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Friday, May 28th, 2010
Plenary Session 1
08:30-10:30 Basic understanding of vitrification
Supported by an unrestricted educational grant from Merck Serono
Chairpersons: A. Arav, Israel, S. Leibo, USA, M. Meseguer, Spain
08:30-08:55 Biosafety of vitrification – the issue of contamination using an open system
G. Vajta, Australia
08:55-09:20 Rationale of cryopreservation by Very High Cooling and Warming Rates
S. Leibo, USA
09:20-09:45 Chilling injury and vitrification of oocyte
A. Arav, Israel
09:45-10:10 Vitrification of bovine and equine embryos - practical considerations
G. Seidel, USA (presented by: J. Hasler, USA )
10:10-10:30 Basic physics of small volume vitrification
U. Demirci, USA
10:30-11:00 Coffee break
Plenary Session 2
11:00-13:00 Basic understanding of vitrification
Supported by an unrestricted educational grant from Merck Serono
Chairpersons: M. José de los Santos, Spain, N. Kagawa, Japan, P. Nagy, USA
G. Vajta, Australia
11:00-12:00 Debate: Cryopreservation of oocytes – slow freezing vs. vitrification
L. Parmegiani, Italy
P. Nagy, USA
12:00-13:00 Debate: Clinical application – what are the limits?
A. Cobo, Spain
N. Noyes, USA
13:00-14:00 Lunch break
Plenary Session 3
14:00-16:00 Animal gametes and embryo freezing
Chairpersons: Y. Barak, Israel, J. Hasler, USA
14:00-14:25 Low - and high - temperature vitrification of sperm as emerging alternatives in
preservation of genetic resources
I. Katkov, USA
14:25-14:50 Intracelllular ice formation in spermatozoa?
G. J. Morris, UK
14:50-15:15 Freeze dried cells for nuclear transfer
P. Loi, Italy
15:15-15:40 Embryo freezing in wild animals
T. Hildebrandt, Germany
15:40-16:00 What can go wrong during vitrification
S. Ledda, Italy
16:00-16:30 Coffee break
Plenary Session 4
16:30-18:10 Cord blood banking, biology, transplantation and tissue regeneration
Chairpersons: A. Nagler, Israel , G. Sanz, Spain
16:30-16:50 Cord Blood Banking – public vs.private network
E. Baudoux, Belgium
16:50-17:10 Cord Blood cryobiology: liquid nitrogen & cryoprotectant: for how long can a
CBU be preserved?
S. Querol, Spain
17:10-17:30 Cord Blood Transplantation: Do we know the best option for alternative donor
transplant: MUD vs. CB vs. Haplo?
G. Sanz, Spain
17:30-17:50 Cord Blood Transplantations: Strategies to facilitate engraftment, do we know
the best one?
M. Fernandez, Spain
17:50-18:10 Cord Blood tissue regeneration potential: Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs)
heart, vascular, neurology. Does it exist at all?
A. Nagler, Israel
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Plenary Session 5
08:30-10:30 Stem cell – preservation of future medicine
Supported by an unrestricted educational grant from IBSA / Angelini
Chairpersons: A. Nagler, Israel
08:30-09:00 Adult stem cells vs. embryonic stem cells
C. Simon, Spain
09:00-09:30 The use of cord blood stem cells for tissue therapeutics
A. Nagler, Israel
09:30-10:00 Stem cells: Are they offering novel strategies for fertility treatments?
S. Schlatt, Germany
10:00-10:30 Preclinical and clinical trials of stem cells therapy
L. Armstrong, Spain
10:30-11:00 Coffee break
Plenary Session 6
11:00-13:00 Freezing of embryonic & adult stem cells – various techniques
Chairpersons: S. Schlatt, Germany
11:00-11:30 Cryopreservation of human embryonic stem cells
F. Holm, Sweden
11:30-11:55 Large animals models in regenerative medicine: the need and the limits
F. Gandolfi, Italy
11:55-12:20 Cryopreservation of human Pluripotent stem cells
S. Schlatt, Germany
12:20-12:45 Cryopreservation of adult stem cells
R. Devireddy, USA
12:45-13:00 Freeze drying of stem cells
D. Nathan, Israel
13:00-14:00 Lunch break
Plenary Session 7
14:00-15:30 Fertility, tissue and organ preservation
Chairpersons: P. Patrizio, USA, Z. Shoham, Israel
14:00-14:30 What to freeze: Whole ovary, cortex or other?
P. Patrizio, USA
14:30-14:45 In vitro maturation and vitrification of immature oocytes combined with ovarian
tissue cryopreservation: A new strategy of fertility preservation
G. Fasano, Belgium
14:45-15:15 Duration of function of fresh and frozen ovary transplants
DVD Presentation by S. Silber, USA
15:10-15:30 Where to transplant: Heterotopic or orthotopic sites?
M. Sanchez Serrano, Spain
15:30-16:00 Coffee break
Plenary Session 8
16:00-18:00 Embryo freezing
Chairpersons: Liebermann, USA, P. Nagy, USA, J. Van Blerkom, USA
16:00-16:25 What is the best stage for f reezing? From 2PN to blastocyst
J. Liebermann, USA
16:25-16:50 Membrane phase behavior and water transport during freezing of mammalian
cells studied by FT-IR spectroscopy
W. Wolkers, Germany
16:50-17:15 Embryo freezing: A key to elective single embryo transfer (eSET)
F. Mancini, Spain
17:15-17:40 Celluar damage during cryopreservation
J. Van Blerkom, USA
17:40-18:00 Freezing animal embryos: domestic, laboratory, wild
S. Leibo, USA
Sunday, May 30th, 2010
Plenary Session 9
08:30-10:00 Cryo- bank
Chairpersons: G. Lockwood, UK, G. Stacey, UK
08:30-09:00 Medical and social aspects of cryopreservation of oocytes for fertility
preservation
G. Lockwood, UK
09:00-09:30 Errors that can occur when applying cryopreservation technology in the real
world, and how to minimize these errors
J. Hasler, USA
09:30-10:00 Bio-banking of human embryonic stem cell lines: Technical and regulatory
Challenges
G. Stacey, UK
10:00-10:30 Coffee break
Plenary Session 10
10:30-12:00 Is it possible to restore sperm from cryopreserved tissue or should we
always get a fresh one?
Chairpersons: A. Pellicer, Spain, Z. Shoham, Israel
10:30-11:00 Advantages of using cryopreserved TESE against freshly obtained tissue
M. Gil-Salom, Spain
11:00-11:30 Sperm quality and freezing
Y. Barak, Israel
11:30-12:00 Clinical evaluation of the harmful effects of sperm freezing and its current
indications
N. Garrido, Spain
12:00- 12:30 Closing session |
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