Inicio de sesión
Animal Reproduction​​

Animal Reproduction​​

The Animal Reproduction Department of INIA studies both basic and applied aspects of reproduction in farm and wildlife animals. We are particularly interested in the development and application of assisted reproductive technologies (e.g. cryopreservation of gametes and embryos, AI, IVF, MOET and sperm and embryo sexing) to animal production and conservation.

Dimitrios Rizos

DIMITRIOS RIZOS

​Jefe depaRtamento​

Ubicación

​Avda. Puerta de Hierro, nº12, local 10. 28040 MADRID (España)

91 3473768

Noticia
Animal Reproduction brochure

The Animal Reproduction Department is located on the Campus of the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM), close to the Veterinary Faculty, and belongs to the Moncloa Campus, which is one of the main Spanish Campus of International Excellence. The Department addresses different aspects of reproductive physiology and biotechnologies in different animal species in order to understand the basic mechanisms that regulate fertility and embryonic development, conserve animal genetic resources and biodiversity, promote animal welfare, optimize animal production and developing new reproductive biotechnologies for use in improving the reproductive efficiency of animals in the face of new challenges in animal production, conservation, assisted reproduction, sustainable development and the impact of environmental changes.

Research

Multidisciplinary research activities are developed in the Department through different specialized work groups in various areas of knowledge related to physiology, pathology, and technology reproductive in different animal species. The work focuses on developing innovative practices in animal reproduction and subsequent promoting of research transference to satisfy the demands on livestock production and for animal conservation.

  • Líneas de investigación:

    • Sperm, Egg, sperm, and Embryo Development

    • Ecology and control of Ixodidae ticks

    • Germplasm Conservation

    • Assisted Reproduction

    • Genomic Edition and Transgenesis

    • Translational Reproductive Biotechnology

    • Genetic and Epigenetic of Infertility

    • Reproductive Development and Differentiation

​Instalations

The Department has two singular facilities:
Experimental farm and establishment of laboratory animals from SGIT, which includes livestock species (swine, sheep, goat, and poultry), wild species (mouflon, Iberian ibex) and laboratory animals (mouse, hamster, rabbit).
Genetic resource bank (germplasm, embryos, and somatic cells) from INIA, which includes genetic samples from native breeds in danger of extinction, wild game species, and endangered /extinct wildlife species. ​​
  • Álvaro Martínez Moro (2023)
    Parámetros moleculares de competencia ovocitaria en las células del cúmulo humanas y bovinas
    Dirección: Pablo Bermejo Álvarez | UCM - Facultad de Veterinaria
  • Ismael Lamas Toranzo (2020)
    Desarrollo y aplicación de la tecnología CRISPR para el estudio de procesos reproductivos en mamíferos
    Dirección: Pablo Bermejo Álvarez | UCM - Facultad de Veterinaria
  • Yulia Nathaly Cajas Suárez
    Functional analysis of the effect of Nobiletin on preimplantation bovine embryo development
    Dirección: Dimitrios Rizos (RA-INIA) - Maria Encina Gonzalez Martinez & José Manuel Bautista (UCM) | Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM)
  • Beatriz Rodriguez AlonsoDirección: Dimitrios Rizos (RA-INIA) - Pat Lonergan (UCD, Ireland) - Manuel Aviles (UMU) | University College Dublin (UCD), Ireland
  • Sandra Bages Arnal Dirección: Dimitrios Rizos (RA-INIA) - Pat Lonergan & Trudee Fair (UCD, Ireland) | University College Dublin (UCD), Ireland
  • Meriem Hamdi
    Bovine embryo-maternal interaction: implications for embryo development and quality
    Dirección: Dimitrios Rizos (RA-INIA) | Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM)
  • Viviana Torres Osorio
    Efecto del resveratrol sobre la cantidad y calidad de embriones bovinos producidos in vitro
    Dirección: Dimitrios Rizos & Alfonso Gutiérrez-Adán (RA-INIA) - María Jesús Sánchez Calabuig (UCM) | Univeridad Nacional de Colombia, Medellin
  • Análisis del establecimiento de la longitud telomérica durante el desarrollo temprano en los mamíferos
    Dirección: Alfonso Gutiérrez-Adán & Dimitrios Rizos & Pablo Berméjo Álvarez (RA-INIA) | Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM)
  • Ricaurte Lopera Vasquez
    Embryo development in vitro in cattle: Role of oviduct cells, oviductal fluid and extracellular vesicles
    Dirección: Dimitrios Rizos & Miguel Ángel Ramírez de Paz (RA-INIA) | Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM)
  • Veronica Maillo Sevilla
    Maternal-Embryo Interaction and Consequences for Embryo Development in Cattle
    Dirección: Dimitrios Rizos (RA-INIA) - Pat Lonergan (UCD, Ireland) | Universidad de Murcia (UMU)
  • Maria Clemente
    Maternal-embryonic interaction in cattle: The role of progesterone and embryo quality in conceptus elongation during maternal recognition of pregnancy
    Dirección: Dimitrios Rizos & Julio de la Fuente (RA-INIA) | Universidad de Murcia (UMU)
  • Pablo Bermejo Alvarez
    Sex ratio control before fertilization and preimplantational sexual dimorphism in bovine” Universidad Complutense de Madrid
    Dirección: Alfonso Gutiérrez-Adán & Dimitrios Rizos (RA-INIA) | Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM)
  • Aitor Fernández Novo
    Mejora en los sistemas de manejo reproductivo y productivo en ganaderías de bovino españolas. Factores determinantes (2021)
    Dirección: Juan Vicente González Martín, Susana Astiz Blanco y Sonia S. Pérez Garnelo | INIA-CSIC. Facultad de Veterinaria, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
  • Jaume Gardela Santacruz
    Cold-inducible RNA binding protein: an RNA chaperone with potential roles in animal reproductive physiology
    Dirección: Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona/Facultad de Veterinaria
  • Mateo Ruiz Conca
    Mapping the glucocorticoids during reproductive events: checks and balances across species
    Dirección: Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona/Facultad de Veterinaria
  • Dispositivo para descongelación de píldoras espermáticas DDP-70
    Patente | ES1078200

​Services and Resources

    • Implementation of artificial insemination programs​

    • Assistance in sampling, design and application of tick control protocols, in vitro and in vivo miticide assays

    • Application of assisted reproduction techniques (ARTs) in cattle

    • Generation of genetically modified rabbits and sheep

    • Production and characterization of genetically edited and / or modified mice

    • Boar sperm cryopreservation. Establishment and monitoring of pig sperm bank

    • Quantitative and qualitative assessment of boar seminal doses

    • Sperm evaluation and preservation

    • Assessment of sire reproductive capacity

    • Identification of  breeding pigs carrying chromosome alterations that imply  reproductive failures

    • Determination of hormonal levels in biological fluids and body secretions

    • Genetic improvement programs  through reproductive biotechnology

    • In vivo embryo collection, evaluation, conservation and transfer

Recursos

Este sitio web utiliza cookies propias y de terceros para su funcionamiento y con el fin de analizar las páginas más visitadas. Puede aceptar o rechazar nuestras cookies haciendo clic en los botones a continuación o visitando nuestra página de política de cookies. Se aplica una opción predeterminada de 'no consentimiento' en caso de que no se haga una elección y un rechazo no limitará su experiencia de usuario. Si desea obtener más información sobre nuestra política de cookies, haga clic en el botón "Más información" a continuación.