Laura Abril-Parreño

About

Dr Abril-Parreño is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Reproductive Physiology, University of Murcia (Spain). Currently, her research is focused on the optimization of bovine in vitro embryo production using oviductal and uterine fluids as supplementation of the culture media. Dr Abril-Parreño is trained in human andrology and embryology as well as in ancillary egg, embryo and sperm freezing techniques, having worked at a leading Spanish fertility clinic (IVI; 2016) as well as at the Laboratory of Reproductive Medicine, Pilsen, Czech Republic (2016-2017). In 2021, she completed her PhD which was focused on sperm transport across the cervix of ewe breeds known to have differences in pregnancy rates following cervical artificial insemination with frozen-thawed semen. Through this, she has developed skills in a range of Omics technologies (transcriptomics, glycomics, metabolomics) as well as ultra-performance liquid chromatography (UPLC) and mass spectrometry (MS). In addition, Dr Abril-Parreño has been awarded travel grants for young researchers from Santander (Spanish bank; 2015) as well as the ASEBIR (Spanish Association for the Study of Reproductive Biology; 2016) to work on the development of protocols for semen preservation. She is a member of the Spanish Association for the study of Reproductive Biology (ASEBIR), part of the organizing committee of the COST Action ANDRONET (European andrology network– research coordination, education and public awareness) and a member of the executive board of the Applied Animal Andrology Association.