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| Thursday, October 10, 2019 | |
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| 8:30 AM – 9:00 AM | Welcome Coffee & Breakfast |
| 9:00 AM – 10:40 AM | Session 1: Cryopreservation – What does the future hold? Chairs: Milton Leong, Hong Kong & John Zhang, USA |
| 9:00 AM – 09:10 AM | Opening remarks John Zhang, USA, Congress Chairman |
| 9:10 AM – 09:40 AM | Oocyte and embryo cryopreservation – A critical view Ana Cobo, Spain |
| 9:40 AM – 10:10 AM | Automated and semi-automated vitrification and rewarming Pasquale Patrizio, USA |
| 10:10 AM – 10:40 AM | Coffee break, poster viewing and visit the exhibition area |
| 10:40 AM – 12:10 PM | Session 2: Improving pregnancy rates – The endometrium, ovary and embryo Chairs: Pasquale Patrizio, USA & Zeev Shoham, Israel |
| 10:40 AM – 11:10 AM | Awakening follicles in POI women Antonio Pellicer, Spain |
| 11:10 AM – 11:40 AM | Endometrial microbiome, a new piece in endometrial factor infertility Carlos Simon, Spain |
| 11:40 AM – 12:10 PM | The assessment of embryo ploidy using time-lapse imaging system and conventional morphological grading Keiichi Kato, Japan |
| 12:10 PM – 01:00 PM | ART 2019 Special Lecture: Presenting Erica, an artificial intelligence clinical assistant for embryo ranking Alejandro Chavez Badiola, New Hope Fertility Center Mexico Deep Machine learning in management of clinical IVF cases Yu Cao, AIVF John Zhang, New Hope Fertility Center New York |
| 01:00 PM – 01:30 PM | Lunch break, poster viewing and visit the exhibition area |
| 01:30 PM – 03:00 PM | Session 3: New technologies in reproductive medicine Chairs: Avner Hershlag, USA & Antonio Pellicer, Spain |
| 01:30 PM – 02:00 PM | Nuclear transfer and human egg reconstruction: Clinical update John Zhang, USA |
| 02:00PM-02:30PM | What causes genomic instability during early embryo development David Keefe, USA |
| 02:30 PM – 03:00 PM | Printing a 3D ovary Monica Laronda, USA |
| 03:00 PM – 03:30 PM | Coffee break, poster viewing and visit the exhibition area |
| 03:30 PM – 05:00 PM | Session 4: Sperm and egg Chairs: Sherman Silber, USA & Carlos Simón, Spain |
| 03:30 PM – 04:00 PM | The Role of sperm in facilitation of fertilization Gerald Schatten, USA |
| 04:00 PM – 04:30 PM | Making sperm from skin cells Sherman Silber, USA |
| 04:30 PM – 05:00 PM | Clinical application of spindle nuclear transfer on poor embryo development Nuno Costa-Borges, Spain |
| 05:00 PM- 06:00 PM |
Welcome Reception |
| Friday, October 11, 2019 | |
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| 8:30 AM – 9:00 AM | Coffee & Breakfast |
| 9:00 AM – 10:30 AM | Session 5: Supporting IVF Chairs: Norbert Gleicher, USA & Valery Zukin, Ukraine |
| 9:00 AM – 09:30 AM | What is new in genetic screening and diagnosis Avner Hershlag, USA |
| 9:30 AM – 10:00 AM | Racial difference in ART success? Milton Leong, Hong Kong |
| 10:00 AM – 10:30 AM | Support of the luteal phase – What is the evidence Zeev Shoham, Israel |
| 10:30 AM – 11:00 AM | Coffee and poster viewing and visit the exhibition area |
| 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM | Session 6: New insights into IVF Chairs: Robert Fischer, Germany & David Keefe, USA |
| 11:00 AM – 11:30 AM | Stimulation strategies for the poor responder William Schoolcraft, USA |
| 11:30 AM – 12:00 PM | Practice of IVF according to the published (and unpublished) literature: The advantages and disadvantages of trophectoderm biopsy, NGS technology and frozen embryo transfer James Grifo, USA |
| 12:00 PM – 12:30 PM | From IVF to germline gene editing: Ethical challenges Vardit Ravitsky, Canada |
| 12:30 PM – 01:15 PM | Lunch and poster viewing and visit the exhibition area |
| 01:15 PM – 03:15 PM | Session 7: The future of IVF Chairs: Tommaso Falcone, USA & Zeev Shoham, Israel |
| 01:15 PM – 01:45 PM | The future of IVF – Can we be better? Norbert Gleicher, USA |
| 01:45 PM – 02:15 PM | Should we need LH in the stimulation protocol? A critical perspective Robert Fischer, Germany |
| 02:15 PM – 02:45 PM | Human IVM – Are we advancing towards more widespread clinical use? Claus Yding Andersen, Denmark |
| 02:45 PM – 03:15 PM | Uterine transplantation – State of the art Tommaso Falcone, USA |
| 03:15 PM – 03:30 PM | Coffee and poster viewing and visit the exhibition area |
| 03:30 PM – 05:40 PM | Session 8: Nuclear transfer – The future in cell programming Chairs: Claus Yding Andersen, Denmark & John Zhang, USA |
| 03:30 PM – 04:00 PM | Clinical aspects of nuclear transfers Valery Zukin, Ukraine |
| 04:00 PM – 04:30 PM | Current status on sequential nuclear transfer Liu Zitao, USA |
| 04:30 PM – 05:00 PM | Nuclear transfer & cell reprogramming Lu Zhuo, USA |
| 05:00 PM – 05:30 PM | How embryologist could find the indications for nuclear transfers and how are they made? Pavlo Mazur, Ukraine |
| 05:30 PM – 05:45 PM | Awards ceremony for the best posters |
| 05:45PM – 06:00 PM | Closing remarks John Zhang, USA |