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Placenta, pregnancy, and blood vessel researcher, UAlberta researcher
Excited to share the lab’s newest preprint! If you are interested in what else aPKCs may be doing besides regulating polarity and differentiation and placentas dig in! Congratulations
@sumaiyahshaha.bsky.social
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aPKC-ζ III promotes trophoblast fusion by altering Par-3 interactions with Hippo Signaling Kinase LATS1
The first trimester of pregnancy is a critical developmental period for the placenta. In humans, the maternal-facing exchange surface is formed by a single giant multinucleate syncytium: the syncytiot...
https://www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/short/2025.12.05.692666v1
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Happy Halloween!
about 2 months ago
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5 months ago
🚨Job alert🚨 Super lab!!! Apply 👇👇👇
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Congrats and welcome home Felix!!
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WCHRI members are doing amazing things and I can honestly say WCHRI fosters one of the best environments to do perinatal research in the world. Check out what they did this year!
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6 months ago
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Sophie Petropoulos
8 months ago
Want an exciting opportunity that merges academia and industry? Interested in fertility, method development or embryogenesis? Then come join our teams for a fully funded postdoctoral fellow position!🧬🧫
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9 months ago
Microvilli are required for placental cell fusion Read this Research Highlight showcasing work from
@wendykduan.bsky.social
,
@meghanriddell.bsky.social
& collegaues:
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🎥12wk gestational age placental tissue 24hrs posttrypsinization
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9 months ago
To learn more about the story behind the paper, we caught up with first author Wendy Duan
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and corresponding author Meghan Riddell
@meghanriddell.bsky.social
, Associate Professor at the University of Alberta, Canada:
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Thrilled to see this work published!
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Placental cytotrophoblast microvillar stabilization is required for cell-cell fusion
Summary: Fusion-competent cytotrophoblasts undergo dynamic changes in cell morphology, including the acquisition of apically localized microvilli, the stabilization of which facilitates effective fusi...
https://track.smtpsendmail.com/9032119/c?p=MsQ9TU5lzXNDA78Ut4IudPRDXFQaMDNQu3Bek_c0PihBRKwB5Z5-ZVJbu7rxIpZQGCcbhPOUux20MgsvvX_0WJir-wH0M4dJehGCJZ9T8pVC4dahmiJ0wZk1tWdwgTfv9y6Ypht24zeGW0VsxL70eD9oGDalgDH_gnyEq9L2ykSIwN8ZDaVKxOkl3d9rj7hzrOHRaMPesnppNRyjA1upRa5apAXvBUnFdZRU9L1FWwhaCJ4VHpGii1Y1dmkYoPKzRyvqBjscoyiHF-uJnGBjctQw2RO8ALBPFGTsELGHeEjVn3I9J1R6s96YEXuazxcdtknLUrwRnXHWWiYudHLRrw==
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Kristin Connor
9 months ago
🔊Share widely! Were looking for a Tier 2 CRC in Human Metabolic Disease! Just posted but hurry as app deadline is May 15! Got expertise in
#obesity
or
#diabetes
and are an emerging expert in your field? Apply now!!!!
carleton.ca/deputyprovos...
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Assistant or Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair, Tier 2, Biology or Health Sciences or Neuroscience (Human Metabolic Disease) - Office of the Deputy Provost (Academic Operations and Plannin...
About the Position The Faculty of Science invites applications for a Canadian Institute of Health Research (CIHR) Tier 2 Canada Research Chair (CRC) appointment in Biology, as applicable to Human Meta...
https://carleton.ca/deputyprovost/2025/assistant-or-associate-professor-and-canada-research-chair-tier-2-biology-or-health-sciences-or-neuroscience-human-metabolic-disease/
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Fran Bottanelli
10 months ago
A few spots left and deadline extended to March 14th! Many opportunities for talks with 16 talks plus 24 flash talks selected from abstracts! Please repost!
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11 months ago
Don’t miss out on this opportunity to grow your mentor network at
#SRI2025
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Honoured to be named a Canada Research Chair in Maternal-Fetal Interface biology in health and disease 🥳 thank you for the support
@ualberta.bsky.social
and to this amazing team who make it so much fun!
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James Briscoe
about 1 year ago
Upcoming Development Special Issue 'Lifelong Development' Beyond the embryo: tissue maintenance, regeneration & plasticity Guest eds: Meri Huch & Mansi Srivastava Deadline: 15 May 2025 All article types welcome
#DevBio
#Regeneration
#StemCells
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CFP | Lifelong Development | Development | The Company of Biologists
CFP | Lifelong Development | Development | The Company of Biologists Special Issue – Lifelong Development: the Maintenance, Regeneration and Plasticity of Tissues Development invites yo...
https://journals.biologists.com/dev/pages/lifelongdev
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