TIMETABLE 

  Monday - 15 Tuesday - 16 Wednesday -17 Thursday - 18
9:00   Physical Aspects of Freezing and Drying Cryobiology of Reproductive Cells and Embryos Scientific Basis of Cryosurgery and Cryomedicine
    PL5 PL8 PL10
9:30 Opening Ceremony Gregory Fahy (USA) John Critser (USA) John G. Baust (USA)
10:00 Life in Extreme Low Temperature Conditions PL6 PL9 PL11
  PL1 - Warwick Vincent (CAN) Monica Wusteman (UK) Maureen Wood (UK) Jean-Paul Homasson (F)
11:00 Coffee Break Coffee Break Coffee Break Coffee Break
11:30 PL2 - Chandra Wickramasinghe (UK) Symposium Symposium Symposium
 12:30 Symposium A) Cryopreservation Solutions and Protocols A) Cryopreservation of  Oocytes & Embryos  A) Cryosurgery and Cryomedicine
A) Life at Low Temperature I  B) Low Temp. Chemistry & Physics of Biomolecules  B) Cryopreservation of  Spermatozoa B) Cryopreservation Procedures
B) Life at Low Temperature II
13:00 Lunch Lunch Lunch Lunch
14:30 Life in Extreme Low Temperature Conditions Physical Aspects of Freezing and Drying   Ethical Implications of Cryobiology
  PL3 PL7   PL12
  Kenneth Storey (CAN) Dirk Hincha (D)    Mike West (USA)
15:30 PL4 Symposium   Symposium
  Karl Zachariassen (NOR) A) Effects of Freezing and Drying in Cells   A) Low Temperature Storage of Human Embryos
16:00 B) Organs & Tissues Cryoprotection Coffee Break
16:30 Coffee Break Coffee Break Posters PL13
17:00 Symposium Symposium   Maurice de Wachter (B)
  A) Cryopreservation of Plants and Vegetal Cells A) Effects of Freezing and Drying in Cells  
  B) Mechanisms of Adaptation of Microorganisms  to Low Temperature and Cryopreservation of Microorganisms B) Organs & Tissues Cryoprotection   Closing Ceremony

 

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