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Invited Speakers

Yaacov Barak, USA
Horacio F. Cantiello, USA
Alicia Damiano, Argentina
Gabriel G. Haddad, USA
Alexander Heazell, UK
Osamu Ishibashi, Japan
Alicia Jawerbaum, Argentina
Anibal Llanos, Chile
D. Michael Nelson, USA
Ornella Parolini, Italy
Margaret Petroff, USA
Monique Rennie, Canada
Gloria Riquelme, Chile
Wendy Robinson, Canada
Surendra Sharma, USA
Michael Soares, USA
Luis Sobrevia, Chile
Tullia Todros, Italy
Gloria Valdes, Chile
Mark Wareing, UK
Derek Wildman, USA
Laura Woollett, USA
Áureo Tatsumi Yamada, Brazil

Trainee Award Lectures

Lynda Harris, UK
Julieta L. Maymó, Argentina
Craig B. Park, Canada

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Programme Committee

Luis Sobrevia (Chair), Chile
Paola Casanello, Chile
Gernot Desoye, Austria
Nicholas Illsley, USA
Leslie Myatt, USA
Gregory Rice, Australia
Aureo Yamada, Brazil
Stacy Zamudio, USA

Fetus and Placenta: A perfect harmony, is organized by the International Federation of Placenta Associations in association with the Placenta Associations of the Americas (PAA). Conference administration is provided by Elsevier, publisher of Placenta journal.

Key dates

Abstract Submission deadline – 28th May 2010
Author notification – 14th June 2010
Author registration deadline – 26th July 2010

The meeting will consist of:

Keynote lectures
IFPA Award Lecture
Trophoblast Research Award Lecture
Plenary sessions
Workshops
New investigator session
Pre-congress specialized courses
Attended poster sessions
Social events

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Topics include:

Endothelium and trophoblast
Epigenetics and genetics
Immunology
Implantation
Metabolism
Morphology
Placenta developmental biology
Placental signaling
Pregnancy disease mechanisms (clinical and basic)
Programming and the placenta
Proteomics
Sex and placental function
Transplacental transport

Abstract submission deadline extended

17 May: Submit abstracts by May 28, 2010

The abstract submission deadline has been extended by popular request to May 28, 2010. Submissions are invited for both oral and poster presentation.
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Program and speaker update

15 Apr: Invited speaker details now available

A preliminary list of speakers is now available together with symposia titles for the conference. More speakers will be added to the program as confirmed.
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The Supporting Journal

Placenta

The Official Journal of the International Federation of Placenta Associations incorporating the following:

Australia and New Zealand Placenta Research Association
European Placenta Group
Japanese Placenta Association
the Placenta Association of the Americas

Placenta is the international forum providing up to the minute information on all scientific and clinical investigations pertaining to placental research and their applications.

Conference abstracts will be published in the journal Placenta and included in each delegate’s conference bag. Selected presentations will be published in Trophoblast Research, the annual supplement to Placenta that is offered to all delegates as part of their registration fee and is freely accessible online at www.placentajournal.org

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