Wednesday, 29th August The Annual Scientific Meeting of the Endocrine Society of Australia and the Society for Reproductive Biology 2012

Prof Sarah Robertson - How to be competitive for a post-doctoral fellowship. A/Prof Karen Moritz - Managing your first grant A/Prof Peter Stanton - Making the transition to CIA

A/Prof Jenny Gunton - Post-PhD career options A/Prof Rory Clifton-Bligh - Making the most of 3rd year specialist training Prof Helena Teede - How to be competitive for a training fellowship

• Obesity, diabetes & atherosclerosis: role of novel metabolic hormones - Karen SL Lam

• Repropedia: a Reproductive Lexicon to Fill the Gap in Reproductive Terminology - Lois Salamonsen

• Reproduction, Fertility & Development: New developments in 2012 and beyond - Tony Flint

• Why females ovulate more aneuploid eggs as they get older. - Keith Jones

• Interventions to prevent diabetes: Exercise - Glenn McConell
• Nutrition interventions to prevent diabetes - Kerin O'Dea
• Surgery and Pharmacotherapy Intervention for Obesity - Joseph Proietto

• Antiphospholipid antibodies, placental trophoblasts and diseases of pregnancy. - Larry W Chamley
• Mesenchymal stem/stromal cells (MSCs) and their role in the pathogenesis of preeclampsia. - Bill Kalionis
• Preeclampsia: new insights into the mechanisms of sFlt-1 and soluble Endoglin release - Stephen Tong
• Sex specific differences in placental glucocorticoid sensitivity in pathological pregnancies - Vicki L Clifton

• Betaglycan counters NF_kB-mediated survival in human granulosa tumour cells - Kaye L. Stenvers
• The temporo-spacial expression of BMP, FSH and LH receptors during early follicular development. - Sarmed Al-Samerria
• A new model of development of the mammalian ovary and follicles. - Katja Hummitzsch
• Metabolomic analysis of the follicular fluid to identify better biomarkers of atresia - Raymond J Rodgers
• The pro-apoptotic Bim regulates germ cell death during ovarian development - Seng H Liew
• Premature Separation of Dyads is the origin for maternal age related aneuploidy in mammalian eggs found from chromosome tracking - Yan YUN
• Low dose LPS insult during pre-implantation period programs fetal development  - Peck Y Chin
• Insulin-like growth factor 1 acts as an autocrine factor to improve early embryogenesis in vitro - Charmaine Green

• Effects of androgen deprivation therapy on body composition and bone health - 2 year follow-up of men attending a dedicated Men's Health service. - Ada S Cheung
• Reference ranges and determinants of testosterone, dihydrotestosterone and estradiol levels measured using liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry in a population-based cohort of older men. - Bu B Yeap
• Male and Female fertility are reduced in SLIRP knockout mice - Shane Colley
• Early life exposure to a high fat diet results in histological and molecular changes in the prostate which are transmitted to second generation offspring through the father - Tina Bianco-Miotto
• Activin signalling regulates Sertoli cell differentiation and function - Peter G Stanton
• BMPR-IB Modulates Steroidogenic Enzyme Genes Differentially in Pubertal and Adult Male Mice - Ilona M. Ciller

• Role of metabolic pathways in the regulation of oestrogen biosynthesis in obesity and breast cancer. - Kristy A Brown
• Targeting Hsp90-dependent functional maturation of the androgen receptor in human prostate cancer - Lisa M Butler
• Cross talk of the androgen receptor and DNA damage pathways: molecular and translational prostate cancer relevance - Karen Knudsen

• Dynamics of pancreatic islet basement membrane proteins during isolation and transplantation - Helen F Irving-Rodgers
• Placental Restriction Alters Insulin Actions and microRNAs Expression in Insulin Sensitive Tissues of Adult Offspring in the Rat - Himawan Harryanto
• Effects of metformin treatment of gestational diabetes on offspring glucose tolerance and body composition - Sue Mei Lau
• Maternal folic acid supplementation in pregnant rats improves glucose tolerance in adult offspring - Ezani Mohamed Jamil
• Lipotoxicity in Pancreatic β-cells and the Protective Effects of Adiponectin in vitro - Michael Sinclair
• Maternal Folic Acid Supplementation Induces Differential Changes in the Hepatic Transcriptome of Young Adult Male Progeny - Wing Hong Chu

Prof Gail Risbridger, Dr Nicolette Hodyl & Prof Morton Burt

Kate Loveland Lois Salamonsen Andrew Sinclair Stephen Tong

• Increased placental nutrient transporter expression at mid-gestation after maternal growth hormone treatment in pigs: A placental mechanism for increased fetal growth - Kathryn L Gatford
• Mitochondrial uncoupling protein 2 in the placenta may protect the preterm infant from increased reactive oxygen species following chorioamnionitis - Nicolette A Hodyl
• A panel of IGF system mRNA transcripts in the maternal blood are dysregulated in abnormal fetal growth - Clare Whitehead
• Uterine abnormalities in mice lacking the follistatin gene and expressing a human follistatin-315 transgene - Sarah J Holdsworth-Carson
• Similarities between bovine and human fetal programming;Preconception dietary protein affects fetal development at 34 and 60 days gestation. - Viv E.A. Perry
• Evidence of a regulatory role for sperm-borne miRNA in the endometrium of the mouse following mating - John E Schjenken

• Getting off beat: Circadian rhythm changes during pregnancy - Peter J Mark
• Why is shiftwork bad for your health? - David Kennaway
• Cardiometabolic effects of Obstructive Sleep Apnea: A Real Deal? - Brendon Yee

• iPS cells retain an epigenetic memory from their somatic cell of origin which influence their differentiation potential. - Jose Polo
• The role of non-coding RNAs in mammalian gonad development - Dagmar Wilhelm
• A new player in a fundamental male game: gene activation by a novel histone variant during mouse spermatogenesis. - Tatiana A Soboleva

• Absence of 11b-HSD2 specifically within the fetal brain alter adult ‘depressive’ behaviour. - Caitlin Wyrwoll
• Targeted deletion of the glucocorticoid receptor gene in different cell types of the developing mouse lung reveals an essential role for glucocorticoid signalling in respiratory mesenchyme - Timothy J Cole
• In vivo evidence for a novel pathway of vitamin D3 metabolism initiated by CYP11A1 - Robert C Tuckey
• A New Regulatory Surface Identified in the Helix 1 to Helix 3 Loop of the Glucocorticoid Receptor Ligand-Binding Domain Allows Modulation by FKBP51 and FKBP52 Cochaperones - Carmel Cluning
• Protein-protein interactions control multi-hydroxylation reactions for oestrogen synthesis by P450aromatase (CYP19) - Lisa L Martin
• Species-Specific Differences in the Expression and Activity of BMP15: Implications for Ovulation and Fertility - Craig Harrison

• Targeting activin to counteract muscle wasting and cachexia - Craig Harrison
• Protein Arginine Methyltransferase 6 function in breast cancer and association with clinical outcomes: understanding epigenetic regulation. - Dennis H Dowhan
• Intratumoral androgen production and actions in Triple Negative Breast Cancer-correlation with tumor cell proliferation and clinical outcome. - Keely M McNamara
• Effects of Ligand Activation of Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptor γ in Granulosa Cell Tumours - Simon Chu
• Kallikrein proteases promote paclitaxel resistance and progression in ovarian cancer - Ying Dong
• BRAF mutation in papillary thyroid cancer - Catherine A Woolnough

• Stem cells, estrogens and local hormone action in prostate health and disease. - Gail P Risbridger