Saturday
September 20, 2025
9:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.
Kaisersaal
NIH Lecture
Characterization of extracellular mRNAs in blood plasma and its use for diagnosis of pregnancy complications
Tom Tuschl (New York, USA)
10:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.
Kaisersaal
Plenary Session III
The evolution of fetal-maternal communication in eutherian mammals
Günter P. Wagner (New Haven, USA)
11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Kaisersaal
Plenary Session IV
11:00–11:30 | Climate and Pregnancy and Placenta
Petra Arck (Hamburg, Germany)
11:30-12:00 | Heat stress and placenta in large animals
Pascale Chavatte-Palmer (Jouy-en-Josas, France)
12:00-12:30 | Placenta nanostructure
Rohan Lewis (Southampton, UK)
12:30 p.m. – 1:15 p.m.
Final Poster Judging
1:15 p.m. – 3:15 p.m.
Kaisersaal
Hot Topic Parallel Symposium 7
Effect of maternal health on placental vasculature; Listen to Mum!
Chairs:
Lopa Leach (Nottingham, UK)
Christian Wadsack (Graz, Austria)
Tanja Groten (Köln, Germany)
The importance of the maternal venous return in fetal demise
Lopa Leach (Nottingham, UK)
Cross talk of the feto-placental vasculature with the maternal metabolism
Christian Wadsack (Graz, Austria)
Maternal disease meets placental morphology
Tanja Groten (Köln, Germany)
Trophoblastic Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transition with Subsequent Fibrosis: A Cause of Placental Insufficiency in Hyperglycemic Pregnancies
Lara Hausdorf (Jena, Germany)
Impaired trans-placental oxygen transfer in pregnancies at high risk for stillbirth: Role of maternal venous return and induced hypoxia
Dimitrios Amanitis (Nottingham, United Kingdom)
Salon Paganini
Hot Topic Parallel Symposium 8
Placental nutrient and drug transport in health and disease
Chairs:
Isabella Ellinger (Vienna, Austria)
Christiane Albrecht (Bern, Switzerland)
Introduction
Christiane Albrecht (Bern, Switzerland)
Beyond the brain: The placenta as an interface for monoamine synthesis, transport, and metabolism
Rona Karahoda (Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic)
Genetics, Parity, and More: Unraveling the Regulation of Placental Transporters in a Healthy Birth Cohort
Lauren Alksunes (New Brunswick, USA)
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Jane Clear (Southampton, United Kingdom)
Efficient iron transport to the fetus requires cell type specific adaptation of human placental cells
Raimund Widhalm (Vienna, Austria)
A novel physiologically relevant model of the syncytiotrophoblast barrier for the study of trans-placental antibody transfer
Beth Holder (London, United Kingdom)
Summary, discussion on which model is suitable for specific transport routes
Isabella Ellinger (Vienna, Austria)
Salon Schumann
Hot Topic Parallel Symposium 9
The placental transcriptome in health and disease
Chairs:
Pryia Pantham (San Diego, USA)
Berthold Huppertz (Graz, Austria)
Pitfalls using scRNA seq and outlook to new tools looking at the human placenta
Berthold Huppertz (Graz, Austria)
Multi-omics of chorionic villus samples reveals early pregnancy placental dysfunction associated with preterm and term preeclampsia
Ellen Menkhorst (Melbourne, Australia)
Decoding how maternal signals regulate trophoblast invasion during human placental imaging using a high-content imaging screen
Elisa Magistrati (Basel, Switzerland)
Advances in profiling circulating RNA biomarkers in gestational diseases
Pryia Pantham (San Diego, USA)
Advances in scRNA seq and spatial transcriptomics of the human placenta
Scott Lindsay-Hewett (San Diego, USA)
The placental epigenome and fetal programming
Alison Paquette (Seattle, USA)
Panel Discussion
Pryia Pantham (San Diego, USA)
Berthold Huppertz (Graz, Austria)
3:30 p.m. – 4:15 p.m.
Kaisersaal
Andre Gruslin Award Lecture
4:15 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Kaisersaal
Closing Remarks
4:30 p.m. – 5:15 p.m.
Salon Paganini
IFPA General Assembly Meeting
19:00 p.m. – late
Kaisersaal
Key lecture and dinner
What can we learn from medical ethics?
Ulrich Schneider (Jena, Germany)
