Early registration fee EUR 50, until 31st of May, 2022.
Late registration fee EUR 75, starting 1st of June, 2022.
Pre-Congress Workshops; 18th of August, 2022, 9.00-12.00
Workshop 1: Blastocyst Biopsy Workshop
The workshop is organized in collaboration with Cooper Surgical and focus will be on practical aspects of blastocyst biopsy and tubing.
A maximum of 10 participants can be accepted for the workshop so it is important to register early to secure your place.
Evaluation of the Workshop
PGT (Blastocyst Biopsy) – workshop NILS Helsinki 18th of august 2022
In cooperation with Cooper Surgical and The University of Helsinki, we organized a PGT – workshop with 10 participants.
Training supervisor was Olga De Silva, Clinical Application Scientist at Cooper Surgical.
The workshop had a theoretical part with a presentation of practical aspects, methods, tips and tricks regarding biopsy and tubing, followed up with a practical part.
In the practical part, the participants were able to do biopsy training under guidance of an experienced instructor on three working stations with two fully equipped microscopes for biopsy training at mouse embryos, and a stereomicroscope for tubing the material.
This workshop was an excellent opportunity for embryologists who were interested in learning how to biopsy blastocysts and for seasoned embryologists who wanted to update themselves on current best practice, techniques and equipment.
Workshop 2: Oocyte vitrification: Tips, Tricks and Traps
The workshop is organized in collaboration with Novivitae and Irvine Scientific.
This short hands-on training course will provide core knowledge for vitrification of human oocytes. It will focus on the technical skills required to successfully perform vitrification.
Maximum 15 participants can be accepted for the workshop, so it is important to register early to secure your place.
Applicants should have the pre-requisite of embryo handling skills.
Speaker and Hands-on workshop: Dr. Joe Conaghan, USA. https://www.pacificfertilitycenter.com/fertility-specialists/joseph-conaghan-phd
Evaluation of the Workshop
Oocyte vitrification workshop NILS Helsinki 18th of august 2022
In cooperation with Novivitae and Irvine Scientific – workshop with 15 participants.
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Workshop 3: Quality Management in ART
The workshop is organized in collaboration with Vitrolife and focus will be on practical aspects of Quality Management.
A maximum of 25 participants can be accepted for the workshop so it is important to register early to secure your place.
The aim of this hands-on workshop is to educate embryologists in developing and sustaining top quality fertility care and support them who wish to update themselves on new and current best practice, techniques and equipment.
Quality management is an integrative philosophy of management for continuously improving the quality of services and processes. Through the years, this concept has become fundamental in assisted reproduction, a field in which a high standard of treatment should constantly be pursued.
The workshop will start with a presentation on practical aspects, methods, tips and tricks, then each participant will have the opportunity to visit 4 stops:
Stop 1: Composition and quality control of media products for clinical IVF making informed choices. Learn how deviations in temperature, pH and osmolality may affect your embryos and how to correctly measure and monitor these.
Stop 2: Quality control: Maintaining stability in the laboratory – Log and Guard and B:safe. Automated monitoring of all critical parameters in embryo culture and cryostorage.
Stop 3: Future possibilities for Time-lapse as a QC and KPI tool.
Time-lapse using AI based tools are being developed to objectively annotate and/or rank embryos according to likelihood of implantation. This may offer new possibilities to use Time-lapse technology to monitor embryo development linked to laboratory process quality.
Stop 4: Laser Assisted Hatching, zona thinning, laser collapse before vitrification and – Laser Assisted Immotile Sperm Selection
Evaluation of the Workshop
Quality Management in ART - workshop NILS Helsinki 18th of august 2022
In cooperation with Vitrolife – workshop with 25 participants.
What could have been improved about today´s event?
Which topics are you interested in the next workshops?