Monday 24 June 2002

11.30

Registration and Lunch

13.00

OFFICIAL OPENING

Ms Jane Hutt, Health Minister for Wales
Professor Stephen Tomlinson, Vice-Chancellor, University of Wales College of Medicine
   

13.15

ORAL COMMUNICATIONS 1: SEX HORMONES AND BONE
Chairman: Stavros Manolagas

13.15

OC1

OESTROGEN-INDUCED CANCELLOUS BONE FORMATION IN MICE IS MEDIATED BY OESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA
K E McDougall, M J Perry, R L Gibson, S M Colley, J H Tobias

13.27

OC2

ESTROGEN STIMULATES MEGAKARYOCYTE DIFFERENTIATION AND ESTROGEN RECEPTOR PROTEIN AND MRNA EXPRESSION
S Bord, E Frith, D C Ireland, M A Scott, J I O Craig, J E Compston

13.39

OC3

ISOLATION OF MET, A NOVEL MODULATOR OF OESTROGEN INDUCEDTRANSCRIPTION
S M Colley, A Flynn, M Norman, D Wynick, J T Tobias

13.51

OC4

SERUM OSTEOPROTEGERIN IS UNRESPONSIVE TO POSTMENOPAUSAL OESTRADIOL REPLACEMENT
A Rogers, C Pereda, K Naylor, R Eastell, A Blumsohn

14.03

OC5

A COMPARISON OF THE BONE MINERAL DENSITY (BMD) BETWEEN LUTEINISING HORMONE RECEPTOR KNOCKOUT (LURKO) MICE WITH HUMAN CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN (HCG) OVEREXPRESSING MICE
S J Yarram, S Rulli, F P Zhang, I Huhtaniemi, M J Perry, J R Sandy, J P Mansell
      

14.15

SYMPOSIUM: COLLAGEN DISORDERS
Chairmen: Nigel Loveridge/Marian Young

14.15

IS1

THE COLLAGEN FAMILY AND ASSOCIATED DISORDERS
Vic Duance, Cardiff

14.40 

IS2

INHERITED DEFECTS OF COLLAGEN
Mike Pope, London

15.05

IS3
   

CLINICAL ASPECTS OF COLLAGEN DISORDERS
Nick Bishop, Sheffield
   

15.30
    

TEA AND POSTERS (odd-numbered boards attended)
  

16.45

PLENARY LECTURE
Chairman: Juliet Compston

IS4

ACTIVATION OF NONGENOTROPIC ESTROGEN-LIKE SIGNALING (ANGELS): A NOVEL APPROACH TO BONE ANABOLISM AND GENDER-NEUTRAL THERAPY OF OSTEOPOROSIS
Stavros C Manolagas
Little Rock AR, USA
    

19.00

CIVIC RECEPTION – CITY HALL