Many members of the Ritchie Centre, recently attended the 38th Fetal and Neonatal Physiological Society (FNPS) meeting held in sunny Palm Cove, Australia. FNPS is an international meeting, which brings together physiologists, obstetricians and neonatologists in an informal setting, to discuss new ideas and research outcomes from established and new investigators.
This year, 29 members of the Ritchie Centre attended the FNPS meeting and collectively gave 11 oral presentations, 10 posters and 3 poster-blitz presentations. This equates to 24% of the program of FNPS being occupied by Ritchie Centre staff/students – a very impressive effort.
Equally as impressive was the fact that 2 members of the Ritchie Centre were on the team that won the annual sporting event – always the social highlight of the meeting and a great chance for students (and established researchers) to interact with our overseas colleagues.
Presentations from the Ritchie Centre explored the effects of pre-eclampsia, birth asphyxia, neonatal ventilation, viral infection and inflammation on the fetus, mother and offspring. These effects were looked at in many organs including the brain, lungs, immune system, kidney and heart, and treatments for many of these effects included caffeine, human amnion epithelial cells, creatine and melatonin.
Of course the greatest congratulations must go to Dr. Tamara Yawno and Ms Stacey Ellery for winning the best early post-doc presentation and best poster prize respectively.
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