Patricia Rodrigues

Lusofona University of Humanities and Tecnologies and CEMEARE, Lisbon

Dr. Patricia Rodrigues is a marine biologist turned embryologist who has always been passionate about cell communication and development. She stared working in reproduction and development in the Algarve University, in 1997 after completing her undergraduate in Marine Biology. Her work focused on checking the developmental stages of Norway lobsters gonads and trying to link it to female external body pigmentation for fishery application. She changed her area of research to mammals during her PhD under Dr. Rafael Fissore in the University of Massassuchtts – Amherst, in 1999. And continued till 2001 with Dr. Carlos Plancha at Lisbon University Medical School  and Dr. David Albertini in Tufts University - Boston, and Kansas University Medical Center – Kansas City. While finishing her PhD, Dr Rogrigues was invited to be an auxiliary professor of developmental biology in Lusofona University Lisbon. She has also started working in an assisted reproduction center in Lisbon – British Hospital Lisbon XXI, in 2008. Since then her time is divided between the work and researching as an embryologist at CEMEARE – Centro Médico de Assistência à Reprodução and teaching.

Santiago Alvarez

Universidad da Extremadura, Badajoz and IERA – Instituto Extremeño de Reproduccion Assistida, Badajoz and Lisbon

Dr. Santiago Alvarez is a full time professor of embryology at the School of Medicine of Univerdad da Extremadura since 1991. His field of research is reproductive biology. Since 2001 he is the scientific director of Instituto Extremeño de Reproduccion Assistida – Badajoz and Lisbon. He is also the scientific advisor Jesus Usón Minimally Invasive Surgery Centre (JUMISC), since 2015, where he directed several workshops in the field of assosted reproduction. Since 2011, he is the coordinator of the postgraduation course in Assisted Reproduction at the Universidad de Extremadura- Badjoz.