5th International Congress on
Developmental Origins of Health & Disease

Keynote Speakers

State of DOHaD in the world today
Professor Peter Gluckman - Auckland, New Zealand
Why does the early life environment have echoes for the rest of our life?
Professor Zulfiqar Bhutta - Karachi, Pakistan
Maternal and fetal malnutrition: making a difference in developing countries
Professor Cesar Victora – Pelotas, Brazil
Growth in early childhood: the catch-up dilemma?

Epigenetics
Professor Judith Hall - Vancouver, Canada
The epigenetic interface between genes, the environment and disease.
Dr Karen Lillycrop - Southampton, UK
Epigenetics and the influence of maternal diet
Dr Jean Finnegan - Canberra, Australia
Epigenetic basis of environmental adaptation - insights from flowering plants.

Developmental Plasticity
Professor Marilyn Renfree – Melbourne, Australia
Lactation, not placentation: the marsupial growth controller
Professor Peter Ellison – Boston, USA
Lessons from anthropology

Time for Interventions – are we ready?
Professor Caroline Fall – Southampton, UK
Interventions in pregnancy
Dr Chittaranjan Yajnik – Pune, India
Conventional wisdom in need of evidence
Professor Alan Lucas – London, UK
Lessons from postnatal interventions

Health of the World
Professor Terrence Forrester – Kingston, Jamaica
Lessons from African migration
Professor Srinath Reddy – New Delhi, India
From Fetal Development to Global Development:
The Challenge of Cardiovascular Disease

Early Career Researcher Breakfast Meeting Professor Barry Marshall, Nobel Prize Winner 2005
Helicobacter pylori - the origins of a Nobel Prize

Associated Scientific Meetings
Before DOHaD 2007
Epigenetics 2007 Australian Scientific Conference (also at the Perth Convention Exhibition Centre).
Concluding Wednesday 7th November 2007 with joint speakers in the 2nd Plenary Session of DOHaD 2007
(Organiser: Professor David Ravine - Perth, Western Australia)
www.epigenetics2007.com

“Healthy Start for a Healthy Life: The Wintour’s Tale”
Retirement meeting for Professor Marelyn Wintour to be held in Melbourne
(Organiser: Professor John Bertram - Monash, Australia)

After DOHaD 2007
HPA Axis Special Interest Meeting, Rottnest Island, Western Australia
(Organiser: Professor David Phillips - Southampton, UK)

1. Across Generations:
Theory, Observation, Experiment
Convenor: Associate Professor Matthew Gillman - USA
Professor Hamish Spencer - New Zealand
Professor George Davey-Smith - UK
Professor Mark Hanson - UK

2. Appetite and Satiety
Convenor: Professor Michael Ross - USA
Dr Jun Udagawa - Japan
Associate Professor Magna Passos - Brazil

3. Applications to Agriculture
Convenor: Professor Paul Greenwood - Australia
Dr David Miller - Australia
Dr Paul Kenyon - New Zealand
Dr Pia Marlene Nissen - Denmark

4. Assisted Reproduction and Later Health
Convenor: Associate Professor Roger Hart - Australia
Professor Robert Norman - Australia
Professor John Aitken - Australia

5. Cancer
Convenor: Dr Rebecca Troisi - USA
Professor Lars Vatten - Norway
Professor/Reader Isabel dos Santos Silva - UK
Dr Lucy M Anderson - USA

6. Cardiac Function & Cardiovascular Disease
Convenor: Professor Kent Thornburg - USA
Professor S Lee Adamson - Canada
Dr Jeffrey Segar - USA

7. Cohort studies in developing countries
Convenor: Professor Caroline Fall Southampton, UK
Professor Cesar Victora - Pelotas, Brazil

8. Cost-Benefit and Pregnancy Outcomes:
The International Comparison Project
Convenor: Professor Peter Gluckman - NZ
Professor Siddiqur Osmani - UK
Dr Kate O’Connor - New Zealand
Dr Harold Alderman - USA

9. The Developmental Exposure to
Environmental Chemicals and Disease
Convenor: Dr Jerry Heindel - USA
Professors Gail Prins and Shuk Mei Ho - USA
Professor Frederick S vom Saal - USA

10. Diabetes and Glucose Metabolism
Convenor: Dr Susan Ozanne - UK
Professor Julie Owens - Australia
Professor Nigel Crowther - South Africa
Dr Miguel Constância - UK

11. Gene-environment Interactions
Convenor: Professor Steven Lye - Canada
Dr Craig Pennell - Australia
Professor Lyle Palmer - Australia
Professor Johan Eriksson - Finland

12. Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenal (HPA) Axis
Convenor: Professor John Challis - Canada
Professor Brendan Waddell - Australia
Professor David Phillips - UK
Professor Michael Meaney - Canada

13. Immunity
Convenor: Professor Joan Hunt - USA
Professor Lois Salamonsen - Australia
Professor Susan Prescott - Australia
Dr Boris Kramer - The Netherlands

14. Implantation, Placentation and Early Life
Convenor: Professor Tom Fleming - UK
Associate Professor Kevin Sinclair - UK
Dr Karen Kind - Australia

15. Infant and Childhood Nutrition
Convenor: Professor Berthold Koletzko - Germany
Dr Atul Singhal - UK
Professor Mijna Hadders-Algra - The Netherlands

16. Kidney and Hypertension
Convenor: Professor Peter Nathanielsz - USA
Dr Joe De Mey - The Netherlands
Dr Lori Woods - USA
Associate Professor Mark Nijland - USA

17. Lactation
Convenor: Associate Professor Mary Wlodek - Australia
Professor Peter Hartmann - Australia
Dr Wendy Oddy - Australia

18. Lifecourse Biology
Convenor: Dr Susan Morton - New Zealand
Professor Marcus Pembrey - UK
Associate Professor Daniel Benyshek - USA

19. Micronutrients
Convenor: Dr Chittaranjan Yajnik - India
Professor Helga Refsum - Norway
Professor Cyrus Cooper - UK
Professor Carol Bower - Australia

20. Muscle and Bone
Convenor: Professor Cyrus Cooper - UK
Dr Bruce Hollis - USA
Dr Avan Aihie Sayer - UK
Professor Di Kuh - UK

21. Neurodevelopment and Behavior
Convenor: Professor Stephen Mathews - Canada
Professor Michael Meaney - Canada
Dr Stephen Suomi - USA
Professor Dirk Hellhammer - Germany

22. Obesity
Convenor: Professor Michael Symonds - UK
Professor Caroline McMillen - Australia
Professor Norimasa Sagawa - Japan

23. The Offspring of Women with Severe Mental Disorder
Convenor: Professor Assen Jablensky - Australia
Dr Christina Hultman - Sweden
Professor John McGrath - Australia
Dr Vera Morgan - Australia

24. Policy and Public Health Implications
Convenor: Professor Catherine Law - UK
Professor Fiona Stanley - Australia
Professor Mike Daube - Australia

25. Populations in Transition
Convenor: Professor Fiona Stanley - Australia
Dr Sandra Eades - Australia
Dr Ezra Susser - USA
Professor Yang Huixia - China

26. Prenatal Nutrition
Convenor: Professor Jane Harding - New Zealand
Assistant Professor Robert A. Waterland - USA
Dr Anne Jaquiery - New Zealand
Associate Professor Parul Christian - USA

27. Preterm Birth and Its Consequences
Convenor: Professor Alan Jobe - USA
Dr Noel French - Australia
Dr Rod Hunt - Australia

28. Reproductive Health
Convenor: Professor Martha Hickey - Australia
Professor Steve Franks - UK
Professor Kevin Osteen - USA
Dr Katharina Main - Denmark

29. Respiratory Function
Convenor: Professor Richard Harding - Australia
Professor Janet Stocks - UK
Professor Gert Maritz - South Africa
Professor Usha Raj - USA

30. Reversibility
Convenor: Associate Professor Rebecca Simmons - USA
Professor Zulfiqar Bhutta - Pakistan
Dr Mark Vickers - New Zealand

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