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CRU Networking Symposium on the placenta
This year’s CRU Networking Symposium will focus on the placenta.
Date: 18 November 2026
Time: 09:00 - 20:00
Venue: Rudbecksalen, Rudbeck Laboratory, Uppsala University (Dag Hammarskjölds väg 20)
Language: English
Last day of registration: 4 November 2026
Organiser: CRU
Location: Uppsala
Programme
Preliminary programme:
- 08:30-9:00 Registration and hanging of posters
- 09.00-09.05 Welcome
- 09.05-09.50 Gestational heat stress: what can domestic animals teach us? Pascale Chavatte-Palmer, BREED, Université Paris-Saclay, INRAE, ENVA, UVSQ, France.
- 09.50-10.20 Coffee break
- 10.20-10.50 Before the Placenta: endometrial health across species Olga Sajecka, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden
- 10.50-11.50 Short presentations
- 11.50-13.00 Lunch and poster mingling
- 13.00-13.45 Crosstalk between metabolism and epigenetics during early placental development Irving Aye, University of Cambridge, UK
- 13.50-14.30Title TBA. Stefan Hansson, Lund University, Sweden
- 14.30-15:00 Coffee break and poster mingling
- 15.00-15.40 Mapping placental molecular signatures of maternal disease and their links to offspring outcomes Qiaoling Deng, Stockholm University and Karolinska Institute, Sweden
- 15.45-16:25 The placental intervillous space as a unique immunological niche Helen Kaipe, Karolinska Institute, Sweden
- 16:30 -16:45 Awards and wrap-up
- 17.00-20.00 Dinner at DomCraft pub