November 9, 2008
Room Lisbon 2004 Sidney 2000 San Francisco 1996 Nice 1992 Kyoto 1988 Quebec 1984 Melbourne 1980 Hamburg 1976 Washington DC 1972 Mexico City 1968 London 1964 Copenhagen 1960
08:15
08:50
Plenary Lecture
Human Population Growth and Global Warming: the sky is the limit
Roger Short (AU)
Chairs: Shlomo Melmed / Amélio Godoy Matos
                     
08:50
09:25
Plenary Lecture
Worldwide view of thyroid cancer
Rui Maciel (BR)
Chairs: Shlomo Melmed / Amélio Godoy Matos
                     
09:30
11:00
Symposium Adrenal Panels Symposium Bone and
Ageing
Symposium Diabetes Symposium Diabetes Symposium Reproductive Endocrinology and Inhibin-Activin  Symposium Pituitary, growth hormone, IGFs and neuroendocrinology Symposium hormone action, nuclear and membrane signalling Symposium Gene Expression & regulation Oral Communication 1 Oral Communication 2  
  Cushing's Syndrome (Clinical)
Chair: Lynette Nieman (USA); Mauro Czepielewski (BR)
1. The molecular basis of corticotroph development and disease
Thierry Brue (FR)
2. Diagnosis of Cushing' Syndrome
John Newell Price (UK)
3. Nelson's Syndrome
Guillaume Assié (FR)

Thyroid Cancer - issues in  primary treatment and monitoring
Chair: James Fagin (USA)
R. Michael Tuttle (USA)
Petros Perros (UK)
Ian Hay (USA)
Bone resorption control and new therapeutic strategies (Translational)
Chair:Lance Lanyon (UK); João Lindolfo Borges (BR)
1. Regulation of RANK ligand production and its signalling in osteoclast formation
Noboyuki Udagawa (JP)
2. Anti-RANKL treatment in osteoporosis and skeletal complications of cancer
Lorenz Hofbauer (DE)
3. Combining anti-resorptive with anabolic treatments for osteoporosis
Robert Neer (USA)
Mytochondria and Diabetes (Basic)
Chair: Ernesto Bernal-Mizrachi (USA), Adriana Lofrano (BR)
1. Mitochondrial metabolism in pancreatic ß-cells: implications for Type 2 Diabetes
Hindrik Mulder (SE)
2. UCP2 as a therapeutic target for the treatment of diabetes
Chen-Yu Zhang (CN)
3. The role of mTOR in the beta-cell adaptation to hyperglycemia and oxidative stress in Type
2 diabetes
Gil Leibowitz (IL)
What works for diabetes and obesity prevention in a public health setting (Translational)
Chair: Walmir Coutinho (BR); Marcio Mancini (BR)
1. Policy and National Strategy
Walmir Coutinho (BR)
2. Role of the Food Industry in the Prevention of Obesity
Mark Pirner (USA)
3. Lifestlye intervention to reduce diabetes and beyond - the Chinese experience
GW Li (CN)
Menopause and HRT (Clinical)
Chair: Lisa Moran (AU), Ricardo Meirelles (BR)
1. Menopausal transition
John F. Randolph (USA)
2. Phytoestrogens and cardiovascular disease in the menopause
Helena Teede (AU)
3. Phytoestrogens and climacteric complaints, the bone and the cardiovascular system
Wolfgang Wuttke (DE)
Novel biomarkers in pituitary tumorigenesis (Basic)
Chair: Michael Buchfelder (DE); Margaret Castro (BR)
1. GDNF/Ret as a survival signal in pituitary
Clara V. Alvarez (SP)
2. Identifying new targets for pituitary tumor treatment
Marily Theodoropoulou (DE)
3. HMGA2 induces pituitary tumorigenesis by enhancing E2F1 activity
Alfredo Fusco (IT)
Signalling at the plasma membrane (Basic)
Chair: Markus Stoffel (CH); Rodrigo Moreira (BR)
1. New regulatory pathways for LH receptor signalling by exon splicing
Joerg Gromoll (DE)
2. Adiponectin signalling
Toshi Yamauchi (JP)
3. Regulation of hepatic energy metabolism by insulin
Wataru Ogawa (JP)
Thyroid transcription factor disorders (Basic)
Chair: Graham Williams (UK), Gisah Carvalho (BR)
1. Genes involved in thyroid morphogenesis and related disorders
Roberto DiLauro (IT)
2. Genetic Disorders of the Pituitary-Thyroid Axix
Krishna Chatterjee (UK)
3. Thyroid, lung and brain defects caused by TTF1 gene mutations
Peter Kopp (USA)
Endocrine Oncology
Chair: Ben Glaser (USA)
Paediatric Endocrinology 1
Chair: Berenice Mendonça (BR)
 
11:00
11:45
Poster
11:45
12:45
Debates
The primary treatment of acromegaly is medical
Chair: M. Mercado (MX)
For: Michael Sheppard (UK)
Against: Michael Buchfelder (DE)
Meet the Professor (Clinical)
Difficult cases of hyperlipidemia
F. Raal (ZA)
Meet the Professor (Clinical)
Anabolic agents in osteoporosis
Jack Martin (AU)
Meet the Professor (Clinical)
MEN 1
Guang Ning (CH)
Meet the Professor (Clinical)
Thyroid nodules
Paolo Vitti (IT)
Meet the Professor (Clinical)
Inpatient diabetes management
Marcia Nery (BR)
Meet the Professor (Clinical)
Glucocorticoid replacement therapy optimisation
Anton Luger (AT)
Meet the Professor (Clinical)
Turner´s syndrome
Claus H. Gravholt (DK)
Meet the Professor (Basic)
Proteomics/Metabolics
Metabolic approaches for understanding of chronic disease mechanisms
Christopher Newgard (USA)
Meet the Professor (Basic)
Immune tolerance and the use of stem cells in cell replacement: Road-map towards stem cell replacement therapy in diabetes
Henrik Semb (SE)
Meet the Professor (Basic)
RNAi
Highthtoughput genome wide RNAi screens in Drosophila cell based-assays and in vivo
Norbert Perrimon (USA)
 
13:00
14:30
Symposium Diabetes Symposium Bone and
Ageing
Symposium Thyroid Symposium Pediatrics Symposium Reproductive Endocrinology and Inhibin-Activin  Symposium Pituitary, growth hormone, IGFs and neuroendocrinology Symposium hormone action, nuclear and membrane signalling Symposium Gene Expression & regulation   Oral Communication 3 Oral Communication 4  
  New Modalities for the Treatment Obesity and Diabetes (Clinical)
Chair: Guillermo Umpierrez (USA) ; Bruno Geloneze (BR)
1. Endocannabinoids and the Control of Energy Balance
Uberto Pagotto (IT)
2. Gastrointestinal operations that eliminate diabetes: Mechanisms and prospects
David E. Cummings (USA)
3. Drug therapy in obesity and diabetes: reconciliating the new and the old
Pablo Aschner (CO)
Building bones: current and coming anabolic agents (Translational)
Chair: David Goltzman (CA); Paulo Lacativa (BR)
1. How PTH builds bone
Gary Krishnan (USA)
2. Discovery and biology of the SOST gene
Wim Van Hul (BE)
3. Anti-sclerostin as an anabolic therapy for bone
Xiaodong  Li (USA)
Insights on thyroid disease pathogenesis from basic science (translational)
Chair: David Cooper (USA); Valéria Guimarães (BR)
1. Bile acids as metabolic integrators through modulation of thyroid hormone metabolism
Antonio C. Bianco (USA)
2. Transcriptome of thyroid cancer and its relation to disease characteristics
Barbara Jarzab (PL)
3. Biological effects of thyroid hormone on bone
Graham Williams (UK)
Hyperandrogenic
 syndromes (Clinical)
Chair: Annette Grüters (DE); Margaret Boguszewski (BR)
1. Polycystic ovary syndrome: a disease from adolescence to adulthood
Fahrettin Kelestimur (TR)
2. Aromatase deficiency: from molecular diagnosis to clinical manifestations
Alicia Belgorosky (AR)
3. Longitudinal insulin dynamics and steroid hormone flux across puberty in girls at high risk for PCOS
David Geller (USA)

New frontiers in Activin and Inhibin Function (Basic)
Chair: Axel Themmen (NL); Poli Mara Spritzer (BR)
1. Activin regulation of gonadotropin synthesis
Daniel J. Bernard (CA)
2. Regulation of adipocyte activin during weight loss
Lena Carlsson (SE)
3. Regulation of Inhibin Subunit Gene Expression
Kelly Mayo (USA)
Regulation of hypothalamic-pituitary crosstalk (Translational)
Chair: Carlos Diequez (ES), Julio Abucham Filho (BR)
1. Alterations in metabolism induced by sleep loss
Karine Spiegel (FR)
2. Novel approaches in the treatment of hypothalamic obesity
Robert Lustig (USA)
3. Adipokines as hypophysiotropic factors
Maria Del Mar Malagon (SP)
The Expanding Role of the Mineralocorticoid Receptor (Basic)
Chair: Kevin Docherty (UK), Claudio Kater (BR)
1. Mineralocorticoids in the heart
John Funder (AU)
2. The pivotal role of the mineralocorticoid receptor in adipogenesis
Maria-Christina Zennaro (FR)
3. Mineralocorticoid receptor activation and vascular remodelling and disease
Iris Jaffe (USA)
Role of Coactivators and Corepressors in Metabolism (Basic)
Chair: Vincent Giguere (CA), José Antonio Marcondes (BR)
1. Diverse Actions of RIP140 in Metabolic Regulation
Malcolm Parker (UK)
2. Transcriptional control of mitochondrial function by PGC-1 coactivators
Daniel Kelly (USA)
3. The role of ERRs in energy homeostasis
Anastasia Kralli (USA)
  Ageing & Thyroid Oncology
Chair: Petros Perros (UK)
Female Reproductive
Endocrinology 1
Chair: Axel Themmen (NL)
 
14:35
15:10
Plenary Lecture
Roles of the CRF/Urocortin family and their receptors in stress and metabolism
Wylie Vale (USA)
Chairs: J. Larry Jameson / Jérôme Bertherat 
                    2:00pm - 6:00 pm
Conselho Deliberativo da SBEM
15:10
15:45
Plenary Lecture
The discovery of novel bioactive peptides, lessons from animals for endocrinology
Hubert Vaudry (FR)
Chairs:  J. Larry Jameson / Jérôme Bertherat  
                     
15:45 Break
16:00   Satellite Symposium Sanofi-Aventis Satellite Symposium AstraZeneca AB Satellite Symposium Pfizer Satellite Symposium Servier
             
                         
November 10, 2008
Room Lisbon 2004 Sidney 2000 San Francisco 1996 Nice 1992 Kyoto 1988 Quebec 1984 Melbourne 1980 Hamburg 1976 Washington DC 1972 Mexico City 1968 London 1964 Copenhagen 1960
08:15
08:50
Plenary Lecture
A global view of obesity - what should the political responses be?
Barry Popkin (USA)
Chairs: John Wass / Teresa Woodruff
                     
08:50
09:25
Plenary Lecture
Genetics of Complex Disease: Thinking big: understanding the genetic basis of diabetes, obesity and stature
Mark McCarthy (UK)
Chairs: John Wass / Teresa Woodruff
                     
   
09:30
11:00
Symposium Thyroid Panels Symposium Pediatrics Symposium Bone and
Ageing
Symposium Diabetes Symposium Adrenal Symposium Reproductive Endocrinology and Inhibin-Activin  Symposium Pituitary, growth hormone, IGFs and neuroendocrinology Symposium Gene Expression & regulation Oral Communication 5 Oral Communication 6  
  Thyroid: New developments in thyroid cancer
Chair: Ian Hay (USA); Mario Vaisman (BR)
1. Diagnostic Markers of Thyroid cancer, can we avoid unnecessary surgery?
Janete Cerutti (BR)
2. New insight in familial non-medullary thyroid carcinoma
Furio Pacini  (IT)
3. Targeted therapies in thyroid cancer: Results of early clinical trials
Steven I. Sherman (USA)
Osteoporosis - treatment monitoring and how long for?
Chair: John Bilezikian (USA);
Sokratis Papapoulos (NL)
Dolores Pardini (BR)
Ian Reid (NZ)
Strategies to enhance
 final height in children
with idiopathic short
stature (Clinical)
Chair: Martin Savage (UK); Paulo Solberg (BR)
1. Dissecting 'idiopathic' short stature before GH therapy
Ze'ev Hochberg (IL)
2. GH + aromatase inhibitors
Leo Dunkel (FI)
3. GH + GnRH
Fernando Cassorla (CL)
Endocrinology and paracrinology of bone: who is in charge? (Basic)
Chair: Jack Martin (AU); Paulo Lacativa (BR)
1.T. cells: unexpected players in the mechanism of action of estrogen and PTH in bone
Robert Pacifici (USA)
2. Endocrinology/Paracrinology in Bone: Parathyroid Hormone , Parathyroid Hormone Related Peptide and Vitamin D Relationships
David Goltzman (Ca)
3. Estrogen Receptor? is a key contributor to the mechanical regulation of bone
Lance Lanyon (UK)
Inpatient management of the diabetic patient (Clinical)
Chair: Dinky Levitt (SA), Marcos Tambascia (BR)
1. Does Hyperglycaemia Impact inpatient outcome?
Silmara Leite (BR)
2. Management of Inpatient Hyperglycemia: Facts or Fiction
Guillermo Umpierrez (USA)
3. Glycemic control in the intensive care unit: Are we making a difference?
Greet Van den Berghe (BE)

Adrenocortical development (Basic)
Chair: Wiebke Arlt (UK), Romolo Sandrini (BR)
1. Transcriptional regulation of adrenal stem cell development
Gary Hammer (USA)
2. An adrenocortical enhancer regulates developmental expression of steroidogenic factor 1
Ken-Ichirou Morohashi (JP)
3. Zebrafish models of adrenal development
Bon-chu Chung (TW)

New aspects in sex differentiation (Basic)
Chair: Deborah Bourc'his (FR); Elaine Maria Frade Costa (BR)
1. Signalling at the Crossroads of Development
Blanche Capel (USA)
2. New genes and mechanisms for sex development
Tsutoma Ogata (JP)
3. Identification of a new candidate inclued in sex determination
Dagmar Wilhelm (AU)
Understanding hypopituitarism (Translational)
Chair: Felipe Casanueva (ES); Nina Mussolino (BR)
1. Animal models of adult-onset GH-deficiency
Rhonda D. Kineman (USA)
2. Hypopituitarism after brain damage: Clinical relevance and practice guidelines
Amar Agha (IRE)
3. New concepts in hormone replacement therapy
Georg Brabant (UK)
Transcriptional regulation by PPARs (or orphan nuclear receptors) (Basic)
Chair: Keith Parker (USA), Carmen C. Pazos de Moura (BR)
1. Regulation of lipid metabolism and immunity by orphan nuclear receptors
Peter Tontonoz (USA)
2. PPAR Signaling in Macrophage Activation and Obesity
Ajay Chawla (USA)
3. Macrophage Arginasis: Molecular Targets of nuclear receptor signaling
Ines Corraliza (ES)
Diabetes 1
Chair: Daniel Drucker (CA)
Gene Regulation / Membrane and Nuclear Receptors/Signalling
Chair: Justo Castano (ES)
 
11:00
11:45
Poster
11:45
12:45
Debates
Androgen therapy should be offered to postmenopausal women with low libido
Chair: Karen Miller (USA)
For: Glenn Braunstein (USA)
Against: William Rosner
Meet the Professor (Clinical)
Mineralocorticoid hypertension - investigation
Claudio Kater (BR)
Meet the Professor (Clinical)
Paget´s disease - management
Peter Selby (UK)
Meet the Professor (Clinical)
Management of craniopharyngioma
Niki Karavitaki (UK)
Meet the Professor (Clinical)
Management of Hypopituitarism
Vera Popovic (SP)
Meet the Professor (Clinical)
Management of congenital hypothyroidism
Guy van Vliet (CA)
Meet the Professor (Clinical)
New agents in management of type 2 diabetes
Jaime Davidson (USA)
Meet the Professor (Clinical)
Ambiguous genitalia
Marco Rivarola (AR)
Meet the Professor (Basic)
Genes, diabetes and obesity
Mark McCarthy (UK)
  Meet the Professor (Basic)
Manipulating the Mouse Genome
Genetically modified mouse models: advanced tools for studyng endocrinology
Rachel Davey (AU)
 
13:00
14:30
Symposium Diabetes Panels Symposium Thyroid Symposium Bone and
Ageing
Symposium Diabetes Symposium Pituitary, growth hormone, IGFs and neuroendocrinology Symposium Reproductive Endocrinology and Inhibin-Activin  Symposium Adrenal Symposium Gene Expression & regulation Oral Communication 7 Oral Communication 8 ISGE Special Symposium
  Diabetes - Major outcome studies (Clinical)
Chair: Ruy Lyra (BR), Adriana Costa e Forti (BR)
1. What have we learned from recent clinical trials?
Steve Kahn (USA)
2. Making Sense of Conflicting Results
Steve Colagiuri (AU)
3. Critical re-evaluation of therapy guidelines
Marcos Tambascia (BR)
Pediatric to Adult Transition - how and when?
Chair: Helena Gleeson (UK)
A Grueters (DE)
Hugo Fideleff (AR)
Cesar Boguszewski (BR)
Oncogenic Kinases in thyroid cancer (Basic)
Chair: Clara V. Alvarez (ES); Vania M. Costa (BR)
1. Kinase signalling and their disruption in thyroid cancer
Minho Shong (SK)
2. Targeting RET kinases in thyroid cancer
Massimo Santoro (IT)
3. Mouse models of PI3 kinases in thyroid cancer
Antonio di Cristofano (USA)
Therapies for osteoporosis (Clinical)
Chair:Gary Krishnan (USA), Luiz A. Russo (BR)
1. Absolute fracture risk and changing burden of disease internationally
Kassim Javaid (UK)
2. What can be achieved with anti-resorptive drugs?
Peter Ebeling (AU)
3. Treatment - why, whom, when, what drug, and for how long?
Michael McClung (USA)
Life and Death of the
Beta-cell (Basic)
Chair: Benjamin Glaser (USA); Licio Veloso (BR)
1. Regulation of cell cycle and control of beta-cell mass
Ernesto Bernal-Mizrachi (USA)
2. Role of NK-kB in beta-cell death in models of Type I Diabetes Mellitus
Danielle Melloul (IL)
3. Animal models of beta-cell regeneration
Ahmed Mansouri (DE)
GH in adults (Clinical)
Chair: John Newell-Price (UK); Monica Gadelha (BR)
1. GH deficiency in adults
Jens S. Christiansen (DK)
2. New views of Quality-of-Life Testing in GH deficiency
Susan Webb (ES)
3. GH treatment for the frail elderly
Andrew R. Hoffman (US)
Anti-Mullerian Hormone (AMH): an expanding tool in Reproductive Endocrinology and Oncology (Translational)
Chair: Kelly Mayo (USA); Marisa Breitenbach (BR)
1. AMH in disorders of gonadal function in infancy and childhood
Rodolfo Rey (AR)
2. Ovarian AMH production: Implications for the diagnosis of ovarian reserve
Axel Themmen  (NL)
3. MIS as a therapeutic agent
David MacLaughlin (USA)
Phaeochromocytoma (Clinical)
Chair: Karel Pacak (USA); Lucio  Vilar (BR)
1. Genetics of phaeocromocytoma in Chinese patients
Zhengpei Zeng (CN)
2. What is the optimal roadmap to the diagnosis of phaeochromocytoma?
Jacques Lenders (NL)
3. Perioperative management of phaeochromocytoma
Hartmut Neumann (DE)
Androgen receptor regulated transcription (Basic)
Chair: Rob McLaughlan (AU), Adelina Marta dos Reis (BR)
1. Androgen receptor on chromatin
Ollie Janne (FI)
2. Regulation of AR activity by FOX gene family
Toshihiko Yanase (JP)
3. Epigenetic Regulation of Androgen receptor-mediated Transcription
Sung Hee Baek (KR)
Cardiovascular Endocrinology/Hypertension
Chair: Paul Stewart (UK)
Calcium & Bone
Chair: Jack Martin (AU)
Gynecological Endocrinology: New insights from molecular biology
Chair: Evan Simpson
1. The meyer-Rokitanski-Kuster-Houser Syndrome: new molecular genetic development
Charles Sultan (AU)
2. Polimorphism of Endocanabinoid Receptor and Metabolic Profile in Postmenopausal Women
Andrzej Milewicz
3. Sex, fat and breast cancer
Evan Simpson
4. The Immune system, brain and menopause
Ivaldo Silva
14:35
15:10
Plenary Lecture
Neuroendocrine control of energy and metabolism: role of the products of the ghrelin gene
Ezio Ghigo (IT)
Chairs: Masatomo Mori / Enio Martino
                     
15:10
15:45
Plenary Lecture
The adipocyte as an endocrine organ
Yuji Matsuzawa (JP)
Chairs: Masatomo Mori / Enio Martino
                     
15:45 Break
16:00   Satellite Symposium Merck-Serono Satellite Symposium Eli Lilly  Satellite Symposium Bayer Satellite Symposium Novartis  Satellite Symposium Novo Nordisk  ISE General Council Meeting (Starting 5:00pm)          
                         
November 11, 2008
Room Lisbon 2004 Sidney 2000 San Francisco 1996 Nice 1992 Kyoto 1988 Quebec 1984 Melbourne 1980 Hamburg 1976 Washington DC 1972 Mexico City 1968 London 1964 Copenhagen 1960
08:15
08:50
Plenary Lecture
The use of stem cells in endocrinology
David Tosh (UK)
Chairs: Paul Stewart / Justo Castano
                     
08:50
09:25
Plenary Lecture
New insights into nuclear receptors - implications for endocrinology
Ana Aranda (ES)
Chairs: Paul Stewart / Justo Castano
                     
   
09:30
11:00
Symposium Adrenal Panels Symposium Thyroid Symposium Bone and
Ageing
Symposium Diabetes Symposium Pediatrics Symposium Reproductive Endocrinology and Inhibin-Activin  Symp