1:00 – 2:40

Session 1: Chaired by Ana Ribeiro Orsi and Thomas Rawlings

1:00 – Kathy Niakan: Welcome and housekeeping

1:15 – Opening keynote, Wei Li: Does soluble endoglin play a role in pre-eclampsia?

1:45 – Miao Ruoyu: The Statistical Analysis of Maternal Serum Proteomics

2:00 – Ahmed Abdelbaki Abdelaal: Live imaging human embryos reveals late-stage de novo mitotic errors

2:15 – Adam Reid: Turning data into discovery: bioinformatics services for the School of Biological Sciences

2:20 – Networking Activity, Chaired by Priscilla Day-Walsh, Thomas Rawlings, Andreea Cristian and Julie Tang

2:40 – 2:55

Tea and coffee break

2:55 – 4:30

Session 2: Chaired by Natasha Cavell and Isabel Marchand-Casas

2:55 – Clara Munger and Amy Wilkinson: From birth to blastocyst: a SciArt exhibit

3:00 – Billy Yung: How does placental stress cause adverse pregnancy outcome?

3:15 – Chen Zhang: Sex-related differences in the methylome and transcriptome of the human placenta

3:30 – Geraldine Jowett: Membrane tension as a germ cell intrinsic contributor to gamete sex determination

3:45 – Anna Cochrane: Mechanisms of Increased Cardiovascular Risk in Offspring of Obese Women

4:00 – Emma Siragher: Dnmt3b and the placenta-heart axis

4:15 – Ariella Weinberg-Shukron: Balanced Gene Dosage Control rather than Parental Origin underpins Genomic Imprinting

4:30 – 4:40

Refreshment break

4:40 – 5:30

4:40 Closing Keynote - Miguel Branco: Roles and effects of transposable elements in pregnancy

5:15 Closing remarks

5:30

Pizza and drinks