195th Meeting for the Society for Endocrinology

Programme: Tuesday 2 November 2004

Mon 1 Nov | Tues 2 Nov | Wed 3 Nov (diabetes) | Wed 3 Nov (growth factor)

Attended Posters 1 & 2 Nov | Attended Posters 3 Nov

Acrobat Icon Download Programme (pdf) (316kb)


 

09:00 – 10:00

Wolfson Theatre

Plenary lecture: Society for Endocrinology Medal Lecture

 

 

Chair: Bloom S (London)

           
S3 09:00 Oestrogen and the skeleton
    Eastell R (Sheffield)

     

 

 

10:00 – 10:30

Osler/Long Room

 

 

Coffee

       

 

 

10:30 – 12:30

Wolfson Theatre

 

 

Symposium 3: Hormones in natural products

 

 

Chair: Henderson I (Sheffield)

         

S13

10:30

Hormones in natural products - an overview

 

 

Ashby J (Macclesfield)

     

 

 

S14

11:00

Natural endocrine disrupters in aquatic environments

 

 

Sumpter J (Uxbridge)

     

 

 

S15

11:30

Gender dysfunction in newborn males

 

 

Hughes I (Cambridge)

 

 

 

S16

12:00

Phytoestrogens - beyond the oestrogen receptor

 

 

Whitehead S (London)

 

 

 

10:30 – 12:30

Seligman Theatre

 

 

Nurses Session

 

 

Neuroendocrine tumours - an update
GENEROUSLY SUPPORTED BY NOVARTIS PHARMACEUTICALS UK LTD

 

 

Chairs: Coskeran P (London) & Gagen C (London)

     

S21

10:30

Introduction to NET: Definition, classification and diagnosis

 

 

Caplin M (London)

 

 

 

S22

11:00

The role of the nurse specialist in the co-ordination of patient care

 

 

Bouvier C (London) & Thatcher J (London)

 

 

 

S23

11:30

Injection techniques - getting it right

 

 

King B (Basingstoke)

 

 

 

S24

12:00

A case of MEN 1 syndrome with secretion of multiple gut hormones

 

 

Gibson C (Manchester)

 

 

 

12:30 – 13:30

Library

 

 

Attended Posters

 

 

 

12:30 – 14:30

Osler/Long Room

 

 

Lunch

 

 

 

13:30 – 14:30

Wolfson Theatre

 

 

Clinical Endocrine Debate:

 

 

This house believes that bilateral adrenalectomy is the treatment of choice for Cushing’s disease

 

 

Chair: Atkinson B (Belfast)

     

 

 

 

 

Proposer - Newell-Price J (Sheffield)

 

 

Opposer - Scanlon M (Cardiff)

      

 

 

14:15 – 16:30

Seligman Theatre

 

 

Basic Science Review Lecture

 

 

Young Endocrinologists Session

 

 

Chairs: Fowkes R (London) & Bloom S (London)

     

 

 

 

 

Basic Science Review Lecture

 S4 

14:15

Understanding endocrine development of the human beta cell: guiding stem cell therapy for Type 1 Diabetes

 

 

Piper K (Southampton)

 

 

 

    

 

Oral Communications 3: Young Endocrinologists Session

     

 

 

OC18

14:45

Regulation of canonical Wnt/beta-catenin signalling pathway plays a central role in thyroid growth and proliferation in neoplastic thyroid cell lines

 

 

Rao AS, Kremenevskaja N, Resch J & Brabant G

    

 

 

OC19

15:00

Proliferative effects of ghrelin and desoctanoyl ghrelin are independent of the growth hormone secretagogue receptor (GHS-R)

 

 

Marsh VB, Kola B, Hanson M, Emery M, Musat M, Bonner S, Khalaf S, Norman D, Grossman AB & Korbonits M

 

 

 

*OC20

15:15

Sp1/Sp3, GnRH and PACAP involvement in C-type natriuretic peptide (CNP/Nppc) expression and action in gonadotrophs

 

 

Fowkes RC, Burrin JM, McArdle CA & Steinhelper ME

 

 

 

*OC21

15:30

Failure of suppression of endogenous glucose production (EGP) diminished lipolysis and free fatty acid (FFA) oxidation in a population at high risk of the development of Type 2 diabetes

 

 

Forbes S, Robinson S, McCarthy MI, MacDonald IA, Bannister P, Venketesan S & Johnston DG

 

 

 

*OC22

15:45

Effect of variation at the aldosterone synthase locus (CYP11B2) on adrenal 11-beta hydroxylation: pilot data from the MRC BRIGHT study

 

 

Freel M, McKenzie S, Friel E, Ingram M, Davies E, Fraser R, Dominiczak A, Caulfield M & Connell J

 

 

 

*OC23

16:00

Adrenal and circulating agouti related protein (AgRP) is upregulated in Cushing's syndrome suggesting a novel inhibitory paracrine role in the human adrenal gland

 

 

Dhillo WS, Castle L, Gardiner JV, Bewick GA, Smith KL, Meeran K, Todd JF, Ghatei MA & Bloom SR

 

 

 

*OC24

16:15

A pilot study of prolonged high dose rosiglitazone therapy (12mg/day) in Nelson's syndrome

 

 

Munir A, Song F, Ince P, Ross R & Newell-Price J

 

 

 

14.30 – 16.30

Wolfson Theatre

 

 

Symposium 4: Consequences of a lack of androgens

 

 

Chair: Randall V (Bradford)

 

 

 

S17

14:30

Androgen action and the male adult phenotype from youth to senescence

 

 

Nieschlag E (Münster, Germany)

 

 

 

S18

15:00

Consequences of androgen receptor abnormalities

 

 

Hiort O (Lübeck, Germany)

 

 

 

S19

15:30

SARMS (Selective Androgen Receptor Modulators)

 

 

Grootenhuis A (Oss, The Netherlands)

 

 

 

S20

16:00

Hormonal male contraception: an update

 

 

Wu F (Manchester)

 

 

 

16:30 – 16:45

Osler Room

 

 

Tea

 

 

 

16:45– 17:45

Seligman Theatre

 

 

Eli Lilly & Company Ltd Satellite

 

 

The Hypopituitary Control and Complication Study