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Programme: Monday 6 November 2006

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09.00 - 10.00 Registration   Great Hall Lobby
09.30 - 10.00 Coffee   Great Hall and Small Foyers
   
10.00 – 11.00 Jubilee Medal Lecture
     Chair: John Wass (Oxford)
S1   Diamonds are forever
    Steve Hillier (Edinburgh)
11.00 – 13.00 Symposium 1   Great Hall
    Thyroid at the beginning and end of life
    Chair: Mark Vanderpump (London) & R Drummond (Glasgow)
S5   The impact of iodine deficiency, even in the 21st century
    Peter Laurberg (Aalborg,Denmark)
S6   Thyroid hormone action on the developing central nervous system
    Mark Kilby (Birmingham)
S7   Management of thyroid disease in pregnancy
    John Lazarus (Cardiff)
S8   Mortality and morbidity in thyroid dysfunction
    Graham Leese (Dundee)
11.00 – 13.00

Oral Communications 1   Small Hall
Young endocrinologists prize session
Chair: J Buckingham (London)

OC1   The effects of age and calorie restriction on 24-hour plasma melatonin and activity rhythms in the rhesus macaque (Macaca mulatta)
    J Downs, N Aghazadeh-Sanai, J Mattison, D Ingram, S Kohama, H Urbanski
OC2   Combinatorial signalling and gene transcription in neuroendocrine cells: does PACAP potentiate hormonedependent gene transcription?
    J Monger, M Patel, K Jonas, R Fowkes
OC3   Co-administration of SR141716 with peptide YY or oxyntomodulin has additive effects on food intake in mice
    N White,W Dhillo, C Small,Y Lui, J Gardiner, M Ghatei, S Bloom
OC4   Antral follicle count (AFC) is related to serum anti-Mullerian hormone (AMH) independent of age, FSH and body mass index (BMI) in candidates for assisted conception
    L Nardo, D Gould, C Fitzgerald, D Christodoulou, A Yates, I Laing
OC5   Restoration of glucocorticoid receptor expression causes apoptotic cell death of human small cell lung cancer cells
    P Sommer, A White, D Ray
OC6   Subcellular distribution of thyroglobulin (Tg) and sodium-iodine-symporter (NIS) in normal thyroid, Graves' and thyroid carcinomas using confocal microscopy
    I Kollecker, R von Wasielewski, G Brabant
OC7   T3 stimulation of MAP kinase and cell proliferation in human osteoblast-like cells is initiated at integrin aVb3
    A Scarlett, M Parsons, P Hanson, K Sidhu, T Milligan, J Burrin
OC8   Caveolin-1: A regulator of the IGFIR/Akt pathway mediating cellular proliferation but not survival
  L Matthews, M Taggart, M Westwood
11.00 – 13.00 Symposium 2   Council Chamber
    Novel regulation of orphan receptor function
    Chairs: Mark Gurnell (Cambridge) & Rob Fowkes (London)
S9   The ups and downs of nuclear receptor action in metabolic tissues
    Malcolm Parker (London)
S10   Repression of NR5A nuclear receptors by SUMO and DEAD-box proteins
    Martin Lee (Singapore)
S11   Role of LXRs in lipid metabolism and immunity
    Antonio Castrillo (Las Palmas,Spain)
S12   NRs and circadian rhythm
    Vincent Laudet (Lyon,France)
13.00 – 13.30 Society for Endocrinology AGM   Great Hall
13.30 – 14.30 Lunch   Great Hall and Small Foyers
13.30 – 14.30 Attended Posters   Lower Foyer
    
14.30 – 16.30 Symposium 3   Great Hall
    New frontiers in steroid hormone metabolism
    Chair: Eleanor Davies (Glasgow)
S13   Molecular mechanisms of electron transfer
    Steve Chapman (Edinburgh)
S14   P450 oxidoreductase and androgen metabolism
    Wiebke Arlt (Birmingham)
S15   Adrenodoxin and cytochrome P450s
       Rita Bernhardt (Saarbrücken, Germany)
S16   Hexose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase and glucocorticoid metabolism
       Gareth Lavery (Birmingham)
14.30 – 16.30 Nurse Symposium   Council Chamber
    Endocrinology of ageing
    Chair: TBC
S36   GH, IGF-I and ageing
    Steve Shalet (Manchester)
S37   The menopause
    Kathy Abernathy (London)
S38   Endocrinology of ageing: the andropause and testosterone
    Pierre Bouloux (London)
14.30 – 16.30 Symposium 4   Small Hall
    Cell-cell interactions in the regulation of endocrine cell function
    Chair: Helen Christian (Oxford)
S17   Somatotrophs and lactotrophs: their intercellular regulation and communication
    Iain Robinson (London)
S18   Pituitary-scale organisation of functional cell networks
    Patrice Mollard (Montpellier, France)
S19   Germ cell-somatic cell interactions in the ovary: a role for gap junctions in propagating signalling molecules
    John Carroll (London)
S20   Cell-cell interactions in regulation of testicular endocrine function
    Richard Sharpe (Edinburgh)
16.30 – 16.45 Tea
16.45 – 17.45 Asia and Oceania Medal Lecture   Great Hall
    Chair: John Wass (Oxford)
S2   Endocrinology: It’s all about good communication
    Gail Risbridger (Clayton, Australia)
 
19.30 Annual Dinner   The Copthorne Tara Hotel