* All times are based on Canada/Eastern EST.

    • Monday

    Sept. 2

    Tuesday

    Sept. 3

    Wednesday

    Sept. 4

    Thursday

    Sept. 5

    Friday

    Sept. 6

    8:00 AM

    Canada/Eastern

     2 parallel sessions
    8:00 AM - 9:00 AM EDT
    Symphonie 1

    Award committee meeting (by invitation only)

    8:00 AM - 5:00 PM EDT

    Registration Desk

    9:00 AM

    Canada/Eastern
    9:00 AM - 9:45 AM EDT
    Grand Salon Opera ABC

    Gruslin Lecture Award - Jane Cleal

    Chairs: Isabella Caniggia & Shannon Bainbridge Placental uptake, metabolism and activity of 25(OH)-vitamin D within the fetoplacental unit

    1

    9:45 AM

    Canada/Eastern
    9:45 AM - 10:45 AM EDT
    Grand Salon Opera ABC

    New Investigator (NI) award session 2

    Chairs: Udo Market & Vicki Clifton Speakers: Siddharth Acharya, Nikita Telkar, Bianca Rose Fato & Hephzibah Elisabeth Winter

    4

    10:45 AM

    Canada/Eastern
    10:45 AM - 11:15 AM EDT

    Morning Break

    11:15 AM

    Canada/Eastern
    11:15 AM - 12:00 PM EDT
    Grand Salon Opera ABC

    Elsevier Trophoblast Research NI Award Lecture - Madeline Keenen

    Chairs: Gendie Lash & Leslie Myatt Investigating nuclear specialization in the multinucleated syncytiotrophoblast of human tissue and trophoblast organoids.

    1

    12:00 PM

    Canada/Eastern
    12:00 PM - 1:15 PM EDT
    Grand Salon Opera ABC

    Lunch IFPA General Assembly

    1:45 PM

    Canada/Eastern

     3 parallel sessions
    1:45 PM - 3:45 PM EDT
    Grand Salon Opera A

    Parallel Symposium 1-Multimodal placental and pregnancy imaging across scales

    Chairs: Rohan Lewis (& Victoria Roberts). Speakers: Rohan Lewis, Jo James, Elizabeth Enninga & Nirav Barapatre. The presentations will be followed by a panel discussion that will address how we can perform correlative imaging bringing together clinical in vivo imaging with ex vivo imaging

    4
    1:45 PM - 3:45 PM EDT
    Grand Salon Opera B

    Parallel Symposium 2-Novel technologies to study the cellular composition of the placenta

    Chairs: Jürgen Pollheimer & Brian Cox. Speakers: Jürgen Pollheimer, Theresa Maxian, Alexander Beristain, Meghan Riddell & Magdalena Kuras

    5
    1:45 PM - 3:45 PM EDT
    Grand Salon Opera C

    Parallel Symposium 3-Placental cancer

    Chairs: Rima Slim & Nadia Alfaidy. Speakers: Rima Slim, Nadia Alfaidy, Paul Berveiller, Elin Grundberg, Kevin Ellias & Susmitha Jaganathan

    6

    3:45 PM

    Canada/Eastern
    3:45 PM - 4:15 PM EDT

    Afternoon Break

    4:15 PM

    Canada/Eastern
    4:15 PM - 5:00 PM EDT
    Grand Salon Opera ABC

    Gabor Than Lecture Award - Sandra Haider

    Chairs: Nandor Gabor Than & Pascale Chavatte-Palme Signaling pathways that govern extravillous trophoblast formation and differentiation

    1

    5:00 PM

    Canada/Eastern
    5:00 PM - 7:00 PM EDT
    Soprano ABC

    Poster Session 1

    P1.1-P1.120 + LB.1-LB.11

    1

    7:30 PM

    Canada/Eastern
    7:30 PM - 11:00 PM EDT
    Bar Pamplemousse

    ECR Social Event

    Early Career Researcher (ECR) social event September 4, 2024 - 7:30 PM - 11:00 PM - Bar Pamplemousse. Please note that this event is exclusively for New Investigators. Special tickets will be provided at registration for delegates who are permitted to attend. We appreciate your cooperation, space is limited. Walking distance to Bar Pamplemousse from the Doubltree Hilton Hotel, 8 minute walk. Walking Directions 1579 St Laurent Blvd, Montreal, Quebec H2X 2S9