Day 1 of Placental Biology Course ✅ After a day of learning, including a hands on organoids practical, our participants enjoyed a walking tour of Cambridge before a well earned rest! #lokectr #placentalbiologycourse25 #pbc25

🚀 We’re all set! This Sunday marks the return of the Placental Biology Course – our first in-person for six years. 25 participants joining for lectures and practical sessions delivered by experts in the field of placental biology!

We're excited! Next week we'll be welcoming our first in person attendees since 2019 to our 2025 Placental Biology Course for a week of lectures and practical sessions. All the live lectures are being recorded. For 2026 the course will be online. Back in person for 2027.

Just over 6 weeks till the event 'Bob Edwards centenary: His life, work and legacy' Do you have your tickets yet? www.tickettailor.com/events/churc... Join us for scientific sessions and a life and legacy panel discussion in the wonderful surroundings of Churchill College

Technicians are the life blood of our lab - our own Alice featured earlier this year on the technicians network Day in the Life series, if you've not seen it yet why not take a look... www.technicians.admin.cam.ac.uk/see-technici... #labtechnicians #labtech #lokectr

Loke CTR members Sung Gong, Gordon Smith and Steve Charnock-Jones, and collaborators have shown that raised Leptin and Pappalysin2 cell-free RNAs are hallmarks of pregnancies complicated by preeclampsia with fetal growth restriction. 📖 Read more:

Guest post 🙌 by Dr Priscilla Day-Walsh @loke-ctr.bsky.social Next Generation Fellow www.trophoblast.cam.ac.uk/staff/dr-pri..., Bye-fellow @homertoncollege.bsky.social and visiting scientist @quadraminstitute.bsky.social 🧵6/7

Attended our Annual Meeting last week? Any thoughts or reflections? Jump over to our LinkedIn to let us know! www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

We're excited to welcome everyone for day 1 of our annual meeting 'The Placenta at Term' see you soon!

Next week! In-person registration is now closed but you can still join online: See the programme www.trophoblast.cam.ac.uk/ctrconferenc... Register online onlinesales.admin.cam.ac.uk/conferences-...

Are you passionate about data and do you enjoy coding in Stata? Come and work with me at the Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology in Cambridge! Please share with anyone who might be interested, and feel free to reach out if you have any questions. www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/51739/

The 2025 Kyoto Prize for Basic Sciences has been awarded to Professor Azim Surani for his “Discovery of Genomic Imprinting in Mammals and Elucidation of Its Molecular Mechanisms.” 🏅 Congratulations to Professor Surani on this tremendous honour! www.trophoblast.cam.ac.uk/news/azim-su...

In person registration for the Annual Meeting closes this Friday. To join us at Churchill College on 7-8 July visit www.trophoblast.cam.ac.uk/ctrconferenc... to book your place

📣 We’re hiring! Executive Manager (maternity cover) to help lead ops, HR, events & strategy in a collaborative, interdisciplinary research centre. Find out more and share in your networks 👇 www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/51564/

Big congratulations to Busma Butt, our Chief Laboratory Research Technician, for earning a Green Impact Sustainability Badge from SOS-UK! 🌿 Fantastic work championing sustainable lab practices 👏 #Sustainability #GreenImpact #LabLeadership www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

Thank you to everyone who has registered to attend YEN 2025! You can still register for online attendence to hear talks and look at online posters. We have sent out a programme to our attendees so if you haven't heard from us just email us or reach out on social media. #yen2025

We are happy to announce student and postdoc speakers. Thanks to all who submitted an abstract! #yen2025

👇A great opportunity for a postdoc position with Naomi and Catherine - find out more at www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/51127/ please share in your networks

⚡Deadline approaching! Abstract submissions for 'The Placenta at Term' close 12 May www.trophoblast.cam.ac.uk/ctrconferenc...

New podcast interview on the placenta! open.spotify.com/episode/0rnA...

We are excited to host Dr. Maxim Greenberg and Dr. Courtney Hanna this week to kickoff the Leuven Epigenetics Club!

We're excited to be hosting this event along with @chuarchives.bsky.social 📅 26 September 2025 | 🕑 2 PM – 7:30 PM 📍 Physiology Building & Churchill College Join us for a two-part event celebrating the pioneer of IVF 🎟️ Registration now open: www.tickettailor.com/events/churc...

As we turn 15, we want to collect feedback from you, our community, to ensure the Node is still relevant and useful. If you’ve ever visited the Node to read, write and interact with the #DevBio & #StemCell community, thank you! Please spare 5min to take our survey: www.surveymonkey.com/r/7QHYQCW

Not long now until #PDNSymposium25! Will you be visiting us on 24th and 25th April? Go to the PDN Symposium web pages to find out more and plan your day www.pdn.cam.ac.uk/postdocs/pdn... 🧪 Thanks to our sponsors for their support 👏

The Society For Reproduction and Fertility is hosting a 1-day symposium to celebrate its 75th birthday! Programme includes talks from world-leading reproductive scientists. When: 21st June 2025 Where: the Zoological Society of London. Early-bird rates until 30th April! Register: lnkd.in/e_SNQqxw

📢 Call for abstracts! ⏰ Deadline 12 May We're looking for poster and flash talk presenters for this July's Annual Meeting, themed 'The Placenta at Term' www.trophoblast.cam.ac.uk/ctrconferenc...

Wondering what the Junior Technician role is really like? Check out this short video featuring our current Junior Technician for a glimpse into a typical day: www.technicians.admin.cam.ac.uk/career-devel... Applications are open until 21 April

Myriam Hemberger of the Cumming School of Medicine at University of Calgary visited recently to present her talk as part of our seminar series. We are very grateful to her for joining us and meeting so many people during her visit back to Cambridge! @clairesenner.bsky.social @ucalgary.bsky.social

Send us your science images and art of embryos, organoids or stem cells! The YEN2025 Image Competition celebrates the beauty and complexity of developmental biology. Follow us to vote for the best entries between 2nd-16th May.

We are excited to welcome everyone to Liverpool for this week’s Biologists @ 100 conference. We will posting across our social media channels all week and you can follow the action at #biologists100

We are recruiting a Junior Technician to support research at the Loke CTR. This role would be a great opportunity for someone looking to gain hands-on lab experience before pursuing further study or a career in research. Application deadline: 21 April www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/50706/

🔬 Does your research explore placental ageing, senescence, prolonged pregnancy, or term complications like pre-eclampsia? Join leading experts at our Annual Meeting! Registration open, don’t miss your chance to be part of the discussion. www.trophoblast.cam.ac.uk/ctrconferenc...

This Friday - last chance to apply! Please spread the word in your networks 📣 forms.office.com/e/kAq9TpwpUh

⏳ 1 week left! Applications for the 2025 Placental Biology Course close 21 March! An in-person course this September for scientists interested in placental biology - don’t miss out! Lectures and practical sessions. 🔗 Find out more and apply now: trophoblast.cam.ac.uk/placentalbio...

It was great to be back @cambridgeuni.bsky.social to give a talk @gurdoninstitute.bsky.social Developmental Biology Seminar Series, and to talk science with people from @scicambridge.bsky.social, @loke-ctr.bsky.social, and @mrclmb.bsky.social! Spring has sprung @christscollegecam.bsky.social!

How does complex organ form emerge during development? @timesaunders.bsky.social is looking at early muscle formation in zebrafish to investigate the biophysical mechanisms helping to build muscles. Join us today at 2:30 pm (online or in person) if you want to hear more!

Our Annual Meeting this July 'The Placenta at Term' will explore topics including placental ageing, senescence, prolonged pregnancy, and the pathophysiology of term complications. Please pass it on 🗣️ bit.ly/annualmeeting25

Call out to Cambridge community, our seminar 'Introduction to Inclusion' takes place next week. Tuesday 4 March, 3.30pm @ PDN. Students, researchers, academics, and professional staff at the University of Cambridge welcome, registration required at forms.microsoft.com/e/18y0Wq3Q2A

Ever wondered how to mend a broken heart? 💔 Dr Priscilla Day-Walsh, Next Generation Fellow and Bye-Fellow at @homertoncollege.bsky.social, has the answer you may have been looking for! Happy Valentine's Day to the trophoblast community! www.homerton.cam.ac.uk/homersphere/...

The Loke CTR team have worked hard on laboratory sustainability and efficiency and have been awarded LEAF Bronze status as a result! More about LEAF (Laboratory Efficiency Assessment Framework) www.ucl.ac.uk/sustainable/...

We welcomed @margaridamcm.bsky.social to Cambridge last week. Margarida presented her talk 'The evolution of new cell types and organs: the view from the placenta'. We are very grateful to her for spending the day with us, meeting colleagues and presenting her fascinating research.

#announcement please share 📢 We're delighted to launch registration for the Annual Meeting 2025 'The Placenta at Term' bit.ly/annualmeetin... And, applications open for Placental Biology Course, returning in-person, in Cambridge bit.ly/placentalbio... 25 places, application deadline 21 March!

10 days left to apply!

Our first seminar of 2025 🤩 Precision Medicine - Transforming Healthcare 🩺🧬 This week we are delighted to welcome Professor Sir Mark Caulfield from @qmul.ac.uk, hosted by @cahirokane.bsky.social. 📅 Thursday 23 January 🕑 2pm 📍Biffen Lecture Theatre

The Robinson College MCR/SCR Research Day is on Sat 1 February in the Crausaz Wordsworth Building, 9.30 am A series of talks from our postgraduate students and 2 talks from the SCR, Prof Alberto Rosello-Diez and Dr Yudan Ren. @geneticscam.bsky.social

This is a fantastic initiative! Thanks for helping mother scientists

Excited to share our most recent work in Cell Stem Cell, led by @georgiaplea.bsky.social, characterising determinants of DNA methylation patterning in human trophoblast stem cells! A great collaboration with @vpglab.bsky.social. tinyurl.com/93mchcd2 @loke-ctr.bsky.social @cam-repro.bsky.social

❗ANNOUNCEMENT❗ YEN 2025 Conference will be held at @crick.ac.uk on the 19th May 2025. We are looking forward to another exciting line-up with Nicolas Rivron, Maud Borensztein and Peter Rugg-Gunn. This year will see a return of the YEN Image Competition so follow for updates. Share for #YEN2025!

For anyone following here who's not seen this on our other channels, closing date for the Loke CTR Next Generation Fellowship is 31 Jan 2025, details here www.trophoblast.cam.ac.uk/next-generat... Feel free to share in your networks!

Our very own Professor Ashley Moffett of Reproductive Immunology was awarded the prestigious CMP for Women’s Reproductive Health. The foremost international authority on the immunology of human reproduction, her work has helped explain high rates of pre-eclampsia and maternal mortality in Africa.