07.00 - 08.30 - Breakfast

 

08.45 - Miniposter Session 4 (cont.)

Chairpersons: Andreas Meinhardt & Alexandra Amaral

 

08.45 - 09.05 - Short talks 

 

Ida Boisen, Lieve Verlinden, Mette Lorenzen, Geert Carmeliet, Anders Juul and Martin Jensen - Vitamin D and transcellular calcium transport in the male reproductive tract

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Daniela Beyer, Andrea Mietens, Dieter Müller, Davor Jezek, Gerhard Schuler and Ralf Middendorff - Spontaneous contractions of the immature epididymal duct drive directional movement of exfoliated epithelial cells

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Ansgar Reckmann, Claudia Tomczyk, Daniela Beyer, Michail Davidoff, Tatyana Michurina, S Arnhold, Dieter Müller, Andrea Mietens and Ralf Middendorff - Nestin indicates proliferating vascular wall cells in the epididymis during postnatal development and in case of testosterone deficiency

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Andrea Mietens, Sabine Tasch, Daniela Beyer, Gerrit Eichner and Ralf Middendorff - Wait and see: different functions for superimposed contraction patterns in seminiferous tubules?

 

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09.05 - Symposium 5 sponsored by 

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Sperm & ART

Chairpersons: João Ramalho-Santos, Rafael Oliva & Sandra Amaral

 

09.05 - 09.35 - Christophe Arnoult - New actors of acrosome and flagella biogenesis revealed from infertile male patients

09.35 - 10.05 - Timo Strünker - The role of CatSper channels in sperm navigation: swimming against the current!

10.05 - 10.35 - Mariana Medina Sánchez - Sperm micromotors and its potential to improve ART success and reproductive health

 

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10.35 - Coffee Break

 

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Miniposter Session 5

 

11.00 - Selected miniposters

 

11.00 - 11.15 - Janice Jeschke, Verena Nordhoff, Andreas Schüring, Timo Strünker and Christoph Brenker - The action of follicular fluid on human sperm: exploring a steroid-binding site

11.15 - 11.30 - Sandra Laurentino, Eva Pohl, Christopher Schröder, Klaus Redmann, Claudia Krallmann, Jann-Frederik Cremers, Sabine Kliesch, Bernhard Horsthemke and Jörg Gromoll - Age-related epigenetic changes in human sperm.

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11.30 - 12.25 - Short talks

 

Marco Ragusa, Teresa Chioccarelli, Gilda Cobellis, Cinzia Di Pietro, Duilia Brex, Davide Barbagallo, Silvia Fasano, Rosaria Meccariello, Bruno Ferraro, Michele Purrello, Riccardo Pierantoni and Rosanna Chianese - CircRNA-associated-competitive endogenous RNA network (ceRNET) in mammalian reproduction: role of NAPEPLDiso1 and iso2

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Sandra Amaral, Raul Da Costa, Frank Wübbeling, Klaus Redmann and Stefan Schlatt - Raman micro-spectroscopy analysis of different sperm regions: a species comparison

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Alexandra Amaral, Hermann Bauer, Jürgen Willert and Bernhard Herrmann - Rac1 signalling regulates sperm motility and is involved in mouse t-haplotype non-Mendelian inheritance

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Simon Schneider, Melanie Balbach, Jan Jikeli, Daniela Fietz, Daniel Nettersheim, Sina Jostes, Rovenna Schmidt, Monika Kressin, Martin Bergmann, Christian Trötschel, Dagmar Wachten, Klaus Steger and Hubert Schorle - From fertility to sterility: The different flavors of Prm2 haploinsufficiency in mice

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Manon Oud, Linda Hendricks, Petra De Vries, Brendan Houston, Özlem Okutman, Nicolas Jouve, Brigitte Benzacken, Michiel Noordam, Lisenka Vissers, Moira O'Bryan, Liliana Ramos, Stéphane Viville and Joris Veltman - Whole exome sequencing reveals two new genes involved in human globozoospermia

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Marie Nygaard, Amy Herlihy, Charlotte Jeanneau, John Nielsen, Irina Gaukasian, Eric Bennett, Niels Jørgensen, Henrik Clausen, Ulla Mandel, Ewa Rajpert-De Meyts and Kristian Almstrup - Polypeptide N-acetylgalactosaminyltranferase 3 (GALNT3) is expressed specifically in the equatorial segment and marks good quality spermatozoa

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Meritxell Jodar, Ada Soler-Ventura, Steven Barrett, Julia Salzman, Josep Ballescà, and Rafael Oliva - Spermatozoa retain circular RNAs

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Sara Escada-Rebelo, Ana Sousa, Teresa Almeida-Santos, Artur Paiva and João Ramalho-Santos - On the hunt for quality: reactive oxygen species – can we use them in our favor?

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Katerina Dvorakova-Hortova, Natasa Sebkova, Lukas Ded, Audrey Lumeau and Michaela Froliková - Protein-protein interactions in the sperm membrane prior to fusion with the egg

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Joana Serrano, Callista Mulder, Lisa Catsburg, Tessa Roseboom, Sjoerd Repping and Ans Van Pelt - A practical blueprint to systematically study life-long health consequences of novel medically assisted reproductive treatments

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Dharmaraj Palanisamy, Mohamed Ashraf, Chinmayi Kulkarni and M Shylaja - Microsurgial Testicular Sperm Extraction in 750 cases non -obstructive azoospermia: sperm retrieval and Success in a single centre: an Indian study

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12.30 - Lunch

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13.45 - Convivium

Excursion to the Óbidos village

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18.00 - 19.30 - Round-Table Discussion – “TestEthics”

 

Moderator: João Ramalho-Santos (PhD, Head of Center for Neuroscience and Cell Biology, University of Coimbra, Portugal)

 

Teresa Almeida Santos (MD, PhD, Head of Human Reproduction Department of the University Hospital of Coimbra, Portugal)

Stefan Schlatt (PhD, Head of the Centre of Reproductive Medicine and Andrology, University of Münster, Germany)

Teresa Firmino (Science Journalist, Newspaper Público, Lisbon, Portugal)

Paula Mota (DVM, PhD, Head of the Animal Facility of Center for Neuroscience and Cell Biology, University of Coimbra, Portugal)

Jens Ehmcke (PhD, Head of Central Animal Facility of the University of Münster, Germany)

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20.00 - Dinner