Speakers and course schedule
Daily Q&A sessions will take place on each of the course days 14-18 September, from 16:00 - 18:00 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.
Registration now closed for 2026.
| Kathy Niakan | Human trophectoderm initiation and genome editing |
| Thorsten Boroviak | Cell lineage segregations in primate embryogenesis |
| Marta Shabhazi | Aneuploidy and early human development |
| Claire Senner | Trophoblast stem cells |
| Peter Rugg-Gunn | Human peri-implantation development |
| Geraldine Jowett | Development of the human germline |
| Graham Burton | Human placental structure and development |
| Tereza Cindrova-Davies & Graham Burton | Human placental histology practical (Boyd collection slides) |
| Courtney Hanna | Multi-omics |
| Erica Watson | Mouse placental structure and development |
| Margherita Turco | Stem cells and cell lines |
| Amanda Sferruzzi-Perri | Placental endocrine function |
| Andrew Sharkey | The role of uterine NK cells in regulating placentation |
| Ashley Moffet | Evolutionary aspects of human pregnancy |
| Andrew Murray | Placental metabolism |
| Nick Hopwood | Science & society lecture history of human embryos |
| Andrew Murray | Placental mitochondrial respiration practical |
| Naomi McGovern | Congenital Infection |
| Francesco Colucci | Immune responses in pregnancy |
| Tereza Cindrova-Davies | The role of the endometrium in pregnancy |
| Sue Ozanne | Effects of obesity and gestational diabetes during pregnancy on the maternal-fetal interface |
| Miguel Constancia | Mouse genetic models of placental function |
| Catherine Aiken | Drug safety during pregnancy |
| Dino Giussani | Developmental programming |
| Gordon Smith | Clinical study design |
| Irving Aye | Translating placental research |
| Kay Elder | In vitro culture of human embryos, 1969 - 2025 |
| Steve Charnock-Jones | Placental angiogenesis |
Irving Aye & Claire Senner OR Priscilla Day-Walsh & Iva Kelava | Career fellowship workshop aimed at postdocs Career fellowship workshop aimed at PhD students |