History of ISER
How the Society Came to Be

It Started with a Symposium

How the Society Came to Be

The International Society for Equine Reproduction was formed in 2025, subsequent to discussions on advancement of equine reproduction education amongst members of the International Committee of the International Symposium on Equine Reproduction. The primary reason for forming the Society was to promote high-quality and far-reaching training and outreach. To achieve that goal, the Society will provide oversight and support to the once-every-four-years ISER Symposium, the International Symposium on Stallion Reproduction (ISSR), the International Symposium on Equine Embryo Transfer (ISEET), and will host one or more regional continuing education meetings in various geographic areas every year. 

The new ISER Society subsequently teamed with a professional management company to develop the Society website and the infrastructure for member benefits, as well as the logistical foundation for an organization dedicated to advancing the education of equine reproduction professionals throughout the world.

The society’s first educational foray was producing more than 200 educational equine reproduction webinars, which are now a key feature of ISER’s member-benefit package. The webinars are produced by leaders in the field and offer an amazing array of educational ventures for practicing veterinarians, reproductive scientists, and students interested in advancing their equine reproduction knowledge and skills.

ISER is your trusted partner in equine reproduction excellence, from the breeding farms of Kentucky to the research laboratories in Australia and everywhere in between. Throughout all endeavors, ISER aims to facilitate quality education on a global basis, host a group of like-minded individuals for information exchanges, and foster international collaboration and mentorship. Read our mission statement  to learn more about ISER’s goals.

Visit the International Symposium on Equine Reproduction’s history page to learn more about the history of the symposium.

ISER Founding Members

The ISER Society was established through the vision and dedication of pioneering veterinarians, researchers, and equine reproduction professionals from around the world.

These founding members recognized the critical need for a global organization to advance scientific knowledge, foster international collaboration, and promote excellence in equine reproduction. We honor their foresight and leadership in creating an organization that continues to drive innovation, discovery, and education in this vital field.

Mohamed Abdallah
Allouch Abdessalam
Tulio Acquarøne
Christine Adams
Omar Adel
Fernansa Affonso
Leonardo Agostinelli
Ricardo Agrícola
James Alexander Rodger
Fatima AlKetbi
Aurélie Allard
Carolina Alonso
Joana Alpoim-Moreira
Marco Alvarenga
Gabrielle Amorim
Fabio Amoroso
Ali Amparo
Laura Anderson
Jessica Andrea Vlek
Crina-Raluca Andrei
Daniel Angel Velez
Léa Ansart
Gustavo Antunes Gastal
Gustavo Araujo
Allison Arnott
Rodrigo Arruda de Oliveira
Maria Augusta Alonso
Cesar Augusto Camacho Rozo
Christine Aurich
Orpheu Avila Je
James Bailey
Hilda Baisel
Julhiano Baldan Rossini
Claudia Barbosa Fernandes
Breanna Barraclough
Peter Bartram
Brookelle Bartsch
Adam Bassett
Júlia Bavaresco
Theresa Beachler
Susanne Becker
Paula Bell-Cross
Hildur Benediktsdóttir
Francisco Benjamín Garrido Romero
Lara Bergamini
Lilli Bernardi
Jessica Berryman
Cam Best
Christian Bisiau
Jessica Bittner
Miguel Blanco
Terry Boretti
Janet Bowen
Anna Bowker
Amanda Bradbery
Jason Bradley
Beatriz Bringel
Charmaine Brown
Geoff Brown
Zach Bruggen
Sara Brunsden
Monika Bugno-Poniewierska
Chelsie Burden
Rachel Butterworth-Tice
Juan C. Samper
Márcio Calixto Matias
Elisa Calludrini
Margo Cangemi
Claire Card
Gustavo Carneiro
Christian Carrera
Joan Carrick
Alejandro Carrillo
Carolina Castagnetti
Catalina Castaneira
Barbara Castro
Hugh Cathels
Pascale Chavatte-Palmer
Celina Checura
Emma Chedgey
Anna Chiara Della Regina
Jared Christensen
Anthony Claes
Ashley Clarke
Milagros Clerc
Gabriel Clerico
Jennifer Clulow
Cameron Collins
Denis Coman
Enda Connole
Matthew Conrad
Tiberiu Constantin
Jessica Cook
Charles Cooke
Cecilia Cortina di Favria
Charles Coubrough
Sabrina Cousseau
Marco Coutinho da Silva
James Crabtree
Rebecca Crook
Gabrielle Cruz
Juan Cuervo-Arango
Bruna Curcio
Aznárez d´Aubarede Inés
Ariana Dadario
Peter Daels
Amanda de Mestre
Nilson de Jesus Baptista Ribas Neto
Paul de Vries
Tineke de Haan
Cassiano De Carvalho Lopes
Koen De Weer
Valdemar De Giuli Junior
Kentley Dean
Hans Delaunois-Vanderperren
Stefan Deleuze
Lukas Demattio
Neiva Deprá
Giovana Di Donato Catandi
Pouya Dini
Ewelina Dlugolecka
Dominika Domanska
Monica Domínguez Gimbernat
Katie Doran
Marta Dordas Perpinyà
Angie Doudle
Caitlin Doyle
Tori Doyle
Shiyu Duan
Kaatje Ducheyne
Caroline Duddy
Cam Duffy
Kate Dugher
Samantha Duigan
Ghislaine Dujovne
Jack Egan
Bryan Elliott
Amr Elshalofy
Hossam El-Sheikh Ali
Roberto Esposito
Luke Fallon
Diana Fanelli
Adrienn Farkas
Sandi Farris
Carleigh Fedorka
Keith Feister
Maria Fernanda Lopez
Lino Fernando Campos-Chillon
Angelo Ferrario
Sandra Fiala Rechsteiner
Luiz Fidelis
Sean Finan
Larry Findley
Ashleigh Fisher
Stephanie Fitzgerald
Fernanda Fleck
Robert Fleck
Caitlin Fletcher
Perla Fleury
Jessi Flynn

Alicia Foley
Seamus Foran
Robert Foss
Gian Franco Fonseca Zanon
Javier Funes
Federico Funghi
Yu Gao
Jóstynn García
Eduardo Gastal
Kirsten Gerth
Hanne Gervi Pedersen
Victor Giacomozzi Carrasco
Zamira Gibb
Emma Gillman
Megan Glowacz
Rafael Gomez Gomez
Concepcion Gomez-Cuetara
Gilvannya Gonçalves de Sobral
Jan Govaere
Anna Grabowska
Helen Graham
Derek Grant
Heather Grim
Christopher Grupen
Gilberto Guimarães Lourenço
Helena Guimarães
Paula Guttmann
Kirsten Hahn
Caitlin Harris
Ria Harteveld
Soodi Hastie
Jennifer Hatzel
Justin Hayna
Mohamed Hedia
Brian Heide
Babiche Heil Camilo Hernandez-Aviles
Carolina Herrera
Giovanni Herrera Romero
Françoise Hess-Dudan
Sarah Hicks
Clint Hilt
Ktistýna Hodinová
Theresa Hoyle
Lauren Huggins
Fabian Huwiler
Mohammad Ibrahim
Ilaria Imposimato
Yuji Inoue
Renee Jaklitsch
Juan Jose Vazquez
Marie Josee Proulx
Anne Josson-Schramme
Jaco Joubert
Egne Kahro
Martim Kaps
Maria Kareskoski
Katie Kaufman
Ants Kavak
Nicole Kelleher
Dale Kelley
Eric Klaui
Abby Klawes
Marieke Klein Lenderink
Barbara Knutti
Karoline Koether
Michaela Kölling
Rita Koncsag
Arie Koppe
Juliane Kuhl
Lilian Kurys-Romer
Joy L. Altermatt
Dmitry Lazarev
Aurore Le Breton
Sarah Le Breton
Elisabeth Leahy
Jennine Lection
Mia Lee
Gayle Leith
Christina Lewing
Jing Li
Thereza Lima
Michala Lindley
Giovanna Lino
Valerie Linse
Ema Listes
Marco Livini
Jorge Llort
Henrique Lof
Erin Lohbeck
Kristen Loncar
Gerald Longworth
Paul Loomis
Emma Lorenzen
Shavahn Loux
Jaymie Loy
Bianca Lueesse
Emily Lukas
Joao Luna
Isabella Lunardelli
Katelyn Lundquist
Joseph Lynch
Alice MacCormack
Gabriela Macecková
Margo Macpherson
Khalid Mahmood
Sidonie Maillard
Joseph Manning
Joséphine Marchand
Jose Maria Zeledon
Odilon Marquez de Oliveira
Richard Marrott
Celeste Martin
Elena Martinez de Andino
Soledad Martin-Pelaez
Jenni Marttila
Melanie Martyn
Hannah Maxwell
Sarah McCarthy
Patrick McCue
Angus McKinnon
Mark Meijer
Maria Melchert
Marcio Menezes Nunes
Lisa Metcalf
Brittany Middlebrooks
Péter Mikó
Alison Miles
Lynda Miller
Pablo Miranda Suazo
Thayna Miranda
Mahyar Mohammadyari
Gabriella Moller
Bree Moloney
Alicia Montesi
Maria Montserrat Rivera del Alamo
Hayley Moore
Peter Morresey
Lee Morris
Darla Moser
Julia Moslavacz de Sa
Jos Mottershead
Lora Muse
Yasuo Nambo
German Navarro
Denis Necchi
Tia Nelson
Giulia Neri
Géraldine Neuhaus
Adriana Neves
Victoria Newell
Ellen Newton-Oostelaar
Emma Nicol
Kory Niswender
Kaisa Nivola
Hallie Noland
Jennifer O’Callaghan Byrne
Michael O'Brien
Kate O'Conor
Miklos Oláh

Sidnei Oliveira
Guillermo Ortiz Villafranca
Christine Ouellet
Elisabetta Paciolla
Eric Palmer
Calum Paltridge
Sophia Panelli Marchió
Duccio Panzani
Gian Paolo Macolino
Francesco Parmeggiani
Lauren Pasch
David Pascoe
Chiara Pascucci Pepi
Maria Paz Zuñiga Barrera
Samantha Paz Zaldaña Soto
Mariah Pearson
Fernando Peña
Felipe Pereira
Patricio Pérez Barrios
Wendy Perriam
Marcelo Pessoa
Morten Petersen
Špela Petrocnik
Megan Petty
Marissa Pienaar
Javiera Pinochet
Joao Pires do Prado
Tracy Plough
Paige Pomorski
Jose Pontes
Jerome Ponthier
Krista Porter
Alan Post
Melissa Prell
Nikica Prvanovic
Eliška Puncochárová
Gabriela Quijano
Ignacio Raggio
Amanda Ragon
Hernan Ramirez
Chris Reardon
Rebecca Reid
Catherine Renaudin
Thiago Resende
Suzanne Richardson
David Riddle
Mark Rigby
Abby Roasa
Michael Robinson
Simon Robinson
Livia Rocca
Melinda Roche
Daryani Rodrigues
Bruno Ros
Janet Roser
Alessandra Rota
Gus Ruiz
Astrid Rupp
Lucy Russell
Marisol Saavedra
Chiara Sabatini
Shebl Salem
Jantien Saltet
Susanna Salvatori
Fernando Saravia
Brian Schnell
Martin Schulman
David Scofield
Charlie Scoggin
Kirsten Scoggin
Camilla Scott
Lorenzo Segabinazzi
Consuelo Serres
Georgia Sheard
Pete Sheerin
Alyssa Shelby
Coleen Shepard
Mitsuki Shimamoto
Elisa Silva
Alan Simson
Dariusz Skarzynski
Charlie Smith
Clayton Smith
Steve Smith
Katrien Smits
Jenny Sones
Sheila Spacek
Jannie Spanner
Jessica Spanton
Caroline Spelta
Kianna Spencer
Emily Spengler
Ed Squires
Tristan Starr
Pia Steers
Michael Stone
Rachel Stone
Julie Storme
Tom Stout
Marni Strauss
James Synowsky
Jesus Talavera
Mitzi Taylor
Sheila Teague
Jennifer Teigen
Marcio Teoro
Doug Thistlethwaite
Kathy Thistlethwaite
Jayne Thomson
Yu Tian
Ahmed Tibary
Carolina Tiemi Cardoso Okada
Fernanda Timbó D'el Rey Dantas
Yuko Toishi
Mire Tomatis Korrodi
Ana Torres
Erin Trawick-Smith
Josep Trens
Bruno Trevisan
Mats Troedsson
Christine Tuma
Carly Turner Garcia
Zain Ul Abedeen
Anita VanBlaricum
Hilde Vandaele
Manuel Vasconcelos
Natalia Vasconcelos
Gregg Veneklasen
Cecilie Ventzel
Murilo Verdile
Walter Vermoesen
Chez Viall
Rocio Vicioso
Henrique Vicosa
Boglarka Vincze
Micaela Vita
Karen Von Dollen
Stephanie Walbornn
Lucy Waldron
Ronald Walton
Zixuan Wang
Kim Wawzysko
Paul Webb
Sophie Weitemeyer
Hannah West
Christina White
Donna Williamson
Lisa Willis
Sandra Wilsher
Gustavo Winter
Karen Wolfsdorf
Liz Woodberry
Mark Wooten
Zhao Xueming
Luo Yang
Mark Young
Clara Zabalo
Carolina Zenga Rodrigues
Kurt Zermuehlen