tentative program

TENTATIVE PROGRAM SCHEDULE
NAAB 25th TECHNICAL CONFERENCE
ON ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION AND REPRODUCTION
Radisson Hotel and Conference Center, Green Bay, WI
Wednesday Afternoon – Sept. 24, 2014
Seneca/Mohawk/Onondaga
Thursday Morning—Sept. 25, 2014
Huron/Ontario/Michigan
Dr. Karin E. Krieger,
Session Chair
Semen Quality Workshop
Bill Beckman, Dr. Leo Brito
Session Chairs
8:00 AM
1:00-1:30 PM “Use of Flow Cytometry for Semen
Evaluation”
Dr. Duane Garner, GametoBiology
Consulting, Graeagle, CA
“Welcome”
Keith Heikes, CRI/Genex Cooperative,
Shawano, WI
8:10 AM
“Council on Dairy Cattle Breeding
Structure”
Dr. Gordon Doak, NAAB, Columbia,
MO
8:40 AM
“The Cooperative Dairy DNA
Repository (CDDR) – How it has
helped the AI Industry”
Dr. Kent Weigel, University of
Wisconsin, Madison, WI
9:10 AM
“Safety Training Concepts When
Working with Bulls in an AI Center”
Dr. Don Monke, Select Sires, Inc.,
Plain City, OH
9:40 AM
“Introduction of Student Posters”
Dr. John Parks, Cornell University,
Ithaca, NY
9:55 AM
Morning Milk and Coffee Break
10:25 AM
“The Importance and Challenges of a
Beef Sire Fertility System”
Dr. David Patterson, University of
Missouri, Columbia, MO
10:55 AM
“Regulation of Sperm Movement Into
and Through the Bovine Oviduct”
Dr. Susan Suarez, Cornell University,
Ithaca, NY
11:45 AM
NAAB Awards Luncheon
1:30-2:00 PM “Automated Sperm Motility
Analysis”
Dr. Dagmar Waberski, University of
Veterinary Medicine Hannover,
Hannover, Germany
2:00-2:30 PM “Automated Sperm Morphology
Analysis”
Dr. Gerhard van der Horst, University
of the Western Cape, South Africa
2:30-3:00 PM Afternoon Break
3:00-3:30 PM “Visual Estimation of Fresh and
Frozen Semen Motility”
Dr. Rick Lenz, Sexing Technologies,
Inc., Navasota, TX
3:30-4:00 PM “Visual Evaluation of Sperm
Morphology”
Dr. Leo Brito, ABS Global,
DeForest, WI
4:00-4:30 PM “Quality of the Physical Package:
Filling, Sealing and Straw Handling”
Dr. Karin E. Krieger, CRI/Genex
Cooperative, Shawano, WI
Thursday Afternoon—Sept. 25, 2014
Ontario/Michigan
Thursday Afternoon—Sept. 25, 2014
Tuscarora/Oneida
Barn Breakout Session
Lab Breakout Session
Bill Beckman,
Session Chair
Dr. Rick Lenz,
Session Chair
2:00 PM
“Hoof Trimming and Bull Locomotion”
Dr. Roger Weigle, CRI/Genex Cooperative,
Shawano, WI
2:30 PM
“Campylobacter fetus/Mount
Disinfectants”
Dr. Tony Good, Select Sires, Inc.,
Plain City, OH
3:00 PM
“Different Collection Techniques Used on
Challenging Bulls”
John Schenk, Accelerated Genetics,
Baraboo, WI
2:00 PM “New Advances in High Productivity and
High Efficiency Sperm Sorting”
Dr. Thom Gilligan, Sexing Technologies,
Navasota, TX
2:30 PM “Sperm-Oocyte Recognition, Binding, and
Penetration – Where the Rubber Meets the
Road”
Dr. John Parks, Cornell University,
Ithaca, NY
3:30 PM
“Introduction of Student Posters”
3:00 PM “Functional Genomics of Bull Fertility”
Dr. Erdogan Memili, Mississippi State
University, Mississippi State, MS
3:35 PM
Afternoon Milk and Coffee Break
3:30 PM “Introduction of Student Posters”
4:05 PM
“Teaser Animal Selection”
Les Hutchens, Reproduction Enterprises,
Stillwater, OK
3:35 PM
Afternoon Milk and Coffee Break
4:05 PM
“Sperm Motility Subpopulations and
Fertility”
Dr. Gerhard van der Horst, University of the
Western Cape, South Africa
4:20 PM
5:00 PM
“Nutritionally Enhancing Semen
Production: In Utero and Beyond”
Dr. John Kastelic, University of Calgary,
Alberta, CANADA
Happy Hour
4:35 PM “Customer Expectations in Using Young
Sire and Sexed Semen in Embryo Transfer
and IVF”
Dr. Mark Allan, TransOva Genetics,
Souix City, IA
5:00 PM Happy Hour
Friday Morning—Sept. 26, 2014
Huron/Ontario/Michigan
Les Hutchens,
Session Chair
8:00 AM “Sexed Ultra – Raising the Fertility Bar of
Sex Sorted Sperm”
Dr. Vish Vishwanath,
Sexing Technologies, Inc., Navasota, TX
8:30 AM “Global Disease Threats (SBV,
Testing/Imports; Other FAD Diseases;
Emergency Response Plan)”
Dr. Jim Meronek, ABS Global,
DeForest, WI
9:00 AM “Quality Assurance in EU Pig AI Centers”
Dr. Dagmar Waberski, University of
Veterinary Medicine Hannover,
Hannover, Germany
9:40 AM
Morning Milk and Coffee Break
10:10 AM “Overview of the AI Industry in South
Africa”
Dr. Gerhard van der Horst, University of the
Western Cape, South Africa
10:50 AM “Technologies on the Horizon”
Dr. John Verstegen, MofA,
Verona, WI
11:20 AM “Closing Remarks”
Dr. Karin E. Krieger, CRI/Genex
Cooperative, Shawano, WI