Programme
The Joint Fertility Committee have worked hard to produce an exciting and thought-provoking programme of sessions focusing on this year’s conference theme of ‘reproduction in an ageing world’. The conference programme includes:
- Keynote lectures from a high-profile panel of national and international speakers
- Scientific and clinical update sessions focusing on specialist areas in fertility and reproductive biology
- Opportunities to view the latest work and research taking place in the field in an online poster display, attended rapid poster sessions and short paper sessions
- Plenty of networking opportunities and social programme. As well as the ever popular Conference dinner, there will be a number of social occasions hosted by the three societies
SRF Satellite Day
13:00 | Early registration opens |
13:00 – 14:45 | SRF Early career researcher’s symposium |
15:10 – 16:25 | SRF Post-Doctoral Prize Session |
16:25 – 16:45 | Refreshment break |
16:45 | SRF Satellite Day Lectures SRF/SRB David Healy Post-Doc Exchange (Australia) SRF/SSR Virendra Mahesh New Investigator USA: The AMH/AMHR2 axis as a target for contraception Dr David Pépin, Associate Professor, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, USA SRF/SSR New Investigator UK Dr Roseanne Rosario, Academic Track Lecturer (Reproductive Biology), University of Edinburgh, UK Reproduction Journal Prize Lecture: Effect of in vitro growth on mouse oocyte competency, mitochondria and transcriptome Dr Tomoya Takashima, Post Doctoral Fellow, Tsubasa Fujimaru, Yayoi Obata, Nara Medical University, Japan |
| 19:00 | Evening social programme More details to be confirmed shortly |
Please note: Topics, titles and speakers subject to change
Biological
08:15 | Registration, refreshments, exhibition and poster viewing |
09:25 | PLENARY SESSIONChair’s opening remarks Suman Rice, Programme Chair, SRF Ovarian ageing Professor Richard Anderson, Professor of Clinical Reproductive Science, MRC Centre for Reproductive Health, University of Edinburgh, UK Insights from the comparative biology of ageing and consequences of reproductive Mary Ann Ottinger, Emeritus Professor and Research Professor, University of Houston, USA Assisted reproduction and the gender politics of ageing Lucy van de Wiel, Social Scientist, Global Health and Social Medicine, King’s College London, UK |
| 11:00 | Attended rapid poster presentation Refreshments and exhibition |
11:00 | BOB EDWARDS MEMORIAL LECTURE Denny Sakkas, Chief Scientific Officer, Boston IVF, USA |
| 12:50 | Lunch break, exhibition and poster viewing |
14:00 | PARALLEL SHORT PAPERS 1 |
| 15:30 | Exhibition, refreshments and poster viewing |
16:20 | UPDATE SESSIONS 1 |
| U1A | Clinical impact of reproductive ageing Guidance on pre-conceptual care for older women before fertility treatment Professor David Williams, Professor of Obstetric Medicine, UCL, UK Obstetric management of older and medically complex women Professor Asma Khalil, Professor of Obstetrics and Maternal Fetal Medicine, St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, UK Parental age and health-related outcomes of offspring Professor George Davey Smith, Professor of Clinical Epidemiology, University of Bristol, UK |
| U1B | Transgenerational environmental effects Environmental diesel exposure on offspring Anne Couturier-Tarrade, Senior Scientist, INRAE-UMR, France Sheep biosolids exposure Dr Michelle Bellingham, Senior Lecturer, Glasgow University, UK Transgenerational effects of stress Assistant Professor Katharina Gapp, Professor, Institute for Neuroscience, ETH Zurich, Switzerland |
| U1C | Frontiers in embryology Automated ICSI: a dream or reality? Dr Nuno Costa-Borges, Scientific Director, Embryotools, Spain AI or Novel options for embryo selection: Imaging device Dr Kylie Dunning, Centre for Bio Photonics, University of Adelaide, Australia Mechanisms of embryo failure at implantation Dr Marta Shahbazi, Group Leader, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, UK |
| U1D | Nursing challenges: Preparing for pregnancy The transition from fertility to midwifery care – An RCN publication Francesca Steyn, Director of Fertility and Women’s Health, Peppy Health High-risk and complex cases Aoife Corley, Director of Nursing and Midwifery, ReproMed Ireland Recurrent miscarriage: The role of progesterone Julia Bradley, Matron, SBU Wales Fertility Institute |
| 17:50 – 19:00 | Welcome reception in the exhibition Attended rapid poster presentations |
| 19:15 | Evening social programme BFS 50th Anniversary celebration Belfast City Hall – free to attend for all BFS members attending the conference Other events to be announced soon |
Please note: Topics, titles and speakers subject to change
Technological
07:45 | Registration, refreshments, exhibition and poster viewing |
09:00 | PLENARY SESSIONChair: Karen Schnauffer, Programme Chair, ARCS New insights from 3D imaging and computer modelling Professor Rohan Lewis, Professor of Placental and Integrative Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton, UK Stimulation in older women duo-stim Juan A. Garcia-Velasco, Chief Scientific Officer IVI RMA Global and Medical Director IVI Madrid, Spain Beyond semen analysis Dolores J. Lamb, Vice Chair for Research in the Department of Urology and Director of the Center for Reproductive Genomics, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, USA |
10:30 | Attended rapid poster presentation Refreshments and exhibition |
11:30 | ANN MCLAREN MEMORIAL LECTUREChair: Richard Lea, Chair, SRF Laying the foundations for future life and reproduction Professor Paul Fowler, Chair in Translational Medical Sciences, University of Aberdeen, UK |
| 12:20 | SOCIETY AGMS ARCS – Honorary members and STP awards BFS – Honorary fellowships SRF – Marshall Medal, Professor Evelyn Telfer CBE |
| 13:20 | Lunch, exhibition and poster viewing |
14:20 | PARALLEL SHORT PAPERS 2 |
| 15:50 | Exhibition, refreshments and poster viewing |
16:30 | UPDATE SESSION 2 |
| U2A | Fertility preservation Ovarian tissue preservation for paediatric oncology patients Dr Sheila Lane, Consultant Paediatric Oncologist, Oxford University Hospitals, UK Fertility preservation in peri pubescent boys Pippa Sangster, Consultant Urologist, University College London Hospital, UK Gamete Cryopreservation: Male and female role of fertility preservation psycho-social implications Dr Zeynep Gurtin, Lecturer in Women’s Health, UCL Institute for Women’s Health, UK |
| U2B | PCOS: Beyond the ovary Metabolic dysfunction in ‘PCOS males’ Dr Kasia Siemienowicz, Lecturer in Biomedical Sciences, Edinburgh Napier University, UK Role of the brain in PCOS Rebecca Campbell, New Zealand The PCOS phenotype throughout a woman’s life span Professor Joop S.E. Laven, Reproductive Endocrinologist and Infertility (REI) Specialist, Erasmus University Medical Centre, Rotterdam, The Netherlands |
| U2C | Futures in andrology Freeze dried sperm Dr Maite Olaciregui Rodríguez, Universidad de Zaragoza, and Project Manager and Content Specialist at Grupo Asís Biomedia, Spain Sperm selection with Microfluidics Dr James Hotaling, Urologist, Salt Lake City, USA 3D printing of testicular cells Dr Ryan Flannigan, Assistant Professor, University of British Columbia, Canada |
U2D | Opening the donor registerImplication counselling and counselling donor conceived persons Angela Pericleous-Smith, BICA, UK 2023 opening the Donor Register – HFEA Neil McComb, Head of Information and Danya Harris, Donor Information Manager, HFEA, UK Openness: What it means for parents, children and donors Nina Barnsley, Director, Donor Conception Network, UK The donors perspective Cathy Nicholson, Egg donor, UK |
| 19:30 | Conference dinner Titanic Museum |
Please note: Topics, titles and speakers subject to change
Ethical
08:30 | Registration, exhibition, refreshments and poster viewing |
09:20 | HOWARD JACOBS LECTURE Chair: Raj Mathur, Chair, BFS Ovarian ageing Marcelle I. Cedars, Professor and Director of UCSF Center for Reproductive Health, University of California San Francisco, USA PLENARY SESSIONFertility Network UK update Gwenda Burns, Chief Executive, Fertility Network UK Providing fertility care as an employment benefit Tammy Sun, CEO, Carrot Fertility, and former fertility patient Surrogacy – who, what, how, where, when and why? Dr Kirsty Horsey, Senior Research Associate, London Women’s Clinic, UK |
| 11:15 | Exhibition, refreshments and poster viewing |
11:45 | PARALLEL SHORT PAPERS 3 |
12:45 | Lunch, exhibition, and poster viewing |
13:45 | UPDATE SESSIONS 3 |
| U3A | Current surgical implications for fertility Surgery for endometriosis before IVF – an evidence-based approach Ertan Saridogan, Consultant in Reproductive Medicine and Minimal Access Surgery, University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, UK (Second speaker tbc) |
| U3B | Reproductive senescence Ovary senescence Karla Hutt, Associate Professor, Monash University, Australia Reproductive ageing in wild vertebrate populations Anne M Bronikowski, Professor, Integrative Biology, Michigan State University, USA |
| U3C | Clinical sciences update Polygenic traits screening embryo Shai Carmi, Associate Professor, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel Andrology supplements and IVF outcome Dr James Hotaling, Urologist, Salt Lake City, USA |
| U3D | Beyond borders EDNA Study Nicky Hudson, De Montfort University, UK Regulation of IVF in the Republic of Ireland Professor Mary Wingfield, Clinical Director, Merrion Fertility Clinic, Dublin, Ireland |
14:50 | PLENARY SESSION |
Debate: This house believes women over 42 should not be offered ART with their own eggs For: Edgar Mocanu, Subspecialist in Reproductive Medicine and Surgery, Rotunda Hospital, Dublin, Ireland Against: Ishola Agbaje, Medical Director, TFP Belfast Fertility | |
Reproductive rights: Roe vs Wade – Implications of restrictions to women’s healthcare Dr Louise P King, Assistant Professor, Mass General Brigham and Director of Reproductive Bioethics, Harvard Medical School Center for Bioethics, Boston, USA Prize giving, UK Suman Rice, Programme Chair, SRF Closing remarks Raj Mathur, Chair, BFS | |
| 16:30 | Close of conference |
Please note: Topics, titles and speakers subject to change