Ovarian Club IV 2014

The Ovarian Club IV 2014 is a conference dedicated to Blastocyst formation and implantation.

Key Topics

• Lessons from mouse embryos in facultative delay of implantation may explain implantation failure of human blastocysts after IVF/ET
• Transcriptome analysis, screening and function identification, looking for genes predicting trophoderm development and implantation
• Personalized medicine applied to endometrial receptivity and embryo transfer
• The receptive endometrium: providing the essential microenvironment for embryo implantation
• Using cumulus cells to improve IVF lab performance
• Cumulus cells: diagnostics and therapeuticsa
• Cumulus cells: diagnostics and therapeutics in oocyte ageing
• Why aneuploidy in human embryos may not be such a bad thing after all
• An all blastocyst approach in ART
• RNA quantity of cumulus cells and blastocyst competence
• The impact of stimulation on oocyte quality and embryo development
• The incidence of euploid blastocyst and implantation potential as a function of age and ovarian stimulation
• Monitoring COS parameters and blastocyst culture
• Transferring blastocysts in the poor responder patient. Pros & Cons
• Finding the best egg with old-fashioned molecular biology
• Oocyte and embryo quality
• The effect of strong vs mild stimulation on implantation and pregnancy rates, and the epigenome
• The respective contributions from the egg and sperm in the blastocyst formation and Implantation
• New advances in development and implantation
• Optimizing the endometrium for implantation: Stimulated, natural or programmed E2 and P4 cycles.
• Developmental genetics of female reproductive tract development
• Building an ovary from the bipotential gonad
• Molecular mechanism and cell signaling governing embryo implantation
• Role of uterine epithelial-stromal crosstalk in implantation
• Prediction of blastulation – Does it have clinical relevance in IVF
• Blastocyst formation and preservation
• Fertilization, embryonic development and IVF pregnancies resulting from in-vitro vs. in-vivo matured oocytes derived from harvested ovarian tissue
• The role of decidualizing stromal cells in embryo recognition and rejection at implantation
• Genetics involved in blastocyst development
• The fertile soil – What makes a uterus receptive?
• Blastocyst morphology and genetic competence
• Genetic instability in human embryos- A problem or a solution?
• Evaluation and management of embryonic – Endometrial synchronization
• Is there any way we can improve receptivity?
• Gerard Chaouat, France
• Inflammation in the uterus: friend or foe?
• The clinical aspects of endometrial injury
• Implantation: the immune system partakes in the maternal-embryo interaction