“This meeting has a history of providing some of the most cutting-edge research results in equine reproduction. It’s generally at this meeting the latest information on equine reproduction is presented, which eventually results in new techniques being used in the industry in mares and stallions,” said Ed Squires, international chairman of the International Equine Reproduction Symposium Committee (IERSC), the organizing body of ISER. Squires is also the executive director of the UK Gluck Equine Research Foundation and the director of advancement and industry relations at the Gluck Center.

The first ISER meeting was in Cambridge, United Kingdom, in July 1974. The purpose of the meeting was to provide a forum for biologists and veterinarians interested in equine reproduction to exchange and argue their views; to review the current state of knowledge of the subject; to produce guidelines for future research; and to foster international friendship and collaboration.

Today, the meeting continues to bring together scientists and veterinarians from around the world and it provides a forum for exchange of information on clinical and basic research aspects of equine reproduction. The meeting covers experimental or clinical research in four areas: the non-pregnant mare, stallions, conception and early development, and the pregnant mare and perinatology