Progesterone & Pregnancy Maintenance

Effect of Progesterone Supplementation after Artificial Insemination on Pregnancy Maintenance    Prof. Patrick Lonergan University College of Dublin (Ireland)

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Patrick Lonergan received his Ph.D. from University College Dublin in 1992 in the area of in vitro production of bovine embryos. Following his Ph.D., he spent one year as a post doctoral fellow at the Norwegian College of Veterinary Medicine, Oslo and a further 4 years at L’Institut National pour la Recherche Agronomique (INRA), Tours, France, before returning to University College Dublin where he is now Professor of Animal Reproduction and part of a dynamic research group working on various aspects of cattle 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.. His main research interests are in factors affecting oocyteOvarian cell, the precursor of the ovum. competence and embryo development and quality and understanding the maternal-embryonic dialogue associated with successful establishment of pregnancy. He has published more than 170 peer-reviewed papers and has presented numerous invited lectures and more than 250 abstracts at international scientific meetings. He was awarded a DSc on published work in 2005. He has served on the boards of the European Embryo Transfer Association (www.aete.eu) and the International Embryo Transfer Society (www.iets.org) and was President of IETS in 2009.