Plenary Lectures
1. Don Bradshaw – Australia – “Environmental Endocrinology”
2. Julian Dow – UK – “Molecular-genetic approaches to neuropeptide signalling.”
3. Olivier Kah – France – “Evolution of GnRH hormones and receptors
4. Liliane Schoofs – Belgium – “Comparative neuropeptidomics in small animal
models”
5. Carl Schreck – USA – “The endocrinology of stress: from the microscope to the
macroscope”
Symposia Chairs with contact email and State-of-the-art Speakers
and topics.
1. Comparative Thyroid Endocrinology
Chairs
Samantha Richardson – sjrich@unimelb.edu.au
Peter Klaren – P.Klaren@science.ru.nl
State-of-the-art Speakers
Theo Visser (Rotterdam) – “Membrane-bound thyroid hormone transporters”.
Barbara Demeneix (Paris) – “Endocrine disruption of thyroid hormone action”.
2. Endocrinology of Feeding and Nutrition
(Supported by the Society for Endocrinology)
Chair
Simon Luckman – simon.luckman@manchester.ac.uk
State-of-the-art Speakers
Michael Pankratz (Karlsruhe) – “Feeding behaviour in Drosophila”.
John Speakman (Aberdeen) – “Energy homeostasis”.
3. Biological Clocks and Endocrine Function in Vertebrates and
Invertebrates.
(Supported by the British Society for Neuroendocrinology)
Chairs
Hugh Piggins – hugh.piggins@manchester.ac.uk
Johanna Meijer – J.H.Meijer@lumc.nl
State-of-the-art Speakers
Chris Colwell (UCLA) – “PACAP/VIP signalling in vertebrate circadian models”.
Johanna Meijer (Leiden) – “GABA signalling in different SCN clock compartments-sleep
and behavioural feedback”.
4. New Insights into Urotensin Endocrinology from Fish to Man.
(Supported by the Physiological Society)
Chairs
Nick Bernier – nbernier@uoguelph.ca
Cathy McCrohan – cathy.mccrohan@manchester.ac.uk
State-of-the-art Speakers
Isabelle Lihrmann (Rouen) – “UII paracrine and endocrine function”.
Steve Douglas (GSK, USA) – “UII in mammals and man”.
Cathy McCrohan (Manchester) – “Fish caudal neurosecretory system – a model for study
of neuroendocrine secretion”.
5. Endocrinology of Salt and Water Balance.
(Supported by the Society for Experimental Biology)
Chairs
Yoshio Takei – takei@ori.u-tokyo.ac.jp
Neil Hazon – nh1@st-andrews.ac.uk
State-of-the-art Speakers
Yoshio Takei – “Exploring novel body fluid-regulating hormones in fish”.
Geoff Coast – “Endocrine control of ion transport by insect renal tubules”.
6. Endocrine Disruption
Chairs
Vance Trudeau – vtrudeau@science.uottawa.ca
Charles Tyler – C.R.Tyler@exeter.ac.uk
State-of-the-art Speakers
Tom Zoeller – “Environmental chemicals impacting thyroid hormone signalling in brain
development-mechanisms and consequences”.
Taisen Iguchi – “The power of comparative molecular approaches in understanding
endocrine disruption”.
7. Pheromone and Other Chemical Communication.
Chairs
Peter Hubbard – phubbard@ualg.pt
Sandy Scott – A.P.Scott@cefas.co.uk
State-of-the-art Speakers
Jelle Atema (Woods Hole) – “Chemical communication in decapod crustaceans”.
Lynda Corkum (Ontario) – “Chemical communication in the fresh water environment”.
8. Endocrinology of Calcium Homeostasis.
Chairs
Adelino Canario – acanario@ualg.pt
Gert Flik - G.Flik@science.ru.nl
State-of-the-art Speakers
Kristina Snuttan Sundell (Goteborg) – “Calcium regulation in teleost fish”.
Michele Wheatly (Wright University) –“ The paradox of cellular calcium homeostasis
during vectorial transfer: spatial and temporal regulation of Ca import/export proteins using
the freshwater crayfish molting model”
9. Reproductive Endocrinology and Gamete Quality.
Chair
Oliana Carnevali – o.carnevali@mta01.univpm.it
State-of-the-art Speakers
Isidori Aldo (Rome) – “Quality of human sperm”.
Penny Swanson (Seattle) – “Endocrine changes during puberty”.
10. Comparative Reproductive Neuroendocrinology
Peter Sharp – peter.sharp@bbsrc.ac.uk
Kazuyoshi Tsutsui – tsutsui@hiroshima-u.ac.jp
State-of-the-art Speakers
Chairs
Kazuyoshi Tsutsui (Hiroshima) – “The comparative biology of gonadotrophin inhibitory
hormone and its receptors”.
Alistair Dawson (Monks Wood) – “Photorefractoriness in birds – photoperiodic and nonphotoperiodic control”.
11. Insect Neuroendocrinology in the Post-genomic Era.
Chairs
Ian Orchard – ian.orchard@utoronto.ca
Dick Nassel – dnassel@zoologi.su.se
State-of-the-art Speakers
Dusan Zitnan (Slovakia) – “Complex neuropeptide-receptor cascade controls insect
ecdysis”.
Cornelis Grimmelikhuijzen (Copenhagen) – “Comparative insect genomics and insect
GPCRs”.
12. Immune and Endocrine Interactions.
Chairs
Lidy van Kemenade – Lidy.vanKemenade@wur.nl
Carl Schreck – carl.schreck@oregonstate.edu
State-of-the-art Speakers
Nic Cohen (Rochester, USA) – “The pervasiveness of neuroendocrine-immune system
interactions”.
Takakashi Yada (Tokyo) – “Paracrine action of growth hormone in fish immune system”.
13. Peptide Hormone and Receptor Evolution.
Chairs
Dan Larhammar – Dan.Larhammar@neuro.uu.se
Josef Vanden Broeck – Jozef.VandenBroeck@bio.kuleuven.be
State-of-the-art Speakers
Dan Larhammar (Uppsala) – “Expansion of several peptide and receptor families in early
vertebrate tetraploidizations”.
Josef Vanden Broeck (Leuven) – “to be confirmed”.
14. Steroid Receptor Signalling.
(Supported by the Society for Experimental Biology)
Chairs
Patrick Prunet – patrick.prunet@rennes.inra.fr
Nic Bury – nic.bury@kcl.ac.uk
State-of-the-art Speakers
Peter Thomas (U of Texas) – “Non-genomic steroid receptor signalling”.
Nic Bury (London) – “Molecular characterisation of corticosteroid receptor signalling:
teleost fish as a model”.
15. CRF and CRF-related Peptides in Stress Adaptation from
Invertebrates to Man.
Chair
Tamas Kozicz – tkozicz2000@yahoo.com
State-of-the-art Speakers
Robert Denver (U of Michigan) – “Comparative genomic and functional analysis of
regulatory regions of vertebrate corticotrophin releasing factor genes”.
Tamas Kozicz (Nijmegen) – “A novel central mechanism in stress adaptation: the EdingerWestphal urotensin I neuronal system”.
Nick Bernier (Guelph) – “UI and CRF-related peptides”.
16. Novel Neuroendocrine Peptides and their Receptors and Actions.
Chairs
Hubert Vaudry – Hubert.Vaudry@univ-rouen.fr
Mike Conlon – jmconlon@uaeu.ac.ae
State-of-the-art Speakers
Manuel Tena-Sempere (U of Cordoba) – “Novel role of the KISS-1/GPR54 system in the
control of reproduction”.
Aaron Maule (Belfast) – “The FLP side of helminths”.
Jae Young Seong (Seoul) – “Identification of amino acid residues directing differential
ligand selectivity of mammalian and non-mammalian VIa type receptors for arginine
vasopressin and vasotocin”.