Basic Science
Australian & New Zealand Obesity Society 2016 Annual Scientific Meeting
Days
Wednesday, 19th October
Thursday, 20th October
Friday, 21st October
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Speakers
Concurrent session: What's Hot
10:30AM - 12:30PM
Wednesday, 19th October
P6
Chairs: Amanda Page & Hui Li
Invited talk: Epigenetics and Obesity
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Emma Whitelaw
Invited Talk: What’s hot in obesity: The microbiome
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Paraic O Cuiv
Invited talk: Hot and sweet: brown fat beyond thermo-regulation in humans
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Paul Lee
Short-term exposure to energy-matched diets enriched in fat or sugar differentially affects memory, gut microbiota and markers of brain inflammation and plasticity
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Jessica E Beilharz
AMPK-ACC signalling is required for increasing appetite under conditions of metabolic stress
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Sandra Galic
Concurrent session: Novel Regulators of Lipid Metabolism - pathways to therapeutics?
10:30AM - 12:30PM
Thursday, 20th October
P6
Chairs: Michael Swarbrick & Denovan Begg
Invited talk: Lipid Metabolism and the Complications of Diabetes
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Clay Semenkovich
Invited talk: Protein Kinase Ce in adipose tissue - not merely an effector but a regulator of lipid intermediates?
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Carsten Schmitz-Peiffer
Invited talk: Ectopic lipids and defective glucose metabolism: cause or association?
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Clinton Bruce
Invited talk: Do factors secreted from the fatty liver cause diabetes?
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Matthew J Watt
Concurrent session: Diabetes via the Gut, CNS and BAT again
5:00PM - 6:00PM
Thursday, 20th October
P6
Chair: Barbara Fam
Increased intestinal permeability as a risk factor for type 2 diabetes in obesity
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Amanda J Cox
Insulin transport and activity in the central nervous system
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Denovan P Begg
Signal transduction pathways activated by the orexigenic gut derived hormone insulin-like peptide 5 at relaxin family peptide receptor 4
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Dana S Hutchinson
Insights into the trajectory of neuronal projections to brown adipose tisse derived from the use of novel "brainbow" neurotropic viruses
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Brian Oldfield
Concurrent Session - Molecular features of lifestyle interventions - diet, exercise ... and pharmacology
10:30AM - 12:30PM
Friday, 21st October
P6
Chair: Nuala Byrne
Invited talk: Mapping complex molecular networks underlying exercise using global phosphoproteomics
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Nolan Hoffman
Invited talk: Use of a Potent Calorie Restriction Mimetic to selectively recover POMC activity, thereby reversing dietary induced weight gain
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Frederik J Steyn
Impact of Endurance Exercise Training on Adipocyte miRNA Expression in Overweight Men
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Thomas Tsiloulis
CNS reward pathways and anorexia nervosa (AN) - insights from a rat model.
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Claire J Foldi
Harnessing the sun to halt obesity: vitamin D, nitric oxide and brown adipose tissue.
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Shelley Gorman
Investigating the molecular basis and therapeutic potential of the Heme oxygenase-1 (HO-1) – adiponectin axis
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Jon Whitehead