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
Leanne Redman
9:30am - 10:00am
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
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
The protective effect of breastfeeding on infant inflammation: a mediation analysis of the plasma metabolome and lipidome
Satvika Burugupalli
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
Understanding and Preventing Obesity and Cardiometabolic Disease Across the Life Course
Jia Nasir & Adrienne Gordon
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:
9:30am - 10:00am
Seema Lal-Kumar
10:00am - 10:15am
From Discover to Impact: Translational Research Emerging from the ORIGINS Birth Cohort
Sarah Whalan
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
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