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Placenta

Volume 33, Supplement, February 2012, Pages S15-S22
Placenta

IFPA Meeting 2011 workshop report III: Placental immunology; epigenetic and microRNA-dependent gene regulation; comparative placentation; trophoblast differentiation; stem cells

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Abstract

Workshops are an important part of the IFPA annual meeting as they allow for discussion of specialised topics. At IFPA meeting 2011 there were twelve themed workshops, five of which are summarized in this report. These workshops related to various aspects of placental biology: 1) immunology; 2) epigenetics; 3) comparative placentation; 4) trophoblast differentiation; 5) stem cells.

Section snippets

Placental immunology

Chairs: Larry Chamley and Tamara Tilburgs

Speakers: B Anne Croy, Judith N Bulmer, Ted Golos, Anne Husebekk, Guro M Johnsen, Ashley Moffett, Peter Parham, Margaret G Petroff, Jennifer H Southcombe, Tamara Tilburgs,

Epigenetic and microRNA-dependent gene regulation

Chairs: Rosalind John and Yoel Sadovsky.

Speakers: Richard Chaillet, Edward Chuong, Rosalind John, Joana Moreira de Mello, Wendy Robinson, Yoel Sadovsky.

Comparative placentation

Chairs: Anthony Carter and Mandi de Mestre.

Speakers: Anthony Carter, Hayley Dickinson, Allen Enders, Carolyn Jones, Mandi de Mestre, Martha Ramirez-Pinilla, Hiroaki Soma.

Trophoblast differentiation and tools for studying it – with a focus on human villous trophoblast

Chairs: Alex Heazell and Berthold Huppertz.

Speakers: William Ackerman, Sarah Coleman, Gavin Collett, Jennifer Ducray, Norah Fogarty, Martin Gauster, Sandra Haider, Olivia Holland, Aline Lorenzon, Guillaume Pidoux.

Stem cells

Chairs: Bill Kalionis and Ornella Parolini.

Speakers: Chie-Pein Chen, Edward Chuong, Bill Kalionis, Julia König, Anna Maria Nuzzo, Ornella Parolini, Alessandro Rolfo.

Conflict of interest statement

None of the authors have any conflict of interest to declare.

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