Projects

Project 7

Heat stress in bulls: impact of DNA methylation, sncRNAs and extracelular vesicles on semen and embryo quality

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Host Institution:
CRV (Arnhem, Netherlands)

Supervisor: Dr. Marleen Broekhuijse

Co-supervisor: Dr. Ann Van Soom | Dr. Sebastian Canovas

Mentor: Dr. Amelie Bonnet-Garnier

Institution of enrolment:
CRV-Netherlands
Other institutions involved/secondments:
University of Gent-UGENT
INRAE- Jouy-en-Josas
UMU (Spain)

Enrolment in Doctoral degrees: UGENT (Life Sciences)-UMU (Biology and Technology of Reproductive Health)

OBJECTIVES

  1. Evaluate the incidence of chromosomal aberrations (e.g., mixoploidy) in bovine embryos produced by AI, MOET or IVF
  2. Compare the transcriptomic and epigenetic profile of bovine conceptuses