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CONGRESS COURSE 11
Sunday, 1 July 2018 I Room 120+121
How do they do it?
Laboratory Precongress Course
COURSE COORDINATORS
Cecilia Westin (Sweden)
COURSE TYPE
Advanced
COURSE DESCRIPTION
Last decade rapid development in the field of Assisted Reproductive techniques cannot be denied. How are we keeping up? The focus of this course will be as much as possible on the techniques themselves and on trying to answer the most fundamental question for professionals working in the lab “How do they do it?”. Some new, other already existing advanced techniques will be discusses and whether they are necessary to offer to our patients in the wide range of options already implemented.
TARGET AUDIENCE
Biomedical technologists, Clinical Embryologists, Senior Embryologists and Andrologists.
EDUCATIONAL NEEDS AND EXPECTED OUTCOMES
At the end of this course, participants should be able to determine whether these more advanced and/or upcoming techniques are feasible and necessary to apply in their own settings.
Chairs: Cecilia Westin, Sweden and Yves Guns, Belgium
09:00 - 09:30
09:30 - 09:45 09:45 - 10:15
10:15 - 10:30 10:30 - 11:00 11:00 - 11:30
11:30 - 11:45 11:45 - 12:15
12:15 - 12:30 12:30 - 13:30
Sperm DNA fragmentation testing: to be or not to be?
Herman Tournaye, Belgium
Discussion
Spermometer: Electrical characterization of single boar sperm motility
Loes Segerink, The Netherlands
Discussion
Coffee break
Sperm vitrification: wishes and realities
Ilse De Croo, Belgium
Discussion
Immature oocytes may become a source of additional fertility for many patients
Stine Gry Kristensen, Denmark
Discussion Lunch
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