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Meghan Riddell

@meghanriddell.bsky.social
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Placenta, pregnancy, and blood vessel researcher, UAlberta researcher

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Meghan Riddell @meghanriddell.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Excited to share the lab’s newest preprint! If you are interested in what else aPKCs may be doing besides regulating polarity and differentiation and placentas dig in! Congratulations @sumaiyahshaha.bsky.social! www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...
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aPKC-ζ III promotes trophoblast fusion by altering Par-3 interactions with Hippo Signaling Kinase LATS1
The first trimester of pregnancy is a critical developmental period for the placenta. In humans, the maternal-facing exchange surface is formed by a single giant multinucleate syncytium: the syncytiot...
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Meghan Riddell @meghanriddell.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
Happy Halloween!
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Rubén Marín-Juez @rmarinjuez.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
🚨Job alert🚨 Super lab!!! Apply 👇👇👇
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Meghan Riddell @meghanriddell.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Congrats and welcome home Felix!!
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Meghan Riddell @meghanriddell.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
WCHRI members are doing amazing things and I can honestly say WCHRI fosters one of the best environments to do perinatal research in the world. Check out what they did this year!
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Sophie Petropoulos @sophiepetropoulos.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Want an exciting opportunity that merges academia and industry? Interested in fertility, method development or embryogenesis? Then come join our teams for a fully funded postdoctoral fellow position!🧬🧫
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Development @dev-journal.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Microvilli are required for placental cell fusion Read this Research Highlight showcasing work from @wendykduan.bsky.social, @meghanriddell.bsky.social & collegaues: journals.biologists.com/dev/article/... 🎥12wk gestational age placental tissue 24hrs posttrypsinization
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Development @dev-journal.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
To learn more about the story behind the paper, we caught up with first author Wendy Duan @wendykduan.bsky.social and corresponding author Meghan Riddell @meghanriddell.bsky.social, Associate Professor at the University of Alberta, Canada: journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...
Meghan Riddell (left) and Wendy Duan (right)
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Meghan Riddell @meghanriddell.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Thrilled to see this work published! track.smtpsendmail.com/9032119/c?p=...
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Placental cytotrophoblast microvillar stabilization is required for cell-cell fusion
Summary: Fusion-competent cytotrophoblasts undergo dynamic changes in cell morphology, including the acquisition of apically localized microvilli, the stabilization of which facilitates effective fusi...
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Kristin Connor @kconnor.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
🔊Share widely! Were looking for a Tier 2 CRC in Human Metabolic Disease! Just posted but hurry as app deadline is May 15! Got expertise in #obesity or #diabetes and are an emerging expert in your field? Apply now!!!! carleton.ca/deputyprovos...
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Assistant or Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair, Tier 2, Biology or Health Sciences or Neuroscience (Human Metabolic Disease) - Office of the Deputy Provost (Academic Operations and Plannin...
About the Position The Faculty of Science invites applications for a Canadian Institute of Health Research (CIHR) Tier 2 Canada Research Chair (CRC) appointment in Biology, as applicable to Human Meta...
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Fran Bottanelli @franbottanelli.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
A few spots left and deadline extended to March 14th! Many opportunities for talks with 16 talks plus 24 flash talks selected from abstracts! Please repost!
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placresearch.bsky.social @placresearch.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Don’t miss out on this opportunity to grow your mentor network at #SRI2025
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Meghan Riddell @meghanriddell.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Honoured to be named a Canada Research Chair in Maternal-Fetal Interface biology in health and disease 🥳 thank you for the support @ualberta.bsky.social and to this amazing team who make it so much fun!
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James Briscoe @jamesbriscoe.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Upcoming Development Special Issue 'Lifelong Development' Beyond the embryo: tissue maintenance, regeneration & plasticity Guest eds: Meri Huch & Mansi Srivastava Deadline: 15 May 2025 All article types welcome #DevBio #Regeneration #StemCells journals.biologists.com/dev/pages/li...
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CFP | Lifelong Development | Development | The Company of Biologists
CFP | Lifelong Development | Development | The Company of Biologists Special Issue – Lifelong Development: the Maintenance, Regeneration and Plasticity of Tissues Development invites yo...
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