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Courtney won a YW Loke New Investigator Travel Award; she also gave presentations in France and Australia and published a paper earlier on this year: Hanna CW, Penaherrera MS, Saadeh H, Andrews S, McFadden DE, Kelsey G, Robinson WP. Pervasive polymorphic imprinted methylation in the human placenta. Well done Courtney!

CTR member Martin Johnson will give the Sir Robert Edwards lecture in Jaipur India in July 2016 at the invitation of the Association of Clinical Embryologists (ACE) of India

Last month saw the publication of What Is Trophoblast? A Combination of Criteria Define Human First-Trimester Trophoblast. Controversy surrounds reports describing the derivation of human trophoblast cells from placentas and embryonic stem cells (ESC)…this study identifies a robust panel, including both protein and non-protein-coding markers. Many…

Researchers have uncovered previously unappreciated means by which epigenetic information contained in the egg influences the development of the placenta during pregnancy. The research, which was performed in mice, indicates that a mother’s health, even before conception, may influence the health of her fetus, and opens questions on how a mother’s …

CTR Members and Babraham Institute Researchers Paulina Latos and Myriam Hemberger have recently had a paper published in Genes & Development. Elf5-centered transcription factor hub controls trophoblast stem cell self-renewal and differentiation through stoichiometry-sensitive shifts in target gene networks. Stem cell research led by the Babraham In…

A special supplement of the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology dedicated to the placenta has just been published. 

Congratulations to Dr Tereza Cindrova-Davies for the Gabor Than Foundation Award in Placentology for 2008. This biennial award made by IFPA reflects an outstanding contribution to the field of placentology in all its aspects. Tereza is pictured receiving her award from Dr Nandor Gabor Than at the meeting in Seggau this September.  

Congratulations again, this time for former Next Generation Fellow Miguel Branco, who was named Abcam Scientist of the Month. Do read his interview here!Congratulations again, this time for former Next Generation Fellow Miguel Branco, who was named Abcam Scientist of the Month.  Do read his interview here!Special congratulations are in order for A…

Francesco Colucci & Jens Kieckbusch have just published their latest journal article (click on title for details): Maternal uterine natural killer cells nurture fetal growth: in medio stat virtus.Francesco Colucci & Jens Kieckbusch have just published their latest journal article (click on title for details): Maternal uterine natural killer cells n…

Congratulations again, this time for CTR member Niu Youguo, whose poster, entitled as ‘Effects of Prenatal Hypoxia on Programmed Cardiac and Mitochondrial Function over Ageing’, has been selected for a Best New Investigator Poster Award at the 62nd Annual Scientific Meeting of Society for Reproductive Investigation at San Francisco, March 25-28, 2…

Special congratulations are in order for Ulla Sovio and Gordon Smith (et al) who have had their first paper from the Pregnancy Outcome Prediction study (POPs) accepted by The Lancet.Special congratulations are in order for Ulla Sovio and Gordon Smith (et al) who have had their first paper from the Pregnancy Outcome Prediction study (POPs) accepted …

CTR Principal Investigator Francesco Colucci met with great success when he and his team attended NK2015, the 15th Meeting of the Society for Natural Immunity in early May.CTR Principal Investigator Francesco Colucci met with great success when he and his team attended NK2015, the 15th Meeting of the Society for Natural Immunity in early May. Out o…

Lecturer in Reproductive Biology and former NGF, Erica Watson, was recently awarded a Lister Research Prize.Lecturer in Reproductive Biology and former NGF, Erica Watson, was recently awarded a Lister Research Prize.  This award will allow the Watson group to continue to research the transgenerational effects of abnormal folate metabolism on fetal …

CTR Members and Researchers at The Babraham Institute, Paulina Latos and Myriam Hemberger (et al) have recently had a paper published in Nature Communications: Fgf and Esrrb integrate epigenetic and transcriptional networks that regulate self-renewal of trophoblast stem cells. CTR Members and Researchers at The Babraham Institute, Paulina Latos and…

Katie Skeffington, a PhD student with Dino Giussani, won best abstract by an in-training person at the 42nd International Meeting of The Fetal and Neonatal Physiological Society held in Vancouver, Canada, August 9 - 13, 2015.Her work is on fetal origins of heart disease and uses the chick embryo as an animal model. Well done Katie!Zhongchao Wang, a…