Tuesday, 21st August The Joint Annual Scientific Meetings of the Endocrine Society of Australia and the Society for Reproductive Biology 2018

Chair: David Torpy
Presenter: Aart Jan van der Lely

Breakfast served from 6:45am

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Chair: Roger Chen
Presenters: Richard MacIsaac & Tim Davis

Breakfast served from 6:45am

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• Taft Lecture - Susan Mandel

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• Identifying new markers of placental insufficiency - Tu'uhevaha Kaitu'u-Lino

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• Characterization of the granulosa-lutein cell transcriptome in women with Polycystic Ovary Syndrome - Avi Lerner

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• New Insights into Mammalian Sexual Differentiation: From Frank Lillie’s Freemartin to the Jost Paradigm - Humphrey Hung-Chang Yao

Robert Norman - The rationale for a guideline and PCOS Diagnosis and Screening

Jacqueline Boyle - Emotional Well-being, lifestyle, Models of care and Treatment of Infertility

Helena Teede - Medical Treatment and International Guideline Translation

• International Evidence Based Guideline for the Assessment and Management of PCOS - Helena J Teede, Robert Norman and Jacqueline Boyle

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• Maternal-fetal dialogue during early pregnancy  - Ellen Menkhorst
• How the maternal immune cells drive vascular adaptations to pregnancy - Alison Care
• Towards the development of novel oncofertility strategies for female cancer patients - Michael J Bertoldo

• Activation and suppression of microglia during early development similarly disrupt neuroendocrine function in the female rat.   - Luba Sominsky
• Metabolic Regulation of Stress Response Pathways and Chemoresistance in Colon Cancer is Mediated via B-Raf Dependent Inhibition of PPARγ - Spencer T Greatorex
• SGLT2 inhibitor prevents hyperinsulinemia and restores pulsatile growth hormone secretion in obese pre-diabetic mice - Zhengxiang Huang
• Systemic administration of propeptides attenuates activin A-induced cachetic wasting - Kelly L Walton

• Efficacy and safety of a fixed combination of insulin degludec/insulin aspart in children and adolescents with type 1 diabetes - Roger Chen
• Contemporary risk of menstrual and reproductive dysfunction in women with Type 1 diabetes: a population-based study  - Eleanor P Thong
• Examination of stress hyperglycaemia and stroke outcomes using the stress hyperglycaemia ratio - James Sires
• Comparison of triceps and suprailiac skin fold thickness versus body mass index and waist circumference in predicting body fat percentage and metabolic syndrome in young adults with diabetes - Udai Wijetunga
• Plasma estradiol concentration is independently associated with longer leucocyte telomere length in older men - Bu B Yeap
• Selective loss of levator ani and leg muscle volumes in men undergoing androgen deprivation therapy - Vivian Ly
• Gender-affirming hormonal therapies and surgical interventions among non-binary transgender individuals - John W.P. Wong
• Lifestyle changes in women with polycystic ovary syndrome - Siew Lim

• The association between Metabolic Syndrome and time to pregnancy in a cohort of nulliparous women. - Jessica A Grieger
• Placental and fetal changes due to periconceptional alcohol exposure and the potential for mid-gestational choline supplementation to ameliorate these effects - Lisa K Akison
• Relationship between endometrial stem/progenitor cells in the endometrial scratch biopsy and live birth outcomes following IVF – a pilot study - Caroline E Gargett
• Faking its own death, why the syncytiotrophoblast appears to die in placental explant cultures. - Larry W Chamley

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•  DNA repair and protection in the female germline - Jacinta H Martin
• Chemotherapy-induced infertility is caused by direct damage to oocytes - Quynh-Nhu Nguyen
• Paternal miR-146a regulation of male reproductive parameters and its influence on the female immune response at conception in the mouse - Hon Y Chan
• Reversing decreased gamete quality and altered embryogenesis caused by advanced paternal age - Macarena Gonzalez

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• Animal sex determination by genes, chromosomes and the environment - Jennifer A Marshall Graves

• Heady Tales of Ewe - Iain Clarke
• Fifty years of research.  What a journey for the study of the ovary. - Ray Rodgers
• The 3 Ps of Reproduction: Pheromones, Photons and Phood - Graeme B Martin
• Oncofertility: a catalyst for significant advances in female reproduction - Karla Hutt

• Endocrine Therapy for Triple Negative Breast Cancer:  Targeting the Androgen Receptor - When and How? - Jennifer Richer
• Targeting the androgen receptor in estrogen receptor-α (ER) positive breast cancer - Wayne Tilley
• New patient-derived models for rapid preclinical testing of castration-resistant prostate cancer - Mitchell Lawrence
• Towards improved treatment of prostate cancer: novel strategies to target the androgen receptor - Luke Selth

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• Identification of immunogenic thyroid-specific self-peptides in Graves’ disease - Aakansha Zala
• Teriparatide improves healing of medication-related osteonecrosis of the jaw: a placebo-controlled, randomized trial - Ie-Wen Sim
• Brown adipose tissue thermogenesis in polycystic ovary syndrome - Soulmaz Dr Shorakae
• The impact of Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia Type 1 on fertility in a multigenerational cohort  - Michael Thompson
• Optimizing care for patients with primary aldosteronism: putting research into practice - Jun Yang

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• Androgen actions in ovarian health and pathogenesis - Kirsty Walters

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• Altered Treg cell and antigen presenting cell populations are associated with LPS induced fetal loss in pregnant miR-223 deficient mice - Bihong Zhang
• miR29c overexpression in the infertile endometrium impairs endometrial epithelial adhesive capacity by downregulating COL4A1 - Meaghan Griffiths
• Low oxygen driven miRNA regulation of AT₁R mediated placental angiogenesis   - Sarah J Delforce
• Characterisation of the lipoxygenase – lipid peroxidation pathway in human spermatozoa - Jessica Walters
• Experimental polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) traits can be ameliorated by dietary intervention - Valentina Rodriguez Paris
• Unravelling the underlying role of androgen- vs estrogen-mediated actions in development of the differing PCOS phenotypes - Ali Aflatounian

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• Syncytialisation and the prorenin receptor ((P)RR) - Saije K Morosin
• Polymer-based, biodegradable nanoparticles for the treatment of placental dysfunction - Rebecca L Wilson
• Rcbtb2 is reduced in preeclamptic placentas and in placental tissue exposed to hypoxia - Natasha de Alwis
• (P)RR remodels the trophoblast cytoskeleton and promotes trophoblast proliferation and migration - Samantha L Rodrigues
• High levels of circulating HtrA4 may contribute to the development of preeclampsia by cleaving the main cell surface receptor of VEGFA to induce systemic endothelial dysfunction - Yao Wang
• Mitochondrial dysfunction and increased progesterone synthesis in syncytiotrophoblast mitochondria from gestational diabetes mellitus. - Joshua J Fisher