CTR (Centre for Trophoblast Research) Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Dr Topun Austin Addenbrooke's Hospital.

Bryan Matthew’s Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Wednesday 07 December 2016, 16:00-00:00

CTR (Centre for Trophoblast Research) Seminar Series

The art and design of harmony: communication in intimate plant-fungal symbioses

Dr Uta Paszkowski, Department of Plant Sciences,University of Cambridge.

Hodgkin/Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Wednesday 02 November 2016, 16:00-17:00

CTR (Centre for Trophoblast Research) Seminar Series

New approaches to imaging angiogenesis and oxidaative stress in living systems

Dr Sarah Bohndiek, Lecturer in Biomedical Physics,University of Cambridge.

Bryan Matthew’s Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Wednesday 05 October 2016, 16:00-17:00

CTR (Centre for Trophoblast Research) Seminar Series

Trophoblast generated from human pluripotent stem cells: evaluation of a pre-eclampsis phenotype and susceptibility to Zika Virus

Professor R. Michael Roberts.

Bryan Matthew’s Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Monday 03 October 2016, 16:00-00:00

CTR (Centre for Trophoblast Research) Seminar Series

Zinc is essential for normal placental morphogenesis and function and maternal haemodynamic changes to pregnancy in a mouse model of dietary zinc restriction.

Dr Rebecca Wilson University of Adelaide.

Hodgkin Huxley Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Friday 23 September 2016, 16:00-17:30

CTR (Centre for Trophoblast Research) Seminar Series

Therapeutic manipulation of angiogenic factors for treatment of fetal growth restriction

Dr Anna David, UCL Institute for Women's Health.

Bryan Matthew’s Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Wednesday 03 February 2016, 16:00-17:00

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Placental adaptation: the role of fetal nutrient demand

Dr Mark Dilworth, University of Manchester.

Addenbrooke's CS Seminar Room 6.

Wednesday 04 November 2015, 16:00-17:00

CTR (Centre for Trophoblast Research) Seminar Series

Life Study – identifying pathways to health in early life

Professor Carol Dezateux, Scientific Director and Principal Investigator of the Life Study, UCL Institute of Child Health.

Addenbrooke’s Clinical School Seminar Room 3 please see http://www.trophoblast.cam.ac.uk/info/seminar.shtml for directions.

Wednesday 06 May 2015, 16:30-17:30

CTR (Centre for Trophoblast Research) Seminar Series

Role of vascular growth factors in pre-eclampsia

Professor David Bates, Division of Cancer and Stem Cells, School of Medicine, University of Nottingham .

Bryan Matthew’s Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Wednesday 01 April 2015, 16:30-17:30

CTR (Centre for Trophoblast Research) Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Professor Bo Jacobsson, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Gotenburg Sweden.

Addenbrooke’s F&G 5 please see http://www.trophoblast.cam.ac.uk/info/seminar.shtml for directions.

Wednesday 04 March 2015, 16:30-17:00

CTR (Centre for Trophoblast Research) Seminar Series

Between Scylla and Charybdis: the sensitivity of the obstetric dilemma to short- and long-term ecological trends

Professor Jonathan Wells, Childhood Nutrition Research Centre, UCL Institute of Child Health .

Bryan Matthew’s Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Wednesday 04 February 2015, 16:30-17:00

CTR (Centre for Trophoblast Research) Seminar Series

Maternal vitamin D status and childhood body composition

Professor Cyrus Cooper, University of Southampton, .

Bryan Matthew’s Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Wednesday 21 January 2015, 16:30-17:30

CTR (Centre for Trophoblast Research) Seminar Series

3D power Doppler ultrasound: applying image processing to assess placental function in the first trimester

Gordon Stephenson.

Physiology Lecture Theatre, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Wednesday 03 December 2014, 16:00-17:00

CTR (Centre for Trophoblast Research) Seminar Series

Preeclampsia research and follow-up in Utrecht

Professor Arie Franx, Head of Obstetrics, University Medical Centre Utrecht, the Netherlands.

Bryan Matthew’s Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Friday 14 November 2014, 16:00-17:00

CTR (Centre for Trophoblast Research) Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Dr Dave Natale, Adjunct Assistant Professor, University of Calgary.

Bryan Matthew’s Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Monday 15 September 2014, 16:30-17:30

CTR (Centre for Trophoblast Research) Seminar Series

Maternal growth factor regulation of trophoblast function

Dr Melissa Westwood, University of Manchester.

Bryan Matthew’s Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Wednesday 02 April 2014, 16:30-17:30

CTR (Centre for Trophoblast Research) Seminar Series

Role of uterine natural killer cells and macrophages in spiral artery remodeling in early human pregnancy

Dr Gendie Lash, School of Surgical and Reproductive Sciences, Newcastle University.

ATC Seminar room 3, Addenbrooke’s.

Wednesday 05 March 2014, 16:30-17:30

CTR (Centre for Trophoblast Research) Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Dr Ralf Dechend, Experimental and Clinical Research Center, Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine and the Charité Medical Faculty, Berlin.

Bryan Matthews Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Wednesday 05 February 2014, 16:30-17:30

CTR (Centre for Trophoblast Research) Seminar Series

Remodeling the prepartum cervix: do macrophages open the gate for parturition?

Professor Steve Yellon Fulbright Scholar and Visiting Professor Centre for Reproductive Health University of Edinburgh, Professor of Physiology and Associate Director Center for Perinatal Biology, Loma Linda University School of Medicine .

Bryan Matthews Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Wednesday 22 January 2014, 16:30-17:30

CTR (Centre for Trophoblast Research) Seminar Series

Making a fetus grow and the consequences of getting it wrong

Dr Jacqueline Wallace Rowett Institute of Health and Nutrition, University of Aberdeen .

ATC Seminar room 3, Addenbrooke’s.

Wednesday 04 December 2013, 16:30-17:30

Metabolism and Embryo Health

Dr Roger Sturmey, Centre for Cardiovascular and Metabolic Research, Hull York Medical School .

Bryan Matthew’s Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Wednesday 06 November 2013, 16:30-17:30

Regulation of placental nutrient transport: Research from rural Gambia

Dr Sophie Moore, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

Bryan Matthew’s Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Wednesday 02 October 2013, 17:00-18:00

TBC

Megan Holmes, Professor of Molecular Neuroendocrinology, Edinburgh University.

ATC Seminar room 3, Addenbrooke’s.

Wednesday 01 May 2013, 16:30-17:30

CTR (Centre for Trophoblast Research) Seminar Series

TBC

Megan Holmes, Professor of Molecular Neuroendocrinology, Edinburgh University.

ATC Seminar room 3, Addenbrooke’s.

Wednesday 01 May 2013, 16:30-17:30

CTR (Centre for Trophoblast Research) Seminar Series

All Welcome! Models and modelling approaches for pregnancy research

Professor Michael Taggart, Institute of Cellular Medicine, Newcastle University.

Hodgkin/Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Wednesday 03 April 2013, 16:30-17:30

CTR (Centre for Trophoblast Research) Seminar Series

ALL WELCOME! The placental renin-angiotensis system: an old system with a new look

Professor Broughton Pipkin, Emeritus Professor of Perinatal Physiology, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, City Hospital, Nottingham.

Addenbrooke’s Seminar Room 8 (in the Clinical School).

Wednesday 06 March 2013, 16:30-17:30

ALL WELCOME! Horses, camels, giraffe and elephants: they are big and they breed in their own funny ways

PROFESSOR TWINK ALLEN, The Paul Mellon Laboratory of Equine Reproduction, Newmarket .

Hodgkin/Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Wednesday 06 February 2013, 16:30-17:30

CTR (Centre for Trophoblast Research) Seminar Series

ALL WELCOME! Horses, camels, giraffe and elephants: they are big and they breed in their own funny ways

Professor Twink Allen, The Paul Mellon Laboratory of Equine Reproduction, Newmarket..

Hodgkin/Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Wednesday 06 February 2013, 16:30-17:30

CTR (Centre for Trophoblast Research) Seminar Series

ALL WELCOME! A genome search for maternal factors conferring resistance to hypoxia-associated fetal growth restriction: update from the Andes

Professor Lorna Moore, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Colorado Denver .

ATC Seminar room 3, Addenbrooke’s.

Wednesday 12 December 2012, 16:30-17:30

CTR (Centre for Trophoblast Research) Seminar Series

The LKB1-AMPK signalling pathway and the regulation of breathing by hypoxia: metabolic control at the whole body level?

Professor A. Mark Evans, Centre for Integrative Physiology, College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine, University of Edinburgh.

Bryan Matthews Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Friday 16 November 2012, 15:00-16:00

CTR (Centre for Trophoblast Research) Seminar Series

Recent advances in gestational trophoblastic disease

Prof. Neil Sebire, Professor of Paediatric and Developmental Pathology, Great Ormond Street Hospital / Institute of Child Health.

Addenbrooke's Seminar Room 7 (Clinical School).

Wednesday 07 November 2012, 17:00-18:00

CTR (Centre for Trophoblast Research) Seminar Series

Chromosome aneuploidy in the human preimplantation embryo

PROFESSOR ALAN HANDYSIDE The London Bridge Fertility, Gynaecology and Genetics Centre.

ATC Seminar room 3, Addenbrooke’s.

Wednesday 10 October 2012, 16:30-17:30

TBC

PROFESSOR MICHAEL TAGGART, Institute of Cellular Medicine, Newcastle University Medical School.

Hodgkin/Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Thursday 04 October 2012, 16:30-17:30

CTR (Centre for Trophoblast Research) Seminar Series

Endocrine-immune interactions in the human endometrium: implications for reproductive function

Prof. Hilary Critchley, MRC Centre for Reproductive Health, University of Edinburgh.

Bryan Matthews Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Wednesday 05 September 2012, 16:30-17:30

CTR (Centre for Trophoblast Research) Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Tessa van Kempen, Visiting Scholar.

Bryan Matthews Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Wednesday 02 May 2012, 16:30-17:30

CTR (Centre for Trophoblast Research) Seminar Series

The genome-wide hunt for pre-eclampsia genes

Dr Linda Morgan, Division of Clinical Medicine, University of Nottingham.

ATC Seminar room 3, Addenbrooke’s.

Wednesday 04 April 2012, 16:30-17:30

CTR (Centre for Trophoblast Research) Seminar Series

Identification and Targeting of Hypoxia Tolerance Mechanisms - from Critters to Cancer

Professor Thomas Gorr, Head of the Molecular Biology Laboratory, Department of Clinical Chemistry, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam.

Bryan Matthews Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Wednesday 07 March 2012, 16:30-17:30

CTR (Centre for Trophoblast Research) Seminar Series

Trophoblast invasion and spiral artery transformation in normal pregnancy and pre-eclampsia

Professor Fiona Lyall, Professor of Maternal and Fetal Health Institute of Medical Genetics Yorkhill Glasgow.

Addenbrooke's ATC Seminar Room 3.

Wednesday 15 February 2012, 16:30-17:30

CTR (Centre for Trophoblast Research) Seminar Series

Early embryo environment and implications for health into adulthood'

Professor Tom Fleming, School of Biological Sciences, University of Southampton.

ATC Seminar room 6A, Addenbrooke’s.

Wednesday 07 December 2011, 16:30-17:30

CTR (Centre for Trophoblast Research) Seminar Series

'Genome wide analysis of placental DNA and RNA in first trimester maternal plasma by massively parallel sequencing: current and future possibilities'

Dr Cees Oudejans, Head of the Molecular Biology Laboratory, Department of Clinical Chemistry, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam.

Bryan Matthews Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Wednesday 02 November 2011, 16:30-17:30

CTR (Centre for Trophoblast Research) Seminar Series

Imaging in Preeclampsia

Professor Basky Thilaganathan, Director, Fetal Medicine Unit, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology.

ATC Seminar room 3, Addenbrooke’s.

Wednesday 05 October 2011, 17:00-18:00

CTR (Centre for Trophoblast Research) Seminar Series

Developmental origins of obesity

Professor Lucilla Poston, Director - Maternal and Fetal Research Unit, St Thomas' Hospital, King’s College London.

Bryan Matthews Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Wednesday 07 September 2011, 16:30-17:30

CTR (Centre for Trophoblast Research) Seminar Series

Is Heparin a placental anticoagulant?

Professor John Kingdom, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Canada.

Bryan Matthews Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Wednesday 18 May 2011, 17:00-18:30

CTR (Centre for Trophoblast Research) Seminar Series

Maternal signalling to the villous placenta

Professor John Aplin, Maternal and Fetal Health Research Group, the University of Manchester.

ATC Seminar room 6A, Addenbrooke’s.

Wednesday 04 May 2011, 16:30-18:00

CTR (Centre for Trophoblast Research) Seminar Series

Perturbing expression of IC2 imprinted genes to characterise their roles in placental development

Dr Rosalind John, Cardiff School of Biosciences, Cardiff University.

Bryan Matthews Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Wednesday 06 April 2011, 16:30-18:00

CTR (Centre for Trophoblast Research) Seminar Series

Evolution of Placental Function?

Professor Anthony Carter, Faculty of Medicine, University of Odense, Denmark.

ATC Seminar room 6A, Addenbrooke’s.

Wednesday 02 March 2011, 17:00-18:00

CTR (Centre for Trophoblast Research) Seminar Series

Mechanisms of spiral artery remodelling

Professor Guy Whitley, Division of Basic Medical Sciences, St George’s University of London.

Bryan Matthews Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Wednesday 02 February 2011, 16:30-18:00

CTR (Centre for Trophoblast Research) Seminar Series

From Stromatolites to Pre-eclampsia

Professor Eric Jauniaux, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University College London.

ATC Seminar rooms 6A&B, Addenbrooke’s (refreshments 4.30pm, talk at 5.00pm).

Wednesday 01 December 2010, 16:30-18:00

CTR (Centre for Trophoblast Research) Seminar Series

Placental Physiology: Coming of Age

Professor Colin Sibley, Maternal & Fetal Health Research Centre, University of Manchester.

Bryan Matthews Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Wednesday 03 November 2010, 16:30-17:30

CTR (Centre for Trophoblast Research) Seminar Series

Placental microparticles and exosomes: their role in pre-eclampsia

Professor Ian Sargent, Nuffield Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Oxford.

ATC Seminar rooms 6A&B, Addenbrooke’s (refreshments 4.30pm, talk at 5.00pm).

Wednesday 06 October 2010, 16:30-18:00

CTR (Centre for Trophoblast Research) Seminar Series

The importance of being imprinted in the human placenta

Professor Gudrun Moore, UCL Institute of Child Health.

Bryan Matthews Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Wednesday 01 September 2010, 16:30-17:30

CTR (Centre for Trophoblast Research) Seminar Series

Placental metabolism in early and late onset pre-eclampsia

Refreshments at 16.30, presentation commences at 17.00

Matts Olovsson, Department of Women’s and Children’s Health, Uppsala University, Sweden.

Seminar Room 2, Clinical School, Addenbrookes Hospital, Cambridge..

Monday 24 May 2010, 16:30-18:30

CTR (Centre for Trophoblast Research) Seminar Series

Functional role of uterine NK cells in early pregnancy

Dr Judith Bulmer, School of Surgical and Reproductive Sciences, Newcastle University.

ATC Seminar rooms 6A&B, Addenbrooke’s.

Wednesday 05 May 2010, 16:00-17:30

CTR (Centre for Trophoblast Research) Seminar Series

The role of cyclic decidualization of human endometrium in determining pregnancy outcome

Professor Jan Brosens, Institute of Reproductive and Developmental Biology, Imperial College London.

Bryan Matthews Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Wednesday 07 April 2010, 16:00-17:30

CTR (Centre for Trophoblast Research) Seminar Series

The regulation of protein synthesis in health and disease

Professor Chris Proud, School of Biological Sciences, University of Southampton.

ATC Seminar room 6A, Addenbrooke’s.

Wednesday 10 March 2010, 16:00-17:30

CTR (Centre for Trophoblast Research) Seminar Series

Why (and how) did the amino acid cross the placenta?

Dr Rohan Lewis, Institute of Developmental Sciences, University of Southampton.

Bryan Matthews Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Wednesday 03 February 2010, 16:00-17:30

CTR (Centre for Trophoblast Research) Seminar Series

Regulatory T cells: evolution, pregnancy and therapy

Dr Alexander Betz, Cambridge Immunology.

ATC Seminar rooms 6A&B, Addenbrooke’s.

Wednesday 06 January 2010, 16:30-18:00

CTR (Centre for Trophoblast Research) Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Professor Eric Jauniaux, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University College London.

ATC Seminar rooms A&B, Addenbrooke’s.

Tuesday 01 December 2009, 16:30-18:00