ICPR 2023
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Monday 5 June

08:15 - 08.30Opening 11th ICPR
Nicoline Soede, chair International Scientific Committee, Dominiek Maes, chair Local Organizing Committee
08:30 - 09.15Plenary Lecture
08:30Impacts of the One Health Agenda and Environmental Concerns on Pig Fertility in Contemporary Systems - Olli Peltoniemi (Finland)
09:15 - 10:00Genes, Genomes and Genetics - Part 1
Chair: Randall Prather (USA)
09:15GWAS and functional genomics of puberty - Dan Nonneman (USA)
10:00 - 10:30Break & Poster Viewing
10:30 - 12:15Genes, Genomes and Genetics - Part 2
Chair: Randall Prather (USA)
10:30Reconsidering “low-dose”- epigenetic Impacts of Estradiol Exposure on Preimplantation Embryo Development - Susanne Ulbrich (Switzerland)
11:15Gene editing to provides a tool to investigate the role of conceptus factors involved in the establishment of pregnancy - Rod Geisert (USA)
11:45Gonadal steroidogenesis in boars and gilts with reduced endogenous levels of GnRH-II receptor - Brett White (USA)
12:15 - 13:15Lunch
13:00 - 13:45Poster session I (flash talks): Farrowing, Lactation
Chair: Dominiek Maes (Belgium)
1Is Dexamethasone an alternative to improve farrowing kinetics and newborn piglet traits? - Fernando Bortolozzo (Brazil)
2Parity and metabolic profile, but not body weight loss, affect follicular development at Day 0 and Day 4 after weaning - Qi Yu (The Netherlands)
3Progesterone level in colostrum can predict the farrowing process of sows in a free farrowing system - Alexander Grahofer (Switzerland)
4Causes and risk factors associated with dystocia in sows housed in a free farrowing system - Alexander Grahofer (Switzerland)
5Effect of 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3-glycosides on postpartum health, uterine involution, and litter performance of sows in a free farrowing system - Alexander Grahofer (Switzerland)
6Sow body condition losses during first lactation impaired conceptus size on Day-8 post-ovulation - Hao Ye (The Netherlands)
7Farrowing traits associated with prolonged farrowing duration and high birth intervals in hyperprolific sows - Rafaella Carnevale (Brazil)
8Energy supplementation during farrowing improves piglets' viatlity and colostrum intake - Rafaella Carnevale (Brazil)
9Pose Estimation of the sow and piglets during free farrowing using deep learning - Stefan Björkman (Finland)
13:45 - 15:45Regulation of ovarian function
Chair: Clay Lents (USA)
13:45Follicle Development in Pigs: State of the Art - Rob Knox (USA)
14:25Physiological and molecular aspects of ovarian developmental competence post-weaning - Katja Teerds (The Netherlands)
15:05Hot Eggs - Negative impacts of heat stress on ovarian function in swine - Aileen Keating (USA)
15:45 - 16:15Break & Poster Viewing
16:15 - 17:154 Short (selected abstract) presentations
Chair: Ann Van Soom (Belgium)
16:15Influence of the parturition and different sow and piglet traits on uterine involution in a free farrowing system - Alexander Grahofer (Switzerland)
16:30Litter size affects nest-building behaviour in group-housed sows - Olli Peltoniemi (Finland)
16:45Effects of age, weight and backfat thickness at first service on litter size in first parity and proportion of sows serviced for second parity in Danish sows - Thomas S. Bruun (Denmark)
17:00Intrauterine growth restriction affects folliculogenesis, without compromising follicle population in gilts- Fernanda Almeida (Brazil)
17:15-17:45Use of sensors in pig production
Chair: Ann Van Soom (Belgium)
17:15The Use of Sensors in Pig Production - Ali Youssef (The Netherlands)
17:45End of the meeting day

Tuesday 6 June

08:45 - 10:00Highly Prolific Sows - Part 1
Chair: Billy Flowers (USA)
08:45Feeding the modern sow to Sustain High Productivity - Takele Feyera (Denmark)
09:30Managing modern sows in tropical environments - Padet Tummaruk (Thailand)
10:00 - 10:30Break & Poster Viewing
10:30 - 12:00Highly Prolific Sows - Part 2
Chair: Tim Safranski (USA)
10:30Nurse Sows for Super Numerous Piglets - Thomas Bruun (Denmark)
11:00Sow (reproductive) health during puerpartum - Stefan Björkman (Finland)
11:30Offspring of HPS: immunity of the newborn, birthweight, heterogeneous litters - Claudio Oliviero (Finland)
12:00 - 13:00Lunch
12:45 - 13:30Poster session II (flash talks): Semen, Hormonal
Chair: Chris Van Ginneken (Belgium)
1Modulation of boar sperm motility via the membrane receptor RAC-1 - Álvarez-Martín Úrsula (Spain)
2Correlation between the assessment of the reproductive system in gilts and the levels of Progesterone (P4), for the control of reproductive problems - Antonia Vela (Spain)
3Bisphenol A induces changes in motility parameters of boar spermatozoa - Luigi Maglie (Italy)
4Can antimicrobial peptides/proteins be an alternative to replace antibiotics in boar semen extenders? - Diana Carolina Angel Alarcon (Italy)
5A clinical application of serum progesterone strip test to determine reproductive status in replacement gilts - Preechaphon Taechamaeteekul (Thailand)
6Sirtuin 6 stimulates uterine luminal epithelial cell proliferation in the pig by promoting cell cycle progression - Magdalena Szymanska (Poland)
7Photoperiod influence in DNA fragmentation in boar spermatozoa - Ursula Alvarez (Spain)
8Diminished reproductive hormone concentrations in GnRHR-II knockdown gilts during the follicular phase of the estrous cycle may be attributed to reduced GnRHR-II levels in theca cells - Caitlin Ross (USA)
9The involvement of PROK1 in the regulation of porcine corpus luteum function - Agnieszka Waclawik (Poland)
13:30 - 15:30Male reproduction
Chair: Dominiek Maes (Belgium)
13:30Litter of origin effects on sow and boar productivity - Billy Flowers (USA)
14:10Capacitation Patterns - Karl Kerns (USA)
14:50Update on AI; semen, techniques and sow fertility - Ana Paula Mellagi (Brazil)
15:30 - 16:00Break & Poster Viewing
16:00 - 17:004 Short (selected abstract) presentations
Chair: Dimitri De Meyer (Belgium)
16:00The evaluation of an artificial intelligence system for estrus detection in sows - Steven Verhoeven (Belgium)
16:15Relationship between ultrasound image analysis of young boar testis and seminal quality - Gaetan Vetea Plichart (France)
16:30Season affects sperm chromatin structure in modern stud centers, differently for DNA damage and compaction - Felipe Martínez-Pastor (Spain)
16:45Refrigerated storage alters boar sperm DNA stability as determined by the oxidation status, fragmentation, and reduction of disulfide bonds - Felipe Martínez-Pastor (Spain)
17:00-17:45Semen production
Chair: Dimitri De Meyer (Belgium)
17:00New approaches in boar semen production - Martin Schulze (Germany)
17:30End of the meeting day

Wednesday 7 June

08:30 - 10:00Pregnancy - Part 1
Chair: Agniezska Waclawik (Poland)
08:30Role of mtDNA in pig oocyte quality and embryo development - Justin St John (Australia)
09:00Role of extracellular vesicles in early pregnancy - Monika Kaczmarek (Poland)
09:30Mechanisms regulating the initiation of porcine conceptus elongation - Jeremy Miles (USA)
10:00 - 10:30Break & Poster Viewing
10:30 - 11:30Pregnancy - Part 2
Chair: Inma Parrilla (Spain)
10:30Maternal immune response to allogenic embryos - Cristina Martinez (Sweden)
11:00Novel insights into embryo-maternal signalling during pregnancy establishment in pigs - Piotr Kaczynski (Poland)
11:30 - 12:002 Short (selected abstract) presentations
Chair: Fernanda Almeida (Brazil)
11:30Guanidino acetic acid supplementation to the diet of gilts improves gilt and nursery piglet performance -Lucio Araujo (Brazil)
11:45Effects of dietary fibers with different physicochemical properties on constipation, parturition duration, and the number of stillborn piglets in sows - Lu Dongdong (The Netherlands)
12:00 - 13:00Lunch
12:45 - 13:30Poster session III (flash talks): Nutrition, Placenta, Gestation, Embryo development
Chair: Geert Janssens (Belgium)
1Carry-over effect of feed levels in late gestation on subsequent lactation milk yield in sows - Takele Feyera (Denmark)
2Effects of supplementation of carbohydrate-rich pre-ovulation diet on metabolic hormones, follicle development, and subsequent reproductive performances of sows - Natchanon Dumniem (Thailand)
3Effect of flush feeding strategy prior to breeding on reproductive performance of hyperprolific gilts - Rafael Ulguim (Brazil)
4Processed soy ingredients may adequately replace soybean meal in sow transition diets - Elizabeth Hines (USA)
5LivaPig as a nutritional solution in late gestation helps to improve piglet birthweight and colostrum quality - Kaat Goris (The Netherlands)
6Placenta size does not fully explain birth weight variation in large litters - Pieter Langendijk (The Netherlands)
7Fatty acid transporters in the porcine endometrium: localization, profile of expression and possible regulation by conceptus signals - Agnieszka Blitek (Poland)
8miR-125b-5p affects molecular and morphological parameters of extracellular vesicles released by porcine trophoblast cells in vitro - Maria Guzewska (Poland)
13:30 - 15:45Pregnancy - Part 3
Chair: Cheryl Ashworth (UK)
13:30Metabolic Pathways in the Conceptus. Uterus and Placenta - Greg Johnson (USA)
14:00Sexual dimorphism at the maternal-conceptus interface - Claire Stenhouse (USA)
14:45 - 15:454 Short (selected abstract) presentations
Chair: Rod Geisert (USA)
14:45The importance of prostacyclin for endothelial cell functions in the porcine endometrium; its effect on angiogenesis-related processes - Agnieszka Blitek (Poland)
15:00Expression patterns of the three aromatase isoforms and effect of editing conceptus CYP19A2 expression on maintenance of pregnancy in the pig - Riley Sullivan (USA)
15:15Pig trophectoderm utilizes glucose-derived serine for one-carbon metabolism to support conceptus elongation - Heewon Seo (USA)
15:30Expression of TRIML2 in early conceptus development and placentation during pregnancy in the pig - Emily Eitel (USA)
15:45 - 16:15Break & Poster Viewing
Chair: Olli Peltoniemi (Finland)
16.15 - 17.00Pregnancy - Part 4
Chair : Olli Peltoniemi (Finland)
16:15Intrauterine growth restriction (IUGR) - Chris van Ginneken (Belgium)
17:00 - 17:30Closing session, next ICPR and International Organizing Committee business

SCIENTIFIC POSTERS

P1Is Dexamethasone an alternative to improve farrowing kinetics and newborn piglet traits? - Fernando Bortolozzo (Italy)
P2Parity and metabolic profile, but not body weight loss, affect follicular development at Day 0 and Day 4 after weaning - Qi Yu (The Netherlands)
P3Progesteron level in colostrum can predict the farrowing process of sows in a free farrowing system - Alexander Grahofer (Switzerland)
P4Causes and risk factors associated with dystocia in sows housed in a free farrowing system - Alexander Grahofer (Switzerland)
P5Effect of 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3-glycosides on postpartum health, uterine involution, and litter performance of sows in a free farrowing system - Alexander Grahofer (Switzerland)
P6Sow body condition losses during first lactation impaired conceptus size on Day-8 post-ovulation - Hao Ye (The Netherlands)
P7Farrowing traits associated with prolonged farrowing duration and high birth intervals in hyperprolific sows - Rafaella Carnevale (Brazil)
P8Energy supplementation during farrowing improves piglets' viatlity and colostrum intake - Rafaella Carnevale (Brazil)
P9Pose Estimation of the sow and piglets during free farrowing using deep learning - Stefan Björkman (Finland)
P10Modulation of boar sperm motility via the membrane receptor RAC-1 - Úrsula Álvarez-Martín (Spain)
P11Correlation between the assessment of the reproductive system in gilts and the levels of Progesterone (P4), for the control of reproductive problems - Antonia Vela (Spain)
P12Bisphenol A induces changes in motility parameters of boar spermatozoa - Luigi Maglie (Italy)
P13Can antimicrobial peptides/proteins be an alternative to replace antibiotics in oar semen extenders? - Diana Carolina Angel Alarcon (Italy)
P14A clinical application of serum progesterone strip test to determine reproductive tatus in replacement gilts - Preechaphon Taechamaeteekul (Thailand)
P15Sirtuin 6 stimulates uterine luminal epithelial cell proliferation in the pig by promoting cell cycle progression - Magdalena Szymanska (Poland)
P16Photoperiod influence in DNA fragmentation in boar spermatozoa - Ursula Alvarez (Spain)
P17Diminished reproductive hormone concentrations in GnRHR-II knockdown gilts during the follicular phase of the estrous cycle may be attributed to reduced GnRHR-II levels in theca cells - Caitlin Ross (USA)
P18The involvement of PROK1 in the regulation of porcine corpus luteum function - Agnieszka Waclawik (Poland)
P19Carry-over effect of feed levels in late gestation on subsequent lactation milk yield in sows - Takele Feyera (Denmark)
P20Effects of supplementation of carbohydrate-rich pre-ovulation diet on metabolic hormones, follicle development, and subsequent reproductive performances of sows - Natchanon Dumniem (Thailand)
P21Effect of flush feeding strategy prior to breeding on reproductive performance of hyperprolific gilts - Rafael Ulguim (Brazil)
P22Processed soy ingredients may adequately replace soybean meal in sow transition diets - Elizabeth Hines (USA)
P23LivaPig as a nutritional solution in late gestation helps to improve piglet birthweight and colostrum quality - Kaat Goris (The Netherlands)
P24Placenta size does not fully explain birth weight variation in large litters - Pieter Langendijk (The Netherlands)
P25Fatty acid transporters in the porcine endometrium: localization, profile of expression and possible regulation by conceptus signals - Agnieszka Blitek (Poland)
P26miR-125b-5p affects molecular and morphological parameters of extracellular vesicles released by porcine trophoblast cells in vitro - Maria Guzewska (Poland)
P27Improving colostrum quality and neonatal piglet immunity with algal Beta-1,3- glucans - Karen Vermeulen (Belgium)
P28Comparison between two different time-lapse systems (Geri and Embryoscope+) in intracytoplasmic sperm injection-derived porcine embryos - Raffaella Simone (Germany)
P29The probiotic feed additive Bacillius licheniformis DSM 28710 in late gestating and lactating sows increased pre-weaning piglet performances under tropical climate - Morakot Nuntapaitoon (Thailand)
P30Preliminary in vitro study on the effect of natural protein against bacterial pathogens in boar semen - Diana Angel (Italy)
P31Contribution of fetal genome and sex to late gestation endometrial gene expression - Agnes Bonnet (France)
P32Characterization of the endometrial metabolome in late gestation - Agnes Bonnet (France)
P33Backfat thicknesses of 12-20 mm at farrowing maximizes litter gain in Danish sows - Thomas S. Bruun (Denmark)
P34Follicular fluid steroid hormones and in vitro embryo production in Duroc and Landrace pigs - Reina Jochems (Norway)
P35Neonatal metabolic profiling shows relationships between metabolites and biometric phenotypes related to piglet maturity at birth - Laurence Liaubet (France)
P36Effects of parity number, litter size and induced parturition on farrowing duration of hyperprolific sows in tropical environment - Preechaphon Taechamaeteekul (Thailand)
P37Extensive mycotoxin biomonitoring survey in swine and link to reproductive dysregulations - Arnau Vidal (Belgium)
P38The cytokine gene expression profile in peripheral blood mononuclear cells differs between embryo-bearing and non-inseminated sows - Maria Antonia Gil (Spain)
P39Impact of gestational age, fetal size and fetal gender on uteroplacental histology - Fernanda Almeida (Brazil)
P40Intrauterine growth restriction modifies adiposity and metabolic in pigs during postnatal development - Fernanda Almeida (Brazil)
P41Management practices related to estrus stimulation and detection in sow farms - Elise Bernaerdt (Belgium)
P42Underweight piglets: born to live or die? - Jackeline Hornstra (The Netherlands)
P43Characterization of mRNA expression for key glycerophospholipid and sphingolipid enzymes within trophectoderm and embryonic disc during initiation of porcine conceptus elongation - Jeremy Miles (USA)
P44Early weaning strategy combined with Regumate® in primiparous sows: Impact on body condition, follicular dynamics and the next reproductive performance - Antonio Vela Bello (Spain)
P45Effects on fertility and litter size of a boar carrying a reciprocal translocation depending on its involment in total matings and the time of oestrus in which it participates - Raúl Sánchez Sánchez (Spain)
P46Identification of novel porcine ovarian granulosa cell CCAAT enhancer binding protein beta target genes regulated by cyclic adenosine monophosphate - Holly LaVoie (USA)
P47Application of BayesPulse and Pulsar Otago to quantify luteinizing hormone pulses in ovariectomized gilts - Clay Lents (USA)
P48Strategic farrowing surveillance decreases the number of stillborn piglets in hyper-prolific sows - Thomas S. Bruun (Denmark)
P49Feeding a low concentration of docosahexaenoic acid in combination with organic zinc and organic selenium in early pregnancy did not affect piglet birth weight - Thomas S. Bruun (Denmark)
P50Increasing the daily feed allowance and fiber intake with 33% the last 3-6 days prior to farrowing reduced still born piglets in hyper-prolific sows - Thomas S. Bruun (Denmark)
P51Effect of feeding organic trace minerals in chelated or glycinated form to sows on piglet birth weight and vitality - Anja Strathe (Denmark)
P52Stillbirths and premature farrowing in organic sow farms due to riboflavin deficiency - Dominiek Maes (Belgium)
P53Longer uterine horns and oviducts identified in dam line sows compared to sire line sows - Reina Jochems (Norway)
P54In search of an animal model for intra uterine growth restriction to study differences in morbidity and mortality between male and female neonates - Lieselotte Van Bockstal (Belgium)
P55Impact of altrenogest use during lactation on the reproductive performance of primiparous sows - Fernanda Almeida (Brazil)
P56Feeding a glycemic diet during the weaning-to-estrus interval increased litter size but not birth weight - Anja Strathe (Denmark)
P57Pig conceptuses release extracellular vesicles containing interferon gamma into the uterine lumen for paracrine communication with the endometrium - Joe Cain (USA)
P58Intrauterine insemination may reduce fertility - Flemming Thorup (Denmark)
P59Mammary development in sows from first to fourth parity - Flemming Thorup (Denmark)
P60Impact of age, origin at birth and housing system for boars in the bacterial contamination, quality and number of semen doses - Guilherme Rizzoto (Belgium)

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