The DOHaD Summer Course is designed for graduate students, post-doctoral fellows and early-career faculty who are interested in the long-term consequences of developmental programming. The course introduces participants to different perspectives within the field of DOHaD thru a series of lectures by nationally recognized researchers.

Date: July 28 – 30, 2025 (Check-in begins at 8 a.m. on Monday.)
Location: OHSU, Portland, Oregon

Theme: Environmental Impact on Developmental Programming

This 12-day online workshop will be composed of lectures, hands-on use of key analysis methods, and a course project, and will include break days. Instruction and exercises will use MATLAB, the most commonly used data analysis and visualization tool for quantitative sciences; however, no prior experience with this software is required. Several data sets will be provided for students’ use. Each student will be asked to complete a project during the workshop. Students will have the option to use their own data in the projects or use data provided by the instructors. The instructors and TAs will provide support at every phase of the project, including selecting an appropriate topic, deciding on analyses, programming, and visualization. Although the course will focus on signals from animal behaviour and electrophysiology, the methods taught in the course will be highly applicable to many other types of signals encountered in neurobiological research.

The 2025 Loke CTR annual meeting theme, “The Placenta at Term,” brings together leading clinical and basic scientists to explore topics including placental ageing, senescence, prolonged pregnancy, and the pathophysiology of term complications as pre-eclampsia.

Lectures will cover:
Human and mouse placental development and metabolism, Cell lineage segregation, Organoids, Materno-fetal interactions, Stem cell embryo models, Immunology, Transport, Angiogenesis, Explant cultures, Clinical study design, Clinical perspectives, Epigenetic mechanisms, Genome editing, Grant/fellowship writing

Registration:
Application deadline: March 21, 2025

This event will bring together scientists from multiple disciplines to explore recent discoveries in early immune development, focusing on how the immune system prepares for and adapts to the birth transition. We are especially interested in promoting discussions on translational aspects to highlight how understanding the basic mechanisms of early immune development could lead to clinical innovations.