ESPE2010

Friday, 24 September





 07:30 - 08:30
Meet the Expert 5:2 - Interpretation of Endocrine Investigations in Complex DSD

Yves Morel, Lyon, France

This session is interactive and located in a smaller room. Seats are limited and will therefore be allocated on a “first-come-first-served” basis, please be on time.



 07:30 - 08:30
Meet the Expert 6:2 - Late Effects, Endocrinopathies after Irradiation and Chemotherapy

Chris Kelnar, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

This session is interactive and located in a smaller room. Seats are limited and will therefore be allocated on a “first-come-first-served” basis, please be on time.



 07:30 - 08:30
Meet the Expert 7:2 - MRI in Congenital Hypopituitarism

Cheri Deal, Québec, Canada

This session is interactive and located in a smaller room. Seats are limited and will therefore be allocated on a “first-come-first-served” basis, please be on time.



 07:30 - 08:30
Meet the Expert 8:2 - Management of Fetal Goitre

Michel Polak, Paris, France

This session is interactive and located in a smaller room. Seats are limited and will therefore be allocated on a “first-come-first-served” basis, please be on time.



 08:30 – 08:45
Break



 08:45 - 09:45
Free Communication 4
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 08:45 - 09:45
Free Communication 5
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 08:45 - 09:45
Free Communication 6
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 08:45 - 09:45
Yearbook of Paediatric Endocrinology 2
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 08:45 - 09:45
New Perspectives 2 - New Treatment Modalities for the Preservation of Fertility
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Session Aim: This new perspective series will provide current information on advances in infertility treatments. Although this area is not in the core of paediatric endocrinology, it is essential to paediatric endocrinologists to convey current information to their patients and families.

Testicular stem cells for fertility preservation
Stefan Schlatt, Muenster, Germany

Present and future fertility preservation strategies for female cancer patients
Claus Yding Andersen, Copenhagen, Denmark



 09:45 – 10:15
Coffee Break, Visit to the Posters and Exhibition



 10:15 – 11:30
Plenary Session 4 - ESPE Activities / ESPE Awards 2
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 11:45 - 12:45
Free Communication 7
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 11:45 - 12:45
Free Communication 8
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 11:45 - 12:45
Free Communication 9
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 11:45 - 12:45
Free Communication 10
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 12:45 – 14:15
Lunch Break, Visit to the Posters and Exhibition



 14:15 - 15:45
Symposium 7 - "Bridging Clinical Care and Basic Research" - Beta Cell
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Session Aim: This symposium is part of a series of symposia "Bridging Clinical Care and Basic Science". The aim of the series is to emphasize the impact of patient observation on the understanding of basic biological mechanisms. Each presentation starts with a seminal case presentation, that has led to such development. This symposium is to discuss the genetic and molecular pathways involved in monogenic forms of beta-cell dysfunction.

Beta cell potassium channel mutations and diabetes
Andrew T. Hattersley, Exeter, United Kingdom

Carboxyl ester lipase diabetes
Pål R. Njølstad, Bergen, Norway

Diabetes due to Neurogenin 3 deficiency 
Oscar Rubio-Cabezas, Madrid, Spain



 14:15 - 15:45
Symposium 8 - Epigenetics in Paediatric Endocrinology
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Session Aim: The aim of the symposium is to introduce to the paediatric endocrine community the principles of epigenetics and the role of epigenetics in development and endocrine disorders. The symposium will reflect from the resent NICHE symposium that was recently supported by ESPE.

Introduction to epigenetics – implications in paediatric endocrinology
Miguel Constância, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Epigenetics dutch famine
L.H. Lumey, New York, NY, United States



 14:15 - 15:45
Symposium 9 - New Developments in the Regulation of Puberty
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Session Aim: The aim of this symposium is to review recent advances in the field.
The first two talks are focusing on new clinically relevant discoveries on the genetic control of the timing of puberty. These genes are operative in the hypothalamic-pituitary unit. The last talk will focus on secular trends in the population and their possible environmental causes.

Genetic background of Kallmann syndrome and idiopathic hypogonadotropic hypogonadism
Nelly Pitteloud, Boston, MA, United States

Common genetic variants and the timing of puberty
Ken Ong, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Secular trends in the timing of puberty in Europe (environmental factors)
Anders Juul, Copenhagen, Denmark



 15:45 – 16:15
Coffee Break, Visit to the Posters and Exhibition



 16:15 - 17:15
Plenary Session 5 - G-Protein Coupled Receptors / Adrenal Diseases
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Specificity and promiscuity of G-protein coupled receptors
Gilbert Vassart, Bruxelles, Belgium

Molecular basis of adrenal insufficiency in children
Kenji Fujieda, Asahikawa, Japan



 17:15 – 17:30
Break



 17:30 – 19:00
Satellite Symposium
Merck Serono



 17:30 – 19:00
Satellite Symposium
To be announced



 17:30 – 19:00
Satellite Symposium
To be announced



 19:00 – 00:00
ESPE Evening at the Žofín Palace