Gravida Science Symposium 2013

Gravida Science Symposium 2013

Scientific presentations at Gravida’s annual Science Symposium 2013 (9-10 September) took attendees through five session blocks, theming the talks into 'environmental influences', 'cellular-level mechanisms', and 'pregnancy and 'programming' on Day One; before moving downstream to 'clinical interventions' and 'translation' on Day Two.

Links to videos of all the science sessions currently available are in the right hand column of this page.

PLEASE NOTE: As at 30 September 2013 we are only part-way through loading the 20 sessions in batches. If the video you want to view is not listed yet, please check back in a few days.

An archived event timetable can be downloaded here (PDF).

A short overview article summarising the general themes from the presentations is now available here on our website.

The full list of videos is:

Day One:

Session 1: Environmental Influences

• Professor Sir Peter Gluckman; Why has the science of DOHaD had such a rocky road?
• Professor Ian Shaw: Molecular mimicry and cell deception
• Dr Alys Clark: Bioengineering for maternal, fetal and child health

Session 2: Pregnancy and Programming

• Professor Dave Grattan: Prolactin/placental lactogen play critical roles in the maternal adaptation to pregnancy
• Associate Professor Mark Vickers: Developmental programming of obesity and related metabolic and cardiovascular disorders – strategies for intervention
• Dr Elise Donovan: Twin conception results in adult adipose tissue with sexually dimorphic changes in glucose transporter and infl ammatory cytokine expression

Session 3: Cellular Mechanisms

• Dr Nicole Roy: Unravelling the complexity of the interactions between microbiota and host: the importance of early life for later life health
• Associate Professor Mark Hampton: New ways of thinking about and measuring oxidative stress
• Dr Amy Osborne: Transgenerational inheritance of response to nutritional challenge, and the genetic mechanisms underlying predictive adaptive responses
• Dr Matt Barnett: Fat cats and microbes: how tiny guests can make a big difference
• Dr Tania Slatter: Smoking during pregnancy causes double strand DNA break damage to the placenta

Session 4: Looking Back - celebrating 10 years of Gravida

• Professor Hugh Blair: How Gravida changed sheep into RNA
• Jacquie Bay: Gravida/science education: impacts of engagement on respective phenotypes

Day Two:

Session 5: Student 'Bus-Stop' Presentation Competition

The complete compeition can be viewed here.

Session 6: Interventions for Health Benefits

• Professor Phil Baker: Improved outcomes in pre-eclampsia
• Professor Lesley McCowan: A pregnancy nutritional intervention study (HUMBA) to reduce gestational diabetes, pregnancy weight gain and newborn adiposity
• Dr Jo Stanley: Effect of sildenafi l treatment on the maternal metabolic profile and paraventricular nucleus in the brains of growth restricted offspring

Session 7: Intervening and Translating

• Professor Frank Bloomfield: There and back again: a tale of two-way translation
• Professor Paul Kenyon: Fetal programming its potential role in agriculture
• Dr Rene Corner: How do farmers wish to learn about technologies?
• Dr Erin Macaulay: Epigenetic markers for pre-eclampsia