Past Events

View presentations and speakers from previous events below.

2026 | West Mesa, AZ

Finding Blastocyst Vitrification and Warming Efficiencies

Charles L. Bormann PhD, HCLD

Sperm DNA Fragmentation

Charles H Muller PhD HCLD CC (ABB)

Closing the Gap: Extending E-witnessing into Off-site Storage

Cristian Milevski

Should Embryologists do Everything for Everybody?

Michael Baker and Eva Schenkman

The ABCs of VOCs Basic Science to Precision Understanding

Jason Russack, M.S.

Risky Business: Using Good QC to Reduce Risk in the IVF laboratories.

Marlane Angle, PhD, HCLD/CC (ABB)

FROM PRODUCTION TO PERFORMANCE: Quality Control and Mouse Embryo Assay

Philip Damiani, PhD, Director of Laboratory Services

MODERNIZING REPRODUCTIVE BIOBANKING: RISK REDUCTION, CHAIN OF CUSTODY, AND FUTURE-READY CRYOSTORAGE MODELS

Sheela S. Ali, PhD, HCLD/TS/CC (ABB), CRB (CDPH)

Optimizing Vitrification Outcomes using UltraRapid Warm Blast

Sheela S. Ali, PhD, HCLD/TS/CC (ABB), CRB (CDPH)

2025 | West Mesa, AZ

Advances and Pitfalls in PGT: What the IVF Lab Should Know

Svetlana Rechitsky, PhD

Because Sperm Counts

Leonard LaPetina

Benefits of SNP-Based NGS

Claire Jones, MS, LCGC

Fast and Furious - Rewriting Vitrification-Warming Protocols For Human Oocytes

Juergen Liebermann, PhD, HCLD

Frozen Frontiers - Measuring Cryogenic Tank Efficiency

Jimmy Diaz

Optimization of Sperm

Mitchel C. Schiewe, PhD Danielle A. Hupp, BS

Stripping for Success - Does Oocyte Denudation influence IVF Outcomes

Carli Chapman, PhD

The Importance of Witnessing and the Benefits of Electronic Witnessing in the Laboratory

Chelsey Leisinger, PhD, HCLD/CC (ABB)

The Physics of Sperm Collection and its Potential Affects on Procedural Outcomes - A multiple species comparison

Sam Prien, Ph.D., HCLD, FNAI

Turning Challenges Into Opportunities - A Path to Growth and Innocation

Amy Erickson Hagen

Turning Skin Cells Into Gametes

Shoukhrat Mitalipov

VOCs in the IVF Laboratory - Hiding in Plain Sight

Lisa Wagner, PhD
Jason Russack, MS

Ultra Fast Vitrification

Mitch Schiewe, PhD, HCLD