The Loke Centre for Trophoblast Research

DEADLINE INCOMING - 2 WEEKS TO APPLY ⏳ 🎓 4-year fully funded PhD studentship at the University of Cambridge’s Loke Centre for Trophoblast Research 🔬 Explore exciting research projects in placental and reproductive biology. 📅 Deadline: 3 Nov 2026 🔗 www.trophoblast.cam.ac.uk/phd-students...

🎓 Applications open for 4-year fully funded PhD studentship at the University of Cambridge’s Loke Centre for Trophoblast Research. 🔬 Explore exciting research projects in placental and reproductive biology. 📅 Deadline: 3 Nov 2026 🔗 www.trophoblast.cam.ac.uk/phd-students... 📢 Please share!

🚨 Registration is closing soon for the 2026 Placental Biology Course! 100% online so participants can take part within their own schedule and time zones. 💻 Find out more and register: Placental Biology Course 2026 www.trophoblast.cam.ac.uk/placentalbio...

Abstract deadline extended! For short talks, flash talks and posters, relating to... - placental biology - maternal–fetal health - pregnancy complications - translational science www.trophoblast.cam.ac.uk/node/112/pos...

📢 Announcement! Along with a fantastic lineup of speakers, we'll host a panel discussion on the past and future of epigenetics - featuring Azim Surani, Wolf Reik and Anne Ferguson-Smith, Chair Gavin Kelsey. 🗓️ 16-17 July '26 🏫 St John's College & online www.trophoblast.cam.ac.uk/ctrconferences

Very excited to announce I'm recruiting a ⭐ Research Assitant ⭐ for 3 years to work in my group on placental vascular development in mice and humans. See link below to apply to work with us at the @idrm.ox.ac.uk @dpagathenaswan.bsky.social Funded by @thebhf.bsky.social @biologists.bsky.social

Fantastic work from @inaharasimov.bsky.social read more 👇

We're recruiting for a Trainee Technician to join us in July. Please spread the word in your networks as this is fantastic opportunity for someone looking to start their career in scientific research! www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/trainee...

Pleased some of our earlier work imaging the Boyd Collection at @loke-ctr.bsky.social could be integrated into this lovely paper by @vethannaphd.bsky.social et al. looking to how we can use new machine learning tools to get even more value from this kind of legacy data. doi.org/10.1016/j.pl... 👏

🧬 Placental Biology Course 2026 – Open for Booking! 📅 14–18 September 2026, 💻 Online 💷 2026 fees (held at 2024 rates): • £125 – Students • £150 – Post-docs • £300 – Medical & Vet Health Professionals & Group Leaders • £500 – Industry colleagues www.trophoblast.cam.ac.uk/placentalbio...

This July join us in Cambridge (or online) for our Annual Meeting 'Epigenetics of embryogenesis and placentation' 📅 16-17 July 2026 📍 St John’s College, Cambridge, UK (in-person or full programme available online) 👉 Learn more and register here: www.trophoblast.cam.ac.uk/ctrconferences

Exciting News! 🚀 Registration Open! | Loke CTR Annual Meeting 2026 🎉 📅 16-17 July 2026 📍 St John’s College, Cambridge | 💻 Hybrid conference (in-person & online) 🔬 Epigenetics of embryogenesis and placentation 📌 To find out more and to register www.trophoblast.cam.ac.uk/ctrconferenc...

⏰ Deadline Incoming - 30 January 2026! Join the Loke CTR as our Next Generation Fellow, a stepping stone to career independence in the field of placental and reproductive biology. Want to learn more? Find all the application details on our website 🔗 lnkd.in/esBs5KPX 🚀 Please spread the word!

We were delighted to welcome Marika Charalambous yesterday for the latest talk in the Loke CTR Seminar Series. Over 50 of our network joined for her talk 'Conversations between mother and fetus: lipid dynamics in pregnancy'. Thanks Marika for joining us! www.crick.ac.uk/research/lab...

Applications close tomorrow!! Fully funded 4-year PhD studentships in reproductive and placental biology. Last chance to apply go to trophoblast.cam.ac.uk/phd-studentships

Calling all postdocs / early career researchers! The Loke CTR Next Generation Fellowship is a stepping stone to research independence! Visit 🔗 www.trophoblast.cam.ac.uk/next-generat... Need guidance to find a research sponsor? Register your interest via our short form forms.office.com/e/vST36RSB96

📢 Final call for applications! Closing 4 November 2025 Fully funded 4-year PhD studentships in reproductive and placental biology 🔗 Learn more about the projects and apply at trophoblast.cam.ac.uk/phd-studentships Please spread the word! 📣

2 weeks left to apply! Fully-funded 4-year PhD studentships for home or overseas students, applications open till 4 November. 🔗 Please like and share to spread the word! www.trophoblast.cam.ac.uk/phd-students... Take a look at projects for 2025/26 www.trophoblast.cam.ac.uk/opportunitie...

Fully-funded 4-year PhD studentships for home or overseas students, applications open till 4 November. 🔗 Please like and share to spread the word! www.trophoblast.cam.ac.uk/phd-students... Take a look at projects for 2025/26 www.trophoblast.cam.ac.uk/opportunitie... #PhD, #PhDPosition

Looking to pursue cutting-edge research in early development, maternal-fetal interaction, or placental biology? See 👇 - Funded PhD www.trophoblast.cam.ac.uk/phd-students... - Next Generation Fellowship www.trophoblast.cam.ac.uk/next-generat... - MPhil www.mphil.bio.cam.ac.uk/mphil-pathwa...

Today we celebrate the life and legacy of Bob Edwards, pioneer of IVF, welcoming over 200 visitors for a two part event to mark what would have been his 100th birthday! Read more at www.cam.ac.uk/research/new...

Are you looking to pursue innovative research in the field of placental and reproductive biology? The Loke CTR Next Generation Fellowship is a stepping stone to research independence! 📝 Applications are open for our 2026 NGF www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/51104/ 🗣️ Please spread the word!

Day 1 of Placental Biology Course ✅ After a day of learning, including a hands on organoids practical, our participants enjoyed a walking tour of Cambridge before a well earned rest! #lokectr #placentalbiologycourse25 #pbc25

🚀 We’re all set! This Sunday marks the return of the Placental Biology Course – our first in-person for six years. 25 participants joining for lectures and practical sessions delivered by experts in the field of placental biology!

We're excited! Next week we'll be welcoming our first in person attendees since 2019 to our 2025 Placental Biology Course for a week of lectures and practical sessions. All the live lectures are being recorded. For 2026 the course will be online. Back in person for 2027.

Just over 6 weeks till the event 'Bob Edwards centenary: His life, work and legacy' Do you have your tickets yet? www.tickettailor.com/events/churc... Join us for scientific sessions and a life and legacy panel discussion in the wonderful surroundings of Churchill College

Technicians are the life blood of our lab - our own Alice featured earlier this year on the technicians network Day in the Life series, if you've not seen it yet why not take a look... www.technicians.admin.cam.ac.uk/see-technici... #labtechnicians #labtech #lokectr

Loke CTR members Sung Gong, Gordon Smith and Steve Charnock-Jones, and collaborators have shown that raised Leptin and Pappalysin2 cell-free RNAs are hallmarks of pregnancies complicated by preeclampsia with fetal growth restriction. 📖 Read more:

Guest post 🙌 by Dr Priscilla Day-Walsh @loke-ctr.bsky.social Next Generation Fellow www.trophoblast.cam.ac.uk/staff/dr-pri..., Bye-fellow @homertoncollege.bsky.social and visiting scientist @quadraminstitute.bsky.social 🧵6/7

Attended our Annual Meeting last week? Any thoughts or reflections? Jump over to our LinkedIn to let us know! www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

We're excited to welcome everyone for day 1 of our annual meeting 'The Placenta at Term' see you soon!

Next week! In-person registration is now closed but you can still join online: See the programme www.trophoblast.cam.ac.uk/ctrconferenc... Register online onlinesales.admin.cam.ac.uk/conferences-...

Are you passionate about data and do you enjoy coding in Stata? Come and work with me at the Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology in Cambridge! Please share with anyone who might be interested, and feel free to reach out if you have any questions. www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/51739/

The 2025 Kyoto Prize for Basic Sciences has been awarded to Professor Azim Surani for his “Discovery of Genomic Imprinting in Mammals and Elucidation of Its Molecular Mechanisms.” 🏅 Congratulations to Professor Surani on this tremendous honour! www.trophoblast.cam.ac.uk/news/azim-su...

In person registration for the Annual Meeting closes this Friday. To join us at Churchill College on 7-8 July visit www.trophoblast.cam.ac.uk/ctrconferenc... to book your place

📣 We’re hiring! Executive Manager (maternity cover) to help lead ops, HR, events & strategy in a collaborative, interdisciplinary research centre. Find out more and share in your networks 👇 www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/51564/

Big congratulations to Busma Butt, our Chief Laboratory Research Technician, for earning a Green Impact Sustainability Badge from SOS-UK! 🌿 Fantastic work championing sustainable lab practices 👏 #Sustainability #GreenImpact #LabLeadership www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

Thank you to everyone who has registered to attend YEN 2025! You can still register for online attendence to hear talks and look at online posters. We have sent out a programme to our attendees so if you haven't heard from us just email us or reach out on social media. #yen2025

We are happy to announce student and postdoc speakers. Thanks to all who submitted an abstract! #yen2025

👇A great opportunity for a postdoc position with Naomi and Catherine - find out more at www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/51127/ please share in your networks

⚡Deadline approaching! Abstract submissions for 'The Placenta at Term' close 12 May www.trophoblast.cam.ac.uk/ctrconferenc...

New podcast interview on the placenta! open.spotify.com/episode/0rnA...

We are excited to host Dr. Maxim Greenberg and Dr. Courtney Hanna this week to kickoff the Leuven Epigenetics Club!

We're excited to be hosting this event along with @chuarchives.bsky.social 📅 26 September 2025 | 🕑 2 PM – 7:30 PM 📍 Physiology Building & Churchill College Join us for a two-part event celebrating the pioneer of IVF 🎟️ Registration now open: www.tickettailor.com/events/churc...

As we turn 15, we want to collect feedback from you, our community, to ensure the Node is still relevant and useful. If you’ve ever visited the Node to read, write and interact with the #DevBio & #StemCell community, thank you! Please spare 5min to take our survey: www.surveymonkey.com/r/7QHYQCW

Not long now until #PDNSymposium25! Will you be visiting us on 24th and 25th April? Go to the PDN Symposium web pages to find out more and plan your day www.pdn.cam.ac.uk/postdocs/pdn... 🧪 Thanks to our sponsors for their support 👏

The Society For Reproduction and Fertility is hosting a 1-day symposium to celebrate its 75th birthday! Programme includes talks from world-leading reproductive scientists. When: 21st June 2025 Where: the Zoological Society of London. Early-bird rates until 30th April! Register: lnkd.in/e_SNQqxw

📢 Call for abstracts! ⏰ Deadline 12 May We're looking for poster and flash talk presenters for this July's Annual Meeting, themed 'The Placenta at Term' www.trophoblast.cam.ac.uk/ctrconferenc...