IFPA meeting 2015 workshop report III: nanomedicine applications and exosome biology, xenobiotics and endocrine disruptors and pregnancy, and lipid

C Albrecht; I Caniggia; V Clifton; C Göhner; L Harris; D Hemmings; A Jawerbaum; E Johnstone; H Jones; J Keelan; R Lewis; M Mitchell; P Murthi; T Powell; R Saffery; R Smith; C Vaillancourt; C Wadsack; C Salomon

doi:10.1016/j.placenta.2016.01.003

IFPA meeting 2015 workshop report III: nanomedicine applications and exosome biology, xenobiotics and endocrine disruptors and pregnancy, and lipid

Placenta. 2016 Dec:48 Suppl 1:S12-S16. doi: 10.1016/j.placenta.2016.01.003. Epub 2016 Jan 6.

Authors

C Albrecht¹, I Caniggia², V Clifton³, C Göhner⁴, L Harris⁵, D Hemmings⁶, A Jawerbaum⁷, E Johnstone⁸, H Jones⁹, J Keelan¹⁰, R Lewis¹¹, M Mitchell¹², P Murthi¹³, T Powell¹⁴, R Saffery¹⁵, R Smith¹⁶, C Vaillancourt¹⁷, C Wadsack¹⁸, C Salomon¹⁹

Affiliations

¹ Institute of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine, University of Bern, Switzerland.
² Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
³ Mater Research, Matter Hospital, Brisbane, Australia.
⁴ University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands.
⁵ University of Manchester, UK.
⁶ University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
⁷ University of Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
⁸ University of Manchester, Manchester, UK.
⁹ Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, USA.
¹⁰ The University of Western Australia, Perth, WA, Australia.
¹¹ University of Southampton, UK.
¹² UQ Centre for Clinical Research, The University of Queensland, Australia.
¹³ Department of Medicine, Monash University, Clayton Victoria 3168, Australia.
¹⁴ University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Denver, CO, USA.
¹⁵ Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, Department of Paediatrics, University of Melbourne, Australia.
¹⁶ The Mothers and Babies Research Centre, University of Newcastle, Australia.
¹⁷ INRS Institut Armand Frappier, Université du Québec, Canada.
¹⁸ Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria.
¹⁹ Exosome Biology Laboratory, Center for Clinical Diagnostics, UQ Centre for Clinical Research, Faculty of Medicine + Biomedical Sciences, The University of Queensland, Australia. Electronic address: c.salomongallo@uq.edu.au.

PMID: 27094788
DOI: 10.1016/j.placenta.2016.01.003

Abstract

Workshops are an important part of the IFPA annual meeting, as they allow for discussion of specialized topics. At the IFPA meeting 2015 there were twelve themed workshops, three of which are summarized in this report. These workshops were related to various aspects of placental biology but collectively covered areas of pregnancy pathologies and placental metabolism: 1) nanomedicine applications and exosome biology; 2) xenobiotics and endocrine disruptors and pregnancy; 3) lipid mediators and placental function.

Keywords: Exosomes; Lipids; Nanomedicine; Xenobiotics.

Publication types

Congress

MeSH terms

Endocrine Disruptors / pharmacology*
Exosomes / physiology*
Female
Humans
Lipids
Nanomedicine*
Placenta / drug effects*
Placenta / metabolism
Placenta / pathology
Placentation / drug effects
Placentation / physiology
Pregnancy
Xenobiotics

Substances

Endocrine Disruptors
Lipids
Xenobiotics

Grants and funding

BB/H022627/1/BB_/Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council/United Kingdom