Australian and New Zealand Placental Research Association
@anzpra1.bsky.social
ANZPRA, facilitating all aspects of placental research, including relationships between placenta, pregnant person and fetus
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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 🧑🎨
Congratulations to Elliott Neal who won the annual ANZPRA New Investigator Award at @reproductionsrb.bsky.social in Perth! Well-deserved ☺️👏👏
November 10, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Congratulations to Elliott Neal who won the annual ANZPRA New Investigator Award at @reproductionsrb.bsky.social in Perth! Well-deserved ☺️👏👏
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 🧑🎨
November 10, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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 🧑🎨
@cwyrwoll.bsky.social kicking off #ANZPRA2025 ! It’s going to be a fun 2 days ☺️
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October 23, 2025 at 1:30 AM
@cwyrwoll.bsky.social kicking off #ANZPRA2025 ! It’s going to be a fun 2 days ☺️
if you post, be sure to tag us!
if you post, be sure to tag us!
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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 🤰
October 20, 2025 at 12:01 AM
@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 🤰
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
1:30-3pm SRB-ANZPRA New Investigator Award, River View Room 5
3:30-5:30pm SRB/ANZPRA Joint Symposium, Meeting Room 8
October 19, 2025 at 11:36 PM
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
1:30-3pm SRB-ANZPRA New Investigator Award, River View Room 5
3:30-5:30pm SRB/ANZPRA Joint Symposium, Meeting Room 8
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
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October 17, 2025 at 6:49 AM
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
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Get in quick! Early bird rego for #ANZPRA2025 ends today - all registration prices will increase after tonight!
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ANZPRA Satellite Meeting 2025
Annual Meeting of the Australian and New Zealand Placental Research Association 2025
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September 5, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Get in quick! Early bird rego for #ANZPRA2025 ends today - all registration prices will increase after tonight!
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🐣 Early bird rego for #ANZPRA2025 closes this Friday 5th Sept! 🏃 get in before then for discounted rates
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ANZPRA Satellite Meeting 2025
Annual Meeting of the Australian and New Zealand Placental Research Association 2025
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August 30, 2025 at 7:19 AM
🐣 Early bird rego for #ANZPRA2025 closes this Friday 5th Sept! 🏃 get in before then for discounted rates
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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
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
August 19, 2025 at 4:42 AM
📢 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
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
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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
August 19, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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
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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).
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July 21, 2025 at 1:20 AM
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).
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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...
🐣✨ TUJ1 staining reveals the forming trigeminal ganglion in a chick embryo! Image taken by Rocio Márquez from @pstrobl.bsky.social lab, where they investigate how neural crest and placode cells communicate during the formation of this sensory structure 🔬🧪
#FluorescenceFriday
#FluorescenceFriday
July 21, 2025 at 4:07 AM
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...
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📢 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
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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
Fostering interdisciplinarity and redressing inequities: reproductive bodies and the workplace
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July 21, 2025 at 4:45 AM
📢 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
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
📣 EXTENDED - new deadline for #ANZPRA2025 abstracts is 25th July 5pm AEST!
and don’t forget, early bird rego is now OPEN!! 🐥
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and don’t forget, early bird rego is now OPEN!! 🐥
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July 21, 2025 at 6:15 AM
📣 EXTENDED - new deadline for #ANZPRA2025 abstracts is 25th July 5pm AEST!
and don’t forget, early bird rego is now OPEN!! 🐥
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and don’t forget, early bird rego is now OPEN!! 🐥
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📣 Abstracts for #ANZPRA2025 due TOMORROW 5pm AEST!
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#placenta #teamplacenta #reprosky
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#placenta #teamplacenta #reprosky
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July 17, 2025 at 7:55 AM
📣 Abstracts for #ANZPRA2025 due TOMORROW 5pm AEST!
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#placenta #teamplacenta #reprosky
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#placenta #teamplacenta #reprosky
🐣 Early bird rego for #ANZPRA2025 is now OPEN!! 🏃
📣 and don’t forget, abstracts CLOSE this Friday 18th July 5pm AEST! 👏
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📣 and don’t forget, abstracts CLOSE this Friday 18th July 5pm AEST! 👏
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July 14, 2025 at 9:28 AM
🐣 Early bird rego for #ANZPRA2025 is now OPEN!! 🏃
📣 and don’t forget, abstracts CLOSE this Friday 18th July 5pm AEST! 👏
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📣 and don’t forget, abstracts CLOSE this Friday 18th July 5pm AEST! 👏
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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
If you’re submitting an abstract for #SRB2025, tick the ANZPRA box when submitting!
Criteria 🔗: anzpra.org/awards
July 14, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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
If you’re submitting an abstract for #SRB2025, tick the ANZPRA box when submitting!
Criteria 🔗: anzpra.org/awards
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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
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#ReproBioArt #ScienceArt #VoteNow
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
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July 11, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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
Vote here: woobox.com/2poyka
#ReproBioArt #ScienceArt #VoteNow
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
If you’re submitting an abstract for #SRB2025, tick the ANZPRA box when submitting!
Criteria 🔗: www.anzpra.org/awards
July 11, 2025 at 1:13 AM
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
If you’re submitting an abstract for #SRB2025, tick the ANZPRA box when submitting!
Criteria 🔗: www.anzpra.org/awards
Don’t forget to join our AI workshop tomorrow morning! 🧑💻should be a fun and educational event ☺️
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
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#AI #ANZPRA #reprosky
🚨 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
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#AI #ANZPRA #reprosky
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.
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July 8, 2025 at 5:07 AM
Don’t forget to join our AI workshop tomorrow morning! 🧑💻should be a fun and educational event ☺️
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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
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The human gestational sac as a choriovitelline placenta during early pregnancy; the secondary yolk sac and organoid models
by Graham Burton et al
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July 2, 2025 at 6:20 PM
#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...
The human gestational sac as a choriovitelline placenta during early pregnancy; the secondary yolk sac and organoid models
by Graham Burton et al
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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
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Tania Marsden, Teck Yee Khong, Fran Boyle, @vickiflenady.bsky.social, Jessica Sexton et al
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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...
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June 18, 2025 at 7:48 AM
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
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Tania Marsden, Teck Yee Khong, Fran Boyle, @vickiflenady.bsky.social, Jessica Sexton et al
@stillbirthcre.bsky.social
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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
Read it here 👉 ow.ly/tQCB50Wkqac
#PreventiveCardiology #Preeclampsia #WomenHeartHealth #AJPC #CardiologyResearch
July 3, 2025 at 2:20 PM
📰 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
Read it here 👉 ow.ly/tQCB50Wkqac
#PreventiveCardiology #Preeclampsia #WomenHeartHealth #AJPC #CardiologyResearch
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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
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#FluorescenceFriday 🧪 #Placenta #ReproSky
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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....
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June 20, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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....
#FluorescenceFriday 🧪 #Placenta #ReproSky
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Recent paper from our team investigating endothelial-to-mesenchymal transition in fetoplacental vasculature in pregnancies complicated by gestational diabetes #pregnancy #placenta #EndMT #reprorocks
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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 ...
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June 19, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Recent paper from our team investigating endothelial-to-mesenchymal transition in fetoplacental vasculature in pregnancies complicated by gestational diabetes #pregnancy #placenta #EndMT #reprorocks
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