair
August 29, 8:30 – 10:30, Hall A
IVF lab updates (Gamete selection, IVM, IVF Lab & Embryo selection, Embryo Transfer)
Chair Persons: Mojdeh Salehnia, HoseinaliSadri, Thomas Ebner, Reza Soleimani8:30 – 9:00
Thomas Ebner (Austria) / Morphology of fresh and vitrified blastocysts.
9:00 – 9:15
Leen Vanhoutte (Belgium) / Assessment of a new system for in-vitro maturation of human cumulus-enclosed oocytes: three-dimensional culture in the presence of a phosphodiesterase 3-inhibitor.
9:15 – 9:30
Reza Soleimani (Belgium) / An optimized method to obtain mature oocytes after human ovarian xenotransplantation into the back muscle of SCID mice.
9:30 - 9:45
Mai Sarraj (Australia) / Differential expression of TGFBR3 (betaglycan) in mouse ovary and testis during gonadogenesis.
9:45 – 10:00
Ahmed Abou-Setta (Egypt) / Air fluid versus fluid-only models of embryo catheter loading: a systematic review and meta-analysis.
10:00 – 10:30
Ingolf Nielsen (Denmark) / Laboratory Quality Management.
August 29, 8:30 – 10:30, Hall B