Welcome new IMIGC members and major website update
Our consortium has recently been expanded and we welcome new members Godfried van der Heijden, Stéphane Viville, Robert McLachlan, Kristian Almstrup and Lee Smith! With these additional experts joining our consortium we aim to further increase collaboration and data...
Need for development of clinical diagnostic techniques for infertile males
In this recent article the authors from the Münster group highlight the urgent need to further develop the clinical genetic diagnostic workup of infertile males beyond the unchanged practice of the last 20 years, which comprises solely screening for chromosomal...
Launch of the IMIGC consortium and website
In May 2017 at the International Congress of Andrology (ICA) in Copenhagen a number of scientists met to discuss the formation of an international consortium focused on studying the genetics of male infertility. Various formal and less formal collaborations were...
Events in male infertility and human genetics
As one of our goals, we want to draw attention to exciting meetings, courses and conferences in the field of male infertility and human genetics. As one example, IMIGC co-founder Joris Veltman is chair of the scientific programme committee of the European Society of...
Wellcome Trust award for research on male infertility genomics
At the end of 2017 Joris Veltman obtained a Wellcome Trust senior investigator award for research on male infertility genomics. The research, supported by collaboration with many IMIGC co-founders, will include sequencing the exomes and genomes of 1000 men with...
Special issue on male infertility genetics out @OAgenetics! Parts come from colleagues @infertilegenome and some from @MaleGermCells such as a current review on X-chromsomal factors: https://t.co/gF20oVlH8x https://t.co/D6o9rnvAeI
Save the Date - next Monday, Dec 7th, we will host a symposium at #Andrology2020, this year's digital congress highlight!
Interested in 'Genetics in Male Reproduction'? Join us! Congress fees are only 99€/149€ - so take your chance and register here: https://t.co/LIHtFn7S0V. https://t.co/slH7KKYFOt
Whole-exome sequencing already led to the identification of a multitude of novel candidate #genes in #infertile men. Together with @albertsalash et al., we can add three more to this list – TERB1, TERB2, & MAJIN.
Check out the #collaborative manuscript: https://t.co/dcEft2yXwm! https://t.co/p5BVBf0O7H
On day 3 of #FertilityWeek, take a look at the update session on #malefertility planned for Fertility 2021 Online in January.
The full programme can be found at https://t.co/BEpoaVHGQf
#YouAreNotAlone #MenMatter #Fertility2021 https://t.co/H3omb94bCr
For those interested in andrology (male reproductive health) sign up then login. The International Congress of Andrology. Dec 5-9
https://t.co/7ia2bfxbyc