“Stem Cells and Developmental Plasticity of the Placenta”

Theme: Women's Health

 

When: Wednesday 7 July 2010 – 5.00 pm

Drink reception follows at 6pm - open to all attendees

 

Where: CRUK Cambridge Research Institute Lecture Theatre
(Li Ka Shing Centre - Robinson Way)

 

Host: Professor Gordon Smith

 

Guest lecturer: Professor Jay Cross

 

Title of talk: “Stem Cells and Developmental Plasticity of the Placenta”

 

 

James (Jay) Cross is a Professor of Comparative Biology and Experimental Medicine and Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Education in the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Calgary, Canada. After graduating from the Western College of Veterinary Medicine in 1987 he completed his PhD from the University of Missouri in 1991 and was then awarded a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of California at San Francisco. He joined the faculty at the Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute and the Departments of Molecular & Medical Genetics, and Obstetrics & Gynaecology at the University of Toronto in 1994, moving on to the University of Calgary in 2000. Professor Cross was the founding Director of the Institute of Maternal & Child Health and also founded the Training Program in Genetics, Child Development & Health, and the Clara Christie Centre for Mouse Genomics and Modeling of Human Disease.

Jay Cross is an internationally recognized expert in the areas of stem cell biology, animal reproduction, embryology, and molecular genetics. His research group studies the molecular basis of embryo implantation and early developmental processes in mammals using a combination of transgenic and knockout mice, biochemical and cell culture approaches.

 

Current projects are focused on placental hormones mediating maternal physiological adaptations to pregnancy, mechanisms of cell fate specification in the placenta and complications of pregnancy, developmental plasticity of amnion tissue, and epigenetic effects of folate deficiency.

 

 

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