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; Graham J Burton; Vicki Clifton; Sally Collins; Antonio E Frias; Lobke Gierman; Peta Grigsby; Helen Jones; Cheryl Lee; Alina Maloyan; Udo R Markert; Diana M Morales-Prieto; Padma Murthi; Leslie Myatt; Jurgen Pollheimer; Victoria Roberts; Wendy Robinson; Carolyn Salafia; Matthias Schabel; Dinesh Shah; John Sled; Cathy Vaillancourt; Maja Weber; Perrie F O'Tierney-Ginn

doi:10.1016/j.placenta.2017.02.021

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 Dec:60 Suppl 1:S10-S14. doi: 10.1016/j.placenta.2017.02.021. Epub 2017 Mar 6.

Authors

Jennifer Adibi¹, Graham J Burton², Vicki Clifton³, Sally Collins⁴, Antonio E Frias⁵, Lobke Gierman⁶, Peta Grigsby⁵, Helen Jones⁷, Cheryl Lee², Alina Maloyan⁵, Udo R Markert⁸, Diana M Morales-Prieto⁸, Padma Murthi⁹, Leslie Myatt⁵, Jurgen Pollheimer¹⁰, Victoria Roberts⁵, Wendy Robinson¹¹, Carolyn Salafia¹², Matthias Schabel⁵, Dinesh Shah¹³, John Sled¹⁴, Cathy Vaillancourt¹⁵, Maja Weber⁸, Perrie F O'Tierney-Ginn¹⁶

Affiliations

¹ University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.
² University of Cambridge, UK.
³ Mater Research and Translational Research Institute, Brisbane, Australia.
⁴ University of Oxford, UK.
⁵ Oregon Health & Science University, Oregon, USA.
⁶ Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway.
⁷ Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Ohio, USA.
⁸ University Hospital Jena, Germany.
⁹ Monash University, Australia.
¹⁰ University of Vienna, Austria.
¹¹ University of British Columbia, Canada.
¹² Placental Analytics, LLC; Institute for Basic Research, New York, USA.
¹³ University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA.
¹⁴ University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
¹⁵ Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique-Institut Armand Frappier, Université du Québec, Laval, Quebec, Canada.
¹⁶ Center for Reproductive Health, MetroHealth Medical Center, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA. Electronic address: poginn@metrohealth.org.

PMID: 28284454
DOI: 10.1016/j.placenta.2017.02.021

Abstract

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.

Publication types

Review

MeSH terms

Animals
Biomedical Research / methods*
Biomedical Research / trends
Cell Line
Congresses as Topic*
Female
Fetal Diseases / diagnostic imaging
Fetal Diseases / pathology
Fetal Diseases / physiopathology
Humans
International Agencies
Male
Organogenesis*
Placenta / diagnostic imaging*
Placenta / physiology*
Placenta / physiopathology
Placentation*
Pregnancy
Pregnancy Complications / diagnostic imaging
Pregnancy Complications / pathology
Pregnancy Complications / physiopathology
Prenatal Diagnosis / methods*
Prenatal Diagnosis / trends
Sex Characteristics
Societies, Scientific
Trophoblasts / cytology
Trophoblasts / pathology
Trophoblasts / physiology

Grants and funding

P51 OD011092/OD/NIH HHS/United States