195th Meeting for the Society for Endocrinology

Programme: Wednesday 3 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

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GROWTH FACTOR STRAND

  

09:00 – 11:45

Seligman Theatre

    Lectures:
    Chairs: Hill D (Ontario, Canada) & Westwood M (Manchester)
     
GS1 09:00 Lecture 1: Growth factors and stem cell research
    Heath J (Birmingham)
     
GS2 09:45 Lecture 2: Imaging tissue repair: molecular imaging techniques and their role in the characterisation of tissue repair processes
    Pither R (Amersham)

 

 

 

10:30 – 11:00

Osler/Long Room

 

 

Coffee

     

 

 

Seligman Theatre

GS3

11:00

Lecture 3: Wound healing studies in mice and flies

 

 

Martin P (Bristol)

     

11:45 – 12:45

Seligman Theatre

    Oral Communications 1:
    Chairs: Hill D (Ontario, Canada) & Westwood M (Manchester)
     
GO1 11:45 Exploiting phage technology for targeting gene delivery into the CNS
    Gonzalez AM, Rayner J, Logan A, Larocca D, Berry M, Burg M & Baird A
     
GO2 12:00 siRNA-mediated knock down of NgR, p75NTR and Rho-a disinhibits neurotrophin-induced dorsal root ganglia neurite outgrowth on CNS Myelin
    Ahmed Z, Dent RG, Suggate EL, Berry M & Logan A
     
GO3 12:15 VEGF secretion from pituitary folliculo-stellate cells: a role for KATP channels?
    Budzik JM, Christian HC, Omer S & Morris JF
     
GO4 12:30 IGF-independent acceleration of myogenesis by IGFBP-5: modulation of cell survival and differentiation signalling pathways
    Cobb LJ, Gonzalez I, Tripathi G, Lovett FA, Salih DAM, Godwin KS & Pell JM
     

12.45– 13.30

Osler/Long Room

 

 

Lunch

 

 

 

13.30 – 14:15

Seligman Theatre

    Lecture:
    Chairs: Hill D (Ontario, Canada) & Pell J (Cambridge)
     
GS4

13:30

Lecture 4: Haematopoietic stem cells: what regulates the regulator?

 

 

Green A (Cambridge)

     
14:15 – 14:45 Seligman Theatre
    Oral Communications 2:
    Chairs: Hill D (Ontario, Canada) & Pell J (Cambridge)
     
GO5 14:15 Evidence for a role of the Type 1 IGF receptor in early follicular development in cultured human ovarian tissue
    Stubbs S, Margara R, Trew G, Lavery S, Franks S & Hardy K
     
GO6 14:30 The insulin-like growth factor binding protein-5 (IGFBP-5) profile in primary cultures of differentiated mouse mammary epithelial cells
    Lochrie JD, Phillips K, Shand JH, Price NC,
    Allan GJ, Flint DJ & Beattie J
     
14:45 – 15:30 Seligman Theatre
    Lecture:
    Chairs: Hill D (Ontario, Canada) & Pell J (Cambridge)
     
GS5 14:45 Lecture 5: Biology and therapeutic potential of neural stem cells
    Minger S (London)
     
15:30 – 16:00 Osler/Long Room
    Tea
     
16:00 – 16:30 Seligman Theatre
    Oral Communications 3:
    Chairs: Hill D (Ontario, Canada) & Pell J (Cambridge)
     
GO7 16:00 Modulation of the circulating insulin-like growth factor system in patients with gastrointestinal inflammation
    Baricevic I, Nedic O, Jones DR & Nikolic JA
     
GO8 16:15 Intermittent recombinant growth hormone (Saizen) treatment in short children born small for gestational age: results of two different treatment regimens on growth parameters after 4 years
    Simon D, Fjellestad-Paulsen A, Crabbé R & Czernichow P
     
16:30 – 17:15 Seligman Theatre
    Lecture:
    Chairs: Hill D (Ontario, Canada) & Pell J (Cambridge)
     
GS6 16:30 Lecture 6: Directing cells to become muscle
    Watt D (Brighton)