The Loke CTR Seminar Series take place in-person with a hybrid audience. Details will be shared over email.
Upcoming Seminars - 2025
Friday 28th March 2025 at 13:30 (please note seminar time)
Uterine-placental crosstalk – The impact of extraembryonic tissues on developmental outcom
Speaker: Myriam Hemberger
Host: Claire Senner
Wednesday 14th May 2025 at 16:00
Talk title: TBC
Speaker: Evelyn Telfer
Host: Kathy Niakan
Wednesday 5th November 2025 at 16:00
Talk title: TBC
Speaker: Camille Berthelot
Host: Tom Rawlings
Wednesday 16th December 2025 at 16:00
Talk title: TBC
Speaker: Kirsty Le Doare
Host: Francesca Gaccioli
Past Seminars 2025
Tuesday 4th March 2025 at 15:30
Introduction to Inclusion: getting more comfortable with the uncomfortable
Introduction: Dr Jennifer Jardine
Workshop facilitator: Bilal Harry Khan
Host: Loke CTR and the Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience EDI committee
2024 Seminars
Wednesday 7th February 2024 at 16:00
Development of endometrial diagnostics for the prediction and prevention of early pregnancy loss
Professor Jan Brosens (Professor of Obstetrics & Gynaecology, Warwick Medical School)
Host: Ana Paredes
Wednesday 3rd April 2024 at 16:00
Human early embryonic development: what single cell sequencing can tell us?
Fuchou Tang (Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Genomics)
Host: Courtney Hanna and Thorsten Boroviak
Wednesday 1st May 2024 at 16:00
Hyperspectral Imaging of Human Embryos: Exploring the Metabolic and Mechanics Dynamics in Early Development and Implantation.
Samuel Ojosnegros Martos (Head of Bioengineering in Reproductive Health, Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC)
Host: Thorsten Boroviak and Albert Cardona
Thursday 5th September 2024 at 16:00
Calcium signaling at fertilization: drivers and consequences
Carmen Williams (Senior Investigator, Reproductive & Developmental Biology Laboratory, NIEHS)
Host: Gavin Kelsey and Kathy Niakan
Tuesday 8th October 2024 at 16:00
Periconceptional Biology: Parental diet, placental health, and Strategies for effective public engagement
Deborah Sloboda (Professor and Associate Chair, McMaster University, Canada)
Host: Dino Giussani and Alison Forhead
Tuesday 5th November 2024 at 16:00
Professor Anna David (Professor and Consultant in Obstetrics and Maternal Fetal Medicine, University College London)
Host: Naomi McGovern
Wednesday 4th December 2024 at 16:00
Endometrial regulation of human embryo implantation and placental development in health and disease?
Dr Peter Ruane (MFH Research Fellow, Division of Developmental Biology & Medicine, The University of Manchester)
Host: Irving Aye