IFPA meeting 2015 workshop report IV: Nanomedicine applications and exosome biology, xenobiotics and endocrine disruptors and pregnancy, and lipid mediators and placental function

C. Albrecht (1) , I. Caniggia (2) , V. Clifton (3) , C. Göhner (4) , L. Harris (5) , D. Hemmings (6) , A. Jawerbaum (7) , E. Johnstone (5) , H. Jones (8) , J. Keelan (9) , R. Lewis (10) , M. Mitchell (11) , P. Murthi (12) , T. Powell (13) , R. Saffery (14) , R. Smith (15) , C. Vaillancourt (16) , C. Wadsack (17) , C. Salomon (11)

1 Institute of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine, University of Bern
2 Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute [Toronto, Canada]
3 Mater Hospital Brisbane
4 Groningen University Medical Center
5 University of Manchester [Manchester]
6 University of Alberta
7 UBA - Universidad de Buenos Aires [Buenos Aires]
8 Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
9 UWA - The University of Western Australia
10 University of Southampton
11 Centre for Clinical Research [Brisbane]
12 Monash University [Clayton]
13 University of Colorado Anschutz [Aurora]
14 University of Melbourne
15 Mothers and Babies Research Centre
16 INRS-IAF - Institut Armand Frappier
17 Medical University Graz

Workshops are an important part of the IFPA annual meeting, as they allow for discussion of specialized topics. At the IFPA meeting 2015 there were twelve themed workshops, three of which are summarized in this report. These workshops were related to various aspects of placental biology but collectively covered areas of pregnancy pathologies and placental metabolism: 1) nanomedicine applications and exosome biology; 2) xenobiotics and endocrine disruptors and pregnancy; 3) lipid mediators and placental function.

Keywords: Exosomes; Lipids; Nanomedicine; Xenobiotics

Domains: Life Sciences [q-bio]

C. Albrecht, I. Caniggia, V. Clifton, C. Göhner, L. Harris, et al.. IFPA meeting 2015 workshop report IV: Nanomedicine applications and exosome biology, xenobiotics and endocrine disruptors and pregnancy, and lipid mediators and placental function. Placenta, 2016, in Press, ⟨10.1016/j.placenta.2016.01.003⟩. ⟨pasteur-01350818⟩