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
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
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
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
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
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
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