ISSR 2025 - CÓRDOBA (SPAIN)



SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM

  • 17:00 - 19:00   (Rectorate building)

    Registration

  • 20:00 - 21:30   Welcome reception of ISSR

    RECTORATE BUILDING (conference venue)
    (Av. de Medina Azahara, 5, 14071 Córdoba)

  • 08:00 - 09:30   REGISTRATION


  • 09:30 - 10:00   WELCOME AND OPENING REMARKS


  • 10:00 - 10:30   KEYNOTE LECTURE I

         

    Juan Samper (College Station, Texas, USA)

    The use of sex-sorted semen in horses

  • 10:30 - 11:30   Oral Communications I

    Ashlee Medica et al. (Newcastle, Australia): Prolonged dismount latency and its relationship with pregnancy outcomes in Thoroughbred horses

    Mats Troedsson et al. (Lexington, KY, USA): Seminal plasma (SP) exposure during breeding alters placental transcriptome and subsequent growth of foals

    Marta Armangau et al. (Lyon, France): Secondary sex ratio in 2 different horse populations in France

    L. Aranda Lopez et al. (Cordoba, Spain): Sperm characterization of cloned and non-cloned horses: preliminary results reveal differences in cinematic patterns, Cordoba, Spain


  • 11:30 - 12:30   POSTER SESION I

  • 11:30 - 12:00   COFFEE BREAK

  • 12:30 - 13:00   KEYNOTE LECTURE 2

         

    Barbara Wallner (Vienna, Austria)

    Y-chromosomal insights into the breeding history and sire line genealogies of two traditional baroque horse breeds: Lipizzaner and Kladruber

  • 13:00 - 14:30   LUNCH BREAK

  • 14:30 - 15:00   KEYNOTE LECTURE 3

         

    Fernando Peña (Caceres, Spain)

    Reimagining stallion sperm conservation: combating carbotoxicity through pyruvate-induced Warburg effect to enhance sperm longevity and function

  • 15:00 - 16:30   YOUNG SCIENTISTS COMPETITION

    Olga Zofia Sajecka (Uppsala, Sweden): Anti Mullerian Hormone as a potential biomarker of stallions fertility

    Klaartje Broothaers (Ghent, Belgium): Capacitation of frozen-thawed semen improves ICSI outcomes in horses

    Muhammed Yaseen (Newcastle, Australia): Comparative Analysis of Equine Semen Preservation Techniques and DNA Damage Detection Using Comet and SCSA Assays

    Jessica Plaza (Buenos Aires, Argentina): Comparative analysis of sperm-oviduct binding in horses and donkeys

    Julieta Otero (Buenos Aires, Argentina): Donkey sperm activating potential in heterologous ICSI

    Anna Lauciello (Vienna, Austria): Effect of washing stallion's penis prior to semen collection on bacterial load of the distal genital tract and semen

    Pilar Vallejo-Soto (Cordoba, Spain): Liquid-storage at 17ºC as an alternative to preserve donkey sperm quality during long-term storage: preliminary results

    Lilli Bernardi (Vienna, Austria): Storage conditions influence the maintenance of frozen-thawed stallion semen characteristics if stored for a prolonged period


  • 16:30 - 17:00   COFFEE BREAK

  • 17:00 - 18:30   PARALLELL WORKSHOPS

    WS1. IVF-Protocols related to stallion variability
    Katrin Hinrichs (Pennsylvania, US)

    Matheus Felix(Pennsylvania, US)

    WS2. Semen preservation in stallions
    Zamira Gibb (Newcastle, Australia)

    Consuelo Serres (Madrid, Spain)

    Luna Gutierrez (Madrid, Spain)

    WS3. How to collect semen from difficult stallions: case reports
    Dr Igor Canisso (Universisty of Illinois, USA)


  • 18:30 - 18:30   END OF SESSION

  • 20:00 - 21:00   EQUESTRIAN SHOW

    ROYAL STABLES

    Get your tickets here! https://www.issr2025cordoba.org/registration-online 
    (Calle Caballerizas Reales, 1, 14004 Córdoba)

  • 07:30 - 08:30   OLD TOWN RUN

  • 09:30 - 10:00   KEYNOTE LECTURE 4

         

    Hernandez-Aviles (College Station, Texas, USA)

    Spermatozoal acrosome dysfunction and its role in stallion subfertility

  • 10:00 - 11:00   ORAL COMMUNICATIONS II

    M. Köhne et al. (Hannover, Germany): Prediction of breeding soundness in pre-, peri-and postpubertal colts

    Maria Ferrer et al. (La Pampa, Argentina): Changes in the equine testicular and epididymal homeostasis in response to scrotal heating

    F.M. Straßner et al. (Zürich, Switzerland): Relationships between of metabolism of cryopreserved equine determined by the Seahorse Analyzer and sperm characteristics measured by flow cytometry and computer assisted analysis of motility

    James Crabtree et al. (UK): Novel therapy of Pseudomonas aeruginosa in the stallion: A case report

  • 11:00 - 11:30   COFFEE BREAK

  • 11:00 - 12:00   POSTER SESSION II

  • 12:30 - 13:00   KEYNOTE LECTURE 5

         

    Aleksandra Gorecka-Brucka (Jastrzębiec, Poland)

    Importance of the social environment for the reproductive and general welfare of stallions

  • 12:30 - 13:30   ORAL COMMNUNICATIONS III

    Karen DaianaMoran et al. (Argentina): Differentially expressed genes of Host Defense Peptides in the equine epididymis

    Mirela Alexandra Tripon et al. (Brazil): Equine epididymal spermatozoa: A practical guide to collection, processing, and laboratory techniques

    F. E. Martín Cano et al. (Caceres, Spain): High glucose concentration in the media impacts the phosphorylation of stallion sperm proteins

    Kirsty Gallacher et al. (Glasgow, UK): Prostanoids as markers of oxidative stress in stallion semen

  • 13:30 - 14:30   LUNCH BREAK

  • 15:00 - 16:00   General meeting of the ISSR society (all attendants)



  • 15:00 - 16:30   KEYNOTE LECTURE 6

         

    Manuel Hidalgo (Cordoba, Spain)

    Sperm vitrification in stallions and donkeys

  • 16:00 - 16:30   COFFEE BREAK

  • 16:30 - 18:00   PARALLELL WORKSHOPS II

    WS5. Sperm vitrification in Stallions and Donkeys

    Dr Isabel Ortiz (University of Cordoba, Spain)

    Dr Francisco Crespo (Equine Breeding Services, Ministry of Defense, Spain)


  • 18:00 - 19:00   CLOSURE AND AWARDS

  • 21:00 - 00:00   GALA DINNER

    Restaurante Bodegas Campos (C. Lineros, 32, Centro, 14002 Córdoba

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