Monday, 25th August
The Annual Scientific Meeting of the Endocrine Society of Australia and the Society for Reproductive Biology 2014
Days
Sunday, 24th August
Monday, 25th August
Tuesday, 26th August
Wednesday, 27th August
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Trade Display, Poster Viewing
7:30AM - 5:00PM
Monday, 25th August
Exhibition Area
ESA-SRB Joint Welcome
8:30AM - 8:45AM
Monday, 25th August
Plenary Hall 2
Chair: Eileen McLaughlin
ESA Harrison Plenary
8:45AM - 9:45AM
Monday, 25th August
Plenary Hall 2
Chair: Peter Ebeling
Sex steroids, bones and fat in men: the key role of estrogen
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Sundeep Khosla
SRB - Meat and Livestock award finalists (Orals)
8:45AM - 9:45AM
Monday, 25th August
Meeting Room 212
Chairs: Michael Bertoldo & Sara Edwards
The heterogeneous nature of cow embryos: sorting out the mixed bag of blastomeres
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Melanie L Sutton-McDowall
Intensive feeding and management reduces semen quality of Santa Gertrudis bulls
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Matthew Callaghan
SRB - The placenta and pregnancy complications (Orals)
8:45AM - 10:00AM
Monday, 25th August
Meeting Room 217
Chairs: Nicolette Hodyl & Stephen Tong
Benefit of antenatal magnesium sulphate therapy for preterm infants: Is it the magnesium or is it the sulphate?
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Paul A Dawson
New algorithms to predict risk for major pregnancy complications
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Claire T Roberts
Functional importance of HtrA3 in placental development and long-term health
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Guiying Nie
Effects of relaxin deficiency on the development of preeclampsia-like symptoms in pregnant mice
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Kelly O'Sullivan
Myostatin in the placentae of pregnancies complicated with intrauterine growth restriction and preeclampsia
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Hassendrini Peiris
SRB - The immune system & reproduction (Orals)
8:45AM - 10:00AM
Monday, 25th August
Meeting Room 218
Chairs: David De Kretser & John Schjenken
Differential cytokine expression patterns and responses to Toll-like receptor (TLR) activation in murine Sertoli cells and spermatogenic cells.
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Julia M Young
The pigtailed macaque testis: A site of immune privilege, and its response to infection with simian immunodeficiency virus.
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Wendy R Winnall
Immune stimulation of mucosal tissue as a potential strategy to protect against pregnancy complications
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Deborah H Strickland
Interleukin 10 deficiency alters the transcriptome of T regulatory cells in pregnant mice
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Bihong Zhang
Toll-like receptor 4 (TLR4) signalling is implicated in normal on-time labour in mice
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Hanan Hamimi Binti Wahid
ESA Servier Award Lecture
9:45AM - 10:00AM
Monday, 25th August
Plenary Hall 2
Chair: Peter Ebeling
Mesenchymal Glucocorticoid Receptor regulates the development of multiple cell layers of the mouse lung
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Anthony D Bird
Morning Tea
10:00AM - 10:30AM
Monday, 25th August
Exhibition Area
Sponsored by:
ESA Novartis Junior Scientist Award
10:30AM - 12:00PM
Monday, 25th August
Plenary Hall 2
Chairs: Peter Ebeling & Tao-Kwang Kevin Lee
A pro-inflammatory T cell phenotype in women with gestational diabetes
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Yi Xian Chan
Glandular epithelial AR regulates androgen mediated androgen effects on the uterine growth
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Jaesung P Choi
Differences in cortisol response to adrenocorticotropin (ACTH) reflect an innate alteration of the set-point of the hypothalamo-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis that is maternally inherited
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Sakda D Hewagalamulage
PPARγ and XIAP as potential targets for combination treatment of ovarian granulosa cell tumours
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Dilys TH Leung
Targeting androgen stimulation with abiraterone acetate: a novel therapeutic approach in adrenocortical cancer
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Julia K Prague
CRISP3 regulates progression from
in situ
to invasive prostatic adenocarcinoma
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Marianna Volpert
SRB -ANZPRA Award Finalists
10:30AM - 12:00PM
Monday, 25th August
Meeting Room 211
Chairs: Natalie Hannan & Padma Murthi
Sponsored by:
Fetal growth restriction is associated with paternal diet induced obesity
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Natalie K Binder
Pyrosequencing of bacterial 16S ribosomal RNA demonstrates distinct microbiome profiles of placenta and maternal blood in women with preterm ruptured membranes who develop chorioamnionitis, compared to those who do not become infected.
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Owen Stock
Maternal corticosterone exposure has sex specific effects on the renal stress response.
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James SM Cuffe
Relaxin deficiency enhances vascular contractile reactivity in the late-pregnant mouse.
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Sevvandi N Senadheera
Post-translational regulation of dystroglycan in the human endometrium for embryo implantation
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Sophea Heng
Serum levels of HtrA1 significantly differ between normal and preeclamptic pregnancies.
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Soo Yee Sonia Teoh
SRB - Oozoa award finalists
10:30AM - 12:00PM
Monday, 25th August
Meeting Room 212
Chairs: Duangporn Jamsai & Mark Green
Profiling Polycomb Repressive Complex 2 during germ-line development
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Lexie Prokopuk
Reduced ability to recover from spindle disruption and loss of kinetochore spindle assembly checkpoint proteins in oocytes from aged mice
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Yan Yun
Maternal and grand-maternal exposure to cigarette smoke: The long term effects on female fertility.
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Nicole J Camlin
C-Type natriuretic peptide stimulates the resumption of meiosis in porcine COCs via cGMP-dependant but PKG-independent mechanism.
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Ryan D Rose
Calcium activated chloride channel activity induces changes in membrane potential at fertilisation in the mouse oocyte
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Sarah Dalati
Meiotic and post-meiotic germ cells up-regulate blood-testis barrier function
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Justine S Olcorn
ESA and ENSA Lunch
12:00PM - 1:00PM
Monday, 25th August
Exhibition Area
SRB Founders Lecture
12:00PM - 1:00PM
Monday, 25th August
Plenary Hall 2
Chair: Eileen McLaughlin
Sponsored by:
The end is where we start from – lessons from periconception medicine
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Rob Norman
ESA Meet the Professor (Clinical)
12:15PM - 1:00PM
Monday, 25th August
Meeting Room 217
Chair: David Torpy
Henrik Falhammer - Congenital adrenal hyperplasia
SRB Lunch
1:00PM - 2:00PM
Monday, 25th August
Exhibition Area
ESA - Insights in ageing and disease states on bone biology (Clinical/Basic)
1:00PM - 2:30PM
Monday, 25th August
Plenary Hall 2
Chairs: Mathis Grossmann & Roderick Clifton-Bligh
How aging and diabetes affect bone quality
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Sundeep Khosla
Mesenchymal stem cells and tissue regeneration
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Stan Gronthos
Increasing Marrow Fat with Age and Bone Metabolism
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Gustavo Duque
ESA Orals - Adrenal steroids, androgens and their receptors (Basic)
1:00PM - 2:30PM
Monday, 25th August
Meeting Room 211
Chairs: Peter Stanton & Mark Cooper
Characterisation of a novel primate-specific 11b-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase called 11bHSD1L in the ovary
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Timothy J Cole
The role of 11β-HSD1 in the regulation of the HPA axis in chronic inflammatory arthritis
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Janko Sattler
The identification of novel mineralocorticoid receptor coregulators
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Jun Yang
The role of androgens in cutaneous wound healing: impact of local drug delivery
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Francia Garces Suarez
Neuronal androgen receptor regulation of muscle mass
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Kesha Rana
Postnatal germ cell development during minipuberty in the mouse does not require androgen: implications for managing cryptorchidism
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Ruili Li
ESA Orals - Endocrine tumours and their genetics (Clinical)
1:00PM - 2:30PM
Monday, 25th August
Meeting Room 217
Chairs: Paul Lee & Ken Ho
A new pheochromocytoma syndrome: extending the phenotype associated with MAX mutations
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Emma Duncan
Next generation sequencing in suspected familial pituitary tumour syndromes: pilot study results and clinical translation
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Sunita MC De Sousa
The natural history of non-functioning pituitary adenomas: a longitudinal volumetric evaluation
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Nele Lenders
Somatic mutations of FOXE1 in papillary thyroid cancer
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Michael Mond
Accuracy of pre-operative localisation of parathyroid adenoma with ultrasound and sestamibi scintigraphy in primary hyperparathyroidism – review of single centre experience.
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Christopher Rowe
Positron-Emission Tomographic (PET) imaging of progesterone receptors in breast cancer: developing a predictive biomarker for tumor responsiveness to endocrine therapies
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John Katzenellenbogen
ESA/AWE symposium - Programming and Protection in Pregnancy
1:00PM - 2:30PM
Monday, 25th August
Meeting Room 218
Chairs: Belinda Henry & Renea Taylor
Glucocorticoid exposure and perinatal outcomes
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Nicolette A Hodyl
The effects of antenatal stress in the Spiny Mouse: a new animal model in which to study programming and protection?
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Tracey Quinn
Manipulating placental vasculature to improve fetal health outcomes
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Caitlin Wyrwoll
SRB AGM
1:30PM - 2:30PM
Monday, 25th August
Meeting Room 212
Afternoon Tea
2:30PM - 3:00PM
Monday, 25th August
Exhibition Area
ESA/Neuroendocrinology Australasia Symposium - Neuromodulatory control of brain and behaviour - focus on Relaxin-3 (basic)
3:00PM - 5:00PM
Monday, 25th August
Plenary Hall 2
Chairs: Andrew Gundlach & Iain Clarke
Relaxin-3/RXFP3 systems in the rat: Modulation of arousal and stress
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Sherie Ma
Engineering stabilised neuropeptide receptors to enable structure-based drug design: Studies of neurotensin and relaxin-3 receptors
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Daniel Scott
Regulation of
nucleus incertus
(relaxin-3) neurons by peptide and hormone inputs and impact of relaxin-3 receptor activation on characterized hypothalamic neurons
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Anna Blasiak
Relaxin-3/RXFP3 signalling promotes motivational drive and stress resilience in mice
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Craig M Smith
ESA Orals - Obesity, diabetes and metabolism (clinical)
3:00PM - 5:00PM
Monday, 25th August
Meeting Room 211
Chair: Helena Teede
Metformin for the prevention of insulin resistance in obese women at midlife.
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Roisin Worsley
Insulin sensitivity in women with Polycystic Ovary Syndrome: A systematic review and meta-analysis
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Samantha Cassar
Early insulin signalling events in skeletal muscle from women with PCOS: impact of exercise
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Nigel K Stepto
Standardised cooling improves the detection of Brown Adipose Tissue by 18FDG-PET without significant seasonal variation
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Moe Thuzar
A prospective cohort study investigating relative hyperglycaemia as a determinant of mortality or Intensive Care Unit admission: Introducing the
stress hyperglycaemia ratio
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Morton G Burt
Obesity is associated with poorer survival in Australian women with hormone receptor positive breast cancer.
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Susan R Davis
Continuous subcutaneous hydrocortisone infusion therapy in Addison’s disease: a randomised, placebo-controlled clinical trial
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Lucy Gagliardi
Effects of GH on anaerobic capacity in adults with growth hormone deficiency: a double blind placebo controlled trial
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Viral Chikani
Joint SRB-ANZPRA Symposium - Detecting and treating disorders of pregnancy
3:00PM - 5:00PM
Monday, 25th August
Meeting Room 212
Chairs: Claire Roberts & Demelza Ireland
Sponsored by:
Novel biomarkers for ectopic pregnancy
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Andrew Horne
Treatment of vascular dysfunction in preeclampsia
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Laura J Parry
Placental mRNA in the maternal blood predict adverse pregnancy outcomes
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Clare Whitehead
Sildenafil – a first ever therapy of IUGR?
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Katie Groom
ESA Symposium - Endocrinology of cancer (basic)
3:00PM - 5:00PM
Monday, 25th August
Meeting Room 217
Chairs: Gail Risbridger & Christopher Ormandy
Ovarian sex cord stromal tumours
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Simon Chu
Steroid hormone action in the normal human breast and in breast cancer
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Heidi Hilton
Ghrelin as a novel regulator of aromatase: implications for the treatment of hormone receptor-positive breast cancer.
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Kristy Brown
Co-targeting of the androgen receptor and Hsp90 in prostate cancer
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Lisa Butler
SRB Symposium - Gamete Development and Maturation
3:00PM - 5:00PM
Monday, 25th August
Meeting Room 218
Chairs: Dagmar Wilhelm & John Carroll
Epigenetic modifiers in germline development and inherited disease
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Patrick Western
Kinetochore regulation of mammalian oocyte maturation
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Hayden Homer
A family of microtubule-severing proteins required for male fertility
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Liza O'Donnell
Retinoid regulation of gonadal and germ cell development in mice
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Peter Koopman
ESA-SRB Joint Poster Viewing with Drinks & Nibbles
5:00PM - 7:00PM
Monday, 25th August
Exhibition Area
Sponsored by:
ESA Posters - Basic Science
5:00PM - 7:00PM
Monday, 25th August
Exhibition Area
Cord blood microRNAs that regulate TLR pathways are differentially expressed depending on gestational age.
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Natalie Aboustate
Preliminary study on work stress levels using α-Amylase and cortisol compared to subjective perception of stress
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Suresh Kumar Athiappan Palanisamy
Genetic analysis of Reelin (
RELN
) SNP rs362719 has no association with either depression or resilience in a rural Australian population
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Suresh Kumar Athiappan Palanisamy
Estrogen receptor β as drug target for the treatment of castrate resistant prostate cancer
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Preetika Balanathan
The role of nuclear factor kappa b on estrogen receptor β–mediated signalling in ovarian granulosa cell tumours
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Wenxin Chen
Influence of maternal stress during pregnancy in female rats born small on second generation male metabolic and pancreatic outcomes.
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Jean N Cheong
Clonal selection of castrate-tolerant stem cells leads to regeneration of phenotypically similar prostate cancer tumours
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Ashlee Clark
Induction of cytochrome P450 (CYP) 1A/1B mRNA expression by 7,12-dimethylbenz(a)anthracene (DMBA) is not dependent on AR mediated androgen actions in male or female mice
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Francia Garces Suarez
The tumour-promoting receptor tyrosine kinase, EphB4, regulates expression of integrin β8 in prostate cancer cells
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Adrian Herington
The generation of long-acting activin analogues
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Katharine E Johnson
The effects of ethanol on trophoblast tell differentiation in culture
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Jacinta I Kalisch-Smith
Selenium supplementation increases mitochondrial number in trophoblast cells
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Alisha Khera
Protective role of glycodelin-A on sperm motility during co-culture with macrophage
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Cheuk-Lun Lee
Targeting DOHH and eIF5A to inhibit prostate cancer cell growth
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Peter J Leedman
Estrogen mediates the expression of δFOSB and cart in hypothalamic kiss1 neurons induced by hypertonic salt load in transgenic mice.
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Lisandra Margatho
FOXP1 in triple negative breast cancers and its association with androgen metabolism.
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Keely McNamara
Modelling the prostate cancer microenvironment
in vitro
using melt-electrospun scaffolds
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Brooke A Pereira
Regulation of activin A production and fibrotic transformation by cultured human lung fibroblasts and the effects of blocking activin action by follistatin
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Adnan Sali
Endogenous and Synthetic Glucocorticoid Steroids activate different but overlapping sets of target genes during mammalian lung development
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Bennet Seow
Recurrent pituitary apoplexy due to two successive tumours presenting with ophthalmoplegia and epistaxis
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Stephanie L Teasdale
MIC-1/GDF15, role in physiological and pathological regulation of appetite and body weight
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Vicky Wang-Wei Tsai
Increasing muscle mass using novel activin-targeted therapeutics
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Kelly L Walton
The Iron Chelator Deferasirox induces browning and increased energy expenditure of white adipose tissue in mice
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Mawson Wang
Do sheep have pelvic organ prolapse and differences in vaginal pressure?
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Natharnia Young
Protective effects of
in vivo
hexarelin treatment on pancreatic β–cell function in streptozotocin-induced diabetic rats
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Xinli Zhang
ESA Posters - Clinical
5:00PM - 7:00PM
Monday, 25th August
Exhibition Area
Hypertensive crisis in a patient with malignant paraganglioma: a therapeutic challenge
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Azni Abdul-Wahab
Hypothyroidism in pregnancy: audit of the Monash health endocrine pregnancy clinic
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Sally Abell
Cushing’s conundrum: A case of Primary Pigmented Nodular Adrenal Disease in a 60 year female
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Jasna Aleksova
Between a rock and a hard place: the management challenges of recurrent Cushing’s disease
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Dushyanthy Arumugam
Graves' Disease and multifocal papillary thyroid cancer
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Dushyanthy Arumugam
HAART Break - An Unusual Case of HIV associated bone disease
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Kharis Burns
Pitfalls with Parathyroid hormone measurement - lessons learnt.
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Simon Carrivick
Osteoporosis management at Western Health - a retrospective audit
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Daniela WC Chan
Refractory hyperparathyroidism with a T3 bony lesion – differential diagnoses
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Daniela WC Chan
Comparison of four immunoassays for measurement of free Thyroxine (fT4) levels in pregnancy; which assay do you use?
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Wei-Ling Chiu
A case of postpartum adrenocortical carcinoma
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Darshika J Christie-David
A delicate pregnancy
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Melissa Clarke
A case of flaccid quadriparesis due to concurrent presentation of thyrotoxic hypokalaemic periodic paralysis and severe thyrotoxic myopathy complicating Graves’ disease
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Sheila J Cook
Cracks in the system: pelvic fractures do not lead to intensification of osteoporosis management
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Dahlia Davidoff
The prevalence of BRAF V600E mutation and its associated histopathology features in papillary thyroid carcinoma in New Caledonia and Australia
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Veronica Dy
ARMC5
mutations are common in Familial Bilateral Macronodular Adrenal Hyperplasia
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Lucy Gagliardi
Clinical practice patterns in the assessment and management of low testosterone in men: an international survey of endocrinologists
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Mathis Grossmann
Primary hyperparathyroidism and the relationship between 25-vitamin D, 1,25 vitamin D and parathyroid hormone: A prospective case series
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Thomas I Hadwen
Challenges of managing Cushing's disease in pregnancy
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Thomas Hadwen
Management of hypoparathyroidism in pregnancy and lactation - A report of 11 cases
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Brianna L Hatswell
Evolution of a pheochromocytoma in an elderly woman: clinical, biochemical and radiological features
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Nicholas Hockings
An unusual cause of marked insulin resistance in a patient with type 2 diabetes mellitus
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Rajini Jayaballa
Solitary Pitutary Metastasis
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Tripti Joshi
A giant retroperitoneal teratoma encasing the adrenal gland and persistent adrenal Insufficiency
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Tripti Joshi
''Indications and interpretation of Thyroid function tests in Acute Medical Inpatients''
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Balvinder BK Kalra
For a modern Sherlock: The mysterious case of disappearing diabetes insipidus
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Dev A Kevat
The study of the long term effect on glucose metabolism in patients with acromegaly receiving SSA versus patients not treated with SSA
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Ni Ni Khin
Pituitary Apoplexy secondary to Pituitary Haemorrhage related to Rivaroxaban use
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Thinn Thinn TK Khine
Unusual presentation of hyponatremia
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Thinn Thinn TK Khine
Clinical aspects and mortality rate of pediatric diabetic ketoacidosis
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Min Sun Kim
Auricular Calcification: an unusual clue to an important endocrine disorder
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Tien Lee
Sleep disturbance in pregnant women with and without Gestational Diabetes Mellitus
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Jaime Lin
Cryptic pulmonary lesions in ectopic ACTH syndrome
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M Ling
Severe hypoglycaemia, hypercalcaemia and thyrotoxicosis in a patient three months postpartum
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Rakesh Mallikarjunan
Marked hypercalcaemia, hypercalcuria and two parathyroid adenomas in a patient with Familial Hypocalcuric Hypercalcaemia
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Rakesh Mallikarjunan
Acromegaly in a patient with Primary Polycythaemia: A case report
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Rakesh Mallikarjunan
Calcimystery in HIV
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Emma Scott
Two cases of congenital hypogonadotropic hypogonadism: similar but different
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Natalie Marijanovic
Camurati-Engelmann disease: bones gone wild.
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Shannon McCarthy
The safety of injectable testosterone undecanoate
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Timothy L Middleton
Vitamin D is independently associated with depression and inflammation in overweight women with and without PCOS
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Lisa J Moran
Idiopathic hypogonadotrophic hypogonadism and central hypothyroidism
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May Lea Ong
A small cell neuro-endocrine tumour presenting with hypopituitarism and diabetes insipidus as the initial presentation of malignancy
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Danae Papachristos
An unusual case of hyponatraemia
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Nadia Patel
Peptide Receptor Chemo-Radionuclide Therapy is highly effective for intractable hypoglycaemia due to metastastic insulinoma
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David A Pattison
An unusual cause of Recurrent Fragility Fractures: 2 case studies.
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Lorraine Pereira
Hypophosphataemic osteomalacia following intravenous iron infusions.
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Lorraine Pereira
Refreezing bone thawed by intermittent PTH? – A therapeutic dilemma
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Sabashini K Ramchand
Severe PTU related hepatotoxicity during pregnancy - A case report.
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Christopher Sadler
Achey breaky bones: a focus on skeletal disease in β-thalassaemia major.
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Stella Sarlos
Myxoedema coma presenting with cerebellar dysfunction
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Emma S Scott
Withdrawal of renin angiotensin aldosterone system blockade precipitating hyponatraemic hypertensive syndrome crisis - A cautionary tale.
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Emma S Scott
Disseminated pineal gland germinoma presenting with pan-hypopituitarism mimicking Lymphoctic hypophysitis
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Anita Singh
Immunomodulation: Changing epidemiology of hypophysitis – Case reports
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Divya Srivastava
Removing interferences in plasma metanephrine analysis by LC-MS
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Phoebe E Stanford
Case reviews of a cohort of Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia (MEN) patients
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Himali Suwandarathne
Opioid-induced transient secondary hypoadrenalism: are some clinically significant cases being overlooked?
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Eddy J Tabet
Adrenal vein sampling: the Monash health experience
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Jun Yang
Pharmacokinetic-Pharmacodynamic (PK/PD) study of subcutaneous injection of Nandrolone Decanoate (ND) in an oil vehicle using Dried Blood Spots (DBS) blood sampling coupled with liquid chromatography, tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS) assays
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LEO A TURNER
Dermatomyositis due to metastatic phaeochromocytoma: case report
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Thomas Ulahannan
A Hybrid Pheochromocytoma-Ganglioneuroma in a symptomatic elderly man: case report and literature review
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Sofia Velosa
Management of osteoporosis in patients admitted with hip and vertebral fractures – an audit at Lyell McEwan hospital
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Nisha Venkatesh
A case of severe ectopic ACTH syndrome from an occult primary – diagnostic and management dilemmas
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Harish Venugopal
The association between vasomotor symptoms and depression during perimenopause: a systematic review
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Roisin Worsley
Parenteral thyroid replacement
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Ming li Yee
Managing pregnancy in Addison's and Type 1 diabetes - a tough balancing act
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Sze Mei Yong
A case of inhaled corticosteroid induced hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis suppression
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Anna Zheng
Effect of intentional weight loss on bone mineral density in overweight and obese individuals - systematic review and meta-analysis
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Jessica Zibellini
SRB Posters - Assisted Reproductive Technology - Stem Cells
5:00PM - 7:00PM
Monday, 25th August
Exhibition Area
Nutrient utilization distinguishes between human embryonic stem cell lines
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Jarmon G Lees
Understanding the role of System A amino acid transporters in preimplantation embryo development
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Boon Siang Nicholas Tan
SRB Posters - Gene regulation
5:00PM - 7:00PM
Monday, 25th August
Exhibition Area
Fine mapping genomic variants associated with endometriosis near
GREB1
region
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Jenny NT Fung
Transient neuroprotection by SRY upregulation in dopamine cells following injury in males
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Vincent Harley
Disruption of Wnt/β-catenin and ERK/MAPK signalling in the male fetal gonad impacts on the core germ cell pluripotency network
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Kirsten Hogg
Contribution of the two genes encoding the histone variant H3.3 to fertility in mice
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Jeffrey R Mann
Novel epigenetic mechanisms regulating male reproduction and paternal inheritance
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Jessica Stringer
Analysis of gene expression profile of gonocytes and spermatogonial stem cells in mice
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Siu Kuen YUE
SRB Posters - Growth factors/Cytokines/Immune System
5:00PM - 7:00PM
Monday, 25th August
Exhibition Area
Characterization of immune cells during testis development in the mouse
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Sivanjah Indumathy
TLR4 signalling is implicated in female tract response to seminal fluid
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John E Schjenken
NFКB and TGFβ pathway activation in human granulosa cell tumours and their role in platinum-resistance
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Kaye L. Stenvers
The role of CCL2 in mammary gland development and cancer
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Xuan Sun
Therapeutically targeting interleukin-11 reduces endometrial tumour growth in a mouse model
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Amy L Winship
SRB Posters - Male Reproductive tract
5:00PM - 7:00PM
Monday, 25th August
Exhibition Area
A combination of growth factors are sufficient to promote testis development and male germ-line development.
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Sonja Gustin
Radiofrequency-electromagnetic radiation and the male germ line
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Brendan Houston
Cytokine networks in human testis: differential expression patterns associated with neoplasia and disturbed spermatogenesis
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Britta Klein
Structural localisation of activins A and B in the vas deferens of normal and follistatin 288-deficient adult mice
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Mai A Sarraj
The lncRNA
HOTTIP
during phallus development in a marsupial
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Hongshi Yu
SRB Posters - Native/Exotic species biology
5:00PM - 7:00PM
Monday, 25th August
Exhibition Area
Nutritional manipulation of adipose tissue in the developing tammar wallaby
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Jennifer Hetz
DNMT and TET expression and localisation during germ cell development in a marsupial, the tammar wallaby
Macropus eugenii
.
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Danielle Hickford
Non-random segregation of platypus chromosome 6 at male meiosis
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Deborah TOledo Flores
SRB Posters - Oocyte/blastocyst/embryo
5:00PM - 7:00PM
Monday, 25th August
Exhibition Area
Motile cilia in the node of the tammar wallaby (
Macropus eugenii
)
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Karen L Hansen
Accumulation of electrophilic aldehydes during post-ovulatory ageing of mouse oocytes causes reduced fertility, oxidative stress and apoptosis
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Tessa Lord
Dynamic changes in the localization of the important histone variant H2A.Z during preimplantation development
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Charlotte Rollo
SRB Posters - Ovary/Follicle Development/Corpus luteum
5:00PM - 7:00PM
Monday, 25th August
Exhibition Area
Regulated expression of heat shock proteins during ovulation and oocyte maturation
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Macarena Bermudez Gonzalez
Viability assessment using in vitro culture or xenografts of prepubretal ovine ovarian cortex cryopreserved by slow freezing or vitrification
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Michael J Bertoldo
Attainment of puberty by ewes in the first year of life improves their subsequent reproductive performance
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Sara J Edwards
Improving livestock productivity and reducing invasive animal burden using phage peptides fertility control
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Sally E Hall
Timing of oestrus and lamb sex ratio when ewes were fed diets differing only in Omega-3, Omega-6 or saturated fatty acid content prior to mating
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Emma J Hand
BID regulates cell death during ovarian development
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Seng H Liew
Lack of ovarian tumorigenesis in mice expressing elevated FSH levels combined with known tumorigenic factors.
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Dannielle H Upton
Understanding the sperm reservoir in the horse
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Taylor Whiston
New insights into mammalian foetal ovarian development
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Dagmar Wilhelm
SRB Posters - Pituitary/Gonadal axis
5:00PM - 7:00PM
Monday, 25th August
Exhibition Area
Regular and fibroid-associated heavy menstrual bleeding have different endometrial molecular mechanisms
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Jane E Girling
Effects of gadolinium chelates on intracellular calcium signaling in the GT1-7 GnRH neurons
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Haluk Kelestimur
Hypothalamic endoplasmic reticulum stress disrupts estradiol production, ovulation and cyclicity in a novel obese mouse model-Blobby mouse.
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Linda L Wu
Circadian regulation of hypothalamic Kiss1 and Kiss1r during mouse pregnancy
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Cassandra C Yap
SRB Posters - Pregnancy/Parturition/Placenta
5:00PM - 7:00PM
Monday, 25th August
Exhibition Area
Statins reduce the toxin of preeclampsia soluble Flt1, and quench endothelial dysfunction in primary human tissues: a potential therapeutic for preeclampsia
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Fiona Brownfoot
Placental Slc13a4 sulphate transporter is linked to fetal abnormalities and death.
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Paul Dawson
Sexual dimorphism at midgestation: recapitulation of hallmarks of growth restriction in normal female fetuses
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Consuelo Estrella
Vaginal
Ureaplasma
spp. colonisation correlates with elevated maternal anti-
Ureaplasma
antibody responses in early pregnancy
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Demelza Ireland
The newly described primate and placental specific sFlt1 isoform - e15a is biologically active and antagonises VEGF
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Tu'uhevaha J Kaitu'u-Lino
Elevated galectin-7 is predictive of miscarriage and preelampsia and detrimental to trophoblast function during implantation and placentation.
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Ellen M Menkhorst
The expression of Placental Glypican Proteoglycan is decreased in human idiopathic Fetal Growth Restriction.
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Padma Murthi
A role for hexosamine signalling in metabolic programming of adult disease?
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Marie Pantaleon
The potential role of a placenta-specific serine protease in early-onset preeclampsia
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Harmeet Singh
The potential utility of serum HtrA3 for early detection of preeclampsia and intra-uterine growth restriction
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Yao Wang
Changes in circadian expression of hepatic and adiposal clock genes during maternal adaptation to pregnancy in the mouse
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Michaela D Wharfe
SRB Posters - Receptors/Signal transduction
5:00PM - 7:00PM
Monday, 25th August
Exhibition Area
Prostaglandin D2 synthase mediates male sexual differentiation in the tammar wallaby
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Yu Chen
Inhibition of the MAPK, extracellular signal-regulated kinase (ERK1/ERK2) and its effects on sexual differentiation of the tammar gonad,
Macropus eugenii
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Monika Paranjpe
The role of drug efflux transporters on α
1
-adrenoceptor pharmacology of the mouse and rat prostate gland.
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Carl W White
SRB Posters - Spermatogenesis/Sperm function
5:00PM - 7:00PM
Monday, 25th August
Exhibition Area
Importin α1 is required for maintaining germline stem cells in
Drosophila
testes
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James Heaney
Using mouse models to delineate the importance of beta-catenin/ Wnt signalling in the testis
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Genevieve Kerr
Oct4-GFP expression during transformation of gonocytes into spermatogonial stem cells in the perinatal mouse testis
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Ruili Li
In vitro
c
ulture of
spermiogenesis in an Australian native marine invertebrate
Galeolaria caespitosa
(Polychaeta: Serpulidae)
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Yonggang Lv
Proteomic analysis of glycoproteins during sperm epididymal maturation
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Ana Izabel S.B. Villaverde
SRB Posters - Uterus/Placenta/Implantation
5:00PM - 7:00PM
Monday, 25th August
Exhibition Area
Changes in VEGF and VEGF receptor expression during pregnancy in ovarian hyperstimulated rats
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Kevin Danastas
Mouse telomerase reverse transcriptase expression identifies endometrial progenitors with epithelial differentiation potential
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James A Deane
Does oxygen upregulate the angiogenic and proliferative AT
1
R pathway of the renin angiotensin system in endometrial cancer?
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Sarah Delforce
Alpha-2-macroglobulin glycoforms are potential biomarkers of endometrial receptivity
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Harriet C Fitzgerald
Changes in the distribution of Syntaxin 3 in uterine epithelial cells during early pregnancy in the rat
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Sadaf Kalam
Focal adhesion dynamics in uterine epithelial cells during early pregnancy in ovarian hyperstimulated rats
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Laura A Lindsay
Endometrial receptivity biomarkers to predict likely IVF outcome with same cycle embryo transfer.
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Angela Morgan
Mucin expression in ovarian hyperstimulated rats
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Vie Nguyen
Role for alpha-parvin in uterine receptivity and early pregnancy
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Leigh Nicholson
Myostatin is localized in extravillous trophoblast and up-regulates migration of extravillous trophoblast
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Hassendrini Peiris
Retrograde menstruation of endometrial stem/progenitor cells in women with endometriosis
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Kjiana Schwab
Notch family signalling in the endometrium
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Michelle Van Sinderen
Regulation of prorenin expression in human endometrial stromal cells during decidualisation
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Yu Wang
Evaluation of plasma microRNAs as diagnostic biomarkers for endometriosis
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Zhao Wang
Student Social Evening (offsite) - 'Meeting of the Minds'
7:30PM - 10:30PM
Monday, 25th August
Offsite Venue
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