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Programme

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Thursday 01 April 2027

12:00 - 13:20
Registration and Welcome Lunch

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 - 13:50
Ensuring the receipt of good quality oocytes
Stepan Machac, Czech Republic
14:00 - 14:20
Ensuring the receipt of good quality sperm
Francesco Lotti, Italy
14:20 - 14:30
Discussion

14:30 - 15:00
Coffee break

15:00 - 16:00
Session 2: The competent gamete: what can the laboratory preserve, select or improve?
Chairs
Irene Cuevas-Saiz, Spain
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
Rita Vassena, Spain
15:50 - 16:00
Discussion

16:00 - 16:30
Coffee break

16:30 - 17:30
Session 3: Fertilisation as a dialogue between gametes
Chair
Rita Vassena, Spain
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?
Timo Strünker, Germany
17:20 - 17:30
Discussion