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Chairman: Georgia Kakourou (Greece) and Dagan Wells (United Kingdom)
SESSION 3: PREIMPLANTATION GENETIC DIAGNOSIS AND OPTIONS FOR TREATMENT OF MITOCHONDRIAL MUTATIONS
13:30 - 14:00
14:00 - 14:15 14:15 - 14:45
14:45 - 15:00 15:00 - 15:30
Reduction of heteroplasmy of mutant mitochondrial DNA using engineered nuclease technology – Michal Minczuk (United Kingdom)
Discussion
Preventing the transmission of mitochondrial DNA disorders using prenatal or
preimplantation genetic diagnosis – Julie Steffann (France) Discussion
Coffee break
Chairman: Hubert Smeets (The Netherlands) and Joao Ramalho - Santos (Portugal)
SESSION 4: THE ROLE OF MITOCHONDRIA IN ASSISTED REPRODUCTIVE TECHNOLOGIES
15:30 - 16:00
16:00 - 16:15 16:15 - 16:45 16:45 - 17:00 17:00 - 18:00
mtDNA copy number assessment in oocytes and embryos: what can they tell us?
– Dagan Wells (United Kingdom)
Discussion
Mitochondrial quality in human development – Joanna Poulton (United Kingdom) Discussion
SIG Reproductive Genetics business meeting
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