Centre for Trophoblast Research

PhD Projects on offer

Listed below are the current PhD projects available:

• Dissecting the molecular mechanisms of extraembryonic endoderm differentiation
  Supervisor: Dr Kathy Niakan
• Glucocorticoid programming of the ovine placenta Supervisor: Professor Abbey Fowden
• Biomechanical Factors in Placental Development Mechanotransduction
  Supervisors: Michelle Oyen and Graham J Burton
• Stem cells in the early placenta: Mechanisms underlying self-renewal and differentiative potency of this unique stem cell population
  Supervisor: Myriam Hemberger
• Mechanisms and functions of epigenetic reprogramming in the mammalian embryo
  Supervisor: Wolf Reik
• First signalling events in the mouse embryo – the genesis and function of the extra-embryonic ectoderm signalling centre.
  Supervisor: Magdalena Zernika-Goetz
• How do killer cells contribute to reproductive success?
  Supervisor: Francesco Colucci
• History of the Placenta since 1750
  Supervisors: Martin H Johnson and Nick Hopwood
• In vivo effects of antioxidants on the uterine and umbilical circulations
  Supervisor: Dino A Giussani
• Is fetal Igf2 a demand signal that controls placental supply?
  Supervisors: Miguel Constancia and Ionel Sandovici
• Placento-fetal hypoxia and preeclampsia
  Supervisor: Dino A Giussani
• Intergenerational programming of the placenta
  Supervisors: Abigail L Fowden and Graham J Burton
• Reprogramming germ cells for extraembryonic and embryonic development
  Supervisor: Azim Surani
• System A amino-acid transport and placental adaptive responses to fetal growth demands
  Supervisors: Miguel Constancia and Katharina Hoelle
• Trophoblast and endometrial gland function during human early pregnancy
  Supervisor: Graham J Burton
• Trophoblast differentiation in vitro and in vivo
  Supervisors: Ashley Moffett and Kathy K Niakan
• Prediction of adverse pregnancy outcome using routine serial ultrasonic fetal biometry and utero-placental Doppler
  Supervisor: Gordon CS Smith