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Scientific Program

Advanced Embryo Transfer Workshop

17 Oct. 2026 BMCC, Bruges, Belgium
Overview
1 Days
4 Sessions
23 Lectures
A Masterclass for Experienced ET Veterinarians
Saturday, 17 October 2026
09:00
09:00

Improving Embryo Recovery Rates

Lectures 5 items
How to Maximise our Embryo Collection Rate? Lessons from Recent Experimental Studies
Why Didn't I Recover an Embryo? - Analysis of Donor-Related Causes of Recovery Failure
Embryo Recovery on Consecutive Days to Obtain Small Embryos for Vitrification
Management of the Competing Embryo Donor Mare
Speakers to be announced
10:30 11:00
10:30 – 11:00
Coffee and thee served in the Foyer

The Embryo

Lectures 5 items
What is the Ideal Temperature for Shipping In-Vivo Derived Embryos: Does It Matter?
Vitrification of In Vivo Produced Equine Embryos: Size Really Does Matter!
Embryo Pulsing: Repeated Expansion and Contraction of In Vivo and In Vitro Equine Blastocysts
Can AI Help with the Grading of In-Vivo Embryos?
13:00 14:00
13:00 – 14:00
Lunch in the Foyer offered by IMV & NIFA Technologies
14:00
14:00

Embryo Transfer and Recipient Mare Management Beyond the Basics

Lectures 6 items
How Important Is Recipient Synchrony? Revisiting the Concept of the "Perfect" Recipient Cycle
Estimation of the Age of the Early CL by Ultrasonography in Recipient Mare Management
When can we start using the post-partum, lactating recipient mare?
Speakers to be announced
Return to Cyclicity and Fertility in Recipient Mares Following Early Pregnancy Loss
Embryo Transfer Technique Affects Pregnancy Rates in Recipient Mares
How does one perform an embryo transfer using the Wilsher forceps? - Explained in 5 min or less
15:30 16:00
15:30 – 16:00
Coffee and thee served in the Foyer
16:00 18:00
16:00 – 18:00

Transfer of ICSI Embryos

Lectures 7 items
Slow Frozen ICSI Embryos: A New Abreviated Thawing Procedure
Vitrified ICSI Embryos: Transport, Warming and Transfer
Speakers to be announced
Days after Ovulation and Number of Corpora Lutea in ICSI Recipient Mares, It Matters
Recipient Management for ICSI Embryos: Lessons from a Large Clinical Programmes in North America
Choosing the Ideal Recipient Mare in North America
How to Evaluate ICSI Recipient Mares before Transfer
Recipient Mare Management after Transfer: Is there a role for progesterone?

The scientific program is provisional and subject to change depending on speaker availability and ongoing program development. ESER reserves the right to modify the schedule, topics, speakers, or session formats without prior notice. Such modifications do not constitute grounds for cancellation or refund. Updates will be communicated through the ESER 2026 website as they occur.

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