Basic Science Program
The finalised Basic Science Program is listed below.
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All Presentations for the Basic Science Stream will be held in the Bunker Room at Peppers 'The Sands' Resort.
| Friday 27 April | |
| 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM | Registration |
| 6:30 PM - 7:00 PM | Pre-Dinner Drinks |
| 7:00 PM - 11:00 PM | Welcome Dinner |
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Saturday 28 April |
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| 8:30 AM - 5:00 PM | Registration |
| 8:30 AM - 10:30 AM | Symposium 1: Sexual development and gender disorders Chair: Tim Cole 8:15am Gail Risbridger - "Late Breaking Topic" Presentation slides not available for public viewing 8:30am Catherine Itman - Activin, hormones and endocrine disruptors: the vulnerability of the prepubertal testis Presentation slides not available for public viewing 9:00am Paul Thomas - Sexy Genes: Identification of SOX3 as an XX male sex reversal gene in mice and Man Presentation slides not available for public viewing 9:30am Patrick Western - Establishing the foundations of development: differentiation of the male fetal germ line. 10:00am (Selected Oral Abstract) Ismael Aguirre-Maclennan - A novel cell based bioassay for measuring Leukaemia Inhibitory Factor (LIF) activity 10:15am (Selected Oral Abstract) Linda Wu - Blobby - A New Obese Mouse Model Showing Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress Mechanism in Reproductive Defects in Response to Obesity |
| 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM | Morning Tea |
| 11.00 AM - 1.00 PM |
Mentor workshop |
| 1.00 PM - 2.00 PM | Lunch |
| 2.00 PM - 3.00 PM | Plenary 1: Chair: Vicki Clifton Dave Grattan – The role of prolactin in the neuroendocrine adaptations of the maternal brain |
| 3.00 PM - 3.30 PM | Afternoon tea |
| 3.30 PM - 5.00 PM |
Symposium 2: Endocrine control of female reproduction |
| 5.15 PM - 6.30 PM | ECR: Novel techniques and Hot Topics Chair: Nicolette Hodyl (Selected abstracts 5 x 15 minutes each) 5:15pm Huiting Ho - A High Throughput In Vitro Model of Human Embryo Attachment 5:30pm Julie-Ann De Bond - The luteinising hormone response in anestrous ewes following the introduction of males requires kisspeptin signalling 5:45pm Luba Sominsky - Neonatal immune activation facilitates an inflammatory link between infection and fertility 6:00pm Kelly Walton - Targeting activin to counteract muscle wasting and cachexia 6:15pm Sara Al-Musawi - Species-Specific Differences in the Expression and Activity of BMP15 |
| 6:30 PM - 7:00pm |
Pre-dinner wine tasting |
| 7:00 PM - 10:30 PM | Conference Dinner |
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Sunday 29 April |
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| 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM | Symposium 3: Models of Fertility and Infertility Chair: Evan Simpson 8:30am John Aitken - New horizons on an old landscape - the paracrine regulation of sperm function Download Presentation Slides Here 9:00am Megan Lloyd - Sabotaging fertility – the development of an effective contraceptive vaccine in mice Download Presentation Slides Here 9:30am Robert Gilchrist - Unusual features of GDF9/BMP15 paracrine signalling that regulate somatic cell differentiation, oocyte quality and reproductive potential Presentation slides not available for public viewing |
| 10:00AM - 10:30 AM |
Morning tea |
| 10:30AM - 11:30AM | Short presentations: Neuroendocrine Control of Reproduction Chair: Nicolette Hodyl (Chosen from abstracts: 4 x 15 minutes each) 10:30am Danielle Bartolini - Chronic cortisol treatment increases the expression of the gonadotropin inhibitory hormone (GnIH) gene 10:45am Qun Li - The expression of Neurokinin B (NKB) within ovine kisspeptin neurons during the estrous cycle 11:00am Zane Andrews - Ghrelin does not act directly on kisspeptin neurons or the pituitary gonadotropes to suppress the reproductive system 11:15am Tony Sapsford - Prolactin does not act directly on thyrotropin-releasing hormone (TRH) neurons in the paraventricular nucleus of the rat hypothalamus |
| 11:30AM - 12:30PM | Plenary 2: Chair: Belinda Henry Evan Simpson – Aromatase (CYP19A1) expression is inhibited by metformin via AMPK in the breast of postmenopausal women Presentation slides not available for public viewing |
| 12:40 PM - 12:45 PM | Closing remarks and Close of meeting. |
| 12:45 PM - 1:30 PM |
Lunch / Buses Depart (1:00 PM) Delegates need to pick up a packed lunch |
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