Wednesday, 24th November ESA-SRB-ANZBMS 2021

Co-Chair Emily Mackenzie

• Checkpoint inhibitor associated autoimmune diabetes: an emerging and fulminant form of type 1 diabetes - Linda Wu
• Cellular immunotherapy for prostate cancer is a treatment option when AR targeted therapies fail - Gail Risbridger
• Effects of estradiol on cognition in men undergoing androgen deprivation therapy for prostate cancer: a randomised placebo-controlled trial - Nicholas Russell
• Measurements of circulating conjugated and unconjugated vitamin D metabolites by enzyme hydrolysis combined with liquid chromatography mass spectrometry - Carl Jenkinson
• Ablation of normal vitamin D signalling impairs skeletal muscle regeneration in mice - Jennifer Chen
• Thyroid peroxidase and thyroglobulin antibodies in thyroid immune related adverse events following immune checkpoint inhibitor treatment. - Christopher A Muir

The conference acknowledges the support of:

• Aberrant Igf2-H19 Expression in the Placental Endocrine Zone Increases the Susceptibility of the Mother to Poor Metabolic Health - Jorge Lopez-Tello
• Mechanisms of Xenobiotic-Induced Ovarian Toxicity  - Aileen Keating
• Differential Follicle Stimulating Hormone Glycosylation Modulates Pre-Antral Follicle Growth and Survival Rates - Gillian Johnson

• Human INHBB gene variant (c.1079T>C:p.Met360Thr) alters testis germ cell content, but does not impact fertility in a mouse model - Kelly Walton
• The differential distribution of mononuclear phagocyte populations in the immature and adult murine epididymis is consistent with differences in localised immune responses - Rama Ravinthiran
• Understanding ATRX role in a specific PML Nuclear Body in testis of a mouse model of ATR-X syndrome - Vincent Harley
• Transcriptomic analysis of the seminal vesicle response to the reproductive toxicant acrylamide - John E Schjenken
• The male reproductive system is aiding our understanding of how wireless communications networks may be impacting our health - Geoffry N De Iuliis
• Testis development in marsupials is delayed until after birth and may be the driving force behind the unique marsupial mode of reproduction.   - Andrew J Pask

The conference acknowledges the support of:

The conference acknowledges the support of:

• Using Statistical Genetics Methods in Large Cohorts to Identify Modifiable Risk Factors for Osteoporosis. - John Kemp

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• Drug Trials In Skeletal Dysplasias - Ravi Savarirayan

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• Paternal Environmental Exposures and Their Influence on Development via the Sperm Epigenome   - Sarah Kimmins

• Residential proximity to bushfire events in Australia impaired subsequent human oocyte in vitro fertilization rates - Amy Winship
• Clinical experience of spermatogenesis induction for hypogonadotrophic hypogonadism in a tertiary hospital andrology service. - Stella Sarlos
• Severity of obesity impacts adverse maternal and neonatal outcomes independent of pre-existing or pregnancy-related diabetes - Kirsten Neal
• Altered bone mineral content and body composition in children and adolescents with confirmed prenatal alcohol exposure - Sophia Young
• Functional genomics for the discovery and characterisation of genes responsible for premature ovarian insufficiency in Perrault syndrome - Elena J Tucker
• Is it time to rethink the criteria for diagnosing PCOS? - Susan R Davis
• Association of gastric emptying time with gut hormones and appetite in Prader-Willi syndrome. - Amanda Hor
• Longitudinal changes in serum testosterone and sex hormone-binding globulin in men aged 40-69 years from the UK Biobank - Ross J Marriott

• Do activin A and endocrine disruptors interact to affect testis development? - Kate L Loveland
• The Impact of Environmental Toxicants on Female Fertility - Karla Hutt
• The influence of prenatal exposure to endocrine disrupting chemicals on adult health - Roger Hart

• Comparison of Fracture Rates and Economic Outcomes by Age Group in Patients with Osteoporosis treated with Risedronate Enteric-Coated versus Immediate Release Bisphosphonates: A claims Data Analysis - Friederike Thomasius
• Health outcomes in elderly individuals with acute severely painful osteoporotic vertebral compression fractures - Terry Diamond
• Skeletal Age:  a new score for fracture risk assessment - Thach Tran
• The Sydney AFF Score:  A Simple Tool to Distinguish Females Presenting with Atypical Femur Fractures versus Typical Femur Fractures - Nitesh Dhanekula
•   Misalignment by producing Ineffective Load Conduction May be Responsible for Atypical Femoral Fractures (AFFs) - Roger Zebaze
• Romosozumab (Romo) treatment lowers the incidence of new vertebral fractures (Vfx) across all fracture severity grades among women with postmenopausal osteoporosis (PMO) - Jeffrey Hassall

• Tricky Cases in Bone Disease - Jackie Center

• Adrenarche - Searching for Mechanistic Understanding of Cause and Consequence.  - Angela Cumberland
• Clinical, Biochemical and Histological Caveats in the Assessment of Primary Aldosteronism - Jun Yang
• ‘Relative Contributions of De Novo Synthesised and Recycled Adrenal Glucocorticoids’ (Zone Fasciculata)  - Mark S Cooper
• Nuclear Imaging and Radionuclide Therapy for Phaeochromocytoma and Paragangliomas (PPGL) - Grace Kong

The conference acknowledges the support of:

• Beneath the Cartilage: How Bone Tissue Alterations Contribute to Osteoarthritis Progression  - Julia S Kuliwaba

The conference acknowledges the support of:

• Therapeutic Strategies for Osteoarthritis: Lessons Learned from Failed Clinical Trials - Dawn Aitken

• Sex-specific Changes in the Placenta Associated with Prenatal Alcohol Exposure - Lisa Akison
• Selenium and Selenoproteins at the Feto-Maternal Interface  - Tony Perkins
• Convergent evolution of the vertebrate placenta  - Camilla Whittington
• Getting to heart of it: the placental-cardiovascular axis - Caitlin Wyrwoll

• Deriving induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) for the Fat-tailed dunnart - Ashlee Hutchinson
• Divergent gonadal cell origin and lineage specification in amniotes revealed by single-cell transcriptomics. - Martin Estermann
• Engineering anti-Müllerian hormone (AMH) analogues to preserve female fertility - William A Stocker
• Biobanking reproductive tissue in threatened Australian fish species   - Nicola Rivers
• A novel in vitro differentiation protocol for human embryonic gonadal organoids as a disease model for differences of sex development.   - Katie Ayers
• The effects of acute in vivo LHCGR stimulation on adult mouse Leydig cells - Liza O'Donnell
• The developmental origins of mammographic density and breast cancer risk - Amita G Ghadge
• Telomere elongation during embryogenesis is regulated by oocyte mitochondria - Yasmyn E Winstanley

• Interleukin-1 is overexpressed in injured muscles following spinal cord injury and promotes neurogenic heterotopic ossification - Hsu-Wen HWT Tseng
• Leveraging osteoclast genetic regulatory mechanisms to identify genes with a role in osteoarthritis - Benjamin H Mullin

The conference acknowledges the support of:

• Molecular Transporters in Bone Homeostasis and Disease - Nathan Pavlos

• Mimicking the Dragonfly Wing-Like Structure as an Antimicrobial Surface for Orthopaedic Devices - Alex Barker
• Motion is essential to maintain the synovial condition and joint homeostasis - Hisatoshi Ishikura

The conference acknowledges the support of:

• The Protective Role of ACE2 in Pregnancy - Kirsty G Pringle
• Respiratory Viral Infections and Diabetes - Kirsty Short
• The Intersection of AR Signalling and COVID-19 - Lisa Philp
• ACE2 and Vascular Health Including Recent Studies on COVID-19 - Louise Burrell

• Determining Embryo Health with a Light Touch  - Kylie Dunning
• Maintenance and regeneration of the male germline  - Robin Hobbs
• Medical Microrobots: A New Paradigm Shift Towards In-Vivo Assisted Fertilization  - Mariana Media Sanchez
• Novel Technologies in Reproduction  - Robert Gorkin III

• Identifying monogenic causes of male infertility   - Samuel R Cheers
• AXDND1 is a novel dynein adapter protein essential for sperm production and function - Brendan J Houston
• Investigation into the sperm proteomic profiles of fertile, infertile, and severely sub-fertile stallions reveals several putative biomarkers of fertility - Róisín Griffin
• Elevated paternal glucocorticoids preconception contributes to intergenerational shifts in male attractiveness and major urinary protein expression - Lucas B Hoffmann
• KATNB1 is a master microtubule regulator in male meiosis and haploid germ cell development - Jessica EM Dunleavy
• Constitutive deletion of NFIX results in defective progression through meiosis within the mouse testis - Josephine Bowles

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