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2005 Annual Scientific Meeting   7-9 September 2005 - Burswood, Western Australia
 
 
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Final Scientific Program

Below is the final program for the ASM, Wed 7th to Fri 9th Sept.

SEE ALSO:
- Satellite Meeting program for Tues 6th Sept
- Social Events for Wed and Thur evenings.

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Wednesday, 7 September 2005
07:45 Coach to Perth Convention Centre (from Burswood lobby)
PERTH CONVENTION CENTRE
08:30 ESA PLENARY SESSION
Chair - Mark McLean
New roles for old hormones and the Gordian knot of human birth
Roger Smith
09:30 Morning Tea
 

ANZBMS / ESA BONE SYMPOSIUM:
Osteoporosis therapeutic update

Sponsored by Merck Sharp & Dohme
Chairs - Ego Seeman & Jeffrey Zajac
10:00 Mechanisms of action of current and emerging therapies
Prof. Jack Martin
10:30 Calcium supplementation and/or vitamin D in osteoporosis – myth or reality?
A/Prof. Richard Prince
11:00 Sex hormone replacement and SERMs
Prof. John Eisman
11:30 Osteoporosis: Whom to treat? What drug?
Prof. Richard Eastell
12:15 Coach to Burswood
BURSWOOD (All sessions this afternoon will be plenary style)
12:30 Lunch and trade displays
13:00 INDUSTRY SYMPOSIUM
Sponsored by Servier Laboratories

Chair – Jack Martin

Protos: a new way to treat post-menopausal osteoporosis
Prof. Ego Seeman, Prof. John Eisman & Prof. Philip Sambrook
 

WHAT’S NEW IN THE PARATHYROID?

Chairs – Philip Sambrook & Ian Reid
14:30 Genetics of parathyroid gland development and hypoparathyroidism
Prof. Rajesh Thakker
15:00 Hyperparathyroidism and parathyroid carcinoma – insights from gene profiling
Dr. Deborah Marsh
15:30 The changing face of parathyroid surgery
Prof. Leigh Delbridge
16:00 Afternoon Tea
 

APPROACHES TO PROBLEMS OF SKELETAL INTEGRITY

Chairs - Jill Cornish & Kong Wah Ng
16:30 Therapeutic approaches to metastatic bone disease
Prof. Brendan Boyce
17:00 Targeting of bone cancer with Apo2L/TRAIL
Dr. Andreas Evdokiou
17:30 Prospective isolation of mesenchymal stem cells in man and mouse
Prof. Paul Simmons
18:00 Posters and Welcome Reception
Exhibition Area

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Thursday, 8 September 2005
07:00 Merck Sharp & Dohme Fun Run
 

CALCIUM SENSING RECEPTOR

Chairs – Matthew Brown & Tom Ratajczak
08:30 The calcium sensing receptor and its seven
clinical disorders
Prof. Rajesh Thakker
09:10 Clinical implications of the calcium receptor’s multiple sensing domains
A/Prof. Arthur Conigrave
  FREE ORALS:
09:40 High bone turnover predicts mortality in the frail elderly: a prospective cohort study
Markus Seibel, PN Sambrook, C Chen, L March, I Cameron, R Cumming & J Simpson
09:50 IL-11 and IL-6 stimulation of osteoclast formation depends on STAT but not ERK-mediated pathways in osteoblasts
Julian Quinn, A Nakamura, BJ Jenkins, NA Sims, M Ernst, TJ Martin & MT Gillespie
10:00 AC45, a V-ATPase accessory subunit interacts with VO domain subunits and is necessary for osteoclastic bone resorption
Taksum Cheng, H Feng, KHM Yip, A Carrello, R Seeber, KM Kroeger, K Eidne, MH Zheng & J Xu
10:10 Calcium supplement for improving bone mineral density in children: systematic review
Tania Winzenberg, K Shaw, J Fryer & G Jones
10:20 Global knock-down of the calcitonin receptor (CTR) in young female mice results in decreased trabecular bone volume
Rachel Davey, JF McManus, AJ Moore, WSM Chiu, AM Axell, AJ Notini, HA Morris, DM Findlay & JD Zajac
10:30 Morning Tea
 

YOUNG INVESTIGATOR AWARD PRESENTATIONS

Chairs - Jack Martin & Roger Price
11:00 Differential activity of human RUNX2 P2 promoter alleles associated with an allele-specific DNA-protein interaction
James Doecke, CJ Day, AJ Stephens, G Nicholson & N Morrison
11:15 MCP-1 induces super abundant NFATC1 expression and results in TRAP+ multinuclear cells with calcitonin receptor expression, but these fail to resorb bone and are not osteoclasts
Michael Kim, CJ Day, CL Magno, SRJ Stephens & NA Morrison
11:30 Remaining lifetime risk of fractures in elderly men and women
Nguyen Nguyen Dinh, H Alhborg, JR Center, JA Eisman & TV Nguyen
11:45 Paget's disease in people inheriting mutations in the P62 gene
Mark Bolland, K Callon, D Naot, PC Tong, D Wattie & T Cundy
12:00 Glutamine repeat mutations define a new CBFA1/RUNX2 related syndrome with decreased femoral neck BMD, decreased calcaneal broadband ultrasound and increased risk of osteoporotic fracture
Alex Stephens, JD Doecke, SH Ralston, RL Prince, GC Nicholson & NA Morrison
12:15 Variations in the mode of loading along the bone influences its architecture rather than the amount of its mineralised mass
Roger Zebaze, A Jones, M Knackstedt & E Seeman
12:30 Targeted silencing of cathepsin K with siRNA in primary human osteoclast cells
Tina Selinger, CJ Day & NA Morrison
12:45 Lunch and trade displays
13:00

INDUSTRY SYMPOSIUM
Sponsored by Sanofi Aventis

The role of bone strength in osteoporosis
Prof. Philip Sambrook

Surrogate markers: how much do they really tell us about fracture risk reduction?
Prof. Richard Eastell


  CONCURRENT SESSION - 14:30 to 16:00
1: Clinical Free Orals & Keynote Presentation
 

CLINICAL FREE ORALS

Chairs - Peter Nash & Jacqueline Center
14:30 Pamidronate therapy for one year after allogeneic stem cell transplantation (AlloSCT) reduces bone loss from the lumbar spine, femoral neck and total hip
Peter Ebeling, P Shuttleworth, J Reynolds, J Szer, AP Schwarer, AW Roberts, KF Bradstock, C-H Hui, R Herrmann & AC Grigg
14:40 Zoledronic acid in children: effect on growth, bone development and bone and mineral metabolism
Craig Munns, JYH Hong, J Briody, M McQuade, DG Little & CT Cowell
14:50 Clinical outcomes, risk of new incident vertebral fractures and survival of patients presenting with acute osteoporotic vertebral fractures: percutaneous vertebroplasty is superior to conservative therapy
Terry Diamond, C Bryant, L Browne & WA Clark
15:00 Hormone therapy use after the release of principal results from the WHI trial
Sam Korn, JA Pasco, MJ Henry, GC Nicholson & MA Kotowicz
15:10 Calcium malabsorption does not increase serum parathyroid hormone in postmenopausal women
Allan Need, M Horowitz, P O’Loughlin, P Coates & C Nordin
15:20 Calcium-vitamin D3 fortified milk reduces bone loss in middle aged and older men: a 2-year randomised controlled trial
Robin Daly, M Brown, S Bass, S Kukuljan & C Nowson
15:30 KEYNOTE PRESENTATION
Chondrocalcinosis and ankylosing spondylitis – two sides of the pyrophosphatase coin
Prof. Matthew Brown
  CONCURRENT SESSION - 14:30 to 16:00
2: Basic Free Orals & Keynote Presentation
 

BASIC FREE ORALS

Chairs – Rebecca Mason & Gerald Atkin
14:30 Adult deletion of hypothalamic Y2 receptors improves bone mass following gonadectomy in mice
Susan Allison, PA Baldock, A Sainsbury, RF Enriquez, M During, JA Eisman, H Herzog & EM Gardiner
14:40 Central regulation of cortical bone mass and osteoblast activity by Y2 receptors: comparison to leptin pathway
Paul Baldock, S Allison, A Sainsbury, RF Enriquez, H Herzog, EM Gardiner & JA Eisman
14:50 Inhibition of glucocorticoid signaling by overexpression of 11beta HSD2 in mature osteoblasts inhibits nodule formation and increases adipogenesis in vitro
Hong Zhou, K Brennan, Y Zheng, CR Dunstan & MJ Seibel
15:00 Osteoblast targeted overexpression of hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase type 2 induces delayed calvarial development in transgenic mice
Colin Dunstan, H Zhou, K Brennan, Y Zheng & MJ Seibel
15:10 Differential activation of intracellular Ca2+ mobilization and ERK1/2 phosphorylation by the extracellular Ca2+-sensing receptor stimulated by Ca2+ ions or L-amino acids
Hee-Chang Mun, HJ Lee, NC Lewis, EL Culverston, RS Mason & AD Conigrave
15:20 Mutational analysis of exoloop-3 residues of the calcium-sensing receptor points to a constraining effect of core residues on wild-type calcium-sensing receptor activation
Bryan Ward, AJ Rea, AL Magno & T Ratajczak
15:30 KEYNOTE PRESENTATION
Regulating pathways subserving osteoblast function
A/Prof. Jill Cornish

  CONCURRENT SESSION - 16:30 to 17:30
1: Clinical Free Orals
 

CLINICAL FREE ORALS

Chairs - Nicholas Pocock & Peter Ebeling
16:30 Maternal vitamin D status and offspring birth size: a prospective study
John Wark, R Morley, J Carlin & J Pasco
16:40 Factors associated with skeletal age deviation in children
Graeme Jones, M Gutteridge & D Ma
16:50 A comparison of BMD and demographic data for predicting clinical fractures over 5 years
Ian Dick, A Devine & RL Prince
17:00 Genetic effects on bone loss in peri and post menopausal women: a longitudinal twin study
Joanna Makovey, V Naganathan, TV Nguyen & P Sambrook
17:10 Genetics and remaining lifetime risk of fracture: the collagen I alpha 1 gene
Tuan Nguyen, ND Nguyen, JR Center & JA Eisman
17:20 Estimating the prevalence of coeliac disease in osteodeficient patients
Louise Wienholt, MJ Hooper, AM Kean, A Conigrave, R Loblay & AJ William
  CONCURRENT SESSION - 16:30 to 17:30
2: Basic Free Orals
 

BASIC FREE ORALS

Chairs – David Findlay & Geoff Nicholson
16:30 Osteoclast formation is strongly reduced in the absence of CD47/SIRPα-interaction
Pernilla Lundberg, C Koskinen, H Löthgren, Å Stenberg, UH Lerner & P-A Oldenborg
16:40 Cardiotrophin-1 regulates osteoclast formation and function in a manner distinct from other gp130 cytokines
Natalie Sims, JMW Quinn, H Saleh & TJ Martin
16:50 Scaffold protein p62 modulates osteoclastogenesis through the regulation of RANKL signaling cascades and TRAF6 in the ubiquitin-mediated proteasomal pathways
Kirk Yip, MH Zheng & J Xu
17:00 Thioredoxin binding protein-2 is a key inhibitor of osteoclastic bone resorption
Jason Hodge, GC Nicholson & CJ Aitken
17:10 Human osteoclast differentiation and function are stimulated by exogenous ROS and RANKL- induced intracellular ROS production
Lauren Hodgson, CJ Aitken, JM Hodge, MA Chacksfield & GC Nicholson
17:20 Caffeic acid phenethyl ester, a natural component of honeybee propolis induces osteoclast apoptosis and attenuates osteoclastogenesis via the suppression of RANKL-induced NF-kB and NFAT activity
Jiake Xu, LY Chai, ESM Ang, N Pavlos, KHM Yip, JH Steer, DA Joyce & MH Zheng

17:30 Annual General Meeting & Awards
19:30 Gala Dinner
Grand Ballroom 1, Burswood

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Friday, 9 September 2005
 

OSTEOCLAST BIOLOGY AND PAGET’S DISEASE

Chairs - Kay Ibbertson & Matthew Gillespie
09:00 Cytokine regulation of osteoclast formation through NF-kB, c-Fos and NFATs
Prof. Brendan Boyce
09:45 Paget’s disease – genes, hyperparathyroidism, bisphosphonates, BMD and fracture responses
Prof. Don Gutteridge
10:15 Morning Tea

  CONCURRENT SESSION - 10:45 to 12:15
1: Clinical Free Orals & Keynote Presentation
 

CLINICAL FREE ORALS

Chairs - Tuan Nguyen & John Wark
10:45 A novel mutation (K378X) in the sequestosome 1 gene: association with a severe Pagets disease of bone phenotype and functional implications of NF-kB activation
Sarah Morgan, L Ward, BK Ward, J Walsh, J Xu, B Stuckey, N Kent & T Ratajczak
10:55 High IGFBP-2 levels are associated with an increased risk of osteoporotic fractures in elderly men
Jacqueline Center, MJ Seibel, TV Nguyen, C Meier & JA Eisman
11:05 Estradiol predicts 5 year fracture risk and forearm cortical density, volume and strength
Amanda Devine, RL Prince, SS Dhaliwal & IM Dick
11:15 Having a non-melanoma skin cancer decreases the risk of subsequent fracture: a record linkage study
Graeme Jones, V Srikanth, J Fryer, L Blizzard, A Venn, L Newman, H Cooley & T Albion
11:25 Older women with higher levels of physical activity and dietary calcium intake have stronger bones
Michelle Nurzenski, NK Briffa, RI Price, B Khoo, A Devine, TJ Beck & RL Prince
11:35 Non-invasive, nonionizing discriminators of prevalent vertebral fracture cases: a QUS-based model
BK Tan, RI Price, S Song, SS Dhaliwal & KP Singer
11:45 KEYNOTE PRESENTATION
The burden of fracture
Dr. Julie Pasco
  CONCURRENT SESSION - 10:45 to 12:15
2: Basic Free Orals & Keynote Presentation
 

BASIC FREE ORALS

Chairs – Nigel Morrison & Edith Gardiner
10:45 Evidence for LRP1-independent actions of lactoferrin in osteoblasts
Qing Zhu, J Cornish, M Watson, K Callon, IR Reid & A Grey
10:55 Dickkopf's are expressed by breast cancer cell lines and regulated by PTHrP
Karl Hausler, M Ciccomancini, N Ilievski, TJ Martin & M Gillespie
11:05 Cyclooxygenase-2 mediates thrombin's inhibition of osteoblast apoptosis by a Par-1- independent mechanism
Lay Hoon Loh, CN Pagel, S Merlin, E Tudor, RN Pike & EJ Mackie
11:15 Anabolic and catabolic bone defects in a mouse model of type 1 neurofibromatosis (NF1)
Aaron Schindeler & DG Little
11:25 PTHrP sensitises breast cancer cells to Apo2L/TRAIL-mediated cell death
Steve Bouralexis, TJ Martin & MT Gillespie
11:35 Zoledronic acid treatment enhances hard callus formation without delaying endochondral repair in a rat fracture
M McDonald, Craig Godfrey, S Dulai & DG Little
11:45 KEYNOTE PRESENTATION
Intracellular vesicle transport is required for bone resorption
Dr. Nathan Pavlos

12:15 Concluding remarks
A/Prof. Jill Cornish
12:30 Close of Meeting

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