The Royal Women’s Hospital Research Symposium, to be held in conjunction with the Australian & New Zealand Placental Research Association Annual Meeting.
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Date: Saturday 23 & Sunday 24 August, 2008
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Location: The new Royal Women's Hospital, on the corner of Grattan St and Flemington Rd, Parkville.
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Themes: |
- Gynaecological malignancies & infection
- Placental physiology & pathology (ANZPRA Meeting)
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Saturday 23 August |
| Light lunch and registration
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| | Opening by Mrs Jan de Kretser, Patron, along with the Royal Women's Hospital Board Chair, Chief Executive and Director of Research.
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Sunday 24 August
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| |  | | Breast Cancer
Chair: Professor Lex Doyle
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| | | | Professor B Mann (the Women's): Introduction/clinical aspects
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| | Stem Cells
Chair: Professor Bruce Mann
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| | | | Dr David Haylock (ASCC): Introducing stem cells
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| | | Dr J Visvader (WEHI): Breast stem cells
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ANZPRA
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| Welcome by ANZPRA President
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| | Stem cells in human pregnancy
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| | Session Co-ordinator: Dr Bill Kalionis (the Women's)
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| | - Dr Caroline Gargett, Monash Institute of Medical Research, "The human endometrium: a novel source of mesenchymal stem/progenitor cells"
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| | - Dr Ursula Manuelpillai, Dept. of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Monash University, "Stem cell properties of human amnion epithelial cells"
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| | - Dr Bill Kalionis, Pregnancy Research Centre, the Royal Women's Hospital, "The roll of mesenchymal stem cells in normal and abnormal placental development"
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| | - Dr Faten Zaibak, Dept of Pathology, University of Melbourne, "Derivation and characterisation of multipotent stem cells from cord blood"
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| | | | Immunological aspects of pregnancy
Session Coordinator: A/Professor Vicki Clifton, University of Adelaide
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| | - Dr Nicolette Hodyl, Department of Paediatrics and Reproductive Health, University of Adelaide, "Placental immunity and glucocorticoid inhibition: the effect of asthma during pregnancy"
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| | - Dr Stephen Rogerson, Department of Medicine, University of Melbourne, "The influence of malaria on placental immunity"
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| | - Dr Annette Osei-Kumah, Department of Paediatrics and Reproductive Health, University of Adelaide, "Placental-derived factors affect maternal airway inflammation"
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| | - Dr Ursula Manuelpillai, Dept of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Monash University, "Endogenous opioid mediators of inflammation at the placental-endometrial interface"
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| | | | Glucocorticoids and placental function
Session Coordinator: A/Professor Brendan Waddell, University of Western Australia, Perth
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| | - Dr Peter Mark, Anatomy & Human Biology, The University of Western Australia, "The placental glucocrticoid barrier: more than just 11B-HSD?"
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| | - A/Professor Vicki Clifton, Molecular & Biomedical Science, University of Adelaide, "Sex specific differences in placental glucocorticoid pathways."
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| | - Dr Caitlin Wyrwoll, Center for Cardiovascular Science, University of Edinburgh, "Placental vascular development and nutrient transport in 11B-HSD2-/- mice."
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