Tuesday 11 August, 2020. 8PM GMT / 9PM CET / 3PM EST
Moderators: Dr. Barry Behr & Dr. Helen O’Neill
Beyond Hacking Darwin
Dr. Jamie Metzl, USA
Practical Application of Polygenic Risk Scoring in the Human Embryo
Dr. Nathan Treff, USA
Precision Medicine in Reproduction: Time for Prediction and Prevention
Dr. Helen O’Neill, UK
Organized by the International IVF Initiative
The use of frozen rather than fresh embryos in IVF does not increase the chance of a successful pregnancy, newly published data shows.
The findings discourage the 'freeze-all' strategy adopted by some fertility clinics in recent years. They thought that using frozen embryos rather than immediately transferring fresh embryos to the uterus allows patients' bodies more time to recover from disruptive hormonal treatment required in IVF and intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) cycles.
Research using high-precision 3D microscopy has overturned 350-year-old observations about how sperm swim.
Antoine van Leeuwenhoek, a pioneer of 2D microscopy described human sperm cells swimming by lashing their tails from side to side 'like that of a snake or an eel swimming in water'. However, a recent study has shown this was due to an optical illusion. Researchers from Bristol and Mexico discovered that human sperm cells actually move by lashing their tails to one side.
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Tuesday 4 August, 2020. 8PM GMT / 9PM CET / 3PM EST
Moderators: Professor Darren Griffin & Dr. Gary Harton
PGT for structural rearrangements: The oft forgotten "3rd wheel”
Professor Darren Griffin
Chromosomal profiling of preimplantation embryos: where we are and where we are going
Andrea Victor
PGT-A In the Future
Professor Joe Leigh Simpson
Organized by the International IVF Initiative
Enhance Your Understanding of Vitrification Media Composition
Webinar Details
Topic: Everything You Wanted to Know About Vitrification Media but Didn't Know Who to Ask
Date: Wednesday, August 12, 2020
Time: 9:00 AM Pacific Daylight Time
Speakers: Joseph Conaghan, PhD, Laboratory Director, Pacific Fertility Center
Nadir Ciray, PhD, R&D Director – ART, FUJIFILM Irvine Scientific
While vitrification is a front-running cryopreservation technology used in IVF laboratories all over the world, there is still a great deal to unpack when it comes to understanding the components of vitrification media.
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Tuesday 28 July, 2020. 8PM GMT / 9PM CET / 3PM EST
Fertility Preservation and Genome Resource Banking for Rare and Endangered Animal Species
Dr. Pierre Comizzoli
The ART of Conserving Endangered Species
Dr. Barbara Durrant
Moderators Liesl Nel-Themaat & Thomas Elliott
Organized by the International IVF Initiative
Errors in the genetic material of embryonic cells following IVF are more common and less damaging in early human development than previously thought.
