IFPA meeting 2015 workshop report I: placental mitochondrial function, transport systems and epigenetics

T Bianco-Miotto; C Blundell; S Buckberry; L Chamley; S Chong; E Cottrell; P Dawson; C Hanna; O Holland; R M Lewis; K Moritz; L Myatt; A V Perkins; T Powell; R Saffery; A Sferruzzi-Perri; C Sibley; D Simmons; P F O'Tierney-Ginn

doi:10.1016/j.placenta.2015.11.014

IFPA meeting 2015 workshop report I: placental mitochondrial function, transport systems and epigenetics

Placenta. 2016 Dec:48 Suppl 1:S3-S6. doi: 10.1016/j.placenta.2015.11.014. Epub 2015 Nov 28.

Authors

T Bianco-Miotto¹, C Blundell², S Buckberry³, L Chamley⁴, S Chong⁵, E Cottrell⁶, P Dawson⁷, C Hanna⁸, O Holland⁹, R M Lewis¹⁰, K Moritz¹¹, L Myatt¹², A V Perkins⁹, T Powell¹³, R Saffery¹⁴, A Sferruzzi-Perri¹⁵, C Sibley¹⁶, D Simmons¹⁷, P F O'Tierney-Ginn¹⁸

Affiliations

¹ The University of Adelaide, Australia.
² University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
³ The University of Western Australia, WA, Australia.
⁴ University of Auckland, New Zealand.
⁵ Mater Research Institute, University of Queensland, QLD, Australia.
⁶ Maternal and Fetal Health Research Centre, Institute of Human Development, The University of Manchester, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, St. Mary's Hospital, Manchester, United Kingdom.
⁷ Mater Research Institute, University of Queensland, Australia.
⁸ University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
⁹ School of Medical Science, Menzies Health Institute Queensland, Griffith University, QLD, Australia.
¹⁰ Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton, UK.
¹¹ School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Queensland, QLD, Australia.
¹² Center for Pregnancy and Newborn Research, University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, USA.
¹³ University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Denver, CO, USA.
¹⁴ University of Melbourne, Australia.
¹⁵ Centre for Trophoblast Research, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
¹⁶ Maternal and Fetal Health Research Centre, University of Manchester, UK.
¹⁷ University of Queensland, QLD Australia.
¹⁸ Center for Reproductive Health, MetroHealth Medical Center, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA. Electronic address: poginn@metrohealth.org.

PMID: 26693894
DOI: 10.1016/j.placenta.2015.11.014

Abstract

Workshops are an important part of the IFPA annual meeting as they allow for discussion of specialized topics. At IFPA meeting 2015 there were twelve themed workshops, three of which are summarized in this report. These workshops covered areas of placental regulation and nutrient handling: 1) placental epigenetics; 2) placental mitochondrial function; 3) placental transport systems.

Keywords: Epigenetics; Mitochondria; Placenta; Transport.

Publication types

Congress

MeSH terms

Animals
Biological Transport / physiology
Epigenesis, Genetic*
Female
Humans
Mitochondria / metabolism*
Placenta / metabolism*
Placentation / physiology*
Pregnancy