Workshop: The human placenta in diabetes and obesity (diabesity)
This workshop will focus on the placenta as the organ mediating maternal endocrine and metabolic alterations to the growing fetus. It shall provide an overview about ongoing activities and stimulate collaborative research in the area. The particular aims will be:
To facilitate interaction and integration of Danish researchers in the field of placenta in diabetes and/or obesity
To explore and foster potential bilateral collaborations of placenta researchers between Denmark and Austria.
To obtain input from few and selected Danish clinicians involved in diabetes and obesity in pregnancy as well as in pre-eclampsia.
- Time & place
- Who can attend?
- Detailed description
- Programme & speakers
- Organisers
- Registration
- COVID-19 CODE-OF-CONDUCT
TIME & PLACE
Dates: 22 September 2020
Venue: MBK Conference, Copenhagen
WHO CAN ATTEND?
This workshop is intended to bring together researchers/clinicians working within any field of placenta in diabetes. In addition, all those interested in learning more about the role of the placenta in obesity and other areas such as pre-eclampsia or fetal growth restriction are invited to participate.
Priority is given to participants employed at Danish research and health institutions or in the life science industry, but a number of seats are reserved for participants employed at research and health institutions or in the life science industry abroad. If the event is overbooked, the DDA reserves its right to select participants based on the defined requirements and country of employment.
The participants will be selected on a first come, first served basis.
DETAILED DESCRIPTION
The workshop shall improve the understanding of the interaction of various cell types in the placenta, how these cell types can be studied individually, and how these intercellular interactions may be altered by the maternal environment associated with diabesity. The overall placental response to these environmental changes may be viewed as either adaptive responses or as contributors to adverse pregnancy outcome in the short as well as in the long term. Current mechanistic insights will be presented and key areas for future work highlighted.
The workshop will comprise short presentations with long time devoted for discussions, in which technical aspects as well as more general questions related to placental structure and function will be discussed. In small group discussions the potential for collaborations shall be explored.
PROGRAMME & SPEAKERS
See the preliminary programme.
- Anne Nødgaard Weidemann Sorensen (Aalborg): Placental MRI: a new method to evaluate placental function in vivo
- Alejandro Majali-Martinez (Graz): Placental MMPs in pre-eclampsia and obesity.
- Louise Torp Dalgaard (Roskilde): Placental miRNAs and lncRNAs
- Line Hjort (Copenhagen): Placental epigenetics in large cohort studies
- Denise Hoch (Graz): Trophoblast DNA damage in first trimester pregnancy of obese women
- Julia Bandres-Meriz (Graz): The first trimester placental proteome in obese women
- Jasmin Strutz (Graz/Klagenfurt): Placental endothelial cells and in vitro angiogenesis
- Carolin Schliefsteiner (Graz): Placental Macrophages - Phenotype vs. Functionality
ORGANISERS
Gernot Desoye, Professor and DDA visiting professor, Peter Damm, Professor
REGISTRATION
Registration deadline: 1 September
COVID-19 CODE-OF-CONDUCT
To ensure safe events, the DDA’s activities are organised in compliance with our Interim COVID-19 Code-of-conduct.