Conference & Presentations - 2005

Benseler V, Warren A, Holz L, Gengos M, Bowen D, Le Couteur D, Schlitt HK, McCaughan G, Bertolino P. The liver promotes antigen specific retention and rapid clearance of naïve CD8(+) T cells activated in situ. Australian Society for Immunology Conference. Melbourne December 2005. Published in Tissue Antigens 66:359-360, 2005.

Blyth FM, Cousins MJ, Cumming RG, Wang JJ, Mitchell P. Pain in older Australians: evidence from the Blue Mountains Eye Study and the Older People’s Health Survey. 11th World Congress on Pain. Sydney August 2005.

Cheluvappa R, Muller M, Le Couteur DG. Glutathione induced modification of pyocyanin may be crucial in limiting pathology in pseudomonal lung infections. Joint Meeting of Australasian Society of Clinical and Experimental Pharmacologists and Toxicologists and the Australian Pharmaceutical Science Association. Melbourne. December 2005. Published in Proc ASCEPT 11:oral 99, 2005.

Cumming RG. Statistical interaction, epidemiology, biogerontology and the Gompertz-Makeham equation. 18th Congress of the International Association of Gerontology. Rio de Janeiro, Brasil. June 2005.

Cumming RG, Cameron ID, Hien TLL, Lord SR, March L, Sambrook P. Atypical antipsychotics and risk of falls.18th Congress of the International Association of Gerontology. Rio de Janeiro, Brasil. June 2005.

Davies RR, Hodges J, Kril J, Patterson K,Halliday G, Xuereb J. The pathological basis of semantic dementia. World Congress of Neurology. Sydney. November 2005.

Everitt AV. Drug therapy versus calorie restriction to delay age-related disease onset and prolong life. Second International Conference on Healthy Ageing and Longevity. Brisbane. March 2005.

Everitt AV, Jamieson HA. Dietary prevention of age-related diseases. Australian Association of Gerontology National Conference. Gold Coast. November 2005. Published in Australasian Journal on Ageing: 24, Supplement.

Halliday GM, Broe M, Kril JJ. Astrocytic degeneration relates to the severity of disease in frontotemporal dementia. Proceedings of the Australian Neuroscience Society 2005;16:319.

Hilmer SN, Cogger VC, Fraser R, Le Couteur DG. The ageing liver and dyslipidaemia. Australasian Society for Geriatric Medicine Annual Scientific Meeting. Perth. April 2004. Published in Int Med J 35 (suppl) A55, 2005.

Hilmer SN, Cogger VC, Fraser R, Le Couteur DG. Hepatic disposition of lipoproteins in young and old rats. American Association of Gerontology Annual Scientific Meeting. Washington DC. November 2004.

Hilmer SN, Le Couteur DG, Abernethy DR. A drug burden index to define the pharmacological burden of medications in older people. Joint Meeting of Australasian Society of Clinical and Experimental Pharmacologists and Toxicologists and the Australian Pharmaceutical Science Association. December 2005. Published in Proc ASCEPT 11: oral 113, 2005.

Kersaitis C, Halliday GM, Xuereb JH, Pamphlett RS, Bak TH, Hodges JR, Kril JJ. Ubiquitin-positive inclusions and pathology in frontotemporal dementia and motor neuron disease: Usefulness for studying early pathology in frontotemporal dementia. Aust NZ Soc Neuropathology Annual Meeting. Sydney. June 2005.

Kipps, Davies RR, Mitchell J, Kril J, Halliday G, Hodges J. Lobar atrophy and progression in frontotemporal dementia: identification of a benign behavioural variant. World Congress of Neurology. Sydney. November 2005.

Kril JJ. Clinicopathological correlations in frontotemporal dementia. Alzheimer’s Australia National Conference. Sydney. May 2005.

Kril JJ, Halliday GM. Understanding the variation in the pathology of frontotemporal dementia and other tauopathies. 8th European Congress of Neuropathology. Amsterdam. June 2005.

Kril, JJ. Neuropathology of non-Alzheimer dementias. World Congress of Neurology. Sydney. November 2005.

Le Couteur DG. Ageing and the hepatic sinusoid. Australian Gastroenterology Week. Brisbane. September 2005.

Le Couteur DG. Prescribing in older people? Evidence based medicine or pharmacomemetics. Joint Meeting of Australasian Society of Clinical and Experimental Pharmacologists and Toxicologists and the Australian Pharmaceutical Science Association. Melbourne. December 2005. Published in Proc ASCEPT 11: oral 111, 2005.

Le Couteur DG, Cogger V, Hilmer S, McLean A, Sullivan D, Muller M, Fraser R. The aging liver as a risk factor for cardiovascular disease. 18th Congress of the Association of Gerontology. Rio De Janeiro, Brasil. June 2005.

Litchfield MJ, Cumming RG. Ethical issues and Prostate Specific Antigen (PSA) testing in a research setting. XVII International Epidemiology Association (IEA) World Congress of Epidemiology. Bangkok. August 2005.

Litchfield MJ, Cumming RG. Ethical issues and Prostate Specific Antigen (PSA) testing in a research setting. 14th Annual Scientific Meeting of the Australian Epidemiology Association. Newcastle. October 2005. Published in Australasian Epidemiologist. October 2005;12.3:p24-25.

Makovey J, Naganathan V, Nguyen TV, and Sambrook P. Genetics of bone loss in postmenopausal women: a longitudinal twin study . The Australian & New Zealand Bone & Mineral Society Annual Scientific Meeting. Perth. September 2005.

Makovey J, Naganathan V, Nguyen TV, Sambrook P. Genetics of bone loss in postmenopausal women: a longitudinal twin study . The American Society for Bone and Mineral Research Annual Meeting. Tennessee, USA. September 2005.

Makovey J, Naganathan V, Seibel MS, Sambrook P. Gender differences in plasma ghrelin and leptin levels and their relations with bone mineral density. 2nd Joint Meeting of the European Calcified Tissue Society and the International Bone and Mineral Society. Geneva, Switzerland. June 2005. Published in Endocrine Vol 36 S, 2005.

March L, Blyth FM, Cumming RG, Wang JJ, Mitchell P. Prevalence of musculoskeletal disorders and medication use among community-dwelling men and women over 50 years: a report from the Blue Mountains Eye Study (BMES). Annual European Congress of Rheumatology. Vienna. June 2005. Published in Ann Rheum Dis 2005;64(Suppl III):579.

McCrae M, Sambrook PN, Schwarz J, Naganathan V. Medications used by people on residential care facilities. Australian Society for Geriatric Medicine Annual Scientific Meeting. Brisbane. 2005.

Muller M, Le Couteur DG. Polyphenol-Induced Cellular Senescence in a Tumor Cell Line. 18th Congress of the Association of Gerontology. Rio De Janeiro, Brasil. June 2005.

Sambrook PN, Chen C, March L, Cameron I, Cuming R, Simpson J, Seibel MJ. High bone turnover is an independent predictor of mortality in the frail elderly: a prospective cohort study. Annual Scientific Meeting of the Australian Rheumatology Association and the Rheumatology Health Professionals Association. Melbourne. November 2005.

Schofield EC, Cordato NJ, Macdonald V, Kril JJ, Halliday GM. Histopathology does not parallel volume loss in progressive supranuclear palsy. 16th International Congress on Parkinson's disease and Related Disorders. Berlin. June 2005.

Schofield EC, Cordato NJ, Macdonald V, Kril JJ, Halliday GM. Cortical and subcortical atrophy and histopathology in preogressive supranuclear palsy. Proceedings of the Australian Neuroscience Society 2005;16:337.

Shanley C. Promoting an understanding of dementia for staff who deal with the public “over the counter” – challenges and achievements. Alzheimer’s Australia National Conference. Sydney. May 2005.

Shanley C. Managing change in residential aged care: facing the challenges and moving forward. 18th Congress of the International Association of Gerontology. Rio de Janeiro,  Brazil. July 2005.

Shanley C. Navigating change in residential aged care: how facility managers find this journey and how they can be better supported. Aged and Community Services Australia National Conference. Canberra. September 2005.

Song YJC, Halliday G, Creasey H, Morris JGL, Brooks W, Kril J. Neuropathology in the S305S tau gene mutation. World Congress of Neurology. Sydney. November 2005.

Young V, Kril JJ. Using postmortem MRI to detect white matter hyperintensities. Australian and New Zealand Society of Neuropathology Annual Meeting. Sydney. June 2005.