Diabetes and Obesity
J. Brüning, M. Tschöp
EMBL Heidelberg, Germany
Thursday 13 September - Sunday 16 September 2012

Programme
[Preliminary] Programme
| 11:00 - 12:30 | Industry Workshop 1 |
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| 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 |
| 09:00 - 12:30 | Session 2: CNS and Control of Energy Metabolism |
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| 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 |
| 09:00 - 12:00 | Session 4: ER Stress & Mitochondrial Function in Metabolic Disease |
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| 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 |
| 09:00 - 12:30 | Session 6: Systems Biology of Type 2 Diabetes |
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| 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 |
