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@anzpra1

ANZPRA, facilitating all aspects of placental research, including relationships between placenta, pregnant person and fetus

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Congratulations to Elliott Neal who won the annual ANZPRA New Investigator Award at @reproductionsrb.bsky.social in Perth! Well-deserved ☺️👏👏

10.11.2025 11:42 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A group photo of ANZPRA conference attendees posing next to the placenta artwork

A group photo of ANZPRA conference attendees posing next to the placenta artwork

A photo of a colourful artwork of a placenta, formed from joining 49 smaller artworks together

A photo of a colourful artwork of a placenta, formed from joining 49 smaller artworks together

Recently, we held our annual scientific meeting in Fremantle. Big thanks to @cwyrwoll.bsky.social and the LOC who organised an incredible program for us! We heard about some amazing pregnancy research happening in our community ☺️ and created a beautiful collaborative placenta artwork 🧑‍🎨

10.11.2025 11:35 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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@cwyrwoll.bsky.social kicking off #ANZPRA2025 ! It’s going to be a fun 2 days ☺️
if you post, be sure to tag us!

23.10.2025 01:30 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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@reproductionsrb.bsky.social @anzpra1.bsky.social A beautiful talk this morning from @kirsty-pringle.bsky.social on the importance of consumers in research - not just involving them but having them lead the research direction 🤰

20.10.2025 00:01 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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To those joining us at @reproductionsrb.bsky.social, be sure to come to our two ANZPRA-sponsored sessions today!

1:30-3pm SRB-ANZPRA New Investigator Award, River View Room 5

3:30-5:30pm SRB/ANZPRA Joint Symposium, Meeting Room 8

19.10.2025 23:36 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
MEETINGS | anzpra

Less than 1 week to go until #ANZPRA2025! We’re looking forward to catching up, meeting new faces, and celebrating the innovation and passion of the placental research community

🔗 anzpra.org/anzpra-satel...

17.10.2025 06:49 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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ANZPRA Satellite Meeting 2025 Annual Meeting of the Australian and New Zealand Placental Research Association 2025

Get in quick! Early bird rego for #ANZPRA2025 ends today - all registration prices will increase after tonight!
www.trybooking.com/DDMJL

05.09.2025 08:56 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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ANZPRA Satellite Meeting 2025 Annual Meeting of the Australian and New Zealand Placental Research Association 2025

🐣 Early bird rego for #ANZPRA2025 closes this Friday 5th Sept! 🏃 get in before then for discounted rates

🔗 www.trybooking.com/DDMJL

30.08.2025 07:19 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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📢 New research!
We analysed 20+ years of pregnancy & birth data in 🇦🇺🇺🇸🇬🇧
👩‍🍼 Mothers are older
📈 C-section & diabetes rates rising
⚖️ Inequities persist for Indigenous & minority women
Time for equity-driven maternity care 💡
🔗https://www.mdpi.com/2077-0383/14/16/5841 #MaternalHealth #Equity #Pregnancy

19.08.2025 04:42 👍 7 🔁 3 💬 2 📌 0
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A shout out to various members of my team who have been spending way too much time recently in dark basements imaging bits of placenta with the new lightsheet microscope (with much troubleshooting) and processing the resulting datasets… but the results when it works! 🤩 @anzpra1.bsky.social

19.08.2025 01:00 👍 10 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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The placenta could be the key to solving stillbirth. Why? @dranyaarthurs.bsky.social explains at our free event, co-hosted by Healthy Development Adelaide (HDA).

Register now 👉 events.humanitix.com/tick-tock-in...

21.07.2025 01:20 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

Got stunning fluorescence microscopy images? 🌈🔬 SDB wants to feature YOUR work for #FluorescenceFriday! We highlight images from SDB members with a short description and the image creators 📸. Fill out the form to be featured: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

21.07.2025 04:07 👍 8 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Fostering interdisciplinarity and redressing inequities: reproductive bodies and the workplace

📢 Call for Papers – Special Issue
Reproductive Bodies & the Workplace

🗓 Abstracts due: 1 Sept 2025

📧 m.oshea@westernsydney.edu.au | CC: j.ussher@westernsydney.edu.au

Full details: tinyurl.com/WRHSpecialIssue

21.07.2025 04:45 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Image of Bathers Beach in Fremantle, WA. Text below the image reads ‘ANZPRA Satellite Meeting 2025, Walyalup (Fremantle) Save the Date: October 23-24’

Image of Bathers Beach in Fremantle, WA. Text below the image reads ‘ANZPRA Satellite Meeting 2025, Walyalup (Fremantle) Save the Date: October 23-24’

📣 EXTENDED - new deadline for #ANZPRA2025 abstracts is 25th July 5pm AEST!

and don’t forget, early bird rego is now OPEN!! 🐥

🔗 anzpra.org/anzpra-satel...

21.07.2025 06:15 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
MEETINGS | anzpra

📣 Abstracts for #ANZPRA2025 due TOMORROW 5pm AEST!

🔗 anzpra.org/anzpra-satel...
#placenta #teamplacenta #reprosky

17.07.2025 07:55 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Image of Bathers Beach in Fremantle, WA. Text below the image reads ‘ANZPRA Satellite Meeting 2025, Walyalup (Fremantle) Save the Date: October 23-24’

Image of Bathers Beach in Fremantle, WA. Text below the image reads ‘ANZPRA Satellite Meeting 2025, Walyalup (Fremantle) Save the Date: October 23-24’

🐣 Early bird rego for #ANZPRA2025 is now OPEN!! 🏃
📣 and don’t forget, abstracts CLOSE this Friday 18th July 5pm AEST! 👏

🔗 anzpra.org/anzpra-satel...

14.07.2025 09:28 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The deadline for SRB abstracts and the SRB-ANZPRA New Investigator Award has been EXTENDED to this Friday 18th July!! 😅⏳
If you’re submitting an abstract for #SRB2025, tick the ANZPRA box when submitting!

Criteria 🔗: anzpra.org/awards

14.07.2025 09:23 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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ReproBioArt 2025 #ReproBioArt: Where science becomes art. Explore incredible images from reproductive biology research and consider submitting your own to win free registration to SSR 2026! @SSRrepro

Voting is NOW OPEN for the 2025 ReproBioArt contest! Explore incredible art inspired by reproductive biology and cast your vote for your favorites. Every vote counts!
Vote here: woobox.com/2poyka
#ReproBioArt #ScienceArt #VoteNow

11.07.2025 15:00 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Applications for the SRB-ANZPRA New Investigator Award close tonight! ⏳
If you’re submitting an abstract for #SRB2025, tick the ANZPRA box when submitting!

Criteria 🔗: www.anzpra.org/awards

11.07.2025 01:13 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Don’t forget to join our AI workshop tomorrow morning! 🧑‍💻should be a fun and educational event ☺️

08.07.2025 05:07 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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#DBfeature #Organoid

The human gestational sac as a choriovitelline placenta during early pregnancy; the secondary yolk sac and organoid models

by Graham Burton et al
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

02.07.2025 18:20 👍 4 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
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Placental Pathology Reporting Practices in Australian Stillbirths: A Quality Review - Tania Marsden, Teck Yee Khong, Jane E. Dahlstrom, Fran Boyle, Mu Cheng, Yin Ping Wong, Stacey Prystupa, Gretchen P... Background: Stillbirth continues to pose a significant public health challenge. Autopsy and placental assessments are recognized as the gold standard for stillb...

Placental Pathology Reporting Practices in Australian Stillbirths: A Quality Review

Tania Marsden, Teck Yee Khong, Fran Boyle, @vickiflenady.bsky.social, Jessica Sexton et al

@stillbirthcre.bsky.social

journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

18.06.2025 07:48 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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📰 New in AJPC: State-of-the-Art Review on Preeclampsia—exploring pathophysiological mechanisms and preventive strategies for better maternal heart health.

Read it here 👉 ow.ly/tQCB50Wkqac

#PreventiveCardiology #Preeclampsia #WomenHeartHealth #AJPC #CardiologyResearch

03.07.2025 14:20 👍 5 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 1
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Fermitin family homolog-2 (FERMT2) is highly expressed in human placental villi and modulates trophoblast invasion - BMC Developmental Biology Background Integrins are transmembrane receptors that mediate cell–extracellular matrix (ECM) and cell-cell adhesion and trophoblast cells undergo changes in integrin expression as they differentiate....

Had to revisit our paper from 2018 for a future project…boy I love the immunofluorescence microscopy we did on the human placenta.
#FluorescenceFriday 🧪 #Placenta #ReproSky
bmcdevbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

20.06.2025 22:54 👍 10 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 1
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Endothelial‐to‐mesenchymal transition in the fetoplacental macrovasculature and microvasculature in pregnancies complicated by gestational diabetes Abstract figure legend Transforming growth factor (TGF)-β2 and interleukin (IL)-1β induced morphological and molecular changes consistent with endothelial-to-mesenchymal transition (EndMT) in HUVECs ...

Recent paper from our team investigating endothelial-to-mesenchymal transition in fetoplacental vasculature in pregnancies complicated by gestational diabetes #pregnancy #placenta #EndMT #reprorocks

physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

19.06.2025 20:37 👍 8 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Physiological glucose levels associated with gestational diabetes impact the human placental transcriptome in an ex vivo model Gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) increases the risk of pathological fetal growth, including rates of large-for-gestational age (LGA) infants, which…

Our latest paper where we modelled in-vivo glucose levels to investigate the impact of diabetes on the placenta, is now out. Congratulations to all co-authors🥳 #diabetes #pregnancy #placenta #glucose

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

19.06.2025 20:33 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Image showing an aerial view of Bathers Beach in Fremantle, WA. Text below the image reads 'ANZPRA Satellite Meeting 2025, Walyalup (Fremantle) Save the Date: October 23-24'

Image showing an aerial view of Bathers Beach in Fremantle, WA. Text below the image reads 'ANZPRA Satellite Meeting 2025, Walyalup (Fremantle) Save the Date: October 23-24'

📢 Going to #SRB2025? Be sure to stick around for the ANZPRA Satellite in Fremantle! Abstracts due in 2 WEEKS on 18th July
🔗 anzpra.org/anzpra-satel...

#teamplacenta #placenta #reprosky #ANZPRA #ANZPRA2025
@reproductionsrb.bsky.social

04.07.2025 10:01 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

🎤 Calling all student and ECR ANZPRA members!

The SRB-ANZPRA New Investigator Award is open for submissions until 11th July.

If you're submitting an abstract for #SRB2025, tick the ANZPRA box when submitting!
🔗 www.anzpra.org/awards
#teamplacenta #reprosky

04.07.2025 09:56 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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ANZPRA Online Workshop: The Latest in Artificial Intelligence Get ready to dive into the world of Artificial Intelligence at our ANZPRA Online Workshop with special guest, Dr. Emerson Keenan.

How can Artificial Intelligence improve pregnancy outcomes?

🚨 Don't forget to sign up for next week's free online event!

📅 Wed 9 July | ⏰ 10–11am AEST

🎙️ Special guest Dr Emerson Keenan – AI & pregnancy tech innovator

www.eventbrite.com.au/e/anzpra-onl...

#AI #ANZPRA #reprosky

04.07.2025 08:48 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
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ANZPRA Online Workshop: The Latest in Artificial Intelligence Get ready to dive into the world of Artificial Intelligence at our ANZPRA Online Workshop with special guest, Dr. Emerson Keenan.

🚨 ANZPRA Members – Free Online Workshop!

🧠 The Latest in Artificial Intelligence

📅 Tues 9 July | ⏰ 10–11am AEST

🎙️ With Dr Emerson Keenan – AI & pregnancy tech innovator, co-founder of Kali Healthcare.

🔗 Register now:
eventbrite.com.au/e/anzpra-onl...

#AI #ANZPRA

10.06.2025 22:47 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0