2019-2020 Talks
Wednesday 23 October 2019, 4pm-6pm, the Hodgkin/Huxley Seminar room
Speaker: Claire Senner, new CTR Next Generation Fellow
Title: The Role of nonsense mediated decay in trophoblast development
Wednesday 6 November 2019, 4pm-6pm, the Hodgkin/Huxley Seminar room
Speaker: Naomi McGovern
Title: Placental macrophages - the phenotype and function of the first human macrophages, termed Hofbauer cells.
Wednesday 4 December 2019, 4pm-6pm, the Hodgkin/Huxley Seminar room
Speaker: Dr Niamh Forde, University of Leeds
Title: TBC
Wednesday 5 February 2020, 4pm-6pm, the Hodgkin/Huxley Seminar room
Speaker: Linda Harris, University of Manchester
Title: Strategies for targeted manipulation of uteroplacental function in pregnancy
Wednesday 4 March 2020, 4pm-6pm, the Hodgkin/Huxley Seminar room
Speaker: Rachel Freathy, University of Exeter
Title: TBC
Wednesday 6 May 2020, 4pm-6pm, the Hodgkin/Huxley Seminar room
CTR Afternoon TBC
Wednesday 3 June 2020, 4pm-6pm, the Hodgkin/Huxley Seminar room
CTR Afternoon TBC
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2018-2019 Talks
Wednesday 5 September 2018
Professor Lynne Selwood, School of BioSciences, Faculty of Science, University of Melbourne, Australia
Title: Marsupial developmental biology: The role of place and time
Bryan Matthews Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site
Talk commences 4.00pm
Tuesday 16 October 2018
Dr Micha Drukker, Helmholtz Center Munich
Title: Regulation of differentiation by membraneless organelles
Bryan Matthews Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site
Talk commences 4.00pm
Wednesday 14 November 2018
Dr Salim Al-Gailani, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Cambridge University
Title: Vitamin trials: a history of folic acid in pregnancy and public health
Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site
Talk commences 4.00pm
Wednesday 5 December 2018
Professor Simon Szreter, Cambridge University
Title: TBC (theme: Effects of (pre-HIV) STIs on infertility throughout history)
Bryan Matthews Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site
Talk commences 4.00pm
Wednesday 6 February 2019
Dr Tatiana El-Bacha, Brazil
Title: TBC
Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site
Talk commences 4.00pm
Wednesday 6 March 2019
Dr Pascale Chavatte-Palmer, INRA, France
Title: Placental effects of air pollution and exposure to nanoparticles in a rabbit model, with exploration of long term effects in offspring
Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site
Talk commences 4.00pm
Monday 11 March: 2-5pm
Reproductive Physiology mini Symposium
Bryan Matthews Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site
2pm Dr Holly Groome, University of Adelaide
The role of macrophages in vascular adaptations to pregnancy
2.45pm A/Prof Tu’uhe Lino, University of Melbourne
Diagnostics Discovery for Pregnancy Complications
3.30pm A/Prof Natalie Hannan, University of Melbourne
Understanding the vascular and placental dysfunction in preeclampsia to discover novel therapeutic targets
4.15pm Dr Jemma Evans, Hudson Institute
Dark, sticky and treacherous: The negative impact of advanced glycation end products on fertility
Holly, Tu’uhe and Natalie are keen to meet one to one with investigators in the CTR. If you would like to meet with them, please contact Amanda Sferruzz-Perri (ans48@cam.ac.uk) to arrange a meeting time.
Monday 18 March: 4-5pm Special CTR seminar
Bryan Matthews Seminar room
Dr Ellen Menkhorst, University of Melbourne
Decidual-trophoblast interactions during the establishment of pregnancy
Prof Eva Dimitriadis will also be around for the day and is keen to meet with people
Ellen and Eva are keen to meet one-one with investigators in the CTR. If you would like to meet with them, please contact Amanda Sferruzz-Perri (ans48@cam.ac.uk) to arrange a meeting time.
Friday 29 March 2019
Dr Caitlin Wyrwool, University of Western Australia
Title: TBC
Room:
Talk commences 4.00pm
Wednesday 5 June 2019
Dr David Monk, University of East Anglia
Title: TBA
Bryan Matthews Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site
Talk commences 4.00pm
2017-2018 Talks
Wednesday 8th November 2017
Dr David Williams
University College London Hospital
Title: Paternal metabolism, fetal growth and maternal disease
Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site
Talk commences 4.00pm
Wednesday 6th December 2017: no seminar (moved to Friday 8th December)
Friday 8th December 2017
Professor Stephen G. Matthews
Professor, Physiology, Obstetrics & Gynaecology and Medicine Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto
Title: Glucocorticoid Programming of the Fetal Brain: Intergenerational Consequences
Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site
Talk commences 4.00pm
Wednesday 7 February 2018
Dr Keith Lee
Visiting Fellow, Hong Kong University
Title: The pleiotropic effect of glycodelin glycosylation in human reproduction
Bryan Matthews Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site
Talk commences 4.00pm
Wednesday 7 March 2018
Professor Penny Gowland
Nottingham University
Title: Using MRI to study placental function in vivo
Bryan Matthews Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site
Talk commences 4.00pm
Wednesday 16 May 2018
Dr Adam Watkins
Assistant Professor of Reproductive Biology, University of Nottingham
Title: TBC
Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site
Talk commences 4.00pm
Thursday 7 June 2018
Professor Boris Kramer
Maastricht University
Title: TBC
Bryan Matthews Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site
Talk commences 4.00pm
