Friday
September 19, 2025
8:30 a.m. – 9:20 a.m.
Kaisersaal
IFPA Regional Meeting: EPG
Salon Liszt
IFPA Regional Meeting: JPA
Salon Paganini
IFPA Regional Meeting: ANZPRA
Salon Schumann
IFPA Regional Meeting: PAA
9:30 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.
Kaisersaal
IFPA Award in Placentology Lecture
Session Chair: Claire Roberts (Adelaide, Australia)
Formation of the Placental Syncytium: Mechanisms and Mysteries
Stephen Renaud (Kingston, Canada)
10:30 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.
Exhibition area
Coffee break
11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Kaisersaal
Elsevier Placenta New Investigator Award Presentations – Part 2
Session Chairs: Larry Chamley (Auckland, New Zealand), Christian Wadsack (Graz, Austria)
Dynamic morphogenesis of trophoblasts and villous core cells in the developing human placenta
Theresa Maxian (Vienna, Austria)
Trophoblast Receptor Landscape Reveals a Paracrine Role for Syncytiotrophoblast-Derived Activin A in Early Placental Development
Sunhild Hartmann (Berlin, Germany)
Loss of HAPLN3 impairs trophoblast differentiation and invasion
Ana Ferrero Micó (Valencia, Spain)
The myomiRs, miR-1-3p and miR-133a-3p regulate the differentiation potential of placental mesenchymal stromal cells towards a vascular smooth muscle cell lineage
Abigail Byford (Leeds, UK)
Crosstalk between extravillous trophoblasts and decidual glands in early human pregnancy
Anna-Maria Prandstetter (Vienna, Austria)
Decoding Iron–Oxygen Regulation of Extravillous Trophoblast Migration and Invasion through Trophoblast Organoids
Ruizhe Liu (Toronto, Canada)
12:30 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.
Exhibition area
Lunch break
Kaisersaal
Mentoring Lunch Session - So, We Got Matched... Then What?
Session Chairs: Wenting Cao (Germany), Jimena Beltrame (Argentina)
1:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.
Kaisersaal
Hot Topic Parallel Symposium 4
Pregnancy in vitro models: Shaping the Future of Innovation and Impact
Chairs:
Nathalie Hannan (Melbourne, Australia)
Ramkumar Menon (Galveston, USA)
Sandra Haider (Vienna, Austria)
Stem cells and organoids in placental development and function
Sandra Haider (Vienna, Austria)
Models for Therapeutic Development
Natasha de Alwis (Melbourne, Australia)
New Approach methods using placental and feto-maternal interface organs on chips for preclinical trials during pregnancy
Ramkumar Menon (Galveston, USA)
Microphysiological systems as a platform for bacterial extracellular vesicle trafficking
Manuel Vidal (Manila, Philippines)
Time-resolved cytokine secretion profile in an ex vivo dual-compartment model of human fetal membranes following inflammatory stimulation
Luise Köpke (Rostock, Germany)
From Placental Syncytium-on-Chip (PSoC) to Trophoblast Invasion-on-Chip (TIoC): A Pumpless Microfluidic Platform to Study Trophoblast Migration and Endothelial Interactions in Placental Biology
Ludivine Delon (Oslo, Norway)
Discussion regarding the future of pregnancy in vitro models: how can we use this to shape future innovation to yield impact
Nathalie Hannan (Melbourne, Australia)
Ramkumar Menon (Galveston, USA)
Sandra Haider (Vienna, Austria)
Salon Paganini
Hot Topic Parallel Symposium 5
Global Environmental Pollutants: Challenges for Placental Function
Chairs:
Nick Illsley (New Brunswick, USA)
Stefan Hansson (Lund, Sweden)
Tina Bürki-Tunherr (St. Gallen, Switzerland)
Placental Adaptation After Environmental Exposure – A Tale of Two Particles
Phoebe Stapleton (New Brunswick, USA)
Early Life Impact of Diesel Exhaust Particles: Placental Accumulation, Fetal Transfer, and Maternal-Fetal Crosstalk Disruption
Tina Bürki-Tunherr (St. Gallen, Switzerland)
Uptake and Toxicity of Micro- and Nanoplastics in the Human Placenta: Emerging Concerns for Maternal-Fetal Health
Hanna Dusza (Utrecht, The Netherlands)
Preconception and gestational maternal exposure to a mixture of short-half-life food chemicals altered fetoplacental development and placental function in a rabbit model, based on exposure data from the SEPAGES mother-child cohort.
Anne Couturier-Tarrade (Jouy-en-Josas, France)
PFOS Exposure Impairs cAMP-Mediated Vascular Function in Placental Chorionic Plate Arteries, Elevating Preeclampsia Risk
Satish Kumar (Madison, USA)
Salon Schumann
Hot Topic Parallel Symposium 6
Crossing identities – the many shades of Microchimerism
Chairs:
Thomas Kroneis (Graz, Austria)
Diana Morales Prieto (Jena, Germany)
Microchimerism and cardiovascular diseases
Daniel Pitz Jacobsen (Oslo, Norway)
Infection in pregnancy modulates the transplacental transfer of maternal microchimeric cells
Whitney Harrington (Seattle, USA)
Trafficking across the placenta – the concept of the spatio-temporal corridor of MC
Thomas Kroneis (Graz, Austria)
Human ex vivo placenta perfusion for detection of microchimerism
Diana Morales Prieto (Jena, Germany)
Detection and characterization of maternal microchimeric cells in umbilical cord blood by HLA-targeted spectral flow cytometry cell sorting
Rachel Quilang (Leiden, Netherlands)
Imaging-based SNP detection for the spatial detection of microchimerism and maternal-fetal interactions in the placenta
Emiel Slaats (Graz, Austria)
3:30 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Exhibition area
Coffee break
4:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Kaisersaal
Plenary Session II
Session Chair: Udo Markert (Jena, Germany)
Genetic History of Europe: Adaptation and Migration in prehistory
Johannes Krause (Leipzig, Germany)
5:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.
Poster Session
