CRU's
Postgraduate Research School
in Reproductive Biology

Welcome to the CRU Postgraduate Research School in Reproductive Biology. We organize seminars, workshops and courses for postgraduate students, their supervisors and others who might be interested. CRU-members are invited to contact CRU to give suggestions about these events.
Comparative aspects between different species are of principal interest throughout most of our activities.
Our program is open to anybody who is interested to join. It is possible to enrol whenever you like. 

Program directors:

Dr Matts Olovsson  MD, Assist Prof
Department of Women’s and Children’s Health
Uppsala University
Uppsala
Matts.Olovsson@kbh.uu.se

Dr Eva Axnér  DVM, PhD, Dipl. ECAR
Department of clinical sciences
Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU)
Uppsala
Eva.Axner@kv.slu.se 

Participating universities:
Uppsala University
Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, SLU

Postgraduate research school components:

Lunch seminars, workshops, courses and other activities.

Lunch seminars
The seminars are given on a monthly basis, preferably by PhD students during their last year. The idea is to give PhD students an opportunity to present and discuss their research with an interested audience, and to offer the CRU members opportunities to update on and discuss current research. The topic should be reproductive biology in a broad sense. The speaker is supposed to send a short abstract (½-1 page) to CRU a week before the seminar. The abstract will be available at the CRU website. The seminars are free of charge.

Format for lunch seminars:
12-12.15: Sandwiches and soft drinks supplied by CRU.
12.15: The speaker is introduced by the moderator (often the main supervisor). The speaker gives her/his presentation (30 min.)
12.45-13.00: Questions and discussion.

The attendance of at least 80% of the CRU lunch seminars during one calendar year will render the attendant one ECTS. To have a CRU lunch seminar will render the lecturer one ECTS.
For more information about upcoming seminars, please check CRU’s calendar).

Workshops
They are usually given as half day programs 3-4 times per year. There is usually an initial lecture concerning the theoretical basis and then a number of short talks by users of the technique or whatever is the topic. The selection of topics is based on suggestions from the CRU Scientific Committee or from CRU members. Selected topics usually deal with different kinds of laboratory techniques and they are held on a practical basis. There is, however, usually no “hands on”. The workshops are free of charge.
Attendance usually gives 0.2 ECTS. 

• Introduction to ultrasound in obstetrics and gynaecology.
  May 23, 2008. Akademiska sjukhuset.

• Speciation – what should we learn in the next 40 years?
  Sept 20-23, 2006. EBC, UU.

• Introduction to Sperm Analysis.
  Apr 10, 2006. Lecture Hall L, SLU.

• Introduction to Image Analysis
  Feb 7, 2006, Gemzellsalen, Akademiska sjukhuset.

• Introduction to Confocal Microscopy
  Dec 6, 2005, Rosénsalen, Akademiska sjukhuset.

• ReproSafe associated workshops. (Link to ReproSafe’s activities).

Courses
PhD-courses are usually given once or twice a year. The topic differs from course to course and they are based on suggestions from the CRU Scientific Committee or from CRU members. Comparative aspects between different species such as humans, domestic animals, laboratory animals as well as wild animals are of principal interest throughout our courses.
Attendance usually gives 2-3 ECTS. 

• Reproduction and Epigenetics
  Oct 19-23, 2009
  Links to first call and programme

• Reproductive endocrinology in vertebrates
  June 3-8, 2007

• Fertilisation and implantation in mammals
  (Nov 27 - Dec 1, 2006)

• Reproduction and epigenetics. Interactions in embryonic and foetal development (2005)

• Reproductive Endocrinology in Vertebrates (2004)

• Reproductive techniques in conservation biology (2004)

• Comparative reproductive biology in mammals – the pregnant female (2003)

• ReproSafe-associated courses

Seminars and other activities
There are several seminars, symposia and other types of meetings that are either organized by CRU or announced via CRU's mailing list that also might be of interest to PhD-students and others. See CRU's calender (link).
They will not render any ECTS.