IFPA meeting 2014 workshop report: Animal models to study pregnancy pathologies; new approaches to study human placental exposure to xenobiotics; biomarkers of pregnancy pathologies; placental genetics and epigenetics; the placenta and stillbirth and fetal growth restriction.

S Barbaux (1) , J J H M Erwich , P O Favaron (2) , S Gil (3) , D Gallot (4) , T G Golos (5) , A Gonzalez-Bulnes (6) , J Guibourdenche (7) , a E P Heazell (8) , T Jansson (9) , O Laprévote (3) , R M Lewis (10) , R K Miller (11) , D Monk (12) , B Novakovic (13) , C Oudejans (14) , M Parast (15) , P Peugnet (16) , C Pfarrer (17) , H Pinar (18) , C T Roberts (19) , W Robinson (20, 21) , R Saffery (13) , C Salomon (22) , A Sexton (23) , a C Staff (24, 25) , M Suter (26) , Anne Couturier-Tarrade (16) , J Wallace (27) , C Vaillancourt (28) , D Vaiman (7) , S A Worton (8) , G E Lash (29)

1 IC UM3 (UMR 8104 / U1016) - Institut Cochin
2 School of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Science
3 UPD5 Pharmacie - Université Paris Descartes - Faculté de Pharmacie de Paris
4 CHU Clermont-Ferrand
5 University of Wisconsin-Madison
6 Comparative Physiology Laboratory
7 UPD5 - Université Paris Descartes - Paris 5
8 University of Manchester [Manchester]
9 UTSA - The University of Texas at San Antonio
10 University of Southampton
11 University of Rochester [USA]
12 Cancer Epigenetics and Biology Program-PEBC
13 MCRI - Murdoch Children's Research Institute
14 VU University Medical Center [Amsterdam]
15 UC San Diego - University of California [San Diego]
16 INRA - Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique
17 Department of Anatomy
18 Brown University
19 University of Adelaide
20 UBC Computer Science - Department of Computer Science [Vancouver]
21 Child & Family Research Institute
22 Centre for Clinical Research [Brisbane]
23 Global Alliance to Prevent Prematurity and Stillbirth (GAPPS)
24 UiO - University of Oslo
25 Akershus University Hospital [Lørenskog]
26 BCM - Baylor College of Medicine
27 University of Aberdeen
28 INRS-IAF - Institut Armand Frappier
29 Newcastle University [Newcastle]

Workshops are an important part of the IFPA annual meeting as they allow for discussion of specialized topics. At IFPA meeting 2014 there were six themed workshops, five of which are summarized in this report. These workshops related to various aspects of placental biology but collectively covered areas of animal models, xenobiotics, pathological biomarkers, genetics and epigenetics, and stillbirth and fetal growth restriction.

Keywords: Animal models; Biomarkers; Epigenetics; Fetal growth restriction; Placenta; Stillbirth; Trophoblast; Xenobiotics

Domains: Life Sciences [q-bio]

S Barbaux, J J H M Erwich, P O Favaron, S Gil, D Gallot, et al.. IFPA meeting 2014 workshop report: Animal models to study pregnancy pathologies; new approaches to study human placental exposure to xenobiotics; biomarkers of pregnancy pathologies; placental genetics and epigenetics; the placenta and stillbirth and fetal growth restriction.. Placenta, 2015, 36 Suppl 1 (1), pp.S5-10. ⟨10.1016/j.placenta.2015.01.196⟩. ⟨pasteur-01351893⟩