HYPOXIA AND THE PLACENTA

Fetal and Neonatal Pulmonary Circulation in the Alto Andino

Anibal Llanos PhD
Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile

Experimental Selection of Hypoxia-Tolerant Drosophila Melanogaster: Major Role for Notch Activation

Gabriel G. Haddad, MD (NIH Senior Investigator Awardee)
University of California San Diego, CA, USA

Oxygen effects, Trophoblast Biology, and Controversy: Help, I think I am Suffocating!

D. Michael Nelson, MD, PhD
Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA

The Effects of Oxygen on Normal and Abnormal Placental Tissue - Insights from Metabolomics

Alexander Heazell, MD, PhD
University of Manchester, School of Medicine, Manchester, UK

NEW REGULATORY MECHANISMS IN THE PLACENTA

Cytogenetic and epigenetic alterations in placentas associated with adverse pregnancy outcomes

Wendy Robinson, PhD
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada

Functional phylogenomic data elucidate conserved and derived aspects of placenta development and function

Derek Wildman, PhD
Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, USA

Placenta-specific microRNAs (miRNAs) derived from the Chromosome 19 miRNA Cluster in Normal Pregnancy and Preeclampsia

Osamu Ishibashi, MD PhD
Department of Molecular Anatomy and Medicine, Nippon Medical School, Japan

VASCULAR IMAGING AND ANGIOGENSIS IN THE PLACENTA

Feto-placental vascularization: a multifaceted approach

Tullia Todros, MD
Istituto di Ginecologia e Ostetricia, Università di Torino, Brescia, Italy

The arterial fetoplacental and uteroplacental vasculature: Imaging reveals gestational and strain dependent changes in mice

Monique Rennie, PhD
Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute, Toronto, ON, Canada

Placenta macro and microvascular dysfunction in diseases of pregnancy

Luis Sobrevia, PhD
Cellular & Molecular Physiology Laboratory, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile

Angiogenic and vasodilator networks in the placenta

Gloria Valdes, PhD
Departmento de Nefrología, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile

IMMUNOLOGY AND THE PLACENTA

Fetal antigens: Identity, origins, and influences on the maternal immune system

Margaret Petroff, PhD
University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS, USA

hCG, Regulatory T Cells, and Preeclampsia

Surendra Sharma, PhD
Women & Infants’ Hospital of Rhode Island, Providence, RI, USA

Activation of innate immune type cytototoxic responses of uterine-natural killer cell in the fetal-maternal interface

Áureo Tatsumi Yamada, PhD
Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Sao Paolo, Brazil

ION CHANNELS IN THE PLACENTA

Role of Calcium in the Regulation of Syncytiotrophoblast Polycystin-2 (TRPP2) and related TRP Channels

Horacio F. Cantiello, DVM, PhD
Harvard University, Massachusetts General Hospital, MA, USA

Water Channel Proteins in the Human Placenta

Alicia Damiano, PhD
University of Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Placental membrane and ion channels: expression, electrophysiology and lipid rafts

Gloria Riquelme, PhD
Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile

Potassium channels and the human placenta

Mark Wareing, PhD
University of Manchester, Manchester, UK

LIPIDS AND THE PLACENTA

The Molecular Functions of PPARgamma in The Placenta

Yaacov Barak PhD
University of Pittsburgh, PA, USA

Lipid Metabolism in the Diabetic Placenta

Alicia Jawerbaum
University of Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Lipid transport in the placenta

Laura Woollett, PhD
University of Cincinnati, OH, USA

EARLY CAREER RESEARCHER PLENARY

REPRODUCTIVE TECHNOLOGIES IN PROGRAMMING AND PLACENTAL DEVELOPMENT

A strategy for investigating hemochorial placentation

Michael J. Soares, PhD
Department of Molecular and Integrative Physiology, University of Kansas

Differentiation potential and paracrine actions of amniotic membrane-derived cells: in vitro and in vivo studies

Ornella Parolini, PhD
Regenerative Medicine Research Center, Fondazione Poliambulanza-Instituto Ospelaliero, Brescia, Italy

TRAINEE AWARD LECTURES

Uterine-specific Nodal deletion disrupts placentation and contributes to pre-term birth in mice

Craig B. Park (Trophoblast Research Awardee)
McGill University, Montreal, Canada

Expression of Leptin, a Key Placental Hormone

Julieta L. Maymó (SLIMP Awardee)
Universidas de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Transformation of the spiral arteries in human pregnancy: key events in the remodelling timeline

Lynda Harris, PhD (Than Awardee)
Maternal and Fetal Health Research Group, University of Manchester, UK