2024
Arunika Das – Cornell University – “Exploring the complexities of embryo aneuploidy: Genetic insights into reproductive challenges”
Cecilia Constantino Rocha – University of Missouri—“Validating an approach to study the endometrial environment of beef cows in pregnant cycles without harming the respective pregnancy outcome”
Claire Stenhouse – Penn State University – “FGF23: A Regulator of Uteroplacental Phosphate Availability in Cattle?”
Lucia Zalazar – Mar Del Plara National University (Argentina)—“Application of extracellular vesicles from seminal fluid to improve the quality of cryopreserved ram semen and embryo production”.
Rafael Domingues – Ohio State University – “Non-invasive collection of cervix samples: a target tissue to study embryonic-maternal intereactions”
Rebecca Poole – Texas A&M University – “Unraveling the influence of estradiol on reproductive tract microbiota and fertility in beef cattle”
2025
CReATe Fertility Centre, Stewart Russell, Ph.D – Decoding embryo-endometrium crosstalk in implantation failure using patient-derived endometrial assembloids
University of Kentucky, Katherine Halloran, Ph.D. – Proposal name: Ovarian dysfunction in a sheep model of polycystic ovary syndrome and impact of postnatal obesity
Washington State University, Michela Ciccarelli, DVM, Ph.D. – Investigating the role of the evolutionarily conserved gene Asb9 on animal fertility
Auburn University, Rachel West, Ph.D. – Characterizing the role of human endogenous retroviruses at the maternal-fetal interface