Thursday
September 18, 2025
7:00 a.m. – 8:00 a.m.
Optional:
IFPA Run Club
Join our IFPA 2025 5K Run “Crossing Barriers” is our motto this year.
When: Thursday, September 18, 2025 from 7:00 – 8:00 AM
Starting Point: Kaisersaal
We will start at Kaisersaal towards Krämerbrücke, Erfurt Rathaus, Erfurt Cathedral, Petersberg area and back to Kaisersaal.
Route is already uploaded at the Strava Club.
For organizing purposes participants should arrive some minutes before 7:00 AM.
Join the club towards the IFPA 2025 here.
Organizers: Jose Martín Murrieta Coxca (Jena, Germany), Hephzibah Winter (Jena, Germany)
09:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.
Kaisersaal
Plenary Session I – Emerging methods and novel technologies
Session Chairs: Rohan Lewis (Southampton, UK), Cathy Vaillancourt (Laval, Canada)
Development of an Artificial Placenta System: A Joint Clinical and Technical Perspective
Christoph Fusch and Niels Rochow (Nürnberg, Germany) and Jutta Arens (Enschede, The Netherlands)
Ex vivo placental perfusion meets machine learning
Christian Wadsack and Stefan Posch (Graz, Austria)
AI-based automated placenta explant sampling
Andreas Schober (Ilmenau, Germany)
Innovative technology to isolate placental extracellular vesicles from blood and other samples using a microfluidic device, separation based on electrophoretic mobility, and using mass spectrometry as read out
Thomas Hankemeier (Leiden, The Netherlands)
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 1
Session Chairs: Gendie Lash (Guangzhou, China), Leslie Myatt (Portland, USA)
Leveraging a placental microphysiological system for placental toxicology studies
Manuel Jr Vidal (Manila, Philippines)
SARS-CoV-2 infection during pregnancy induces ferroptosis and long-term changes in placental iron storage
Eliza McColl (Houston, USA)
Two circulations one goal: Impaired oxygen transfer in placentae with compromised maternal venous return in pregnancies with high risk for stillbirth
Dimitrios Amanitis (Nottingham, UK)
Targeted lipid nanoparticle delivery of short interfering RNA to treat preeclampsia
Maya Robertson (Melbourne, Australia)
Placental small extracellular vesicles alter gene expression and cellular function of pericytes in normotensive pregnancy and preeclampsia
Angga Lokeswara (Oxford, UK)
Disrupted lymphatic mimicry impairs spiral artery remodeling and results in reduced uterine NK cell infiltration in preeclamptic mice
Charlotte Mohr (Essen, Germany)
12:30 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.
Exhibition area
Coffee break
Salon Liszt
Placenta Editorial Board Meeting (by invitation only)
1:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.
Kaisersaal
Hot Topic Parallel Symposium 1
Placenta function in health and disease
Chairs:
Yang-Ling Wang (Beijing, China)
Leena Kadam (Portland, USA)
Gitta Turowski (Oslo, Norway)
Understanding the disease signature of the placenta with single-nuclei resolution
Qiaolin Deng (Stockholm, Sweden)
Understanding Placental Dysfunction in Stillbirth
Alex Heazell (Manchester, UK)
Hypoxia and Immunometabolism in Preeclampsia
Yang Xia (Changsha, China)
Sex, alcohol, mental health, and the placenta
Vicky Clifton (Brisbane, Australia)
Endothelial-to-mesenchymal transition in the fetoplacental macrovasculature and microvasculature in pregnancies complicated by gestational diabetes
Abigail Byford (Leeds, United Kingdom)
Dissecting the mechanisms of syncytiotrophoblast regeneration using human placental organoids
Ida Calvi (Basel, Switzerland)
Salon Paganini
Hot Topic Parallel Symposium 2
Tiny Talks, EV Talks: Messages that Shape Pregnancy
Chairs:
José Martín Murrieta Coxca (Jena, Germany)
Gendie Lash (Guangzhou, China)
Carlos Alonso Escudero Orozco (Chillán, Chile)
Everything you never knew you needed to know about EVs
Larry Chamley (Auckland, New Zealand)
Extracellular Vesicles From M1 and M2 Macrophages Elicit Sexually Dimorphic Responses in the Human Placenta
Beth Holder (London, UK)
Membrane-bound mitochondrial DNA: a potential senescence signal in placenta tissue
Alin Mishel Hernández Bustos (Jena, Germany)
Placental extracellular vesicles promote cardiomyocyte maturation and fetal heart development
Stephen Renaud (Kingston, Canada)
Extracellular Vesicles: What are we actually studying?
Carlos Salomon (Brisbane, Australia)
EVT-exosomes inducing VSMC apoptosis through miR-143-3p and FAS ligand – with roles in spiral artery remodeling
Gendie Lash (Guangzhou, China)
sEV-mediated extrusion of harmful lipid peroxides from trophoblast cells in preeclampsia
Isabella Caniggia (Toronto, Canada)
Placental extracellular vesicles can impair the blood-brain barrier in the setting of preeclampsia
Carlos Alonso Escudero Orozco CA (Chillán, Chile)
Salon Schumann
Hot Topic Parallel Symposium 3
Decoding Placental Function: Insights from Animal Models
Chairs:
Çiler Çelik Özenci (Antalya, Turkey)
Pascale Chavatte Palmer (Jouy-en-Josas, France)
Introduction
Pascale Chavatte Palmer (Jouy-en-Josas, France)
Circadian Disruption and Fetal Growth Restriction: Placental Mechanisms in Environmental and Genetic Mouse Models
Çiler Çelik Özenci (Antalya, Turkey)
BMAL1 Regulates the Initial Step of Embryo Implantation by Modulating Endometrial Adhesion and Migration
Masanori Ono (Tokyo, Japan)
Circadian Timing of Maternal Hypoxia Influences Fetal Cardiac Transcriptomic Response
Katarina Babarikova (Bratislava, Solovakia)
Retained Fetal Membranes in Large Animals: The Example of the Horse
Anna Rapacz-Leonard (Olsztyn, Poland)
Uterine Ischemia/Reperfusion Injury Increases Oxidative Stress and Pathology in the Macaque Placenta
Logan Keding (Madison, USA)
Fetal Growth Restriction Induces Dynamic, Sex-Specific Changes to Molecular Signatures in the Placenta-Heart Axis of the Near-Term Sheep
Janna Morrison (Adelaide, Australia)
Placental crises: Disruptive selection and maternal under-investment as the foundations of mammalian placental evolution and dysfunction
Davis Laundon (Southampton, United Kingdom)
3:30 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Exhibition area
Coffee break
4:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Kaisersaal
Elsevier Trophoblast Research Award Lecture
Session Chair: Helen Jones (Gainesville, USA)
Activin-Follistatin-like 3 Dialog at the Uterine-Placental Interface Impacts Deep Hemochorial Placentation
Mikaela Simon (Kansas City, USA)
4:30 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.
Poster Session
8:30 p.m. – 12:00 a.m.
