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Australian and New Zealand Placental Research Association @anzpra1.bsky.social · Sep 5

Get in quick! Early bird rego for #ANZPRA2025 ends today - all registration prices will increase after tonight!
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ANZPRA Satellite Meeting 2025

Annual Meeting of the Australian and New Zealand Placental Research Association 2025

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Australian and New Zealand Placental Research Association @anzpra1.bsky.social · Aug 30

🐣 Early bird rego for #ANZPRA2025 closes this Friday 5th Sept! 🏃 get in before then for discounted rates

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ANZPRA Satellite Meeting 2025

Annual Meeting of the Australian and New Zealand Placental Research Association 2025

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Dr Anya Arthurs @dranyaarthurs.bsky.social · Aug 19

📢 New research!
We analysed 20+ years of pregnancy & birth data in 🇦🇺🇺🇸🇬🇧
👩‍🍼 Mothers are older
📈 C-section & diabetes rates rising
⚖️ Inequities persist for Indigenous & minority women
Time for equity-driven maternity care 💡
🔗https://www.mdpi.com/2077-0383/14/16/5841 #MaternalHealth #Equity #Pregnancy

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A/Prof Jo James @drjojames.bsky.social · Aug 19

A shout out to various members of my team who have been spending way too much time recently in dark basements imaging bits of placenta with the new lightsheet microscope (with much troubleshooting) and processing the resulting datasets… but the results when it works! 🤩 @anzpra1.bsky.social

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Robinson Research Institute @robsinstitute.bsky.social · Jul 21

The placenta could be the key to solving stillbirth. Why? @dranyaarthurs.bsky.social explains at our free event, co-hosted by Healthy Development Adelaide (HDA).

Register now 👉 events.humanitix.com/tick-tock-in...

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Society for Developmental Biology @socdevbio.bsky.social · Jul 21

Got stunning fluorescence microscopy images? 🌈🔬 SDB wants to feature YOUR work for #FluorescenceFriday! We highlight images from SDB members with a short description and the image creators 📸. Fill out the form to be featured: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Society for Developmental Biology @socdevbio.bsky.social · Jul 18

🐣✨ TUJ1 staining reveals the forming trigeminal ganglion in a chick embryo! Image taken by Rocio Márquez from @pstrobl.bsky.social lab, where they investigate how neural crest and placode cells communicate during the formation of this sensory structure 🔬🧪
#FluorescenceFriday

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Pregnancy Loss Research Group @pregnancylossie.bsky.social · Jul 21

📢 Call for Papers – Special Issue
Reproductive Bodies & the Workplace

🗓 Abstracts due: 1 Sept 2025

📧 [email protected] | CC: [email protected]

Full details: tinyurl.com/WRHSpecialIssue

Fostering interdisciplinarity and redressing inequities: reproductive bodies and the workplace

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Australian and New Zealand Placental Research Association @anzpra1.bsky.social · Jul 21

📣 EXTENDED - new deadline for #ANZPRA2025 abstracts is 25th July 5pm AEST!

and don’t forget, early bird rego is now OPEN!! 🐥

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Australian and New Zealand Placental Research Association @anzpra1.bsky.social · Jul 17

📣 Abstracts for #ANZPRA2025 due TOMORROW 5pm AEST!

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#placenta #teamplacenta #reprosky

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Australian and New Zealand Placental Research Association @anzpra1.bsky.social · Jul 14

🐣 Early bird rego for #ANZPRA2025 is now OPEN!! 🏃
📣 and don’t forget, abstracts CLOSE this Friday 18th July 5pm AEST! 👏

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Australian and New Zealand Placental Research Association @anzpra1.bsky.social · Jul 14

The deadline for SRB abstracts and the SRB-ANZPRA New Investigator Award has been EXTENDED to this Friday 18th July!! 😅⏳
If you’re submitting an abstract for #SRB2025, tick the ANZPRA box when submitting!

Criteria 🔗: anzpra.org/awards

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Study for the Society of Reproduction @ssrepro.bsky.social · Jul 11

Voting is NOW OPEN for the 2025 ReproBioArt contest! Explore incredible art inspired by reproductive biology and cast your vote for your favorites. Every vote counts!
Vote here: woobox.com/2poyka
#ReproBioArt #ScienceArt #VoteNow

ReproBioArt 2025

#ReproBioArt: Where science becomes art. Explore incredible images from reproductive biology research and consider submitting your own to win free registration to SSR 2026! @SSRrepro

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Australian and New Zealand Placental Research Association @anzpra1.bsky.social · Jul 11

Applications for the SRB-ANZPRA New Investigator Award close tonight! ⏳
If you’re submitting an abstract for #SRB2025, tick the ANZPRA box when submitting!

Criteria 🔗: www.anzpra.org/awards

Australian and New Zealand Placental Research Association @anzpra1.bsky.social · Jul 8

Don’t forget to join our AI workshop tomorrow morning! 🧑‍💻should be a fun and educational event ☺️

Australian and New Zealand Placental Research Association @anzpra1.bsky.social · Jul 4

How can Artificial Intelligence improve pregnancy outcomes?

🚨 Don't forget to sign up for next week's free online event!

📅 Wed 9 July | ⏰ 10–11am AEST

🎙️ Special guest Dr Emerson Keenan – AI & pregnancy tech innovator

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#AI #ANZPRA #reprosky

ANZPRA Online Workshop: The Latest in Artificial Intelligence

Get ready to dive into the world of Artificial Intelligence at our ANZPRA Online Workshop with special guest, Dr. Emerson Keenan.

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Developmental Biology @devbiol.bsky.social · Jul 2

#DBfeature #Organoid

The human gestational sac as a choriovitelline placenta during early pregnancy; the secondary yolk sac and organoid models

by Graham Burton et al
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Pregnancy Loss Research Group @pregnancylossie.bsky.social · Jun 18

Placental Pathology Reporting Practices in Australian Stillbirths: A Quality Review

Tania Marsden, Teck Yee Khong, Fran Boyle, @vickiflenady.bsky.social, Jessica Sexton et al

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Placental Pathology Reporting Practices in Australian Stillbirths: A Quality Review - Tania Marsden, Teck Yee Khong, Jane E. Dahlstrom, Fran Boyle, Mu Cheng, Yin Ping Wong, Stacey Prystupa, Gretchen P...

Background: Stillbirth continues to pose a significant public health challenge. Autopsy and placental assessments are recognized as the gold standard for stillb...

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American Journal of Preventive Cardiology @ajpcardio.bsky.social · Jul 3

📰 New in AJPC: State-of-the-Art Review on Preeclampsia—exploring pathophysiological mechanisms and preventive strategies for better maternal heart health.

Read it here 👉 ow.ly/tQCB50Wkqac

#PreventiveCardiology #Preeclampsia #WomenHeartHealth #AJPC #CardiologyResearch

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Daniel MacPhee 🇨🇦 @d-macphee.bsky.social · Jun 20

Had to revisit our paper from 2018 for a future project…boy I love the immunofluorescence microscopy we did on the human placenta.
#FluorescenceFriday 🧪 #Placenta #ReproSky
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Fermitin family homolog-2 (FERMT2) is highly expressed in human placental villi and modulates trophoblast invasion - BMC Developmental Biology

Background Integrins are transmembrane receptors that mediate cell–extracellular matrix (ECM) and cell-cell adhesion and trophoblast cells undergo changes in integrin expression as they differentiate....

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Karen Forbes @drkarenforbes.bsky.social · Jun 19

Recent paper from our team investigating endothelial-to-mesenchymal transition in fetoplacental vasculature in pregnancies complicated by gestational diabetes #pregnancy #placenta #EndMT #reprorocks

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Endothelial‐to‐mesenchymal transition in the fetoplacental macrovasculature and microvasculature in pregnancies complicated by gestational diabetes

Abstract figure legend Transforming growth factor (TGF)-β2 and interleukin (IL)-1β induced morphological and molecular changes consistent with endothelial-to-mesenchymal transition (EndMT) in HUVECs ...

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Karen Forbes @drkarenforbes.bsky.social · Jun 19

Our latest paper where we modelled in-vivo glucose levels to investigate the impact of diabetes on the placenta, is now out. Congratulations to all co-authors🥳 #diabetes #pregnancy #placenta #glucose

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Physiological glucose levels associated with gestational diabetes impact the human placental transcriptome in an ex vivo model

Gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) increases the risk of pathological fetal growth, including rates of large-for-gestational age (LGA) infants, which…

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Australian and New Zealand Placental Research Association @anzpra1.bsky.social · Jul 4

📢 Going to #SRB2025? Be sure to stick around for the ANZPRA Satellite in Fremantle! Abstracts due in 2 WEEKS on 18th July
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#teamplacenta #placenta #reprosky #ANZPRA #ANZPRA2025
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Australian and New Zealand Placental Research Association @anzpra1.bsky.social · Jul 4

🎤 Calling all student and ECR ANZPRA members!

The SRB-ANZPRA New Investigator Award is open for submissions until 11th July.

If you're submitting an abstract for #SRB2025, tick the ANZPRA box when submitting!
🔗 www.anzpra.org/awards
#teamplacenta #reprosky

Australian and New Zealand Placental Research Association @anzpra1.bsky.social · Jul 4

How can Artificial Intelligence improve pregnancy outcomes?

🚨 Don't forget to sign up for next week's free online event!

📅 Wed 9 July | ⏰ 10–11am AEST

🎙️ Special guest Dr Emerson Keenan – AI & pregnancy tech innovator

www.eventbrite.com.au/e/anzpra-onl...

#AI #ANZPRA #reprosky

ANZPRA Online Workshop: The Latest in Artificial Intelligence

Get ready to dive into the world of Artificial Intelligence at our ANZPRA Online Workshop with special guest, Dr. Emerson Keenan.

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Australian and New Zealand Placental Research Association @anzpra1.bsky.social · Jun 10

🚨 ANZPRA Members – Free Online Workshop!

🧠 The Latest in Artificial Intelligence

📅 Tues 9 July | ⏰ 10–11am AEST

🎙️ With Dr Emerson Keenan – AI & pregnancy tech innovator, co-founder of Kali Healthcare.

🔗 Register now:
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#AI #ANZPRA

ANZPRA Online Workshop: The Latest in Artificial Intelligence

Get ready to dive into the world of Artificial Intelligence at our ANZPRA Online Workshop with special guest, Dr. Emerson Keenan.

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Australian and New Zealand Placental Research Association @anzpra1.bsky.social · Jun 6

🎤 Calling all early-career placenta researchers!
The SRB-ANZPRA New Investigator Award is open for submissions.
If you’re presenting at #SRB2025 & meet the criteria, tick the ANZPRA box when submitting!
🔗 www.anzpra.org/membership-r...
#placenta #reproresearch

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