The theme for the joint annual conference will be “Reproduction in a changing world” featuring an exciting, cutting edge programme of high profile, scientific international and UK speakers, with a wide range of concurrent sessions focusing on specialist areas in fertility and reproductive biology guaranteed to excite, stimulate and motivate!
Conference programme to be announced soon!
Thursday 9 January – Global and Environmental
07:45 Registration, refreshments, exhibition and poster viewing
OPENING PLENARY SESSION 1
09.40 The human tide- Paul Morland, Associate Research Fellow, Birkbeck College, University of London
10.10 Animal conservation – saving species – Bill Holt, Visiting Professor, Academic Unit of Reproductive and Development Medicine, University of Sheffield
10.40 One world one health – pollutants – Christian Sonne, Professor of Wildlife Population Health, Aarhus University, Denmark
11.10 Exhibition, refreshments and attended poster viewing Odd numbers
12.10 ANNE MCLAREN MEMORIAL LECTURE
Speaker TBC
13.00 Lunch, exhibition and poster viewing
14.00 PARALLEL SHORT PAPER SESSIONS 1
sessions tbc post abstract vetting meeting
15.30 Exhibition, refreshments and poster viewing
Demo zone
16.20-17.50 UPDATE SESSION 1
| U1A
clinical |
IVF in a changing world: Emerging techniques and technologies for all
Segmented IVF – Dr Abha Maheswari, Director, Aberdeen Fertility Centre,UK Embryo-endometrial cross talk: how can we mediate the conversation? Professor Nick Macklon, Medical Director, London Women’s Clinic, Affiliate Professor, University of Copenhagen PGT-A(genetic testing) Speaker tbc |
| U1B Science | Looking back to see forwards 60 years of discoveries in reproduction
Speakers tbc |
| U1C
Embrology |
Emerging risks in embryology
Speakers tbc |
| U1D Nursing and Counselling | Transgender
Fertility and reproductive issues for trans and non-binary people – Lucy Evans, Endocrine Clinical Nurse Specialist, Tavistock & Portman Clinic, UK Funding transgender fertility treatment – James Barrett,Tavistock & Portman Clinic, UK Human capital: staff training and support in this changing world – Debbie Evans, Director of Clinical Services Herts & Essex Fertility Centre, UK |
17.50- 19.00 Welcome wine reception in exhibition
Opportunity to meet with poster presenters.
18.15 Sponsor’s symposia – tbc
Friday 10 January – Sociological
07.45 Registration, refreshments, exhibition and poster viewing
08.00 Symposia
PLENARY SESSION 2
09.00 Elective egg freezing: Socio-demographic factors underlying an emerging global trend – Professor Marcia Inhorn, Anthropology and International Affairs, Council on Middle East Studies, Yale University, USA
09.30 New ways to grow a human – Dr Philip Ball, former editor of Nature, science writer
10.00 DNA testing fallout the end of Donor Anonymity?– Speaker tbc
10.30 FNUK update
10.40 Refreshments, exhibition and attended poster presentations viewing
Manned poster presentations and poster judging
11.30 THE PATRICK STEPTOE MEMORIAL LECTURE
Title tbc – Andy Greenfield, Harwell, Cambridge
12.20 Society AGMs
13.20 Lunch, exhibition and poster presentations viewing
14.20 PARALLEL SHORT PAPER SESSIONS 2
Session tbc after abstract vetting meeting
15.50 Exhibition, refreshments and poster viewing
Demo Zone
16.30-18.00 UPDATE SESSION 2
| U2A
Clinical |
WHAT’S NEW IN LUTEAL PHASE SUPPORT
Physiology of corpus luteum – Science of luteal support – Colin Duncan,Professor of Reproductive Medicine and Science,MRC Centre for Reproductive Health, The University of Edinburgh, UK What’s new in Luteal support – antagonist cycles with agonist trigger – inc role of GnRH analogues – ? Dosage and route of administration of progesterone – Mostafa Metwally Use of progesterone in early pregnancy – PriSm trial- Ari Coomasary, |
| U2B
science |
Environmental impact on reproduction
Environmental contaminants – Richard Lea, Reader in Reproductive Biology, School of Veterinary Medicine, Nottingham University Hospital, UK Metabolic disease – Vasantha Padmanabhan, job title Michigan USA Epigenetics mechanisms – intergenerational – Speaker tbc |
| U2C
embrylogy |
BIG embryology session Sessions tbc |
| U2D – Nursing | Surrogacy update
The surrogacy journey –Sarah Templeman, Nurse Manager Herts & Essex Fertility Centre, UK The role of the lawyer in surrogacy – it’s not all legal – Helen Prosser, Lawyer, Brilliant Beginnings, UK Single parent surrogacy–Francesca Steyn, Head of Nursing, CRGH, UK |
19.30 Conference dinner
Saturday 11 January – Technological
8.45 Registration, exhibition, refreshments and poster viewing
PLENARY SESSION 3
9.00 Gene editing – Speaker tbc
9.30 Microbiomes reproductive health and fertility – Jacques Ravel, University of Maryland, USA
10.00 BOB EDWARDS MEMORIAL LECTURE
Clinical embryology and andrology- Steve Troup, President, Association of Clinical Embryologists, UK
10.50 Exhibition and refreshments
11.30 – 12.30 PARALLEL SHORT PAPERS SESSIONS 3
12.30 Lunch, exhibition and poster viewing
13.30-14.30 UPDATE SESSION 3
| U3A | Title tbc The changing face of regulation in a changing world – speaker tbcMetabolic approaches to treating male fertility – Dr Channa Jayasena, Consultant in Reproductive Endocrinology, Imperial College London and Hammersmith Hospital, UK |
| U3B | Reproductive challenges of animal conservation
Speakers tbc |
| U3C | Nurses role in fertility diagnostics
The nurse role in diagnostics– speaker tbc The role of ultrasound in infertility management – a nurse perspective– Jane Mutch, Matron The Hewitt Fertility Centre |
FINAL PLENARY SESSION
14.35 Debate: This house believes in legalising genetic enhancement of humans
Speakers tbc
15.15 Evolution of female promiscuity
Speaker tbc
15.45 Prize giving
16.00 Closing remarks – Jane Stewart, Chair, British Fertility Society, UK