Wednesday, 24th August Annual Meetings of the Endocrine Society of Australia and Society for Reproductive Biology and Australia and New Zealand Bone and Mineral Society 2016

• Discovery of a novel class of naturally-occurring lipids with anti-diabetic and anti-inflammatory effects - Barbara Kahn

• An increased risk of miscarriage is associated with dysregulation of granulosal receptor density and lower apoptosis levels - Sheena LP Regan
• Potassium channels in dysfunctional human labour - Helena C Parkington
• The effects of maternal metabolic phenotype on maternal and perinatal outcomes - Claire T Roberts
• Males born small transmit renal dysfunction to two subsequent generates in a sex-specific fashion - Jessica F Briffa

• Understanding male infertility - Mark A Baker
• Cumulin and cAMP-modulators combined improve human oocyte in vitro maturation and embryo yield - Robert B. Gilchrist
• Disruption of the proliferative phase uterine microenvironment in idiopathic infertile women - Harriet Fitzgerald
• Relationship of CSF3 and its Receptor to Female Infertility - Tracey A Edgell

• Effects of Osteocalcin on insulin sensitivity: a novel treatment for T2DM? - Tara Brennan-Speranza
• Bone turnover, diabetes and cardiovascular risk - Bu Yeap
• Osteoporosis and insulin resistance - Katherine Tonks
• Exercise for Type 2 Diabetes: What kind? How much? How intense? - Robin Daly

• Mechanical control of human endometrium: Role of ECM-mediated TGFβ signalling in uterine epithelium - Subhransu Sahoo
• Molecular mechanisms of endometrial gland development - Jyoti Goad
• Sulfasalazine reduces sFlt-1 and soluble endoglin secretion and rescues endothelial dysfunction from primary human tissues: A novel candidate therapeutic to treat preeclampsia - Fiona Brownfoot
• Do bone marrow stem/progenitor cells contribute to regeneration of the mouse endometrium? - James A Deane
• ‘Clinging on’ during implantation after ovarian hyperstimulation - Laura Lindsay
• Inhibiting the prorenin/prorenin receptor angiotensin system in the treatment of endometrial cancer - Riazuddin Mohammed
• mTOR and endometrial aging: Hyperactivation of mTOR signalling contributes to the age-associated changes in uterine epithelium - Preety Bajwa
• Genetic regulation of gene expression in human endometrium and across the menstrual cycle - Jenny N Fung

Rebecca Mason

Chairs: John Schjenken and Lisa Akison (SRB), Timothy Cole and Belinda Henry (ESA), and Sharon Brennan and Syndia Lazarus (ANZBMS).

1:15pm-1:20pm - Welcome by the ECR chairs
1:20pm-1:30pm - The NHMRC Grant Review Process, Belinda Henry
1:30pm-2:00pm - Panel Session
1:30pm-1:35pm - Ray Rodgers
1:35pm-1:40pm - Karen Moritz
1:40pm-1:45pm - Chris O’Neill
1:45pm-1:50pm - Brett Nixon
1:50pm-1:55pm - Karla Hutt
1:55pm-2:00pm - Kirsty Pringle
2:00pm-2:30pm - Open Discussion with questions from ECR members
2:30pm-2:55pm - Strategies and Tips for obtaining Pharmaceutical funding, Michael Cowley (Monash University)
2:55pm-3:20pm - Work life balance – Academia, research and home, Renea Taylor
3:20pm-3:30pm - Final discussions and close

• In fetal testes SOX9 governs transcription and male-specific RNA splicing of target genes via a Sertoli cell genomic signature - Vincent R Harley
• The mapk pathway and sexual differentiation: effects of inhibitors of p38 mapk and erk1/erk2 in the developing gonad - Monika Paranjpe
• Effects of MyD88 deletion on testicular inflammatory signalling pathways and spermatogenesis in mice - Rajini Sreenivasan
• Gonadotrophin suppression in men leads to a reduction in claudin-11 at the Sertoli cell tight junction - Mark McCabe
• Maternal corticosterone exposure in the mouse induces placental oxidative stress and dysregulates expression of antioxidant and apoptotic genes in a sex specific manner - James SM Cuffe
• First FGF9 mutation in a patient with a disorder of sex development - Daniel Bird