Event and place.

The 15-th Annual Conference of the European Society for Domestic Animal Reproduction (ESDAR) was held in September, 15th - 18th 2011, in Antalya, Turkey.

The Conference was attended by more than 300 scientists and professionals from European and other countries all over the world working in the field of animal reproduction. 

Scientific programme

The scientific program of the Conference was scheduled in 3 plenary sessions, 6 sessions of short oral communications, 12 workshops and 4 poster sessions.

The plenary sessions focused on the following problems:

• Cattle Reproduction
• Early Pregnancy in Farm Animals
• Biotechnology

Topics of the parallel Workshops were the as follows:

• Follicular dynamics in cattle
• Molecular implications of canine placental endocrine function
• Reproduction in Small Ruminants
• Sperm Mediated Gene Transfer
• In vitro embryo production: comparison among species
• Modulating Immunity In The Mammary Gland
• Maternal Recognition of Pregnancy in the mare
• Shifting sex ratios in high performance cattle
• Reproduction and fertility in post-partum dairy cows
• Advanced AI systems in sows and gilts: an update
• Osmotic tolerance limits for stallion sperm
• New traits and tools in the genetic selection for improved reproductive performance of dairy cows

During the Poster sessions 291 posters were presented.

Scientific presentation from IBIR, supported under the ReProForce project

The 15-th Annual Conference of the European Society for Domestic Animal Reproduction was attended by Kiril Shumkov, DVM, junior scientist at IBIR, who presented co-authored research in the Poster session entitled:

Dose dependent effect of Tribulus terresttris L. extract on the ovarian activity in rabbits.
D. Kacheva1, E. Kistanova1, G. Valchev2, K. Shumkov1, D. Abadjiev1, B. Georgiev1.
1. Institute of Biology and Immunology of Reproduction, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria
2. Institute of Animal Science, Bulgarian Agriculture Academy, Kostinbrod, Bulgaria