International workshops on reproductive biotechniques within NAWA ScienceNet project - part V: Clinical aspects of feline reproduction: an update
On September 16th, 2022, the fifth and final part of the series of workshops organized as part of the NAWA ScienceNet project (no. PPI/APM/2019/1/00044) on reproductive biotechniques took place. The course master was prof. Alain Fontbonne from L'École Nationale Vétérinaire d'Alfort (France). The co-organizers were: the Department of Reproduction and Clinic of Farm Animals, the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine of the Wrocław University of Environmental and Life Sciences (ScienceNet project leader), EDRA and project partners: Ghent University (Belgium), University of Veterinary Medicine in Vienna (Austria) and the University of Milan (Italy). The event was held under the patronage of the Committee of Veterinary Sciences and Reproductive Biology of the Polish Academy of Sciences.
The workshop was entitled: “Clinical aspects of feline reproduction: an update” and, as the title suggests, focused on the clinical aspects of feline reproduction, in particular fertility - both in the context of infertility diagnosis and treatment, as well as methods of pharmacological fertility control. Some of the lectures were also devoted to the practical aspects of feline reproductive biotechniques: semen collection and preservation, and artificial insemination. Lectures were given by both project participants: Sylwia Prochowska (Poland, Wrocław), Sabine Schäfer-Somi (Austria) and Alain Fontbonne, Juliette Roos and Zuzanna Niewiadomska (France), as well as the greatest specialists in the field of cat reproduction: Eva Axner (Sweden), Daniele Zambelli and Marco Cunto (Italy), Maria-Isabel Mello-Martins (Brazil), Aime Johnson (USA), Lluis Ferre-Dolcet and Stefano Romagnoli (Italy).
Like the previous ones, this part also took place in the online formula. Over 300 people from different countries around the world took part in the workshops. Despite the end of the NAWA ScienceNet project, the workshops were so positively received that they will be continued.
More information, including the exact program, is available on the event website:
http://nawa.upwr.edu.pl/index.php?go=55&lang=1
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International workshops on reproductive biotechniques within NAWA ScienceNet project - part IV: Spermatozoa Function and Conservation in Large and Small Animals
On July 22nd, 2022, the fourth part of the series of workshops organized as part of the NAWA ScienceNet project (no. PPI/APM/2019/1/00044) on reproductive biotechniques took place. The role of the course master of the event passed into the hands of prof. Christine Aurich and prof. Sabine Schäfer-Somi from the University of Veterinary Medicine in Vienna. The co-organizers were: the Department of Reproduction and Clinic of Farm Animals, the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine of the Wrocław University of Environmental and Life Sciences (ScienceNet project leader), EDRA and project partners: Ghent University (Belgium), L'École Nationale Vétérinaire d'Alfort (France) and the University of Milan (Italy). The event was held under the patronage of the Committee of Veterinary Sciences and Reproductive Biology of the Polish Academy of Sciences.
The title of this part of the workshop was: "Spermatozoa Function and Conservation in Large and Small Animals", and its subject matter concerned the advanced assessment of sperm characteristics (studies of apoptosis, lipid peroxidation, cholesterol transport in spermatozoa) and their cryopreservation - it was mainly focused on dogs, but there was also information on horses, cats, pigs or human and rat sperm. Several guests from all over the world were invited to give lectures: Dagmar Waberski (Germany), Daniel SR Angrimani (Brazil), Suppawiwat Ponglowhapan (Thailand), Tricia Rowlison (USA), Yulia Makayeva (Australia), Pierre Comizzoli (USA). Lectures were also presented by project participants: Wojciech Niżański, Sylwia Prochowska and Zuzanna Ligocka (Poland, Wrocław) and Sabine Schäfer-Somi and Christine Aurich (Austria).
Despite the plans and hopes to conduct these workshops in the stationary formula, eventually this part also took place on-line. Over 300 people from different countries around the world participated in the workshops (directly as well as by watching recorded lectures). The date of the next part of the workshop was set for September 16th, 2022.
More information, including the exact program, is available on the event website:
http://nawa.upwr.edu.pl/index.php?go=54&lang=1
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International workshops on reproductive biotechniques within NAWA ScienceNet project – part III: Assisted reproduction: Comparative aspects between Large and Small Animals
On March 12, 2022, the third part of the series of workshops organized as part of the NAWA ScienceNet project (no. PPI/APM/2019/1/00044) on reproductive biotechniques took place. The role of the course master passed into the hands of prof. Ann van Soom from the University of Ghent (Belgium). The co-organizers were: the Department of Reproduction and Clinic of Farm Animals, the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine of the Wrocław University of Environmental and Life Sciences (ScienceNet project leader), EDRA and project partners: University of Milan (Italy), L'École Nationale Vétérinaire d'Alfort (France) and the University of Veterinary Medicine in Vienna (Austria). The event was held under the patronage of the Committee of Veterinary Sciences and Reproductive Biology of the Polish Academy of Sciences.
The third part of the workshop entitled "Assisted reproduction: Comparative aspects between Large and Small Animals" discussed the latest trends in reproductive biotechniques (e.g. the use of extracellular vesicles or stem cells) in the comparative aspect between farm, companion and wild animals. Lectures were delivered by well-known scientists from all over the world: Bernard Roelen (Netherlands), Ruth Appeltant (Great Britain), Camille Gautier (Austria), Bart Gadella (Netherlands), Marc Yeste (Spain), Lamia Amira-Briand (France), Wojciech Niżański and Maria Eberhardt (Poland), Martina Colombo (Italy), Federica Franciosi (Italy), Jenny Zahmel (Germany), Sven Budik (Austria), Krishna Pavani (Belgium), Shehu Sidi (Nigeria) and Pierre Comizzoli (USA).
The workshops were organized in the on-line formula, which allowed for the participation of a wide range of interested parties from various countries - the event was attended by over 260 people. The next part of the workshop will take place in July 2022 - the organizers will be prof. Christine Aurich and prof. Sabine Schäfer-Somi from the University of Veterinary Medicine in Vienna.
More information, including the exact program, is available on the event website:
http://nawa.upwr.edu.pl/index.php?go=53&lang=1
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Congress of Polish Society of Veterinary Sciences (PTNW) 2021
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On November 26-27, 2021, under the auspicies of prof. dr hab. Michał Zasada, took place a XVI Congress of the Polish Society of Veterinary Sciences. The motto of the Congress was "Omnia Car Animalia Sunt". The congress was organized by the Institute of Veterinary Medicine of the Warsaw University of Life Sciences with the active support of the Main Board of the Polish Society of Veterinary of Sciences. Due to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, the Congress were held in a hybrid form. The organizers, members of the ZG PTNW as well as the session chairman and their deputies met at the premises of the Institute of Veterinary Medicine at ul. Ursynowska 159 and from there they conducted on-line meetings. It was the first Congress in the history of PTNW conducted in such a form with the 495 participants. The organizers created 17 thematic sessions, to which 357 conference summaries (reports, posters) and 26 plenary lectures in individual sessions were submitted. About 20-50 people logged in to each session. Competition committees were appointed for each session to select outstanding reports and posters. The list of awarded authors is attached and on the website of the Congress and PTNW. The prize for winning oral presentations is the publication of an article in Veterinary Medicine at the expense of the congress office. Book prizes were awarded for the best poster presentations. The list of winners is available at the link:
http://xvi-kongres-ptnw.wmw.sggw.pl/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Prezentacja-nagr%C3%B3d-XVI-Kongres-PTNW-27112021.pdf
The official part of the Congress was started by the Director of the Institute of Veterinary Medicine at the Warsaw University of Life Sciences, chairman of the Organizing Committee of the 16th PTNW Congress, prof. dr hab. Marcin Bańbura. Then, on behalf of the Rector of the Warsaw University of Life Sciences, dr hab. Marta Mendel, Vice-Rector for International Cooperation at the Warsaw University of Life Sciences. The next speaker was the President of the ZG PTNW prof. dr hab. Jan Twardoń (presentation is attached). Inaugural lecture entitled "How do we talk about them", was presented by prof. dr hab. Jerzy Bralczyk, professor of humanities, outstanding Polish linguist and author of an interesting and thematically related book "Zwierzyniec". After the grandmaster's lecture, which was listened to with great interest by all participants of the Congress, prof. dr hab. Iwona Markowska-Daniel, the president of ZG PTNW of the previous term, and presented the list of people honored in 2017-2020 with the distinction "MERITABLE FOR PTNW MERITO PRO SOCIETATAE", the honorary distinction "REZOLUTIO PRO LAUDE" and the honorary distinction for the author / authors of the 'Outstanding veterinary book". Then prof. dr hab. Marta Kankofer - scientific secretary of the ZG PTNW, informing about the PTNW Awards for the best publications in 2017-2020, which were awarded in the number of 655 (the list of winners is published on the website of the Congress and PTNW).
http://xvi-kongres-ptnw.wmw.sggw.pl/program/
The inauguration of the Congress and a lecture by prof. Jerzy Bralczyk was watched by 400 people thanks to the TV broadcast of the Warsaw University of Life Sciences.
After the official part was over, the sessions began for two days, until 17.30 on Saturday (November 27, 2021). On Friday evening, a meeting of the Board and Congress committees was held at the IKAR hotel.
The culmination of the 16th Congress was the announcement by the Chairman of the Organizing Committee of the Congress, prof. Marcin Bańbura, the results of the competition for the best conference reports in individual sessions and the evaluation of the Congress, as well as thanks from the Professor to the members of the organizing committee for the enormous contribution put into the organization of this project and for the measurable effects of their activities.
Then the President of ZG PTNW, prof. Jan Twardoń informing the participants of the Congress about the meeting of the Main Board of PTNW on November 26, 2021, during which resolutions were adopted on the honorary distinction "MERITO PRO LAUDE" (praise of the act) of the main organizers of the 16th PTNW Congress: prof. dr hab. Arkadiusz Orzechowski, who began the organizational work of the Congress, prof. dr hab. Marcin Bańbura, the chairman of the Organizing Committee and dr hab. Tomasz Sadkowski, the most distinguished deputy of the Organizing Committee in the organization of the Congress and the deputy director of the Institute of Veterinary Medicine of the Warsaw University of Life Sciences. His excellent organizational skills and technical predispositions made the on-line course of the Congress effectively carried out, and the event took place without the slightest disturbance. The President ZG of PTNW also thanked the Organizing Committee of the 16th Congress and all people participating in this enormous undertaking for their great work, commitment, competence and dedication to our environment and the Polish Society of Veterinary Sciences.
It was a very important and well-organized event in the life of the Polish Society of Veterinary Sciences.
At the end of his speech, the president of ZG PTNW, prof. Jan Twardoń, handed over virtually the "organizational stick" to prof. dr hab. Bogdan Lewczuk, Dean of the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Warmia and Mazury, who will be a host the 17th Congress in 2024.
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International workshops on reproductive biotechniques within NAWA ScienceNet project – part II: Cryobanking: a life insurance for biodiversity
On November 6th, 2021, the second part of the series of workshops organized as part of the NAWA ScienceNet project (no. PPI/APM/2019/1/00044) on reproductive biotechniques took place. This time the course master was prof. Gaia Cecylia Luvoni from the University of Milan. The co-organizers were: the Department of Reproduction and Clinic of Farm Animals, the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine of the Wrocław University of Environmental and Life Sciences (ScienceNet project leader), EDRA and project partners: Ghent University (Belgium), L'École Nationale Vétérinaire d'Alfort (France) and the University of Veterinary Medicine in Vienna (Austria). The event was held under the patronage of the Committee of Veterinary Sciences and Reproductive Biology of the Polish Academy of Sciences.
This part of the workshop was entitled "Cryobanking: a life insurance for biodiversity" and the subject of the lectures focused on the cryopreservation of sperm, oocytes, embryos and ovarian tissue as methods of banking the genetic material of animals. Lectures were presented by both project participants and invited guests: Amir Arav (Israel), Ann van Soom (Belgium), Guillaume Domain (Belgium), Martina Colombo (Italy), Malgorzata Ochota (Poland), Hiba Ali Hassan (Belgium), Katrien Smits (Belgium), Daniel Velez (Belgium), Manuel Hidalgo (Spain), Valentina Lodde (Italy), Agnieszka Partyka (Poland), Silvia Cerolini (Italy), Smadar Tal (Israel) and Susanne Holtze (Germany).
Just like the previous part, also part II took place in the online formula. The workshops were attended by over 163 people from different countries around the world. After the workshop, there was an opportunity to watch the recordings of the lectures, which was used by many registered participants who, for example, due to the difference in time zones, could not take part in the live event. The date of the next part of the workshop was set for March 12, 2022.
More information, including the exact program, is available on the event website:
http://nawa.upwr.edu.pl/index.php?go=52&lang=1
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International workshops on reproductive biotechniques within NAWA ScienceNet project – part I: ART in rescue of endangered animals
On June 17th, 2021, the first part of a series of workshops organized as part of the NAWA ScienceNet project (no. PPI/APM/2019/1/00044) on reproductive biotechniques took place. The organizer of the event was the Department of Reproduction and Clinic of Farm Animals, the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine of the Wrocław University of Environmental and Life Sciences (coursemaster Prof. Wojciech Niżański), and co-organizers: EDRA and partners of the ScienceNet project: Ghent University (Belgium), University of Milan (Italy), L'École Nationale Vétérinaire d' Alfort (France) and the University of Veterinary Medicine in Vienna (Austria). The Committee of Veterinary Sciences and Reproductive Biology of the Polish Academy of Sciences was the patron of the event.
The first part was entitled "ART in rescue of endangered animals" and was mainly devoted to the use of reproductive biotechniques in wild animals - felines, equines, reptiles, birds, monkeys and pandas. The lecturers were renowned scientists in the field of animal reproduction: prof. Ann van Soom (Ghent), prof. Gaia Cecilia Luvoni (Milan), prof. Alain Fontbonne (Alfort-Paris), dr Joanna Kochan (Kraków) and prof. Wojciech Nizanski (Wroclaw). Doctoral students and young scientists also had the opportunity to present their achievements: Dr. Ilse Gerits (Ghent), Dr. Sylwia Prochowska (Wrocław), Eline Wydooghe (Ghent) and Isa Mohammed Alkali (Milan).
Due to the restrictions related to the COVID-19 pandemic, the workshops were conducted in the online formula and were attended by over 200 people from around the world, more people had the opportunity to watch recordings of the lectures. The lectures, as well as the entire organization of the workshops, met with very positive feedback from the participants. The next part of the workshop is scheduled for November 6th, 2021.
More information, including the exact program, is available on the event website:
http://nawa.upwr.edu.pl/index.php?go=51&lang=1
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