Monday 25th May
14:00 – 16:15 – Registrations and Welcome at the Exe Campus hotel in Barcelona.
16:30 – 18:30 Plenary session 1: 3D genome in the male germline
16:30 – 17:15 Prof. Aurora Ruiz-Herrera: Evolution of 3D chromatin folding in germ cells across time-scales
17:15 – 18:30 Selected oral presentations
17:15 – 17:30 Cristina Madrid-Sandin
17:30 – 17:45 Gabrielle Maillard
17:45 – 18:00 Mar Domingo-López
18:00 – 18:15 Michelle Runkel
20:00 – Networking dinner
Tuesday 26th May
9:00 – 10:45 Plenary session 2: (In)fertility biomarkers
9:00 – 10:45 Dr. Ester Anton: Cracking the Sperm Code: Multi-Omics Biomarker Discovery for Male Infertility and ART Success
9:45 – 10:45 Selected oral presentations
9:45 – 10:00 Hui Ting Li
10:00 – 10:15 Isabel Wegner
10:15 – 10:30 Nisha Sharma
10:30 – 10:45 Ondrej Sanovec
10:45 – 11:15 Coffee break
11:15 – 12:00 Speed dating
12:00 – 12:45 Plenary Session 3: Evolution and germline development
12:00 – 12:45 Prof. Paulo Navarro Costa: In times of division, communication is the way forward
13:00 – 14:30 Lunch
14:30 – 16:15 Plenary Session 4: Functional reprogenomics
14:30 – 15:15 Dr. Frédéric Chalmel: Multimodal developmental atlases of the human urogenital tract: from normal development to altered trajectories
15:15 – 16:15 Selected oral presentations
14:15 – 14:30 Emilie Zeine
14:30 – 14:45 Jie Shi
14:45 – 15:00 Gina Merges
15:00 – 15:15 Giuliana Ferronato
16:15 – 16:45 Coffee break
16:45 – 17:30 Plenary Session 5: NYRA award – young researcher
16:45 – 17:30 Dr. David Skerret-Byrne: Beyond the Testis: How the Epididymis Shapes Fertility, Contraception, and Offspring Health
17:30 – 18:30 Poster session
18:30 Group picture
Wednesday 27th May
09:30 – 10:45 Selected oral presentations
9:30 – 9:45 Linda Hülsmann
9:45 – 10:00 Ellen de Beer
10:00 – 10:15 Ali Albaz
10:15 – 10:30 María López-Panades
10:30 – 10:45 Valentin Rousseau
10:45 – 12:15 Scientific debate:
12:15 – 12:45 Closing comments and awards
*Program is provisional and might be subject to modifications