10th Pituitary Congress

Schedule

Day 2: Thursday, June 7, 2007

7:30 - 8:30am		Continental Breakfast

8:30 - 9:15am		PLENARY LECTURE 2 (Chairs: Davide Carvalho, Portugal / Anne Klibanski, USA) Pituitary cell to cell communication Eduardo Artz (Argentina)

9:15 - 9:45am		COFFEE BREAK/POSTERS

9:45 - 12:45pm		WORKSHOP Approach to the patient with pituitary insufficiency (Chairs: Marcello D. Bronstein, Brazil / Ezio Ghigo, Italy) PATHOPHYSIOLOGY Natural history of Pituitary Dysfunction after traumatic brain injury Christopher Thompson (Ireland) Non-functioning pituitary tumors Yona Greenman (Israel) DISCUSSANTS: Gianluca Aimaretti (Italy), Vivien Bonert (USA), Felipe Casanueva (Spain), Andrea Giustina (Italy) DIAGNOSIS Assessment of HPA axis in patients with pituitary disease Richard N. Clayton (UK) General pituitary insufficiency Mary Lee Vance (USA) DISCUSSANTS: Julio Abucham (Brazil), Mirtha Guitelman (Argentina), Vera Popovic (Serbia Montenegro), Christian Strasburger (Germany) THERAPY Corticoid steroid replacement Paul Stewart (UK) Androgen replacement in hypopituitarism Karen Miller (USA) GH replacement Mark Hartman (USA) DISCUSSANTS: Beverly M.K. Biller (USA), Rudolf Fahlbusch (Germany), Monica Gadelha (Brazil), Susan Webb (Spain)

1:00 - 2:45pm		HOT TOPICS - LUNCH SESSION (Chairs: David Clemmons, USA / Lawrence Frohman, USA) Hot Topic 1 Identification and Isolation of Murine Pituitary Tumor Progenitor Cells Ines Donangelo, Shiri Gutman, Kolja Wawrowsky, Vera Chesnokova, Shlomo Melmed Cedars-Sinai Research Institute, Los Angeles, CA, United States Hot Topic 2 Evidence for a local natriuretic peptide system in pituitary GH3 somatotropes Iain Thompson, Kim Jonas, Annisa Chand, Caroline Wheeler-Jones, Rob Fowkes Royal Veterinary College, London, United Kingdom Hot Topic 3 Specific, siRNA Mediated Depletion of PTAG is Associated with an Attenuated Apoptotic Response in Pituitary Cells Farsana Rowther, William E. Farrell University of Keele, Stoke-on-Trent, United Kingdom Hot Topic 4 Growth Factor Amplification by Upregulation of Epidermal Growth Factor Substrate (Eps8) in Human Pituitary Tumors Mei Xu1, Lynnette Shorts-Cary1, Bette K-Demasters2, Kevin Lillehei3, Margaret E Wierman4 1Dept Medicine, UCDHSC, Aurora, CO, United States, 2Dept Pathology, UCDHSC, Aurora, CO, United States, 3Dept Neurosurgery, UCDHSC, Aurora, CO, United Kingdom, 4Research Service, VAMC, Denver, CO, United Kingdom Hot Topic 5 Molecular mechanism of glucocorticoid resistance in Cushing disease Steve Bilodeau1, Sophie Vallette-Kasic1, Dominique Figarella-Branger2, Thierry Brue2, André Lacroix3, France Berthelet3, Dalia Batista4, Constantine Stratakis4, Jeanette Hanson5, Björn Meij5, Jacques Drouin1 1Laboratoire de génétique moléculaire. Institut de recherches cliniques de Montréal (IRCM), Montréal, Québec, Canada, 2Laboratoire Interactions cellulaires neuroendocriniennes (ICNE), Marseille, France, 3Department of Medicine, Research Center, Hotel-Dieu du Centre hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal (CHUM), Montréal, Québec, Canada, 4Section on Endocrinology and Genetics (SEGEN), Developmental Endocrinology Branch (DEB), National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), Bethesda, Maryland, United States, 5Department of Clinical Sciences of Companion Animals, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands Hot Topic 6 Reduced Sympathetic Metabolites in Urine of Obese Patients with Childhood Craniopharyngioma Hermann L. Muller1, Ursel Gebhardt1, Donald Hunneman2, Christian Roth2 1Dep. of Pediatrics, Klinikum Oldenburg gGmbH, Oldenburg, Germany, 2Dep. of Pediatrics, University Hospital Gottingen

3:00 - 4:30pm		SYMPOSIUM 4 New aspects in the regulation of HPA axis (Chairs: Gunther Stalla, Germany / John Carmichael, USA) Early life programming of the HPA axis Stafford Lightman (UK) Mineralocorticoid antagonists influence on HPA axis in humans Emanuela Arvat (Italy) Relevance of dopamine and somatostatin in the control of HPA axis Maria Chiara Zatelli (Italy)

4:30 - 5:00pm		COFFEE BREAK / POSTERS

5:00 - 6:00pm		SYMPOSIUM 5 Roles for autocrine and paracrine hormone action (Chairs: Nelson D. Horseman, USA / Nira Ben Jonathan, USA) Growth hormone: autocrine/paracrine roles Steve Harvey (Canada) Role of prolactin in cancer Nadine Binart (France)

6:00 - 7:30pm		Outstanding Young Investigator Presentation Sponsored by an unrestricted educational grant from Eli Lilly and Company Màrta Korbonits Barts and the London Medical School, London, United Kingdom AIP and Isolated Familial Somatotropinoma: Clinical, Genetic, and Molecular Studies Poster Prizes Presidential Address (John Wass - Hypophyseal artistic and social consequences of early induced hypogonadism) Closing

8:00 - 9:00pm		Cocktail reception

9:00 - 12midnight		Gala Dinner

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