Welcome to the ECAR Summerschool 2024

The ECAR Summerschool will be organized on May 29th and 30th at the Agro-Vet Strickhof in Lindau,

Just before the 2nd ECAR Symposium (May 31st and June 1st).

Adress of the venue

Forum

Agro-Vet Strickhof

Eschikon 21

CH-8315 Lindau

How to go there

We recommend that you stay in Zurich because there are not many possibilities in the area of the venue.

The Strickhof can be reached from Zürich by train and then by bus. Depending from where in Zürich you will be, it would usually take 30 to 45 minutes to go there.

Directions from Zürich Main Station:

  • Train S7 (→ Winterthur) to Effretikon Station OR train S8 towards Effretikon;
  • Effretikon Station: Bus 656 (→ Breite b. N.) to Lindau Eschikon (Bus stop “Agro-Vet Strickhof”)

Programme

May 29th

  • 8:00 – 8:30: Registration and welcome
  • 8:30 – 9:00: Opening session
  • 9:00 – 10:45: Maternal recognition of pregnancy and maintenance of pregnancy, comparative
  • 10:45 – 11:00: Coffee break
  • 11:00 – 12:45: Male Breeding soundness and AI, comparative
  • 12:45 – 13:45: Lunch
  • 13:45 – 15:15: Cryopreservation and assisted reproductive technology
  • 15:15 – 15:30: Coffee break
  • 15:30 – 17:15: Mock Exam
  • 19:00: Social dinner

May 30th

  • 8:30 – 12:45 Practical exercises in small groups (coffee breaks in between):

– Ovum Pick-up in cattle –demonstration in a cow
– In-vitro fertilization (cattle) – laboratory
– Flowcytometry of semen – laboratory
– Advanced-ultrasound in the mare

  • 12:45 – 13:45: Lunch
  • 13:45 – 14:45: Preparation of Clinical cases
  • 14:45 – 16:00: Evaluation and discussion of clinical cases
  • 16:00 – 16:30: Tour around the research-farm facilities of Agro-Vet Strickhof

Registration Fees (including social dinner)

Early registration: before April 15th – 150 Euros

Late registration: after April 15th – 250 Euros