CryoStore Final conference
16–17 February 2027
Norwegian University of Life Sciences
Ås, Norway
Join us for the final conference of the CryoStore Doctoral Network, bringing together researchers, industry, and stakeholders to showcase the latest advances in cryopreservation and animal genetic resource conservation.
Program
16 February
CryoStore Doctoral Research Symposium
Presentations by all 10 CryoStore PhD researchers, highlighting their research projects and key findings.
Sheyda Shapouri (NMBU)
Paulina Pyrek (NMBU)
Oleksandra Hubenia (LUH)
Abdul-Rashid Iddi (LUH)
Mafalda Almeida (INRAE)
João Gil Gomes Ferreira (USB)
Mahsa Abdi (WUR)
Firouzeh Sadeghzadeh (SYSAAF)
Linde Rombaut (INIAV)
Batuhan Kaplan (INRAE)
17 February
Invited Speaker Sessions
Sipke Joost Hiemstra (Wageningen University & Research)
Cryopreserved Germplasm and Animal Conservation: Recent developments, biobanks, bottlenecks and future priorities
Elsa Cabrita (University of Algarve)
Fish Germ Cell Cryopreservation, Cryobanking and Cryodamage
Karolien Desmet (GENO)
The Importance of CryoStore from an Industrie’s Perspective
Practical information
When
16 February:
09:00 - 16:30
19:00 Dinner in Oslo
17 February:
09:00 - 13:00
14:30 Semiannual meeting of the CryoStore Supervisory Board and General Assembly
Where
Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine
Elizabeth Stephansens vei 15
1433 Ås, Norway
How to get there
Option 1:
From Oslo Central Station (Oslo S), take the R21 Train to Ås station (direction Moss). The train normally takes just 17 minutes.
From Ås station, you can either walk 2,1 km to the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine or take the 510 bus from Ås high school (Ås videregående skole) to Universitetet i Ås (750 m to the location) or Vollebekk (400 m to the location). From there, it is a short walk to the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine.
Option 2:
From Oslo Central Station (Oslo S), take any train to Ski station. The train normally takes just 11 minutes.
From Ski, take the 510 bus from Ski stasjon Jernbaneveien (direction Drøbak - Frogn vgs. or Universitet i Ås) to Universitetet i Ås (750 m to the location) or Vollebekk (400 m to the location). Walk the rest of the way to the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine.
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon Europe program, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions, under Grant Agreement No 101120454