Program

18:00 – 21:00

Registration and Welcome Reception at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Wroclaw University of Environmental and Live Sciences

08:00 – 09:00

Registration

08:00 – 09:00

Opening Ceremony

09:00 – 09:45

Plenary lecture I: John Davis (Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, United States)

09:45 – 10:15

Session I: Formation of the CL and maintenance of luteal function

Moderator 1: Mariusz Kowalewski (Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland)
Moderator 2: Camilla Hughes (Department of Animal Science, College of Agriculture Sciences, University Park, PA, USA)
4-6 oral presentations (15 minutes each)

10:15 – 13:10

Poster Session-1

10:15 – 10:45

Session II: Regression of CL function and luteal dysfunctions

Moderator 1: Agnieszka Rak (Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland)
Moderator 2: Sławomir Wołczyński (Faculty of Medicine, Medical University of Bialystok, Poland)
4-6 oral presentations (15 minutes each)

10:45 – 11:15

Visiting Medical University of Wroclaw – Anatomical Museum and places where Dr Fraenkel and Dr Slota worked to discover and characterize progesterone

09:00 – 09:45

Plenary lecture II: prof. Milo Wildbank (Department of Dairy Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, USA)

09:45 – 10:15

Session III: Ovarian-uterine interactions during the estrous cycle and early pregnancy

Moderator 1: Dimitrios Rizos (Dept. of Animal Reproduction, INIA-CSIC, Madrid, Spain)
Moderator 2: Graca M. Ferreira-Dias (Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Lisbon University, Lisbon. Portugal)
4-6 oral presentations (15 minutes each)

10:15 – 13:00

Poster Session-2

10:15 – 10:45

Session IV: Etiology and pathogenesis of uterine disorders

Moderator 1: Fidel Ovidio Castro (Animal Biotechnology Lab at University of Concepción, Chile)
Moderator 2: Anna Z. Szóstek-Mioduchowska (Department of Reproductive Immunology and Pathology, IAR&FR PAS Olsztyn)
4-6 oral presentations (15 minutes each)

10:45 – 11:15

Gala dinner – Restauracja ZOO

08:00

Plenary lecture III: Steven LeBlanc (Ontario Veterinary College, University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada)

10:45 – 11:15

Session V: New diagnostic tools of uterine disorders in farm animals

Moderator: Tal Raz (Jerusalem Hebrew Univ. Rehovot, Israel)
Moderator 2: Mette Christoffersen (University of Copenhagen, Department of Veterinary Clinical Sciences; Copenhagen, Dennmark)
4-6 oral presentations (15 minutes each)

10:45 – 11:15

Session VI: Therapy of uterine disorders in farm animals

Moderator 1: Igor Canisso (College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, USA)
Moderator 2: Geert Opsomer (Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Ghent University, Belgium)
4-6 oral presentations (15 minutes each)

08:00

Closing Ceremony, Awarding of best oral and poster presentation

08:00

Get to know the old – Piast Wrocław – a tour of Wrocław

08:00

Open Workshop and Discussion on animal behavior, welfare and health: “Whether large farm animals could be alternative research models for biomedical study?” with scientific and historical excursion to Swidnica, Książ Castel and Książ Horse State Stud