Paying it Forward

Associate Professor Sally Catt is researching sperm selection and needs able-bodied volunteers.

Her team is comparing a device called a Zymot with traditional density gradient testing. The Zymot separates sperm without the need for sperm-damaging centrifugation. 

Please donate and/or recruit donors within your networks.

Donors receive a complimentary extensive semen analysis and the Education Program in Reproduction and Development provides a $20 supermarket voucher for each donation.

Volunteering leaves people with a good feeling. This one, a very good feeling. 

Please apply via this form.

For any questions you may have please contact Associate Professor Sally Catt at sally.catt@monash.edu

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What is a ZyMot? A ZyMot is a device, also called a chip, which can be used in an IVF laboratory to prepare and select sperm for insemination by intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI).  A ZyMot relies on the sperm actively swimming through the membrane filter in the chip, demonstrating motility.

Please visit the EPRD web page for more information on the Education Program in Reproduction and Development.

 

Reproductive Biology Stars

Congratulations to the following Education Program in Reproduction and Development  (EPRD) staff members

• Kiri Beilby who had the following abstract accepted for oral presentation at ESHRE, June 2023. Beilby, K., & Hammarberg, K. (2023). O-089 Using ChatGPT to answer patient questions about fertility: the quality of information generated by a deep learning language model. Human Reproduction, 38(Supplement_1), dead093-103.
• Fab Horta presented his abstract 'Novel and scalable non-invasive metabolic imaging of early embryos using a lab-on-a-chip approach' at ESHRE, June 2023.  
• Will Leong had his abstract 'Common problems faced by Indian Assisted Reproductive Technologies laboratory professionals' accepted for presentation at ASPIRE, September 2023.
• Mulyoto Pangestu had his abstract 'Stress and occupation impair male infertility' M. Pangestu, A. Rahadian, Lestari, SW. accepted to present at ASPIRE September 2023.

Congratulations to our PhD students and a former MCE student

• Ezra Kneebone, PhD candidate, Dept of O & G, for having the poster 'Assessing mouse embryol metabolic activity and metabolic modulation through NAD(P)H with non-invasive adapted confocal microscopy' accepted and presented at ESHRE 2023.
• Hope Newman, PhD candidate, Dept of O & G, who will be presenting her poster ‘Assessing mouse embryo metabolic activity and metabolic modulation through NAD(P)H with non-invasive adapted confocal microscopy’ at the ASRM conference October 2023. 
• Mohamed Salih, PhD candidate, Dept of O & G, will be presenting his abstract 'Deep learning classification integrating embryo images with associated clinical information from IVF treatments' at ASPIRE, September 2023.
• Azelle Hawdon (former MCE student) won the FSANZ Best Scientific Paper award and FSANZ, June 2023.