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Thursday 01 April 2027
12:00 - 13:20
Registration and Welcome Lunch
Thursday 01 April 2027
12:00 - 13:20: Registration and Welcome Lunch:
13:20 - 13:30
Introduction
13:20 - 13:30: Introduction:
Amy Barrie, United Kingdom
Speaker invited, but not confirmed
13:30 - 14:30
Session 1: Before the laboratory: preparing the patient to optimise gamete quality
13:30 - 14:30: Session 1: Before the laboratory: preparing the patient to optimise gamete quality:
13:30 - 13:50
Ensuring the receipt of good quality oocytes
Stepan Machac, Czech Republic
14:00 - 14:20
Ensuring the receipt of good quality sperm
14:30 - 15:00
Coffee break
14:30 - 15:00: Coffee break:
15:00 - 16:00
Session 2: The competent gamete: what can the laboratory preserve, select or improve?
15:00 - 16:00: Session 2: The competent gamete: what can the laboratory preserve, select or improve?:
Meurig Gallagher, United Kingdom
15:00 - 15:20
The oocyte’s final preparation: spatiotemporal control of ovulation and competence
Christopher Thomas, France
15:30 - 15:50
Preparing sperm for fertilisation: capacitation, selection and laboratory handling
16:00 - 16:30
Coffee break
16:00 - 16:30: Coffee break:
16:30 - 17:30
Session 3: Fertilisation as a dialogue between gametes
16:30 - 17:30: Session 3: Fertilisation as a dialogue between gametes:
16:30 - 16:50
Oocyte activation: the role of PLCz and how we leverage this therapeutically?
Karl Swann, United Kingdom
17:00 - 17:20
Sperm function for fertilisation: should CatSper be routine practice?