Practical aspects of non invasive selection of gametes, embryos and blastocysts in a modern IVF laboratory 

ESHRE Campus symposium

Salzburg, Austria

1 & 2 April 2011

Organised by the ESHRE Special Interest Group Embryology in collaboration with the Embryological Forum Austria (EFA)

Relevance of sperm DNA fragmentation – Marianne Moser (Austria)

Towards a more physiological ICSI – Marc van den Bergh (Switzerland)

Is there an impact of IMSI on reproductive outcome? – Laura Rienzi (Italy)

Cumulus-oocyte-corona-complex and oocyte quality – Thomas Ebner (Austria)

Morphological aspects at zygote stage – Markus Montag (Germany)

Pronuclear membrane breakdown and early cleavage – Peter Fancsovits (Hungary)

Cleavage stage and cell division kinetics – Thorir Hardarson (Sweden)

The neglected compaction stage – Thomas Ebner (Austria)

Optimized scoring at blastocyst stage – Etienne van den Abbeel (Belgium) 

Morphology of oocytes and embryos after cryopreservation – Kersti Lundin (Sweden)

Birefringence imaging of spermatozoa, spindle and zona pellucida – Markus Montag (Germany)

Glycolytic activity as a tool for embryo selection – Marc Van den Bergh (Switzerland)

Identification of viable embryos by measurement of amino acid turnover – Roger Sturmey (United Kingdom)

Predictive power of oocyte/embryo respiration rate – Ana Sousa Lopez (Belgium )

Non-invasive metabolomic profiling using near infrared spectroscopy – Thorir Hardarson (Sweden)

Summary