2025

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Activities 2025

  • Full title: 11th Meeting of the Nordic Centre for Fertility Preservation in Children after Childhood Cancer Treatment.
  • Date: 2025-02-05.

Desciption

We would like to welcome you all to a very exciting conference, the 11th Meeting of the “Nordic Centre for Fertility Preservation in Children after Childhood Cancer Treatment” (NORDFERTIL).

There will be variety of interesting talks, including presentations by Cecilia Lindskog (UU), Rod T. Mitchell (Edinburgh, UK), Stine Gry Kristensen (Copenhagen, Denmark), Joao Pedro Alves-Lopes (KI), Jan-Bernd Stukenborg (UU), and Weronica Ek & Kärstin Ödman Rydberg (Swedish Childhood Cancer foundation).

  • Date: 2025-02-25 
  • Speaker: Jane Morrell, Professor in Veterinary Reproductive Biotechnologies, SLU.
  • Date: 2025-03-05 
  • Speaker: Luisa Warchavchik Hugerth, Associate Senior Lecture at the Department of Medical Biochemistry and Microbiology, UU
  • Date: 2025-04-02 
  • Speaker: Paliz Nordlöf Callbo, MD and PhD student at the Department of Women’s and Children’s Health, UU
  • Date: 2025-04-09
  • Date: 2025-05-06 
  • Speaker: Fatih Özel, PhD student at the Department of Organismal Biology, Uppsala University.
  • Full title: Gender, sex, and reproduction: perspectives from different disciplines
  • Symposium in association with Fatih Özel’s disputation.
  • Date: 2025-05-15 

Description

This mini-symposium brings together diverse perspectives on gender diversity, gender dysphoria, intersex conditions, and female reproduction.

We will examine biological, medical, and sociocultural dimensions, addressing both clinical challenges and broader societal implications. Through interdisciplinary discussions, we aim to foster a deeper understanding of these complex issues and their impact on individuals and communities, involving attendees from various scientific disciplines.

  • Date: 2025-08-27

A joint event organized by Centre for Reproductive Biology in Uppsala (CRU) and Svensk Andrologisk Förening (SAF).

Date: 2025-10-08 

Speaker: Anusha Thakkutte Antony, PhD student at the Department of Medical Biochemistry and Microbiology, UU

  • Date: 2025-11-21 
  • Speaker: Ida Hallberg, PhD and researcher at the Department of Clinical Sciences, the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences.

 

  • Full title: Developmental origins of health and disease: Effects of environmental toxicants on reproduction
  • Date: 2025-12-01–05 
  • Credits: 1.5 ECTS

The aims of the course was to provide a broad knowledge of reproductive development and reproductive toxicity in vertebrates and to help build a base for collaboration among researchers in different fields of reproductive biology.

  • Full title: CRU / SWACCS networking symposium on environmental pollution and reproduction
  • Date: 2025-12-04

The networking meeting was arranged with SWACCS (Swedish Academic Consortium on Chemical Safety). 

  • Date: 2025-12-10 
  • Speaker: Lydia Wehrli, Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Department of Women´s and Children´s Health, Karolinska Institutet.

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