Provisional program
Thursday June 13, 2019
09:30 Welcome
09:35 Barbara B. Kahn | Harvard Medical School (USA)
Fatty acid hydroxy fatty acids – endogenous lipid with anti-diabetic and anti-inflammatory
effects
10:10 Catherine Postic | Institut Cochin (FR)
Role of the transcription factor ChREBP in organ cross talk and metabolic disease
10:45 Break
11:05 Lewis C. Cantley | Weill Cornell Medical College (USA)
PI 3-Kinase and cancer metabolism
11:40 Haiping Wang | University of Lausanne (CH) - short talk
Targeting CD36-PPARδ signaling-mediated metabolic adaptation in intratumoral Tregs primes
tumors for PD-1 blockade
11:55 Alexandre Picard | University of Lausanne (CH) - short talk
A genetic screen identified hypothalamic IL-1R signaling as a regulator of insulin-induced
glucagon secretion
12:10 Ralph de Berardinis | UT Southwestern (USA)
Understanding metabolic phenotypes in human tumors
12:45 Lunch and Poster session
14:30 Sarah-Maria Fendt | KU Leuven (BE)
Nutrient metabolism in cancer proliferation and progression
15:05 Joel Elmquist | UT Southwestern (USA)
Using mouse genetics to unravel CNS pathways controlling energy balance and glucose
homeostasis
15:40 Markus Stoffel | ETHZ (CH)
Role of RNA biology proteins and control in metabolism
18:00 John Grace Lecture
Lewis C. Cantley | Weill Cornell Medical College (USA)
Sugar and cancer: not a sweet story
Friday June 14, 2019
09:30 Michael N. Hall | University of Basel (CH)
mTOR signaling in growth and metabolism
10:05 Bart Deplancke | EPFL (CH)
A (single cell) omic journey through the world of adipose biology
10:40 Break
11:00 David E. James | University of Sydney (AU)
Application of systems biology to dissect insulin signaling networks
11:35 Anita Nasrallah | University of Lausanne (CH) - short talk
Global kinome analysis in obese subjects reveals PIM-1 as a novel target for the treatment of
insulin resistance.
11:50 Vineet Choudhary | UNIFR (CH) - short talk
Biogenesis of Lipid Droplets from discrete sites in the ER
12:05 Lluis Fajas | University of Lausanne (CH)
The cyclin-dependent kinase 4 (CDK4) is a sensor and effector of energy levels in normal and
in cancer cells
12:40 Lunch and Poster session
14:30 Carlos Ribeiro | Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown (PT)
The brain as a central regulator of nutrition: how needs turn into wants
15:05 Charlotte Ling | Lund University (SE)
The role of epigenetics in type 2 diabetes and obesity
15:40 Jorge Ferrer | Imperial College London (UK)
Noncoding genome function and diabetes
16:15 Concluding remarks
