22nd Joint Meeting of the British Endocrine Societies

Programme: Tuesday 25 March

Mon 24 Mar | Tues 25 Mar | Wed 26 Mar | Attended Posters


 

The Experts' View?
07.30 - 08.15 Dochart Room Chair: Shalet S (Manchester)
Delayed puberty management
Kelnar C (Edinburgh)
 
The Experts' View?
07.30 - 08.15 Forth Room Chair: Connell JMC (Glasgow)
Diagnosis of Cushing's
Atkinson B (Belfast)
 
The Experts' View?
07.30 - 08.15 Carron Room Chair: Parker M (London)
Microarrays and postarrays
Orphanides G (Macclesfield)
 
Society for Endocrinology Dale Medal Lecture
08.30 - 09.15 Clyde Auditorium Chair: Wass J (Oxford)
S2 08.30 How the brain controls appetite
Bloom SR (London)
 
TEA/COFFEE
09.15 - 09.45 Hall 2
 
Symposium 3: Apoptosis/survival signalling
09.45 - 11.45 Dochart Room Chair: Ferrara N (San Francisco)
 
S12 09.45 Building and demolishing cancers in vivo
Evan G (San Francisco)
S13 10.15 The role of mitochondria in cell death
Halestrap AP (Bristol)
S14 10.45 Phosphoinositide 3-kinase dependent lipid signals in cellular survival responses
Downes CP (Dundee)
S15 11.15 Cell proliferation and death in endocrine glands: The corpus luteum paradigm
Fraser HM (Edinburgh)
 
Oral Communications 3: Obesity and diabetes
09.45 - 11.45 Carron Room Chair: Staels B (Lille) & Scherer P (New York)
 
OC17 09.45 Autocrine FGF-2 is essential for human preadipocyte differentiation
Patel NG, Kumar S & Eggo MC
OC18 10.00 Expression of adiponectin protein in human fat: The effect of type 2 diabetes and obesity
Fisher FFM, McTernan PG, McTernan CL, Chetty R, Harte AL, Valsamikis G, Barnett AH & Kumar S
NOVARTIS AWARD WINNER (NP1) ALSO PRESENTED IN A DEDICATED POSTER SESSION IN HALL 2 ON TUESDAY 25 MARCH AT 12.45
OC19 10.15 Obesity reduces resistin immunoreactivity in mouse brain
Wilkinson M, Morash B, Wilkinson D & Ur E
OC20 10.30 PYY and decreased appetite following jejunum intestinal bypass in rats
le Roux CW, Shurey S, Ghatei M & Bloom SR
OC21 10.45 5a-Reduced glucocorticoid metabolites: Novel endogenous activators of glucocorticoid receptors (GR)
McInnes KJ, Livingstone DEW, Kenyon CJ, Chapman KE, Walker BR & Andrew R
OC22 11.00 Defining the molecular basis for apparent cortisone reductase deficiency reveals a novel redox potential mechanism within the endoplasmic reticulum
Draper N, Walker EA, Bujalska IJ, Tomlinson JW, Chalder SM, Bedendo O, Mason P, Laing I, Ray DW, Malunowicz EM, Connell JM, Hewison M & Stewart PM
OC23 11.15 Expression and activity of 11beta-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase type 1 are increased following weight loss
Tomlinson JW, Shakespeare L, Holder G, Clark PMS & Stewart PM
OC24 11.30 Downstream consequences of increased 11beta-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase type 1 (11HSD1) activity and mRNA in adipose tissue in human obesity
Wake DJ, Rask E, Livingstone DEW, Olsson T & Walker BR
 
Clinical Management Workshop: HRT: the good, the bad and the ugly
09.45 - 11.45 Clyde Auditorium Chair: Franks S (London)
 
S37 09.45 HRT and the heart
Herrington D (Winston-Salem)
S38 10.15 The effect of oestrogen on brain ageing
Murphy D (London)
S39 10.45 HRT and fracture prevention (for the motion)
Jacobs HS (London)
S40 11.15 HRT and fracture prevention (against the motion)
Purdie DW (Hull)
 
Extraordinary General Meeting of the Society for Endocrinology
11.45 - 12.15
 
Clyde Auditorium
LUNCH
11.45 - 13.15 Hall 2
 
Attended Posters (even numbers)
12.15 - 13.15 Hall 2
Poster Details
 
Novartis Awards Poster Session
12.45 - 13.15 Hall 2
 
Focused Science Session: Tissue engineering in endocrinology
13.15 - 14.15 Forth Room Chair: Polak JM (London)
 
S44 13.15 Tissue engineering
Polak JM (London) & Bishop AE
S45 13.45 Tissue engineering: The study of human embryonic stem cells
Benvenisty N (Jerusalem)
 
Ipsen Satellite Symposium
13.15 - 14.15 Clyde Auditorium (further details)
 
Symposium 4: Dominant endocrine cancer syndromes
14.15 - 16.15 Forth Room Chair: Bouloux P (London)
 
S16 14.15 VHL and the genetics of phaeochromocytoma
Maher ER (Birmingham)
S17 14.45 VHL and HIF, a basis for VHL pathogenesis
Pugh CW (Oxford)
S18 15.15 Function of menin, product of the MEN1 tumor suppressor gene
Marx S (Bethesda, USA)
S19 15.45 Genetics and management of multiple endocrine neoplasia type 1 (MEN1)
Thakker RV (Oxford)
 
Symposium 5: The adipocyte as an endocrine organ
Kindly supported by the Caledonian Society for Endocrinology
14.15 - 16.15 Clyde Auditorium Chair: Bloom SR (London)
 
S20 14.15 The role of adiponectin in carbohydrate and lipid metabolism
Scherer PE (New York)
S21 14.45 Monogenic obesity
O'Rahilly S (Cambridge)
S22 15.15 Nuclear receptors in metabolic control
Staels B (Lille)
S23 15.45 Reduced intra-adipose glucocorticoid regeneration: A novel adaptive response to, and therapy for, the metabolic syndrome
Morton NM (Edinburgh), Paterson JM, Masuzaki H, Holmes MC, Staels B, Fievet C, Walker BR, Flier J, Mullins JJ & Seckl JR
 
Oral Communications 4: Brain and behaviour
14.15 - 16.15 Carron Room Chair: Murphy D (London) & Russell J (Edinburgh)
 
OC25 14.15 Novel methods of delivery of neurotrophic growth factor genes to CNS neurones
Barrett L (Birmingham) & Logan A
WINNER OF THE BES 2002 AWARDS SUPPORTED BY PHARMACIA LTD
OC26 14.30 11beta-Hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase type 2 (11beta-HSD2), a protector of the developing brain
Holmes MC, Sangra M & Seckl JR
OC27 14.45 Adenosine-induced IL-6 expression in pituitary folliculostellate cells is mediated via A2b adenosine receptors coupled to p38 MAPK
Rees DA, Lewis BM, Lewis MD, Francis K, Easter T, Scanlon MF & Ham J
OC28 15.00 Follistatin is secreted from pituitary folliculo-stellate cell lines by an ABCA1 transporter
Morris JF, Kamitani T, Nishino S, Buckingham JC & Christian HC
OC29 15.15 Decreased anxiety-related behaviour and increased spatial memory retention in 11beta-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase type 1 knockout mice
Yau JL, Hibberd C, Paterson J, Mullins JJ & Seckl JR
OC30 15.30 Elevated circulating levels of cocaine - and amphetamine-regulated transcript (CART) in anorexia nervosa
Stanley SA, Connan F, Small CJ, Murphy KG, Todd JF, Ghatei M, Treasure J & Bloom SR
OC31 15.45 A role for arcuate cocaine - and amphetamine-regulated transcript in hyperphagia, thermogenesis and cold adaptation
Kong WM, Stanley SS, Gardiner JV, Abbott CR, Murphy KG, Seth A, Connley I, Ghatei M, Stephens D & Bloom SR
OC32 16.00 Localisation and regulation of cocaine - and amphetamine-regulated transcript (CART) in the anterior pituitary gland
Murphy KG, Stanley SA, Bewick G, Kong WM, Gardiner JV, Ghatei M, Small CJ & Bloom SR
 
TEA/COFFEE
16.15 - 16.45 Hall 2
 
The Experts' View?
16.45 - 17.30 Forth Room Chair: Conway G (London)
Management of hirsutism
Franks S (London)
 
The Experts' View?
16.45 - 17.30 Carron Room Chair: Selby P (Manchester)
Investigation of hypercalcaemia
Thakkar R (Oxford)
 
The Experts' View?
16.45 - 17.30 Dochart Room Chair: Shennan K (Aberdeen)
Lipid rafts
Chamberlain L (Glasgow)
 
Society for Endocrinology Transatlantic Medal Lecture
17.45 - 18.30 Clyde Auditorium Chair: Bloom SR (London)
 
S3 17.45 Steroidogenic factor 1: A key mediator of endocrine development
Parker KL (Dallas)
 
BES Banquet (entrance by ticket only)
19.30 Hunter Halls, University of Glasgow