Biennial Reproduction Symposium: Understanding how to limit early pregnancy losses in livestock - Sponsored by USDA

Chair(s)

• KP

  Ky Pohler

  Texas A&M University
  College Station, Texas

Presentations:

• 8:30 AM - 8:45 AM MT

  Biennial Reproduction Symposium Introduction
• 8:45 AM - 9:30 AM MT

  Current state of pregnancy loss in livestock
  

  Presenting Author: Ky G. Pohler – Texas A&M University
• 9:30 AM - 10:15 AM MT

  Role of the preovulatory follicle in oocyte metabolic and developmental competence for pregnancy
  

  Presenting Author: Sarah E. Moorey, MS, PhD (she/her/hers) – University of Tennessee
• 10:15 AM - 10:35 AM MT

  Biennial Reproduction Symposium AM Break
• 10:35 AM - 11:20 AM MT

  Differences in pregnancy loss between Bos indicus and Bos Taurus cattle
  

  Presenting Author: Vitor RG Mercadante – Virginia Tech - Animal and Poultry Sciences; Large Animal Clinical Sciences

  Author: Trinity Vidlund – Virginia Tech

  Author: Stefania Pancini – Virginia Tech

  Author: Damon Smith, BS – Texas A&M University

  Author: Sarah E. Moorey, MS, PhD (she/her/hers) – University of Tennessee

  Author: Alan Ealy – Virginia Tech

  Author: Fernando Biase – Virginia Tech

  Author: Ky G. Pohler – Texas A&M University

  Author: Cliff C. Lamb – Agri-Life Research, Texas A&M University
• 11:20 AM - 12:05 PM MT

  Awardee Talk: Pregnancy losses in Bos indicus-influenced cowherds
  

  Presenting Author: Reinaldo F. Cooke – Department of Animal Science, Texas A&M University

  Author: Jose Vasconcelos – Faculdade de Medicina Veterinária e Zootecnia, Universidade Estadual Paulista
• 12:05 PM - 1:30 PM MT

  Biennial Reproduction Symposium Lunch
• 1:30 PM - 2:15 PM MT

  Gestational heat stress: Implications for pregnancy success and offspring development in swine
  

  Presenting Author: Jay S. Johnson, PhD – University of Missouri

  Author: MaryKate Harrod Byrd – Purdue University
• 2:15 PM - 3:00 PM MT

  Contributions of sire diet to pregnancy establishment in cattle
  

  Presenting Author: Pedro Fontes, DVM, MS, PhD – University of Georgia
• 3:00 PM - 3:30 PM MT

  Biennial Reproduction Symposium PM Break
• 3:30 PM - 4:15 PM MT

  Infectious diseases and fertility
  

  Presenting Author: Andrea Sketch Lear – University of Tennessee
• 4:15 PM - 5:00 PM MT

  Awardee Talk: Goals, methods, and philosophy of graduate mentoring in reproductive physiology
  

  Presenting Author: Gary L. Williams, PhD PAS Dipl ACAS – Texas A And M University