Daily Q&A sessions will take place on each of the course days 14-18 September, from 16:30 - 18:30 hrs. UK BST. (These sessions will be recorded and available shortly afterwards).
These Q&A sessions will be attended by 1-2 of the lecturers from the course each day.
A detailed course schedule will be circulated to registered participants two weeks before the course opens.
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Kathy Niakan |
Human trophectoderm initiation and genome editing |
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Thorsten Boroviak |
Cell lineage segregations in primate embryogenesis |
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Marta Shabhazi |
Aneuploidy and early human development |
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Claire Senner |
Trophoblast stem cells |
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Peter Rugg-Gunn |
Human peri-implantation development |
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Geraldine Jowett |
Development of the human germline |
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Graham Burton |
Human placental structure and development |
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Tereza Cindrova-Davies & Graham Burton |
Human placental histology practical (Boyd collection slides) |
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Courtney Hanna |
Multi-omics |
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Erica Watson |
Mouse placental structure and development |
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Margherita Turco |
Stem cells and cell lines |
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Amanda Sferruzzi-Perri |
Placental endocrine function |
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Andrew Sharkey |
The role of uterine NK cells in regulating placentation |
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Ashley Moffet |
Evolutionary aspects of human pregnancy |
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Andrew Murray |
Placental metabolism |
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Nick Hopwood |
Science & society lecture history of human embryos |
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Andrew Murray |
Placental mitochondrial respiration practical |
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Naomi McGovern |
Congenital Infection |
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Francesco Colucci |
Immune responses in pregnancy |
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Tereza Cindrova-Davies |
The role of the endometrium in pregnancy |
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Sue Ozanne |
Effects of obesity and gestational diabetes during pregnancy on the maternal-fetal interface |
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Miguel Constancia |
Mouse genetic models of placental function |
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Catherine Aiken |
Drug safety during pregnancy |
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Dino Giussani |
Developmental programming |
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Gordon Smith |
Clinical study design |
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Irving Aye |
Translating placental research |
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Kay Elder |
In vitro culture of human embryos, 1969 - 2025 |
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Steve Charnock-Jones |
Placental angiogenesis |
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Irving Aye & Claire Senner OR Priscilla Day-Walsh & Iva Kelava |
Career fellowship workshop aimed at postdocs
Career fellowship workshop aimed at PhD students |