Beyond IUI, IVF and ICSI - New developments in - eshre 2013

Scientific programme
Sperm selection
Chairs: Roelof Menkveld (South Africa) & Sheena Lewis (United Kingdom)
In this session the focus is on comparing novel methods for sperm selection with well‐established
low‐tech methods
09.00 ‐ 09.30 Go with the flow. Micro‐fluidics and beyond – Gary Smith (USA)
09.30 ‐ 09.45 Discussion
09.45 ‐ 10.15 Selecting spermatozoa; potential roles for electrophoresis and pharmacological
enhancement – John Aitken (Australia)
10.15 ‐ 10.30 Discussion
10.30 ‐ 11.00 Coffee break
11.00 ‐ 11.30 Magnificent? High‐power optical selection methods (IMSI vs ICSI) ‐ Laura Rienzi
(Italy)
11.30 ‐ 11.45 Discussion
11.45 ‐ 12.15 Separating the wheat from the chaff. Selection on the basis of sperm surface
markers – Liliana Ramos (The Netherlands)
12.15 ‐ 12.30 Discussion
12.30 ‐ 13.30 Lunch
Sperm@work
Chairs: Herman Tournaye (Belgium) & Jose Castilla (Spain)
In this session the focus lies on troubleshooting common and less common sperm problems in the
ART lab
13.30 ‐ 14.00 May the force be with you. Using immotile sperm in ART – Greta Verheyen
(Belgium)
14.00 ‐ 14.15 Discussion
14.15 ‐ 14.45 No sperm today. Unexpected azoospermia at OPU ‐ Raphael Ron‐El (Israel)
14.45 ‐ 15.00 Discussion
15.00 ‐ 15.30 Coffee break
15.30 ‐ 16.00 ‘The beauty and the beast’. When the sperm fails to activate the oocyte: what’s
next? – Raaga Mansour (Egypt)
16.00 ‐ 16.15 Discussion
16.15 ‐ 16.45 Longing for a girl: Gender selection by natural methods – Annet Noorlander (The
Netherlands)
16.45 ‐ 17.00 Discussion
17:00 ‐ 18:30 SIG‐Andrology business meeting
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