10:00 - 12:00
Session VI. Hormonal, neuronal, and immune regulation of reproduction
• 10:00-10:45 - Invited lecture:
‘Mechanisms underlying sex-specific prenatal programming of the offspring’s brain and behaviour by maternal psychosocial stress’
Paula Brunton (University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK)
• 10:45-12:00 - Short talks selected from abstracts:
‘GW0742, by reduction of energy metabolism, decreases viability of adult ovarian granulosa cell tumor’
Justyna Gogola-Mruk (Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Cracow, Poland)
‘Expression of asprosin/furin/Olfr734 in mouse hypothalamus and pituitary fluctuates along oestrus cycle and differs in diet-induced obese mice’
Dominika Wachowska (Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Cracow, Poland)
‘The role of ghrelin and serotonin receptors in the activation of IP3/DAG signaling pathway in the melatonin biosynthesis during the breeding season in ewes’
Katarzyna Kirsz (University of Agriculture in Kraków, Cracow, Poland)
‘Th2 specific interleukins: IL-4 and IL-13 – profibrotic response and beyond – transcriptomic and functional in vitro study on mare endometrial fibroblasts’
Anna Wójtowicz (Institute of Animal Reproduction and Food Research PAS, Olsztyn, Poland)
‘Yellow semen syndrome in reproductive turkeys (Meleagris gallopavo) might be connected with altered content and polarization of macrophages in testis, epididymis, ductus deferens, and Bursa of Fabricius’
Ewa Drzewiecka (Institute of Animal Reproduction and Food Research PAS, Olsztyn, Poland)
12:00 - 12:30
Coffee break
12:30 - 14:30
Session VII. Environmental influence on reproductive function
• 12:30-13:15 - Invited lecture:
‘Glyphosate based herbicides in bird and human fertility’
Joelle Dupont (French National Institute for Agriculture, Food, and Environment (INRAE), Nouzilly and Tours University, Tours, France)
• 13:15-14:30 - Short talks selected from abstracts:
‘Support of the reproductive potential by immune system in males of roe deer is dependent on the habitat’
Ummu Gulsum Boztepe (University of Agriculture in Kraków, Cracow, Poland)
‘Factors stimulating movement of fish spermatozoa’
Katarzyna Dziewulska (University of Szczecin, Szczecin, Poland)
‘Can Staphylococcus bacteria support male fertility?’
Monika Frączek (Institute of Human Genetics PAS, Poznań, Poland)
‘The impact of selected pesticides on rooster fertility and reproductive hormones levels’
Agnieszka Partyka (Wroclaw University of Environmental and Life Sciences, Wrocław, Poland)
‘Novel Plasticizers, Bisphenol S and F negatively affect Meiotic Maturation and Spindle Structure of Mouse Oocytes’
Oliwia Jędruch-Smulska (University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland)
15:30 - 17:30
Session VIII. Gonadal development and function
• 15:30-16:15 - Invited lecture:
‘Studying neglected cell populations of the developing testis and their functions’
Serge Nef (University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland)
• 16:15-17:30 - Short talks selected from abstracts:
‘HAND2, a GATA4 interacting protein is a new potential genetic player in human gonadal development as its variant is associated with 46,XY gonadal dysgenesis’
Kamila Kusz-Zamelczyk (Institute of Human Genetics PAS, Poznań, Poland)
‘Impaired steroidogenesis in obese female mice is driven by Nodal suppression in theca cells’
Karolina Wołodko (Institute of Animal Reproduction and Food Research PAS, Olsztyn, Poland)
‘Visfatin Impact on Angiogenesis, Proliferation, and Apoptosis in the Porcine Corpus Luteum’
Ewa Mlyczyńska (Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Cracow, Poland)
‘Patients with premature ovarian failure have reduced glucose bioavailability in the ovarian follicle’
Weronika Marynowicz (Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Cracow, Poland)
‘Variability of boar testicles echotextural image during the immunocastration procedure’
Tomasz Schwarz (University of Agriculture in Kraków, Cracow, Poland)
17:30 - 18:00
Closing remarks
