IFPA meeting 2016 workshop report II: Placental imaging, placenta and development of other organs, sexual dimorphism in placental function and trophoblast cell lines.

Jennifer Adibi (1) , Graham J Burton (2) , Vicki Clifton (3) , Sally Collins (4) , Antonio E Frias (5) , Lobke Gierman (6) , Peta Grigsby (5) , Helen Jones (7) , Cheryl Lee (2) , Alina Maloyan (5) , Udo R Markert (8) , Diana M Morales-Prieto (8) , Padma Murthi (9) , Leslie Myatt (5) , Jurgen Pollheimer (10) , Victoria Roberts (5) , Wendy Robinson (11) , Carolyn Salafia (12) , Matthias Schabel (5) , Dinesh Shah (13) , John Sled (14) , Cathy Vaillancourt (15) , Maja Weber (8) , Perrie F O'Tierney-Ginn (16)

1 PITT - University of Pittsburgh
2 CAM - University of Cambridge [UK]
3 Mater Research and Translational Research Institute
4 University of Oxford [Oxford]
5 OHSU - Oregon Health and Science University [Portland]
6 NTNU - Norwegian University of Science and Technology [Trondheim]
7 Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
8 Jena University Hospital [Jena]
9 Monash University [Clayton]
10 University of Vienna [Vienna]
11 UBC - University of British Columbia
12 Placental Analytics LLC
13 University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
14 University of Toronto
15 INRS-IAF - Institut Armand Frappier
16 Case Western Reserve University [Cleveland]

Workshops are an important part of the IFPA annual meeting as they allow for discussion of specialized topics. At IFPA meeting 2016 there were twelve themed workshops, four of which are summarized in this report. These workshops addressed challenges, strengths and limitations of techniques and model systems for studying the placenta, as well as future directions for the following areas of placental research: 1) placental imaging; 2) sexual dimorphism; 3) placenta and development of other organs; 4) trophoblast cell lines.

Keywords: Imaging; Placenta; Sexual dimorphism; Trophoblast

Domains: Life Sciences [q-bio]

Jennifer Adibi, Graham J Burton, Vicki Clifton, Sally Collins, Antonio E Frias, et al.. IFPA meeting 2016 workshop report II: Placental imaging, placenta and development of other organs, sexual dimorphism in placental function and trophoblast cell lines.. Placenta, 2017, ⟨10.1016/j.placenta.2017.02.021⟩. ⟨pasteur-01538479⟩