Wednesday, 30th August The Joint Annual Scientific Meetings of the Endocrine Society of Australia and the Society for Reproductive Biology 2017

• Paternal atrazine exposure affects mouse pre-implantation embryo characteristics - Mark P Green
• Extracts of forage plants affect in vitro fertilization and embryo development in sheep - Anna Aryani Amir
• A novel role for ghrelin in stress and infertility - Luba Sominsky
• Heat wave exposure during late gestation in mice alters maternal adaptations in pregnancy and decreases fetal and placental growth - Karike Olivier

• Gonocyte transformation into spermatogonial stem cells (SSC): The key to understand infertility and malignancy of crytorchidism - Ruili Li
• Identification of mesenchymal stem/stromal cells (MSCs) and their association with primordial follicle activation in an ovine model - Sheena L.P. Regan
• Looking through the tube: Secretory cells act as the oviductal epithelial stem/progenitor cells - Arnab Ghosh
• Wnt and Vaginal fitness: Identification of a rare population of vaginal epithelial stem cells - Ayesha Ali

The conference acknowledges the support of

• How and why, SRY - Vincent Harley

• Exercise as a synergistic medicine for cancer - Daniel Galvão
• Targeting metabolic vulnerabilities in obesity-related cancers - Kyle Hoehn
• Manipulating lipid metabolism as a treatment for prostate cancer - Matthew Watt
• Common mechanisms of metabolic reprogramming in diabetes and breast cancer - Sean McGee

• The role of kisspeptin neurons in reproduction and metabolism - Jeremy T Smith
• Polycystic ovary syndrome – is the heterogeneity being forgotten? - Bronwyn Stuckey
• Dissecting the role of specific brain circuits in polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) - Rebecca Campbell
• Gestation in an obese dam affects the formation and function of cells in the arcuate nucleus of the hypothalamus - Christine Jasoni

• Role of ⁶⁸Gallium Dotatate-PET/CT in pre-operative assessment of phaeochromocytoma and paraganglioma - Matti Gild
• Low plasma high affinity corticosteroid binding globulin in human septic shock predicts mortality - Emily Meyer
• Effects of triiodothyronine on energy expenditure and cardiovascular risk in two patients with a mutation in thyroid hormone receptor β - Angela X Chen
• Use of prolactin in inferior petrosal sinus sampling is misleading - Sunita MC De Sousa
• Rationalising thyroid function testing: which TSH cut-offs are optimal for testing free T4? - Meg Henze
• LC-MS/MS diagnostic criteria for 21 hydroxylase deficient non-classic congenital adrenal hyperplasia - Jennifer Ng

• Mutational landscape  of adult granulosa cell tumours of the ovary from whole exome sequencing - Peter J Fuller
• Hormonal modulation of breast cancer gene expression and implications for diagnosis and treatment of premenopausal women - Sarah Bernhardt
• A role for the long non-coding RNA GHRLOS in cancer - Esha T Shah
• Myogenic tone as a novel model of contractility within the human prostate: implications for current therapeutics - Sophie N Lee
• CYP27A1 metabolises the pre-vitamin D3 photoproduct, lumisterol, to biologically active products. - Robert C Tuckey
• Inhibitors of XIAP as novel therapeutic agents in thyroid cancer - Nalian Ibrahim
• The influence of macrophages on prostate cancer progression - Nils Nesheim

• miRNA-155 is required to induce competent regulatory T cells and to protect against inflammation-induced fetal loss in mice - Sarah A Robertson
• Obesity associated advanced glycation end products within the uterine cavity detrimentally impact endometrial function and implantation competence   - Lois Salamonsen
• Reduced progesterone signalling at implantation compromises Treg cell tolerance and impairs fetal growth and viability in later gestation - Ella S Green
• The development of a novel 3D co-culture model to study the complex remodelling of the human endometrium - Harriet Fitzgerald
• Ignore no more: role of uterine aging in fertility - Shafiq M. Syed
• Bone marrow-derived endometrial cells: transdifferentiation or misidentification? - James A Deane
• The induction of a non-receptive uterine surface by ovarian hyperstimulation - Samson N Dowland
• Effects of ovarian hyperstimulation on VEGF-mediated angiogenesis during uterine receptivity - Kevin Danastas