Prof Gerhard van der Horst (PhD, PhD), Microptic Senior Consultant based in South Africa, went, in October, on a three weeks trip to Spain, The UK, The Netherlands and Poland.

First stop: Barcelona

For two days, Prof van der Horst stayed at Microptic’ s head office to deal with some important matters and new ventures of Microptic concerning its products.

Second stop: The UK

In that occasion, Elsa Delacroix, Microptic Sales Department, and Prof van der Horst did some interesting visits to introduce Microptic’ s systems for semen analysis to Camelid Veterinary Services, Bedford Hospital, Prime Veterinary Practice Chesterfield and Apricity London.

Third stop: The Netherlands and the UK

Afterwards the professor joined Cristina Roda, Microptic Sales Department, and visited the Netherlands’ Institute of Ecology NIOO-KNAW (new SCA customer), the Department of Equine Sciences (Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Utrecht University) and the Department of Medical Microbiology and Infection Control (North Laboratory, Victoria Hospital). The objective was the same: to show the equipment to analyse human and animal sperm.

Last stop: Poland

The main appointment during this period was the Conference of the Polish Society of Andrology (PTA 2019) in Lodz (Poland), in which participated: Prof Gerhard van der Horst, Prof Stefan Du Plessis and TK Biotech, Microptic’ s distributor there. This is one of the top andrology conferences in Europe with almost 300 delegates and about 8 invited speakers from seven countries.

In words of the professor with regards to a study presented at this conference, “My paper of what is in a flagellar beat was very well received as this represented the first real comparison between traditional CASA and sperm flagellar analysis. Both my paper as well as that of Stefan du Plessis involved different aspects of Microptic SCA CASA System”.

Last but not least, more visits and the presentation “Assisting to save the most endangered mammals in the world and other personal wildlife experiences” in Science campus of the University of Warsaw.

Good job, professor!