Centre for Trophoblast Research

CTR Seminar Series

Future talks

Wednesday, 7th March 2012
Professor Thomas Gorr, Head of the Molecular Biology Laboratory, Department of Clinical Chemistry, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam,
‘Identification and Targeting of Hypoxia Tolerance Mechanisms - from Critters to Cancer’.
Bryan Matthews Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site
Talk commences at 4.30pm

Wednesday, 4th April 2012
Dr Linda Morgan Division of Clinical Medicine, University of Nottingham,
'The genome-wide hunt for pre-eclampsia genes'.
Addenbrooke’s ATC Seminar Room 3
Talk commences at 4.30pm

Wednesday, 2nd May 2012
Tessa van Kempen, Visiting Scholar, Leiden University, Leiden, the Netherlands
Title to be confirmed.
Bryan Matthews Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site
Talk commences at 4.30pm

 

Series Archive

Wednesday, 15th February 2012
Professor Fiona Lyall, Professor of Maternal and Fetal Health Institute of Medical Genetics Yorkhill Glasgow ‘Trophoblast invasion and spiral artery transformation in normal pregnancy and pre-eclampsia’.

Wednesday, 7th December 2011
Professor Tom Fleming, School of Biological Sciences, University of Southampton. 'Early embryo environment and implications for health in to adulthood'.

Wednesday, 2nd November 2011
Dr Cees, Head of the Molecular Biology Laboratory, Department of Clinical Chemistry, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam. 'Genome wide analysis of placental DNA and RNA in first trimester maternal plasma by massively parallel sequencing: current and future possibilities'

Wednesday, 5th October 2011
Professor Basky Thilaganathan, Director, Fetal Medicine Unit, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, St.George's Healthcare NHS Trust – "Imaging in Preeclampsia"

Wednesday, 7th September 2011
Professor Lucilla Poston, Maternal and Fetal Research Unit, St Thomas' Hospital, King's College London - "Developmental origins of obesity"

Wednesday, 18th May 2011
Professor John Kingdom, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Canada – "Is Heparin a placental anticoagulant?"

Wednesday, 4th May 2011
Professor John Aplin, Maternal and Fetal Health Research Group, the University of Manchester – "Maternal signalling to the villous placenta"

Wednesday, 6th April 2011
Dr Rosalind John, Cardiff School of Biosciences, Cardiff University – "Perturbing expression of IC2 imprinted genes to characterise their roles in placental development"

Wednesday, 2nd March 2011
Professor Anthony Carter, Faculty of Medicine, University of Odense, Denmark – "Evolution of Placental Function?"

Wednesday, 2nd February 2011
Professor Guy Whitley, Division of Basic Medical Sciences, St George's University of London – "Mechanisms of spiral artery remodelling"

Wednesday, 1st December 2010
Professor Eric Jauniaux, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University College London – "From Stromatolites to Pre-eclampsia"

Wednesday, 3rd November 2010
Professor Colin Sibley, Maternal & Fetal Health Research Centre, University of Manchester – "Placental Physiology: Coming of Age"

Wednesday, 6th October 2010
Professor Ian Sargent, Oxford University – "Placental microparticles and exosomes: their role in pre-eclampsia"

Wednesday 1st September 2010
Professor Gudrun Moore, UCL Institute of Child Health – "The importance of being imprinted in the human placenta"

Wednesday 5th May 2010
Dr Judith Bulmer, School of Surgical and Reproductive Sciences, Newcastle University – "Functional Role of Uterine NK Cells in Early Pregnancy"

Wednesday 7th April 2010
Professor Jan Brosens, Institute of Reproductive and Developmental Biology, Imperial College London – "The role of cyclic decidualization of human endometrium in determining pregnancy outcome"

Wednesday 10th March 2010
Professor Chris Proud, School of Biological Sciences, University of Southampton – "The regulation of protein synthesis in health and disease"

Wednesday 3rd February 2010
Dr Rohan Lewis, Institute of Developmental Sciences, University of Southampton, "Why (and how) did the amino acid cross the placenta?"

Wednesday 6th January 2010
Dr Alexander Betz, Cambridge Immunology, "Regulatory T cells: evolution, pregnancy and therapy"