{"id":247,"date":"2023-04-28T11:51:17","date_gmt":"2023-04-28T11:51:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/precas.dmu.ac.uk\/?page_id=247"},"modified":"2026-03-11T12:20:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T12:20:17","slug":"conference-papers","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/precas.dmu.ac.uk\/index.php\/conference-papers\/","title":{"rendered":"Conference Papers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Presentation and co-organiser of “Carrier screening and infertility testing through the lens of GenEthics” ESHRE campus course 19-21 February 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Herbrand, C. (2026). Current landscape of the ECS offer in the UK.<\/em> “Carrier screening and infertility testing through the lens of GenEthics” ESHRE campus course 19-21 February 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Presentation and course co-organiser for “Carrier screening and infertility testing through the lens of GenEthics” ESHRE campus course 19-21 February 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Herbrand C. (2026). Expanded carrier screening and gamete donation: understanding the complexities for UK fertility clinics.<\/em> “Carrier screening and infertility testing through the lens of GenEthics” ESHRE campus course 19-21 February 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Invited speaker and presentation and session sponsor for Merck NextGen Conference, November 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Miedzybrodzka, Z. (2025). Genetic insights: advanced carrier screening for donors and patients.<\/em> NextGen 2025 ‘Sharing knowledge for the future’, 7-8 November 2026, Bristol..<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Presentation and session sponsor for Expanded carrier screening: how is it used? What are the ethical implications? at PET Annual Conference 2025, London<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Herbrand C. \u2018Expanded carrier screening in the UK: Mind the policy gap?<\/em>\u2019 Presentation as part of PET Annual Conference, London, December 2025 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The other panel speakers included: Sara Levene (Consultant Genetic Counsellor, and founder of Guided Genetics), Professor Jackson Kirkman-Brown (Science Lead at the Birmingham Women’s Fertility Centre), and Dr Heidi Mertes (Chair of Belgium’s Federal Commission for Medical and Scientific Research on Embryos In Vitro)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Poster at BSGM 2025, London, 5 November 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Herbrand C., Borry P., Culley L., Fearon K., Hudson N., Miedzybrodzka Z., Norcross S., Parry B., Van Steijvoort E. \u2018Routes to expanded carrier screening (ECS) in the UK: usefulness, benefits, challenges\u2019?<\/em>\u2019 Poster presentation at the annual conference of the British Society of Genetic Medicine, London, 5 November 2025\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Presentation at BSA Medsoc, Northumbria University, Newcastle, September 10 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fearon, K, Herbrand C., Borry P., Culley L., Hudson N., Miedzybrodzka Z., Norcross S., Parry B., Van Steijvoort E. \u2018Genetically incompatible: classifying risk and shaping reproduction through new forms of genetic screening<\/em>\u2019 Poster presentation at the British Sociology Association Medical Sociology Study Group conference, Newcastle, September 10-12 2025\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Poster at ESHG 2025, Milan, May 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Herbrand C., Borry P., Culley L., Fearon K., Hudson N., Miedzybrodzka Z., Norcross S., Parry B., Van Steijvoort E. \u2018Offering expanded carrier screening (ECS) in the UK: do professional and policy stakeholders think it is worthwhile\u2019?<\/em>\u2019 Poster presentation at the annual conference of the European Society of Human Genetics, Berlin, Germany, 26 May 2025\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Presentation at UK NEQAS, Manchester, March 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fearon, K, Herbrand, C, Hudson, N (2025) ‘New challenges for the NHS raised by the use of expanded carrier screening (ECS) in gamete donation’. UK NEQAS 2025, Manchester, 6 March 2025 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Presentation at COGI Congress, Lisbon, November 2024<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cathy Herbrand (De Montfort University), <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Offering expanded carrier screening (ECS) in the UK: do professional and policy stakeholders think it is worthwhile? presented in Oral presentation session 5, Reproductive Genetics, 21 November 2024. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Presentation at Genomics and Society: Critical Perspectives on Commercial DNA Testing<\/em>, November 2024<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cathy Herbrand (De Montfort University), <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The rise of expanded carrier screening as a commercial-only test in the UK. Online workshop run by the DNA Dialogues Network, Monday, November 18th, 2024, July 2024<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Poster at UK Preconception Partnership EMCR Conference, DMU, November 2024<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Herbrand C., Borry P., Culley L., Fearon K., Hudson N., Miedzybrodzka Z., Norcross S., Parry B., Van Steijvoort E.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Could expanded carrier screening (ECS) be offered in a public healthcare setting in the UK? The views of professional and policy stakeholders. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Presentation at ESHRE Amsterdam, July 2024<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Offering and regulating expanded carrier screening in the UK: an exciting prospect or a ‘can of worms’? presented in Session 70: Ethics, information, and choice in medically assisted reproduction<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Posters and panel talk at ESHG Berlin, 2024<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cathy Herbrand (De Montfort University), <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Invited speaker at the workshop \u2018GenEthics<\/em>\u2019 organised by Anneke Lucassen at the European Society of Human Genetics, Berlin, Germany, 2 June 2024.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n


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Herbrand C., Borry P., Culley L., Fearon K., Hudson N., Miedzybrodzka Z., Norcross S., Parry B., Van Steijvoort E., Wilde L. \u2018Offering and regulating expanded carrier screening (ECS) in the UK: an exciting prospect in genetic testing or a \u2018can of worms\u2019?<\/em>\u2019 Poster presenter at the annual conference of the European Society of Human Genetics, Berlin, Germany, 3 Jun 2024\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n


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Fearon K., Herbrand C., Hudson N., Wilde L., \u2018Everyone is a carrier\u2019: A frame and content analysis of preconception expanded carrier screening (ECS) on social media<\/em>\u2019. Poster presenter at the annual conference of the European Society of Human Genetics, Berlin, Germany, 3 Jun 2024 <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Preconception expanded carrier screening in the UK<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cathy Herbrand (De Montfort University), 24 November 2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Invited speaker at the IGENE symposium Mapping Genetic Screening: Between Public Health and Personalised Medicine, Madrid, Spain.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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‘Disease-free imaginaries?
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C. Herbrand, N. Hudson and K. Fearon, 4S<\/em>, Honolulu USA, 4-11 November 2023<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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\u2018Selectively stratified: the use of expanded carrier screening in the general population\u2019. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

C.Herbrand and N.Hudson, 2022.\u2018Reproductive Futures: Emergent Injustices, Hopes and Paradoxes\u2019, Tampere, Finland<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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