Tuesday, 27th August The Annual Scientific Meeting of the Endocrine Society of Australia and the Society for Reproductive Biology 2013

• Effects of environmental enrichment on energy balance and tumour growth - Matthew During

• Maternal low GI diets improves glucose tolerance and reduces visceral fat mass in female offspring - Beverly Muhlhausler
• Neuropeptide Y, acting through the Y1 receptor, suppresses pulsatile growth hormone secretion following short-term fasting in the mouse - Lili Huang
• Endocrine, metabolic and circadian responses to simulated shiftwork in the pregnant rat: implications for fetal metabolic programming. - Tamara J. Varcoe
• Obesity reduces maternal core body temperature and alters the normal thermoregulatory changes of late pregnancy in the rat - Rachael C Crew
• Sulphonylurea treatment on diabetic pregnant mice improved maternal but not male offspring glucose tolerance - Kuan Minn Cha
• Can neonatal exendin-4 prevent obesity after IUGR? - Hong Liu

• Androgen misuse and abuse - Veena Jayadev
• Growth hormone doping - Effects and perceptions - Vita Birzniece
• Doping in Sport - proscribed drugs - misuse and permitted use by athletes - Ken Fitch

• Prolactin, progesterone and their role in estrogen resistant breast cancer - Christopher Ormandy
• Oxytocin in Psychiatry - Janice Russell
• FGF-21: a new muscle hormone - Carolyn M Sue

• Alternative pre-mRNA splicing: new insights into male sterility and lung cancer - Duangporn Jamsai
• Decidual cells are not passive players in extravillous trophoblast function - Ellen Menkhorst
• Targeting soluble endoglin to cure preeclampsia - Tu'uhevaha Kaitu'u-Lino

• Resistance to thyroid hormone (RTH) – emergence of a new syndrome - Mark Gurnell

• Sulfate in human pregnancy: what we ought to know. - Paul A Dawson
• Sex Specific Differences in Uterine Artery Blood Flow and Doppler Resistance Indices after Preconception and First Trimester Dietary Intervention - Viv Perry
• The intrarenal renin angiotensin system in pregnancy and its potential in predicting pregnancy outcome and renal dysfunction in Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australian women - Kirsty G Pringle
• In utero exposure to mainstream cigarette smoke: long term effects on reproductive potential of female pups - Nicole J Camlin

• Inhibition of the TLR4 signalling pathway protects from LPS-induced pre-term delivery - Peck Yin Chin
• Peripheral immune challenge by administration of lipopolysaccharide in the neonatal rat induces ovarian TLR4 signalling - Luba Sominsky
• Repeated exposure to male seminal fluid expands uterine antigen presenting cell and regulatory T cell populations in mice - Bihong Zhang
• Infection and immunity: is the female germline protected from infection at distant sites. - John J Bromfield

• Sex-specific placental and fetal phenotypes in bovine at Midgestation - Stefan Hiendleder
• Global changes in the pattern of nuclear cytosine base modifications accompany lineage commitment in the early mouse embryo - Yan Li
• Localisation of DNA methyltransferase isoforms during preimplantation embryogenesis - Michelle Kay Yi Seah
• A new function for histone variants in the tissue-specific regulation of pre-mRNA splicing - Tanya Soboleva

Marcel Dinger

Jane Holmes-Walker

• Management of endocrine disorders paediatric to adult care - D. Jane Holmes-Walker

Moderators: Amy Winship, Jenna Haverfield, Dr. Ellen Menkhorst, and Dr. Jonathon McGuane

Panel Members include:

Prof Justin St. John
Prof Susan Fisher
Prof John Aitken
Prof Marilyn Renfree

Dr Sarah Meachem
Dr Wendy Ingman
Dr Jeremy Smith

• Towards a molecular therapy of obesity, autoregulatory BDNF gene transfer to the hypothalamus - Matthew During
• Bone as an endocrine organ: Skeletal involvement in energy and glucose homeostasis - Paul Baldock
• Leptin regulation of body weight - Michael A Cowley
• Effects of energy restriction on neuroendocrine status in obese adults, and possible effects on body composition and strength - Amanda (Sainsbury) Salis

• Growth hormone regulation of muscle function: Role of the anaerobic energy system - Viral Chikani
• Effect of testosterone treatment on glucose metabolism in men with type 2 diabetes mellitus: a randomised controlled trial. - Emily J Gianatti
• Vitamin D in polycystic ovary syndrome: Relationship to BMI and insulin sensitivity - Anju E Joham
• Breastfeeding in women with Polycystic Ovary Syndrome: Data from the Australian Longitudinal Women’s Health Study - Natalie Nanayakkara
• Acute effect of increasing glucocorticoid replacement dose on insulin sensitivity and cardiovascular risk in patients with adrenocorticotrophin deficiency - Carolyn J Petersons

• Diabetes is the Major Risk Factor for Mortality after Lung Transplantation - Kathryn L Hackman
• Co-secretion of ACTH and CRH by a rare ectopic small bowel neuroendocrine tumour causing Cushings Syndrome - Sonia Saxena
• Peptide storm following peptide receptor radionuclide therapy (PRRT) for metastatic neuroendocrine tumour - Jessie Teng

• The impact of malaria on placental development and function - Stephen Rogerson
• The placenta and pregnancy outcome - Annemarie Hennessy
• Placental aging and fetal death - Roger Smith
• Circadian variation in pregnancy: consequences for maternal adaptation, placental function and the response to obesity - Brendan Waddell

• Male obesity in mice is associated with altered seminal vesicle fluid composition and sperm gene expression - Natalie K Binder
• Regulated Wnt/beta-catenin signalling is required for adult spermatogenesis - Genevieve E Kerr
• Effect of a Sertoli cell-selective knockout of the glucocorticoid receptor on spermatogenesis and testicular function - Rasmani Hazra
• A potential interacting partner for the sperm fusion protein IZUMO1 - Amanda L Anderson
• The molecular chaperone HSPA2 plays a key role in regulating the expression of sperm surface receptors that mediate sperm-egg recognition - Kate A Redgrove
• LRGUK-1 function in the machette and sperm tail formation - Yan Liu
• Dietary vitamin and antioxidant supplementation to malnourished fathers ameliorates the impaired male offspring reproductive functions - Wan Xian Kang
• Chemically elevating ROS in sperm impairs embryo development, pregnancy and offspring health similar to the male obesity phenotype. - Deirdre Zander-Fox

• The hidden layer of regulatory RNAs in human development, physiology and disease - John S Mattick

• Androgen-induced mouse models of Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS) - Aimee SL Caldwell
• Follicle-stimulating hormone drives Sertoli cell tumor development by regulating proliferation  - Jenna T Haverfield
• Time-lapse analysis of cleavage stage mouse embryos reveals that developmental kinetics are related to subsequent blastocyst metabolism - Lisa Y.S. Lee
• Exercise and diet interventions in obese fathers restores early embryo development and fetal weights, improving insulin sensitivity and reducing adipocyte cell size in subsequent female offspring. - Nicole O McPherson
• Effect of EGF-like peptides on the metabolism of in vitro matured oocytes and their associated cumulus cells - Dulama Richani
• Interleukin-11 is critical for placentation in mice - Amy Winship

• Metabolic status regulates the diverse roles of ghrelin in the body - Zane Andrews