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ESA Newsletter: April 2004

Annual Scientific Meeting, Sydney
23rd-25th August 2004

This year’s program has an exciting line-up of plenary speakers. The Harrison Lecturer is Bruce McEwen (USA), the Taft Lecturer is Peter Clayton (UK), the Japan-Australia Lecturer is Hironobu Sasano and our other plenary lecturer is Aaron Hsueh (USA). Symposium topics include ‘Diverse roles of estrogen in males’, ‘Hormones and growth, ‘Adipocytokines and signalling’, ‘Reproduction, development and the TGFb superfamily’, and ‘Endocrinology of neural plasticity’, including joint sessions with SRB, ADS, Neuroendocrinology and APEG. Unopposed poster sessions will be continued at this year’s meeting, in a dedicated poster hall.

Further highlights of this year' s meeting will be our joint sessions with other societies. The SRB Founder' s lecturer is Professor John Aitken (University of Newcastle, Australia), and we are sharing the plenary lecture by Phillip Scherer (USA) with ADS. Additionally, the Neuroendocrinology Interest Group is sponsoring Dr Naomi Rance to participate in the ‘neural plasticity’ symposium.

Details of the program will appear shortly at the conference website:
http://www.esa-srb.org.au.

Call for abstracts
The abstract deadline is Sunday 9th May 2004. There will be no hardcopy submissions and abstracts can only be submitted by email. As well as the instructions below, the conference website has details for abstract submission, including a checklist that must be completed.

Presentation Types
Submissions will be accepted for two types of presentation: oral and poster. Although authors may indicate their preference for type of presentation, the final acceptance with regard to presentation type will be at the discretion of the ESA Program Organising Committee.
Specifically for Clinicians - Some oral and poster sessions will be devoted specifically to clinical endocrinology. Therefore clinical members are invited to submit cases for the Clinical Case Review Session (a very successful session in the past) as well as abstracts for the scientific sessions. Clinical Case Reviews can be of great value to the clinician and scientist especially if presented well and more time will be allocated to this session, as it has been so well attended in the past. Please avoid abbreviations for clinical tests, diseases, etc. Above all make sure that you actually say what has been discovered or learnt from the cases. These reports will also be refereed. Please contact the Chairman, POC, Dr Stephen Twigg for further information.

Naming your file
Use the following convention "ABSTRACT - ESA03 - Surname of first Author", for example "ABSTRACT - ESA03- Twigg".

Submitting your abstract
Once the POC receives the Abstract you will receive a Confirmation that it was received. You must also complete the electronic checklist.

Acceptance of papers for presentation
A subcommittee of the ESA will independently review all abstracts. Scientific abstracts should therefore have brief aim, methods, results, discussion and conclusions. There should be sufficient information for referees to evaluate the material as sufficiently sound. Accepted abstracts will be published in the Meeting Abstract Book, in the form submitted by the author.

2004 Novartis Junior Scientist Award
The Novartis Junior Scientist Award is given for the best presentation at the Annual Scientific Meeting by an advanced trainee or by a person enrolled for a higher degree (PhD, MD, FRACP). Nominees must be members of the ESA. Applicants will be judged initially on the basis of their submitted abstract and a short list of applicants will be chosen to present in a special session. Applicants will be informed of the session in which they are to present when acceptances of Abstracts are sent out. In addition to submitting their abstract to the above address (esa-srb@asnevents.net.au), applicants should email their abstract, a brief CV and a supporting letter from their supervisor as attachments to Dr Stephen Twigg, Chair, POC at stwigg@med.usyd.edu.au

Please type 'Novartis award application' in the subject line. Additionally, a hard-copy declaration that the work is the applicant's own must be signed by both the applicant and supervisor and sent to Dr Stephen Twigg, Discipline of Medicine (D06), University of Sydney, NSW 2006. Applications must be received by the abstract deadline (Sunday May 9).

2004 Servier Award
See the details given separately

ESA.Travel grants
Applications are called for travel grants to the ASM 2004. These grants are intended to assist junior members of the society to attend the Annual Scientific Meeting, and generally amount to an Apex Airfare from the applicant’s City. An application form outlining the process of application and selection is included in the ESA newsletter, and may also be found at the ESA website (www.endocrinesociety.org.au). Five copies of the applications must reach the ESA Honorary Secretary, Endocrine Society of Australia, 145 Macquarie Street, Sydney NSW 2000, by mail (email applications will not be accepted) by Sunday 9th May.

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