Monday, 24th August ESA-SRB Conference 2015

Prof Claire Roberts- ‘Inequality begins before birth’

Prof Michael Davies- ‘Intergenerational transmission of health inequalities’

Dr Alice Rumbold- Maternal and child health in our Aboriginal and remote communities (TBC)

Prof Robert Norman- ‘Africa to Adelaide- Poverty, prosperity and pregnancy’
            
Prof Sarah Robertson- ‘From one generation to the next - parenting begins before conception’

• Alternative splicing of HOX genes and their adjacent long noncoding RNAs may regulate sexually dimorphic phallus development - Marilyn B Renfree
• Paternal miR146a influences the female post-coital inflammatory response to seminal fluid - Hon-yeung Chan
• Seminal Fluid Regulates miR155, which Impacts on Treg Cells and Alters Pregnancy Outcomes - Bihong Zhang
• Potential effect of activin on establishment of piRNA machinery in human germ cells - Shoichi Wakitani
• A paternal high fat diet alters founder sperm microRNA profile and implicates it as part of a candidate epigenetic mechanism underlying paternal programing. - Tod Fullston

• RBM5 is required for spermatogonia differentiation - Duangporn Jamsai
• Dynamin 2: an essential regulator of male germ cell development - Eileen A McLaughlin
• Delineating the role of Snail transcription factors in the testis - Diana Micati
• A novel transcription factor NKAPL is a germ cell-specific suppressor of the Notch signaling pathway and is indispensable for spermatogenesis. - Hidenobu Okuda
• Assessment of capacitation-like changes in the spermatozoa of the Australian saltwater crocodile - Brett Nixon

• Exposure to ammonium during pre-implantation embryo development significantly alters offspring phenotype. - Deirdre L Zander-Fox
• Phthalate ester-induced cytoskeletal disruption in early embryogenesis of an Australian native marine invertebrate Galeolaria gemineoa (Polychaeta: Serpulidae) - Yonggang Lv
• Autocrine ligands activate a canonical immediate early gene and late gene response at the time of embryonic genomic activation in the mouse 2-cell embryo - Chris O'Neill
• Oxidative Stress-Induced Protein Modifications in Spermatozoa and Consequences for Sperm-Oocyte Recognition - Geoffry N De Iuliis
• Dietary micronutrient supplementation to a high fat diet reduces sperm oxidative stress and improves fertilisation rates in a mouse model - Helana Shehadeh

• Major histocompatibility complex class I genes at the fetal-maternal interface of a marsupial (Macropus eugenii) - Brandon R Menzies
• Toll-like receptor 4 antagonist (+)-naloxone prevents infection-driven fetal loss and preterm labour in mice - Lachlan M Moldenhauer
• Novel non-competitive Interleukin-1 receptor antagonist prevents LPS-induced preterm birth - Peck Y Chin
• Delineation of myeloid lineage derived immune cells in the adult mouse testis - Sivanjah Indumathy
• Expression of the Stem Cell Marker mTert Identifies Epithelial, Endothelial and Leukocyte populations in the Mouse Endometrium. - James A Deane
• Sex specific effects of early gestational diet upon the developing immune system - Viv Perry

• High FSH levels alter oocyte in vitro maturation but not oocyte aneuploidy in a transgenic mouse model. - Dannielle H Upton
• SIRT2 over-expression reverses ageing-induced decline in oocyte quality - Dave R Listijono
• Permeability Glycoprotein Enhances Cellular Drug Exclusion in the Early Embryo; Upholding DNA Integrity - Jacinta H Martin
• The effect of radiofrequency-electromagnetic radiation on the male germ line - Brendan Houston
• Electrophilic aldehydes increase free radical production and modify surface proteins in horse spermatozoa - Sally Hall
• Next generation sequence analysis of miRNA signatures in mouse epididymal epithelial cells and spermatozoa. - Jackson N Reilly

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What's new in Pituitary

• Bisphosphonates and cancer: seeing old drugs in a new light - Mike Rogers
• How does vitamin D influence the risk of breast cancer? - David Callen
• RANKL and giant cell tumor of bone: the growing problem of benign tumours. - David Thomas

• Low endogenous testosterone levels increase the risk of type 2 diabetes in men, independent of established risk factors - Jason Tan
• Lower circulating testosterone (T) is a consequence rather than a cause of poor health in older men: the Concord Health and Ageing in Men Project (CHAMP) - Benjumin Hsu
• Sex hormone binding globulin and free testosterone as predictors of mortality in men with type 2 diabetes - Henry Wong
• Proportion of undercarboxylated osteocalcin and serum P1NP predict incidence of myocardial infarction in older men. - Bu B Yeap
• Treating Type 1 Diabetes with Glucocorticosteroids: A case report of PD-1 Receptor inhibition induced Type 1 Diabetes - Jasna Aleksova
• Like mother like son? Variable expression and phenotype of an inactivating dominant ATP-binding cassette sub-family C member 8 (ABCC8) gene mutation within a single family. - Jessica L Stranks