Symposia

Theme 1:
New discoveries in reproductive neuroendocrinology

Symposium 1:
Novel players in the development of the reproductive axis

July 26 (Sun.) 10:15-12:15 Room A

Chairs:	Kevin O'Byrne	Department of Women and Children's Health, King’s College London, UK
	Li Wang	Department of Assisted Reproduction, Shanghai Ninth People's Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, China

Speakers:

Konstantina
Chachlaki

INSERM U1172, Lille Neuroendocrinology, France

Susan Wray

Cellular and Developmental Neurobiology Section, NINDS, NIH, USA

Sasha Howard

Centre for Endocrinology, William Harvey Research Institute, QMUL, UK

Cotellessa Ludovica

University Lille, Inserm, CHU Lille, Lille Neuroscience & Cognition, UMR-S 1172, Lille, France

Rebecca Lord

Department of Anatomy and Centre for Neuroendocrinology, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand

Symposium 4:
Advances in gonadotropin regulation and function

July 27 (Mon.) 10:15-12:15 Room A

Chairs:	Sasha Kauffman	University of California San Diego, USA
	Djurdjica Coss	University of Riverside, USA

Speakers:

Daniel Bernard

Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, McGill University, Canada

Dequina
Nicholas

Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemisty, University of California Irvine, Calidornia, USA

Ulrich Boehm

Department of Pharmacology, Saarland University School of Medicine, Germany

Kanyada Koysombat

Section of Endocrinology and Investigative Medicine, Imperial College London, London, UK

Miguel Ruiz-Cruz

Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, Downing site, University of Cambridge, UK

Symposium 7:
Updates on kisspeptin and KNDy neuron regulation of reproduction

July 28 (Tue.) 10:15-12:15 Room A

Chairs:	Elodie Desroziers	Sorbonne University, UMR 7622 - Developmental Biology Laboratory, France
	Greg Anderson	Department of Anatomy and Centre for Neuroendocrinology, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand

Speakers:

Aleisha Moore

Department of Biological Sciences, Kent State University, USA

Erik
Hrabovszky

HUN-REN Institute of Experimental Medicine, Budapest, Hungary

Sue
Moenter

Department of Molecular & Integrative Physiology, University of Michigan, USA

Carmen Torres-Granados

Instituto Maimonides de Investigacion Biomedica de Cordoba (IMIBIC), Cordoba, Spain

Natsuki Miyake

Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Japan

Theme 2:
The circuits, hormones and behaviours of metabolic regulation

Symposium 5:
The hormones and networks regulating energy balance

July 27 (Mon.) 10:15-12:15 Room B

Chairs:	Dave Grattan	Department of Anatomy and Centre for Neuroendocrinology, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
	Dhamyaa AL-Halboosi	The Rowett Institute, University of Aberdeen, UK

Speakers:

Carol Elias

Department of Molecular & Integrative Physiology, University of Michigan, USA

Bayram Yilmaz

Yeditepe University, Turkey

Stephanie Fulton

CRCHUM; Department of Nutrition, University of Montreal, Canada

Ioannis Papazoglou

University of Kentucky, USA

Georgina K. C. Dowsett

Max Planck Institute for Metabolism Research, Cologne, Germany

Symposium 8:
The gut brain axis in eating disorders, obesity and stress

July 28 (Tue.) 10:15-12:15 Room B

Chairs:	Jennifer Hill	University of Toledo, USA
	Irene Cimino	Institute of Metabolic Science-Metabolic Research Laboratories, MRC Metabolic Diseases Unit, University of Cambridge, UK

Speakers:

Jeffrey M. Zigman

Center for Hypothalamic Research, Dept. of Internal Medicine, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA

Suzanne L. Dickson

The Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden

Mario Perello

Instituto Multidisciplinario de Biología Celular (IMBICE), CONICET, Argentina

Romana Stark

Monash University, Australia

Victor Jouque

INSERM, Neurocentre Magendie, U1215, France

Symposium 10:
Behavior and sensation – neuroendocrine impact on feeding and associated behaviours

July 29 (Wed.) 10:15-12:15 Room A

Chairs:	Roger Adan	UMC Utrecht Brain Center, The Netherlands
	Cristina Silva Varela	Universidad San Sebastián, Chile

Speakers:

Stephanie Correa

University of California Los Angeles, CA, USA

Stefan Trapp

Centre for Cardiovascular and Metabolic Neuroscience, Biosciences, UCL, UK

Kate Ellacott

Department of Clinical and Biomedical Sciences, University of Exeter Medical School, UK

Claire H. Feetham

Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, The University of Manchester, Manchester, M13 9PT, UK

Sidney A. Pereira

Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Hypertension, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Theme 3:
Stress neurobiology and immunomodulation: from genes to behaviour

Symposium 2:
The neuroimmune and neuroendocrine intersection of stress and affective disorders

July 26 (Sun.) 10:15-12:15 Room B

Chairs:	Karl Iremonger	Department of Physiology and Centre for Neuroendocrinology, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
	Kellie Breen Church	University of California San Diego, USA

Speakers:

Caroline Ménard

Department of Psychiatry and Neuroscience, Faculty of Medicine, Université Laval, Quebec City, Canada

Asya Rolls

Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Israel

Ciaran Murphy-Royal

School of Biomedical Sciences, Université de Montréal, Canada

Eva M G Viho

Department Genes and Environment, Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Munich, Germany

Emily Canner

Department of Anatomy and Physiology, University of Melbourne, Australia

Symposium 9:
Molecular and cellular regulation of stress and resilience

July 28 (Tue.) 10:15-12:15 Room C

Chairs:	Dominique Walker	McGill University, Canada
	Alexander Reichenbach	Monash University, Australia

Speakers:

Onno Meijer

Dept Medicine/Endocrinology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands

Jeffrey Tasker

Tulane University, USA

Christopher V. Dayas

University of Newcastle, Australia

Mathias Guayasamin

Department of Neuroscience, University of Montreal, Canada

Peter Duncan

Institute for Neuroscience and Cardiovascular Research, University of Edinburgh, UK

Symposium 11:
Defining the neuroendocrine networks of stress

July 29 (Wed.) 10:15-12:15 Room B

Chairs:	Leigh Walker	Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health
	Tatsushi Onaka	Department of Physiology, Jichi Medical University, Japan

Speakers:

Alon Chen

Neuroscience, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

Joon Kim

University of Otago, New Zealand

Zhihua Gao

Molecular & Integrative Physiology, Zhejiang University, China

Daria Paulis

Monash Biomedicine Discovery Institute and Department of Physiology, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia

Min-Kyeung Choi

Living Systems Institute, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK

Theme 4:
Neuroendocrine discoveries in behaviour, rhythms and disruptors

Symposium 3:
Neuroendocrine regulation of pair bonding and parental behaviour

July 26 (Sun.) 10:15-12:15 Room C

Chairs:	Rosie Brown	Department of Physiology and Centre for Neuroendocrinology, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
	Daniel Olazábal	Universidad de la República de Uruguay, Uruguay

Speakers:

Robert C. Froemke

Departments of Otolaryngology and Neuroscience, NYU Grossman School of Medicine, USA

Yong Xu

Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Neurosciences, Morsani College of Medicine, University of South Florida, USA

Arpad Dobolyi

Eotvos Lorand University, Budapest, Hungary

Bradley Jamieson

State-dependent Neural Processing Laboratory, The Francis Crick Institute, London, UK

Jamie McQuillan

Centre for Neuroendocrinology, Department of Physiology, University of Otago, New Zealand

Symposium 6:
Chronodisruption and endcrine disruption on neuroendocrine regulation

July 27 (Mon.) 10:15-12:15 Room C

Chairs:	Jaideep Bains	Krembil Research Institute, University Health Network, Canada
	Kristina Smiley	Department of Psychology, University of Michigan, USA

Speakers:

Etienne Challet

Institute of Cellular and Integrative Neuroscience, CNRS, University of Strasbourg, France

Claudia Torres-Farfan

Cell and Molecular Biology, Universidad Austral de Chile, Chile

Ilia Karatsoreos

Department of Physiology and Neurobiology, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA

Jing Zheng

University of Calgary, Canada

Andrea Locarno

Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Stockholm University, Sweden

Symposium 12:
Neuroendocrine impacts of environmental endocrine disruptors

July 29 (Wed.) 10:15-12:15 Room C

Chairs:	Valerie Simonneaux	University of Strasbourg, France
	Zheng Jing	University of Calgary, Canada

Speakers:

Michelle Bellingham

University of Glasgow, UK

Deborah Kurrasch

Department of Medical Genetics, University of Calgary, Canada

Heather Patisaul

NIH/NIEHS, USA

Richard Clayton

Francis Crick Institute, UK

Vivien Szendi

Department of Physiology and Neurobiology, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary

ECR Symposium:
New scientific tools and application in Neuroendocrinology

July 29 (Wed.) 8:00-10:00 Room A

Chairs:	Caroline Decourt	Centre for Neuroendocrinology, Department of Anatomy, University of Otago, New Zealand
	Konstantina Chachlaki	NSERM U1172, Lille and University Research Institute of Child Health and Precision, France

Speakers: