Sunday 4. 10. 2026
14:00-16:30 Arrival
16:00-16:50 Registration
17:00-17:10 Welcome greetings
17:10-18:30 Conference opening lectures Lecture room
Chairperson: Kateřina Komrsková
17:10-18:00 Bruce D. Murphy: Differential regulation of ovarian events by two orphan nuclear receptors
18:00-18:30 Maria Emilia Solano: Postpartum immune responses after caesarean sections affect tissue healing and fertility
18:30-18:50 Flash talks (Young Scientist Competition) Lecture room
Vanessa Bočková: Expression of neuraminidases involved in glycocalyx modification during sperm maturation
Kateřina Němečková: Methodological approaches to assessing molecular changes in boar spermatozoa during their maturation
Natálie Hradečná: Functional Assessment of Lactadherin/MFGE8 and ZPBP as Candidate Sperm Zona Pellucida–Binding Proteins in Pigs
Simona Pikulová: The role of centrobin in spermatogenesis and sperm head-tail coupling
18:50-19:00 Short break
19:00-19:30 Welcome drink and singing performance by Catherine Elizabeth Hort
19:30 Dinner and Informal discussions
Monday 5. 10. 2026
8:00-9:00 Breakfast
9:00-9:50 State of the Art lecture Lecture room
Tzviya Zeev-Ben-Mordehai: Reproductive Structural Biology: from discovery to the clinic
Chairperson: Dominik Filipp
9:50-11:00 Lectures - block I Lecture room
Chairperson: Dominik Filipp, Bruce D. Murphy
9:50-10:20 Session opening talk
Ole Bjarne Christiansen: Neutrophils are strongly influenced after immunotherapy with intravenous immunoglobulin and prednisolone in ART patients with recurrent pregnancy loss
10:20-11:00 Short talks
10:20-10:40 Zdenka Ulčová-Gallová, Martina Hrubá: Infertility and immunogenetics. Examination of Killer immunoglobulin - like Receptors (KIR) in women and HLA-C in their partners
10:40-11:00 Tereza Tlapáková: Testicular tissue as a source of regenerative cells and a model of toxicant-induced disruption of tissue homeostasis
11:00-11:30 Coffee break and visiting sponsor’s exhibition Marble room
11:30-13:00 Poster session Marble room
Discussions and visiting sponsor’s exhibition
13:00-14:00 Lunch
14:30-15:20 Keynote lecture Lecture room
Udo Markert: Interactions of placenta-derived EVs with maternal immune cells
Chairperson: Tzviya Zeev-Ben-Mordehai
15:20-16:40 Lectures - block II Lecture room
Chairperson: Tzviya Zeev-Ben-Mordehai, Ole Bjarne Christiansen
15:20-15:50 Session opening talk
Nathalie Lédée: Beyond Embryo Quality: Endometrial Immunity and Embryo–Uterine Dialogue in Assisted Reproductive Technologies
15:50-16:40 Short talks
15:50-16:10 Ondřej Šanovec: Septin 12 as a new marker of sperm quality
16:10-16:25 Michaela Frolíková: Septin 12 localizes to the manchette and perinuclear ring during spermiogenesis
16:25-16:40 Pavla Postlerová: Molecular and functional characterization of extracellular vesicles isolated from boar reproductive fluids
16:45 Group photo shoot in the castle garden
17:00-17:30 Coffee break and visiting sponsors’ exhibition Marble room
17:30-18:50 Lectures - block III Lecture room
Chairperson: Udo Markert, Nathalie Lédée
17:30-18:00 Session opening talk
Roberta Bulla: The Role of the Complement System in Pregnancy: Insights into Preeclampsia and Antiphospholipid Syndrome
18:00-18:40 Short talks
18:00-18:20 Banan Alrawashdeh: CCR5/CCR6 Chemokine Receptor Profiles Differ by γδTCR Intensity but Remain Conserved Across Conventional and NK-like γδT Cells in First-Trimester Human Pregnancy
18:20-18:40 Zdeněk Trachtulec: Maternal Factors Shape the Fertility of the Rats Lacking the Meiotic Epigenetic Modifier PRDM9
18:40-18:50 Flash talks
18:40-18:45 František Liška: Centrobin in the protein interaction network in sperm head to tail connecting apparatus
18:45-18:50 Olga Teplá: Female age and blastocyst quality as determinants of embryonic euploidy: A multicentre PGT-A study and clinical estimation of the number of MII oocytes required to obtain one euploid embryo
18:50-19:00 Young Scientist Competition Winner Announcement
19:00 Buffet dinner
20:00 Music Entertainment
Tuesday 6. 10. 2026
8:00-9:30 Breakfast and check out
9:30-10:20 Keynote closing lecture Lecture room
Magdaléna Krulová: Small Fragments, Big Insights: Modeling Testicular Inflammation Ex Vivo
Chairperson: Roberta Bulla
10:20-11:30 Lectures - block IV Lecture room
Chairpersons: Roberta Bulla, Tereza Tlapáková
10:20-10:50 Session opening talk
Dominik Filipp: How Testicular Antigens Reach the Immune System: Cellular Pathways Across the Blood-Testis Barrier
10:50-11:30 Short talks
10:50-11:10 Jana Petrusová: Evolutionary conserved non-transcriptional function of Autoimmune regulator (AIRE) in male fertility
11:10-11:30 Kateřina Grygarová Contribution of cumulus cells to maturation of mtDNA-deficient oocytes
11:30-11:45 Closing remarks
12:00 Departure
Lunch optional – not included in conference official program
Poster session
*Young Scientist Competition
Poster 1 *Kristína Jančovičová: Induction of Treg-mediated Immune Tolerance to Germ Cell Antigens via transfer of Sertoli cell-produced neo-antigens to CD206+ Macrophages
Poster 2 *Pavla Tymich Hegrová: Carvacrol and Thymol in Boar Semen Preservation: Effects on Sperm Function
Poster 3 *Faheema Nafees: Differential Role of Complement Factor H and Properdin Against the Development of Preeclampsia
Poster 4 *Natálie Fikarová: Using Itaconate to Alleviate Testicular Inflammation
Poster 5 *Mohin Sethi: Regulation of spindle assembly and chromosome segregation in mammalian oocyte meiosis
Poster 6 *Patrik Fecko: Medium-Dependent Effects of Eugenol on Redox Homeostasis and Gene Expression in Porcine Cumulus-Oocyte Complexes
Poster 7 Alexandra R. Bartková: Effect of FGF2, LIF and IGF1 supplementation during in vitro maturation on oxidative stress and mitochondrial function in porcine oocytes
Poster 8 Eva Kriváková: Hyaluronan Remodeling Modulates Endometrial Receptivity and Trophoblast Attachment
Poster 9 Lukáš Kubala: Concentration-Dependent Effects of Inflammatory Signaling Reveal a Double-Edged Role in Endometrial Receptivity
Poster 10 Lukáš Děd: 3D insights into the sperm-egg interaction and fertilization
Poster 11 Ondřej Šimoník: Targeted Seminal Plasma Protein Re-Coating as a Strategy to Improve Cryosurvival of Sex-Sorted Bull Spermatozoa
Poster 12 Maryam Qasemi: Elucidating the precise binding site of hFCRL3 to hIZUMO1 by AVEXIS
