Diabetes and Obesity

J. Brüning, M. Tschöp

EMBL Heidelberg, Germany

Thursday 13 September - Sunday 16 September 2012

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Programme

[Preliminary] Programme

 

 
Day 1 - Thursday, 13 September 2012
11:00 - 12:30 Industry Workshop 1
11:00 - 12:30 Industry Workshop 2
11:00 - 12:30 Industry Workshop 3
11:15 - 13:15 Registration and Lunch
13:15 - 13:30 Opening Remarks, Jens Bruening, Matthias Tschoep
13:30 - 17:30 Session 1: Genetics and Metabolic Disease
13:30 - 14:00 Philippe Froguel, Whole Genome Sequencing
14:00 - 14:30 Ruth Loos, GWAS
14:30 - 15:00 Saddaf Farooqi, Monogenetic Diseases
15:00 - 15:30 Coffee Break
15:30 - 16:00 Juleen Zierath, Epigenetics
16:00 - 16:15 Selected Talk
16:15 - 16:30 Selected Talk
16:30 - 16:45 Selected Talk
16:45 - 17:00 Selected Talk
17:00 - 17:30 Coffee Break
17:30 - 18:30 Keynote Speaker: Markus Stoffel, MicroRNA & Metabolic Disease
18:30 - 20:00 Dinner
20:00 - 23:00 After-dinner drinks and Poster Sneak Preview
 

 

Day 2 - Friday, 14 September 2012
09:00 - 12:30 Session 2: CNS and Control of Energy Metabolism
09:00 - 09:30 Tamas Horvath, t.b.a..
09:30 - 10:00 Martin Myers, t.b.a.
10:00 - 10:30 Keynote Lecture: Jeff Friedman, t.b.a..
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00- 11:30 Matthias Treier, t.b.a.
11:30 - 11:45 Selected Talk
11:45 - 12:00 Selected Talk
12:00 - 12:15 Selected Talk
12:15 - 12:30 Selected Talk
12:30 - 14:30 Lunch and Poster Session I
14:30 - 18:00 Session 3: Metabolism, Inflamasome & Cancer
14:30 - 15:00 Sara Kozma, mTorc1
15:00 - 15:30 Jorge Moscat, p62 & PKCs
15:30 - 16:00 Chris Karp, Toll like Receptors
16:00 - 16:30 Coffee Break
16:30 - 17:00 Vidal Puig, Adipose Tissue & Macrophages
17:00 - 18:30 Invited talk & Selected Talks
18:30 - 20:00 Dinner
20:00 - 23:00 After-dinner drinks
 
 
Day 3 - Saturday, 15 September 2012
09:00 - 12:00 Session 4: ER Stress & Mitochondrial Function in Metabolic Disease
09:00 - 09:30 Ron Kahn, UPR-PI3k-signalling
09:30 - 10:00 t.b.c.
10:00 - 10:30 t.b.c.
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:30 David Ron, The Endoplasmic Reticulum UPR and Intermediary Metabolism
11:30 - 11:45 Selected Talk
11:45 -12:00 Selected Talk
12:00 - 12:15 Selected Talk
12:15 - 12:30 Selected Talk
12:30 - 14:30 Poster Session II and Lunch
14:30 - 18:00 Session 5: Gastrointestinal Control of Metabolism
14:30 - 15:00 Randy Seeley, Bariatric Surgery & Gut Hormones
15:00 - 15:30 t.b.c.
15:30 - 16:00 Fredrik Backhead, The Gut Microbiota as Regulator of Host Metabolism
16:00 - 16:30 Coffee Break
16:30 - 17:00 Bart Staels,  Liver Metabolism & Circadian Clock
17:00 - 18:30 Invited Talk & Selected Talks
18:30 - 24:00 Gala Dinner & Party
 

 

Day 4 - Sunday, 16 September 2012
09:00 - 12:30 Session 6: Systems Biology of Type 2 Diabetes
09:00 - 09:30 Bernard Thorens, Brain - Endocrine Pancreas Interactions in the Control of Glucose Homeostasis
09:30 - 10:00 t.b.c. Lipid Metabolism
10:00 - 10:30 Matthias Blueher, Adipokines
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:30 Lora Heisler, Role of the Serotonin-Melanocortin-BDNF Axis in the Modulatiion of Appetite
11:30 - 11:45 Selected Talk
11:45 - 12:00 Selected Talk
12:00 - 12:15 Selected Talk
12:15 - 12:30 Selected Talk
12:30 - 14:30 Poster Session III and Lunch
14:30 - 15:30 Keynote Lecture: Richard Di Marchi, The Pursuit of Transformational Medicines
15:30 - 15:45 Poster Prize & Closing, Matthias Tschoep & Jens Bruening