Tuesday, 26th August The Annual Scientific Meeting of the Endocrine Society of Australia and the Society for Reproductive Biology 2014

• Informing clinical practice: translational and clinical science in the optimum management of pituitary tumours - John Wass

• Investigating decidual natural killer cells in pregnancies with impaired spiral artery remodelling - Alison Wallace

• Modern approaches to the management of acromegaly - Ken K.Y. Ho
• Pituitary apoplexy – diagnosis and management - Warrick Inder
• Modern approaches to the management of Cushing’s disease  - David Torpy

• When splicing goes wrong: a mechanism for spermatid differentiation and lung tumourigenesis - Duangporn Jamsai
• Androgen receptor-mediated actions and ovarian function - Kirsty A Walters
• Proton Pump Inhibitors as a novel candidate therapeutic to treat severe preeclampsia. - Natalie J Hannan
• Is TGFβ1 a potential therapeutic target in endometriosis? - Jonathan McGuane

• Estrogen receptor alpha drives proliferation in PTEN-deficient prostate carcinoma by stimulating survival signalling - Mitchell Lawrence
• The Kallikrein-related serine peptidase, KLK4, regulates the TGFβ1 pathway in the tumour-stroma microenvironment in prostate cancer. - Judith Clements
• Fibroblast and mast cell interactions in the human prostate cancer microenvironment - Kohei Hashimoto
• Patient-derived xenografts reveal that intraductal carcinoma of the prostate is a prominent pathology in BRCA2 mutation carriers with prostate cancer and correlates with poor prognosis - Renea Taylor
• Co-targeting RNA Pol I and PIM kinase activity suppresses MYC-driven tumorigenesis in the prostate.  - Richard J Rebello
• Characterisation of isoform-specific progesterone receptor DNA binding patterns in normal and malignant breast - Dinny Graham

• The changing colour of fat - Paul Lee
• Location, location, location:how fat distribution influences metabolic disease - Michael Swarbrick
• Lipid profiling: Applications in diagnosis and disease risk stratification  - Peter Meikle

• Estrogen receptor integrative genomics and signalling networks in breast cancer and endocrine resistance - Benita S Katzenellenbogen

• Genotype-phenotype correlations in 46,XY disorders of sex development with SF1 mutations - Vincent Harley
• NR0B1 / DAX1 had a conserved role in gonadal development and spermatogenesis before it was recruited to the eutherian X-chromosome - Andrew J Pask
• The Serine/Theonine Kinase 35 (Stk35) allele locus is required for normal fertility - Kate Loveland
• Quantitative analysis of male infertility: understanding the molecular basis of infertile men - Mark A Baker

• Dynamin 2 is essential for mammalian oocyte growth and function - Janet E Holt
• The BRCA1-binding protein 2 as a negative regulator of nuclear import in the testis - Shadma Fatima
• The impact of oxidative stress on chaperone-mediated human sperm-egg interaction - Elizabeth Bromfield
• A potential role for semaphorins in mediating the adhesive and invasive phenotype of the cumulus oocyte complex at ovulation. - Lisa K Akison

• Brief exposure to physiological concentrations of Bisphenol A (BPA) affects early embryo metabolism and quality - Bom Ie Choi
• The role of glycidamide and oxidative adducts in acrylamide induced DNA damage in male germ cells - Aimee L Katen
• Effects of cigarette smoke and maternal inflammation in pregnancy on birth weight and gestational age at delivery in an Indigenous Australian population - Kirsty G Pringle
• Paroxetine, a selective serotonin uptake inhibitor and bupropion, a norepinephrine and dopamine uptake inhibitor and agomelatine, a 5HT2C receptor antagonist and melatonergic receptor agonist affect pubertal maturation differently in rats - Haluk Kelestimur

Shaun McGrath - Thyroid ultrasound in my clinical practice

Laura Parry, Andrew Horne, Gerry Schatten & Stella Clarke

• The data mining boom: where did the lab go? - David Evans

• Autoimmune thyroid disease incidence varies by race/ethnicity - Don McLeod
• Depletion of high affinity corticosteroid-binding globulin (CBG) corresponds to illness severity in sepsis and septic shock; clinical implications. - Marni A Nenke
• Effect of therapeutic glucocorticoids on insulin sensitivity, cardiovascular risk and energy metabolism in patients with inflammatory arthritis - Anjana Radhakutty
• Novel insights into the renal-bone axis in thalassemia major - Phillip Wong

• Hyperostosis – a new phenotypic feature of renal cysts and diabetes syndrome (RCAD) - Yvonne Chow
• Thyroiditis related to cancer biological therapy: CTLA-4 and PD-1 blockade - Teresa Lam
• Denosumab for control of hypercalcaemia in Primary hyperparathyroidism - Jasna Aleksova
• Prevalence and predictors of diabetes after lung transplantation; A prospective, longitudinal study - Kathryn Hackman

• New targets for non-hormonal contraceptive drugs preventing ovulation  - Darryl Russell
• Dual role contraceptives: targeting the endometrium and blocking sexually transmitted infections. How far have we progressed? - Evdokia Dimitriadis
• SPRASA a contraceptive vaccine target with a difference? - Larry W Chamley
• Novel approaches to contraception targeting the male germ line - John Aitken

• Hormonal regulation of the immune microenvironment in the mammary gland: implications for breast cancer susceptibility - Wendy Ingman
• Targeting mTOR signaling in human ovarian cancer - Pradeep Tanwar
• Adaption of the Tumour microenvironment in prostate cancer  - Gail Risbridger
• Functional studies of cysteine cathepsin activity in breast cancer metastasis - Laura E Edgington-Mitchell

• Neuroendocrine switches for either food or sex - Iain Clarke
• Circadian regulation of reproduction: from gamete to offspring - Tamara Varcoe
• Mechanisms of leptin resistance in obesity - Eglantine Balland
• Luteinizing Hormone (LH) and Growth hormone (GH) pulsatile profiles in female and male mice across reproductive stages: advanced incorporation of transgenic mouse lines - Chen Chen

• Enlightening insights into receptor complexity - Kevin Pfleger

• Impact of combined maternal and paternal obesity on embryo development and fetal growth - Nicole O McPherson
• Dietary-induced obesity suppresses clock gene expression in maternal metabolic tissues during rat gestation - Rachael C Crew
• Granulosa cell targeted androgen receptor inactivation fails to rescue Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS) features in a mouse model - Aimee S L Caldwell
• Chlamydia infects the ovary, inducing an acute inflammatory response, and reduces both steroidogenesis and folliculogenesis. - James O'Connor
• HENMT1 is involved in the stabilization of pachytene piRNAs, retrotransposon silencing and regulating the spermiogenic program - Shu Ly Lim
• The RNA-binding protein Musashi-2 (MSI2) via interactions with SFPQ and PIWIL1 controls mRNA processing and translational regulation during mammalian spermatogenesis. - Jessie M Sutherland

• Programming metabolic and psychiatric diseases: Effects of poor maternal diet and Health - Kevin Grove

• Using RNA sequencing to comprehensively profile the transcriptomes of reproductive tissues - Sam Buckberry
• Wire Myography- assessing the response of the vasculature to pharmacological agents - Sarah A Marshall
• Radiotelemetry to accurately measure blood pressure and heart rate in mice. - Rebecca Wilson