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FECUND-PROLIFIC Final Conference

ESDAR 2016 Satellite Workshop 30-October-2016

“Innovations to improve dairy cow fertility”

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Organizing Committee

From PROLIFIC: Joëlle Dupont, INRA (France), Juan Pena, CONAFE (Spain), Elodie Tan, IT (France)

From FECUND: Pat Lonergan, UCD (Ireland), Claudio Nicoletti, PTP (Italy), Miriam van Straten and Cagla Kaya, EFFAB (The Netherlands)

 

Program

          "(click on the title for accesing the presentation and on the name for viewing speaker photo)"

8:30       Introduction for PROLIFIC  Joëlle Dupont, PROLIFIC Coordinator   

              Introduction for FECUND  Filippo Biscarini, FECUND Coordinator

8:45      Horizon 2020: Opportunities for Animal Health Research and Innovation

              Razvan Anistoroaei - DG Research and Innovation, European COMMISSION  

9:00      Dairy cow fertility worldwide: Current status and future perspectives.             

              Matthew Lucy - University of Missouri, US. INVITED SPEAKER                                 

9:45      Advanced endoscopic techniques for the study of reproductive biology in dairy cows.

              Urban Besenfelder - University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna. FECUND              

10:15    Impact of metabolic status on proteomic composition of oviduct fluid

              Georg Arnold - LMU Gene Center, Munich. FECUND               

10:45    Maternal environmental effects on the oviduct and early embryo development.

              Yann Locatelli - Institut National de la Recherche Agonomique, Tours. FECUND 

11:30    Lactational induced effects on the conceptus and endometrial transcriptome

              Niamh Forde - University of Leeds, Leeds. FECUND         

12:00    Impact of metabolic imbalance and pro-inflammatory agents on molecular profiles in fat and reproductive tissues.  

               Patrice Humblot – Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala. PROLIFIC 

12:30    Nutritional and breed effects on indicator of reproductive performance in dairy cows

              Stephen Butler – Teagasc, Agriculture and Food Development Authority, Cor. PROLIFIC   

14:00    The application of bioinformatics and biostatistics to dairy cattle fertility

               Filippo Biscarini - Parco Technologico Padano, Lodi. FECUND                                  

14:30     Benefit of genomic and progesterone information in genetic improvement of dairy cattle fertility.

               Eileen Wall – Scotland’s Rural College, Midlothian. PROLIFIC               

15:00     Modelling the reproductive function to identify candidate mechanisms involved in subfertility in dairy cows

               Pierre Blavy – Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, AgroParisTech MoSAR, Paris. PROLIFIC                  

15:45     A user-friendly simulation tool to test the effects of changes in reproductive management on the reproductive  performance of a dairy herd   

               Marjolein Derks – University of Utrecht, Utrecht.  PROLIFIC 

16:15     General discussion.

Moderator: Matthew Lucy - University of Missouri, US.