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Genomics and sexed semen in dairy cattle Dr. Claire Ponsart Union Nationale des Coopératives d´Elevages et d´Insemination Animale, UNCEIA (France)

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Claire Ponsart’s area of research concerns animal breeding and artificial insemination. After being qualified as a veterinarian, her PhD thesis was dedicated to the use of flushing as a means to improve cyclicityCharacterizes what is cyclical: returns to regular intervals and is repeated in a cycle. Return to cyclicity is highly important in the post-partum phase. resumption in beef cattle. She joined France’s UNCEIA Research and Development department in 1998 with the responsibility of leading projects related to embryo production in cattle. In 2002, she was chosen to implement new practical tools in French breeding companies, aiming to improve fertilityAbility of a living organism to reproduce. From a zootechnical point of view: ability to give birth to a calf, a lamb, a goat or a piglet. within the UNCEIA Research and Development project called “FertilityAbility of a living organism to reproduce. From a zootechnical point of view: ability to give birth to a calf, a lamb, a goat or a piglet. at First”. Thus, Claire is interested in reproduction management, specifically looking at ways to achieve fertilityAbility of a living organism to reproduce. From a zootechnical point of view: ability to give birth to a calf, a lamb, a goat or a piglet. improvement together with genetic selectionStage of the Follicular wave in which 3 or 4 previously recruited follicles move from an FSH-dependent phase to an LH-dependent phase..

Since 2012, Claire was appointed Director of the National Laboratory for Health Controls in Breeding Stock (Laboratoire National de Contrôle des Reproducteurs, LNCR) involving pathogens related to the genital tract and management of sanitary status in AI centres and ET stations.