Convenor

Betty Exintaris, Monash University, VIC  email betty.exintaris@pharm.monash.edu.au

Committee

Paul Bertrand, University of New South Wales, NSW – gastrointestinal

Lu Liu, University of New South Wales, NSW – gastrointestinal

Kylie Mansfield, Wollongong University,  NSW – urogenital

Roselyn Rose’Meyer, Griffith University,  QLD – urogenital

Scott Smid, Adelaide University,  SA – gastrointestinal

Sab Ventura,  Monash University,  VIC –urogenital

Proposed activities in 2009

One day meeting on Gastrointestinal and Urogenital Pharmacology, comprising

• 6th Annual meeting on Advances in Urogenital and Gastrointestinal Research
• Date October 30, Melbourne
• Organisers: Betty Exintaris and Helen Irving, Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences Parkville, Melbourne
• Further information from betty.exintaris@vcp.monash.edu.au, Helen.Irving@vcp.monash.edu.au

 urogenital-flyer_2009 Oct 30.pdf

Special symposium Neuromodulatory systems of the gut as drug targets

• To be held within the annual meeting of ASCEPT, Sydney, Nov 29-Dec 2, 2009
• Speakers
  • David Grundy (Sheffield, UK) Gut afferents as targets for the treatment of visceral hypersensitivity
  • Lu Liu (UNSW)  Interactions of tachykinins and COXs, in health as well as disease
  • Scott Smid (Adelaide)  Endocannabinoids in the gut - a pot pourri of influence
  • Helen Irving (Monash)  Multiple 5-HT receptors in the human colon  are they all potential targets?
  • Paul Bertrand (UNSW) Serotonin reuptake in the GI tract: how does it affect serotonergic signalling?