CRU symposium: Influence of the metabolic environment and inflammation on reproductive tissues and embryos

CRU welcomes all interested to the halfday symposium "Influence of the metabolic environment and inflammation on reproductive tissues and embryos". The symposium is held May 9th in room Tanngrisner 2, 5th floor, VHC building at SLU in Uppsala. Please register for the seminar to cru@slu.se no later than May 6th.

Programme

13:30 Welcoming participants

13:45 CRU- Cell for Life presentation

14:00 The early embryonic micro-environment: Can in vitro models reflect the in vivo situation? Jennifer Schön (Leibniz Institute for Farm Animal Biology (FBN), Dummerstorf, Germany)

14:30 How confounding factors associated with fat mobilization can affect reproductive tissues? Prof Peter Bols (University of Antwerpen, Antwerpen, the Netherlands)

15:00 The impact of follicular environment on oocyte competence and embryo quality in dairy cows. Prof PLAM Vos (University of Utrecht)

15:30 Coffee break

15:45 Diabetes mellitus in early Pregnancy: How does it affect uterine and embryonic metabolism? Prof Anne Navarrete Santos (Martin Luther University Faculty of Medicine, Halle, Germany)

16:15 Metabolic and inflammatory determinants of cytological endometritis in Holstein cows during the transition period. Prof Andres Valdman (Estonian University of Life Sciences, Tartu, Estonia)

16:45 Impact of LPS on the transcriptome and epigenome of bovine endometrial epithelial cells. Dr. Yongzhi Guo (Department of clinical sciences, SLU)

17:15 Goodbye