2020

Our 9th annual meeting was our best attended year yet.  Eighty-three of our colleagues decided to join us at the Sheraton Mesa at Wrigleyville Hotel and Resort.  It is a great meeting room and the talks were informative and highly interactive.  Check out the schedule below to refresh your memory and browse photos below as well.  Thank you to all who attended and to our vendor sponsors for continuing to support our mission.

 January 4, 2020

 7:30 am – 9:00 am        Registration/Breakfast/Coffee/Pastries

 9:00 am – 10:30 am      Deborah Venier - Catering your Biopsy Technique to the Embryos on Hand: What Impact Could the Embryologist have on the Results?

10:30 am – 11:00 am      Break/Coffee

11:00 am – 12:30 pm      Timothy Sharp - Advances in Cryogenic Specimen Management

12:30 pm - 1:00 pm       Roundtable Discussion

12:30 pm – 2:00 pm        Lunch

2:00 pm – 2:30 pm          Steven Mullen, PhD - Influence of Variables on the Rate of Osmolality Change in Dry Incubators

2:30 pm – 3:00 pm          Rebecca L. Krisher, PhD - Applying QC to Improve IVF Lab Outcomes

3:00 pm – 3:30 pm          Break/Coffee

3:30 pm – 4:00 pm          Rita Fields, MS, ELD(ABB) - Ten Years of Egg Banking:  Where Have We Been, Where are We Now, and Just How Good Can This Get

4:00 pm – 4:30 pm          Kimball O. Pomeroy, Ph.D., HCLD - Difficulties in Making Improvements to Media

4:30 pm – 5:30 pm           Break

5:30 pm – 7:00 pm           Keynote Speaker:  Ye Yuan, PhD - Trophoblast Differentiation During Human Implantation

7:00 pm – 9:00 pm           Cocktail/Social Hour

January 5, 2020

7:30 am – 9:00 am           Breakfast Coffee/Pastries

9:00 am – 10:30 am         Martha Gomez, DVM, Ph.D. - Cloning, an alternative for preserving endangered species

10:30 am – 11:00 am        Break/Coffee

11:00 am – 12:30 pm       Charles H. Muller - Ph.D., HCLD - Fertilization from the Sperm's Point of View:  How Good Sperm Make Good Embryos

12:30 pm – 2:00 pm         Lunch Break

2:00 pm – 2:30 pm           Catherine Welch, MBA, TS(ABB) - To Rebiopsy or Not to Rebiopsy

2:30 pm – 3:00 pm           Giles Palmer - Data Processing and Quality Control in IVF

3:00 pm – 3:30 pm           Break/Coffee

3:30 pm – 4:00 pm           John Whitney, BS - On-Site or Off-Site Storage:  How to Determine What is Best for Your Lab

4:00 pm – 4:30 pm           J. Glenn Proctor - Implementation of a Closed Vitrification System in a PGT-Blast Transfer Program

4:30 pm                            Adjourned