DOHaD ANZPac 2026 Preliminary Program

Thursday 29th October - Conference Day 1

Time

Session Information

Speakers

8:30am - 8:55am

Registration

8:55am - 9:00am

Conference Welcome & Official Opening

Prof Deanne Hryciw

9:00am - 11:00am

Early-life Foundations of Lifelong Health

Chair: Deanne Hryciw

9:00am - 9:30am

Can Perinatal Interventions Targeting Maternal Weight Gain Attenuate Childhood Obesity?

Leanne Redman

9:30am - 10:00am

Laying the Foundations for Lifelong Health: The Critical Role of Colostrum in the First Days of Life

Valerie Verhasselt

10:00am - 10:15am

Birthweight phenotype genotype mismatch in cardiometabolic programming

Craig Pennell

10:15am - 10:30am

Generation Victoria (GenV): From Population Discovery to Prevention – Australia's Whole-of-State DOHaD Research Platform

Richard Saffery

10:30am - 11:00am

Morning Tea

11:00am - 12:30pm

Mechanisms, Biomarkers and Precision Prevention

Chair: Edwina Dorney

11:00am - 11:30am

The Role of Epigenetic Regulation in Maternal Obesity-Induced Fetal Programming of Chronic Kidney Disease

Sonia Saad

11:30am - 11:45am

Nephron Endowment is Influenced by Maternal Macronutrient but not Caloric Intake in the Early Postnatal Period, and is Principally Driven by Fat and Protein

John Bertram

11:45am - 12:00pm

Sex-Specific Effects of Birth Weight on Longitudinal Behavioural Outcomes: A Mendelian Randomisation Approach Using Polygenic Scores

Craig Pennell

12:00pm - 12:05pm

Maternal One-Carbon Metabolism Biomarkers and Related Single Nucleotide Polymorphism (SNPs) in Relation to Spontaneous Preterm Births in New Zealand SCOPE Cohort

Sonia Khan

12:05pm - 12:10pm

Presenter Change Over Time

12:10pm - 12:15pm

Novel Early Predictors for Targeted Interventions to Mitigate Childhood Obesity

Carol Wang

12:15pm - 12:20pm

Engaging Australian Healthcare Consumers to Determine Priorities and Consensus for Precision Medicine Approaches to Detect Non-communicable Disease in Early Life: A Modified Delphi Study

Tegan Grace

12:20pm - 12:25pm

Does the Inflammatory Potential of Diet During Pregnancy Elevate Autism Traits in Offspring?

Esma Fazlic

12:30pm - 1:30pm

Lunch & Poster Viewing

1:30pm - 3:00pm

NZ, Indigenous and Pacific Communities Health

Chair: Jacquie Bay

1:30pm - 2:00pm

Cam Young

2:00pm - 2:15pm

Key Turning Points and Facilitating Factors of Health Trajectories As Told by Indigenous People in the Northern Territory

Gurmeet Singh

2:15pm - 2:30pm

Associations Between Birth and Adolescent Health Data in the Cook Islands: A Cross-Sectional Study from the Island of Rarotonga

Jacquie Bay

2:30pm - 2:45pm

Ultra-processed foods and drinks consumption in early childhood: Findings from the largest multi-ethnic birth cohort of Aotearoa New Zealand

Teresa Gontijo De Castro

2:45pm - 3:00pm

Intergenerational Pathways Associated with Cardiometabolic Health Among Young Pacific Adults: A Narrative Review

Faasisila Savila

3:00pm - 3:30pm

Afternoon Tea & Poster Viewing

3:30pm - 5:00pm

Workshops

Chair:

3:30pm - 5:00pm

Phenotyping across pregnancy and early life: Mechanistic measures to advance DoHaD research

Jia Nasir & Adrienne Gordon

3:30pm - 5:00pm

Shaping the Future of DOHaD in ANZPac

Edwina Dorney & Erandi Hewawasam

3:30pm - 5:00pm

Catchlove Lecture

International Speaker

Friday 30th October - Conference Day 2

Time

Session Information

Speakers

8:30am - 9:00am

Registration

9:00am - 10:15am

Clinical and Population Approaches

Chair:

9:00am - 9:30am

Health Outcomes in Offspring Conceived by Assisted Reproductive Technology: A Developmental Origins Perspective

Wentao Li

9:30am - 10:15am

Repositioning Oral Health within DOHaD: Linking Early Childhood Caries to Life Course NCD Prevention

Seema Lal-Kumar

10:15am - 10:30am

Special Journal Update

John Bertram & Jacquie Bay

10:30am - 11:00am

Morning Tea

11:00am - 12:15pm

Environmental and Parental Influences on Lifecourse Health

Chair: Erandi Hewawasam

11:00am - 11:30am

Developmental Origins of Adverse Perinatal Outcomes Following Bushfire Smoke Exposure. Where are we heading?

Bronwyn Brew

11:30am - 11:45am

Maternal Factors During Pregnancy, the Early-life Environment, and Childhood Asthma/Wheeze at 12 Months: Findings from a Southeast Queensland Birth Cohort

Deanne Hryciw

11:45am - 11:50am

Pregnancy Planning and Preconception Glycaemic Optimisation in Women With Pre-Existing Diabetes: Opportunities To Improve Early Developmental Health

Edwina Dorney

11:50am - 11:55am

In-Utero High-Saccharide Exposure Leads to Altered Fetal Heart Development and Can Program Cardiometabolic Dysfunction in Postnatal Life

Hannah Parker

11:55am - 12:00pm

Independent and Combined Effects of Maternal and Paternal Obesogenic Diets on Adult Outcomes in Sprague-Dawley Rats

Khurram Toor

12:00pm - 12:05pm

Transgenerational Inheritance Of Growth Restriction Phenotypes: Molecular and Physiological Insights From The Paternal Line

Tina Bianco-Miotto

12:05pm - 12:10pm

Impact of Parental Obesogenic Diets on Cardiac Structure and Function in Adult Rat Offspring

Anna Ponnampalam

12:15pm - 1:15pm

Lunch & Poster Session

1:15pm - 2:45pm

DOHaD ANZPAC Rising Stars: Our Next Generation

Chair:

1:15pm - 1:30pm

Paternal occupational and household exposures during pregnancy; is there an association with offspring adult bone health and body composition?

Mia Percival

1:30pm - 1:45pm

Maternal Plasma One-Carbon Metabolites and Adverse Pregnancy Outcomes: Findings from New Zealand SCOPE Cohort

Sonia Khan

1:45pm - 2:00pm

Epigenetic ageing biomarkers are associated with predicted cardiovascular risk in women with prior hypertensive disorders of pregnancy

Kimiya Padidar

2:00pm - 2:15pm

Beyond Birthweight: Unravelling the Roles of Genetics and Early Life Nutrition in Mitigating Child Obesity

Carol Wang

2:15pm - 2:30pm

Perinatal exposures and biological ageing markers to predict metabolic syndrome risk in offspring at age 22; Development, validation, and clinical utility of a prediction model

Eskedar Mekonnen

2:30pm - 2:45pm

Early life exposure to a single episode of extreme air pollution and subsequent childhood asthma: Early-life Follow-up (ELF) cohort study

Lieke Scheepers

2:45pm - 3:00pm

DOHaD ANZPac Closing Ceremony & Awards