Tuesday, 3rd November ESA-SRB-NZSE-CaSR 2026 in conjunction with ENSA

Pre-registration required.

Closed meeting, invitation only. 

• The Genetic Origins of Aneuploid Eggs: New Insights into Reproductive Health - Karen Schindler

• Mechanisms of physiological activation and modulation of the calcium-sensing receptor: molecular origins of promiscuous G protein signaling - Qing R Fan
• From Conformational Sensing to Nanobody-Based Therapeutics for the CaSR - Jianfeng Liu

• What’s in an Age? Rethinking Diagnosis and Management in hyperinsulinism - Diva De Leon-Crutchlow

• From fat mice to zero gravity: a decade inside what sperm actually do during embryogenesis and how it built my career - Nicole McPherson

Plus: ECR Update

• Single cell transcriptomic analysis of BRAF papillary thyroid cancer with and without lymphocytic thyroiditis - Sumathy Perampalam
• Native corticosteroid-binding globulin to treat life-threatening sepsis and septic shock. - Declan E Kilgariff
• Caloric restriction in adult female mice alters metabolic regulation of reproductive systems - Hugo WG Herron-Vellacott
• Single-cell transcriptomic analysis reveals increased tumour cluster dominance and patient-specific divergence in gonadotroph adenoma recurrence - Yeung-Ae Park
• The psychological and financial burden of lifelong surveillance in SDHB pathogenic variant carriers - Dahlia Davidoff
• Longitudinal aldosterone and renin trajectories and cardiovascular risk in young adults from the Raine Study - Sho Katsuragawa
• Targeted alerts to primary care physicians improve osteoporosis treatment after minimal trauma fracture: Outcomes of the INTERCEPT cluster-randomised controlled trial - Mawson Wang
• Pituitary tumour classification and risk stratification: predicting clinical outcomes in acromegaly - Prishila Fookeerah

Co Chair: Tracy Josephs

• Understanding the control of CaSR signalling mechanisms by mutational analysis of receptor signalling and trafficking pathways - Caroline Gorvin
• Role of C-terminal phosphorylation in CaSR function - Donald Ward
• Biased CaSR Autoantibodies Reveal New Dimensions of Receptor Signaling and Autoimmunity - Noriko Makita

• Journey towards precision medicine in Diabetes and Obesity - Rinki Murphy
• Lipids Across the Lifespan: from 5-year risk to lifetime exposure - Huan Chan
• PMOS: Integrating metabolism, androgens and reproduction - Maritza Farrant

• Elevated decidual vascular remodelling and placental efficiency is elicited by maternal-fetal MHC disparity and mediated by maternal T cells - Uyen Pham
• Secretoglobins SCGB1D2 and SCGB2A1 as functional regulators of endometrial receptivity - Mojtaba Moradi
• LRPAP1 deficiency disrupts placental function in humans and mice - Yimiao Yu
• Chemotherapy exposure before pregnancy causes persistent placental defects and impaired postnatal growth - Jordan Higgins
• Establishing the first spermatogonial enrichment and biobanking pipeline for the koala (Phascolarctos cinereus) - Katerina B Damyanova
• Metformin treatment for diabetes in pregnancy increases placental size, decreases mitochondrial respiration and alters growth signalling and steroidogenesis of mouse placenta - Dayna A Zimmerman

Co-Chair: Bryan Ward

• The Peptide Problem: Therapeutic Folly, False Promise and Clinical Consequences  - Gary Wittert
• From Polycystic Ovary Syndrome to Polyendocrine Metabolic Ovarian Syndrome: Research and Clinical Implications - Anju Joham

Co-Chair: Ghada el-Hajj Fuleihan

• CASRdb: A Comprehensive Database for Disease-associated Calcium-sensing Receptor Variants - Michael Mannstadt
• Adaptive phenotypes for the human calcium-sensing receptor polymorphism R990G - Barbara Sinigaglia

• IMAGING ACROSS SCALES – CATCHING CONCURRENT ORGANELLE DYNAMICS IN LIVING CELLS AND TISSUES - Senthil Arumugam

• Assessing Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Across the Society for Reproductive Biology - Natalie Hannan
• Navigating academia: a journey of opportunity and challenges - Brendan Houston

• Long-Term Persistence with Denosumab and Bisphosphonates after Fracture and Its Association with Clinical Outcomes: A Population-Based Linked Cohort Study - Mike Lin
• Longitudinal changes in bone microarchitecture during gender-affirming hormone therapy: a 24-month prospective HR-pQCT study in transgender adults - Ingrid Bretherton
• Development of a National Multidisciplinary Consensus Statement on Medication-Related Osteonecrosis of the Jaw (MRONJ) and Osteoporosis in Australia - Christian Girgis
• Predictors of re-fracture and mortality within a secondary fracture prevention program: insights from up to 15-years follow-up     - Mawson Wang
• The effect of osteocalcin and GPRC6A silencing on insulin sensitivity in myotubes from older women - Itamar Levinger
• Hiding in plain sight: hypercalcaemia associated with calcium sulphate beads - Stefan Rietz
• Trabecular bone score independently predicts minimal trauma fracture vs more-than-minimal trauma fracture in an Australian re-fracture prevention clinic cohort   - Neha Chandrasekar
• Management of aromatase inhibitor-associated bone loss in women with hormone receptor-positive breast cancer: a single centre experience - Kimchi Do
• Rates of electrolyte derangements associated with ferric derisomaltose and denosumab co-administration amongst an adult inpatient cohort in a metropolitan Australia health service - Alec Ronan

Co-Chairs: Maria Luisa Brandi & Rory Clifton-Bligh

• From CaSR-GABAB receptor heteromerization to amyloid-beta-driven tonic PTH hypersecretion in hyperparathyroidism - Chia-Ling Tu
• A novel mouse model of Familial Hypocalciuric Hypercalcemia Type-1 to define the role of the CaSR in responding to acute phosphate challenges - Carsten Alexander Wagner

• Thyroid dedifferentiation remodels the tumour ecosystem through cytokine-mediated immune reprogramming - Martyn Bullock
• Whole-Slide Deep Learning Prediction of BRAF^V600E Status in Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma - Ziba Gandomkar
• Targeting HTR2B to enhance β-cell proliferation in porcine islet xenotransplantation for  cure of type 1 diabetes  - Demi J Kaplan
• Comprehensive characterisation of androgen biosynthesis in the fat-tailed dunnart reveals developmental shifts in steroidogenic pathways - Ben M Lawrence
•  Effects of four years testosterone treatment on glycaemia, anthropometry, quality of life and safety: The T4DM RUN-ON sub-study. - Gary Wittert
• Tirzepatide and Resistance Exercise training (T±REx) for obesity therapy: a randomised controlled trial. - Bu B Yeap
• Scaled Testosterone: A Novel Metric to Calibrate Serum Testosterone and SHBG in Men - David J Handelsman
• Predicting circulating testosterone concentrations in individual men - Bu B Yeap

Co-Chair: Mike Collins

•   From association to mechanism: rs838717 in regulation of DGKD and CaSR signalling in kidney stone disease - Catherine E Lovegrove
• CaSR phosphate sensing in murine parathyroid glands and cultured human thyroid parafollicular TT cells - Donald Ward

• Beyond ‘normal’ thyroid function tests: Resistance to thyroid hormone alpha (RTH) identified through reverse phenotyping - Sarah Goh
• A rare form of congenital adrenal hyperplasia due to partial POR deficiency presenting with amenorrhea and infertility - Daniel Yagoub
• Bone to be wild: acromegaly and polyostotic fibrous dysplasia in an adult male with mccune albright syndrome  - Ning NZ Zhang
• A Mosaic PHEX Variant in Hypophosphatemic Rickets: Distinguishing Postzygotic Mutation from Sex Chromosome Aneuploidy - Wu Tzen Lim

• How paternal diet remodels the epididymal sperm proteome and programs offspring phenotypes - David Skerrett-Byrne

• A simple intervention to improve telehealth utilisation in General Endocrinology clinic - Cecilia LH Xu
• The Sustainable Endocrinology Clinic - Rita Upreti
• Patient characteristics and discharge pathways in a hospital-based specialist bone and mineral telehealth rapid access clinic service (Bone-TRACS) - Abraham Shamshad
• Balancing the Pursuit of Cure and Testing Burden in Primary Aldosteronism: A Patient Preference Study - Yafei Si