Tuesday, 28th August The Annual Scientific Meeting of the Endocrine Society of Australia and the Society for Reproductive Biology 2012

• Obesity in Pregnancy; A Legacy for the Next Generation?  - Lucilla Poston

• The clinical utility of genetic testing: lessons from inherited endocrine disorders. - Nicola K Poplawski
• Genetic testing for CAH: A complex biosynthetic pathway playing a key part of a defining life event ‘Did you have a boy or a girl? - Andrew Cotterill
• Monogenic obesity in humans - Jerry R Greenfield

• Apoptosis and DNA repair: critical regulators of oocyte number and quality - Karla Hutt
• Testicular Dysgenesis and Fetal Origins - Mai A Sarraj
• The differential effects of follicle stimulating hormone and bone morphogenetic protein 15 on energy metabolism of bovine cumulus oocyte complexes - Melanie L Sutton-McDowall

• Macrophage MR signalling regulates systolic blood pressure and cardiovascular remodelling - Jimmy Z Shen
• Restricted growth before birth enhances allergenic immune responses in adolescent sheep - Amy L Wooldridge
• Sex specific alterations in the renal renin-angiotensin system during kidney development may contribute to sexual dimorphism in adult cardiovascular and renal pathophysiology - Reetu R Singh
• Vitamin D Receptor Attenuates Hepatic Fibrosis in Mice - Veronica F Lim
• Effects of castration on activin and follistatin levels during skin repair in an adult mouse model - Cynthia Gonzales
• Disrupted GH-IGF-1 throughout disease progression in the hSOD1^G93A mouse model of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) - Shyuan T Ngo

• Sex and stress steroids:- endocrine regulators of thermogenesis - Belinda A Henry
• Early Life Programming Of Brown Adipose Tissue Thermogenesis - Beverly S Muhlhausler
• Stand Up, Sit Less, Move More, More Often - A New Exercise Prescription and Its Relevance to Menopausal Health - David W Dunstan

• Adult growth hormone deficiency Outcome and Responsiveness, from clinic to pharmacogenomics - Gudmundur Johannsson

• Changes in the Patterns of Expression of 5´-methyl Cytosine and 5´-hydroxymethyl Cytosine Across the Preimplantation Stages of Development in the Mouse - Chris O'Neill
• APC^FZR1 prevents aneuploidy in mouse eggs by controlling the timing of meiotic spindle assembly - Janet E Holt
• P38 MAP kinase and Calmodulin Signalling Pathways Act in Concert to Initiate Embryonic Genome Activation in the Mouse Embryo - Xingliang Jin
• Altered expression of pluripotency and early lineage segregation genes in ivp equine embryos - Damien B. B. P. Paris

• Expression of miR-99 family microRNAs and the clustered miR-125b in the subepithelial stroma of endometriotic lesions - Jonathan T McGuane
• The network of sex determining genes in a marsupial - Hongshi Yu
• The oviduct is ticking: Rhythmic gene expression during the pre-implantation period. - Michael J Boden
• Sperm regulate expression of inflammatory response genes in the female reproductive tract after coitus in the mouse - Sarah A. Robertson

• Acute sensitivity of the prepubertal mouse testis to di-n-butyl phthalate links altered activin signalling to testicular dysgenesis - Catherine Itman
• Absence of lymphocyte FOXP3 expression during pregnancy and key FOXP3 regulatory elements in marsupials argue for a eutherian-specific origin of T-regulatory cell mediated fetal-tolerance - Brandon R Menzies
• TGFb-ACTIVIN signaling regulates testis formation and male germ cell development. - Patrick Western
• Growth Hormone Receptor expression in human placental tissues and their derivative mesenchymal stem/progenitor cell populations  - Rebecca A Pelekanos

(Chlamydia planning group)

A/Prof Tracy Bale - "Techniques and strategies in epigenetics: Promise, potential, and pitfalls"

Prof John Carroll, A/Prof Paul Thomas, Dr Dagmar Wilhelm & Prof Peter Nathanielsz

• Acute and chronic effects of low-dose prednisolone on carbohydrate metabolism in subjects with inflammatory rheumatologic disease. - Carolyn J Petersons
• Plasma, salivary and urinary cortisol levels following physiological and stress doses of hydrocortisone - Caroline Jung
• Taking the Skeleton out of the Closet: Performance and Cost-effectiveness of a ‘Fracture Capture’ Service - Christopher J Yates
• The link between nephrolithiasis, bone density and fractures in transfusion-dependent thalassaemia - Phillip Wong

• Cushing's syndrome hypertension and virilisation from a malignant adrenal cortical tumour in a 5 months old baby with Li Fraumeni syndrome - Ganesh Chockalingam
• Oestrogen excess phenotype associated with loss of heterozygosity of the STK11 gene in the testis of two boys with Peutz Jeghers Syndrome - Seungmin Ham
• Special K: A rare case of Gitelman's Syndrome and Diabetes Mellitus - Sarah Price
• Skin lightening cream: An Emerging Medical Challenge - Rebecca F Goldstein

• Obesity in pregnancy – maternal diet and neonatal outcomes - Jodie Dodd
• The cytokine environment and pregnancy success - Jonathan Morris
• Aiolos: taming the winds of preterm lung disease - Euan M Wallace
• Improving prediction and diagnosis of pre-eclampsia; better outcomes for mother and infant?  - Lucilla Poston

• New insights into disorders of gonad development using whole genome analysis. - Andrew Sinclair
• Sexy Genes: Identification Of Sox3 As An Xx Male Sex Reversal Gene In Mice And Man - Paul Q Thomas
• Defining the molecular mechanisms of germline stem cell maintenance - Robin M Hobbs
• The contribution of regulated nuclear transport to male fertility - Kate L Loveland

• What does the Calcitonin Receptor do? - Rachel A Davey
• Ephrin signalling  modifies the bone-building action of parathyroid hormone - Natalie A Sims
• Steroid action in bone development - George Werther
• Neuroregualtion of bone mass - Paul A Baldock

• Gene mapping in the 21^st century: GWAS and beyond - Emma Duncan

• The impact of maternal cigarette smoke exposure on the male germline - Alexander P Sobinoff
• Transgenic Sertoli cell AR expression causes dose-dependent disruption of spermatogenesis and male fertility in mice   - Rasmani Hazra
• Progesterone Receptor - a master regulator in the ovary and oviduct during the periovulatory period. - Lisa K Akison
• AR is required for mammary differentiation and function during pregnancy/ lactation and tissue remodelling during mammary involution in female mice - Yan Ru YR Gao
• Paternal diet-induced obesity negatively impacts embryo implantation and subsequent development - Natalie K Binder
• The Role of Interleukin-11 in Placentation in Mice - Amy L Winship