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Symposium on Métabolism 2018

5th Geneva Diabetes Centre Symposium

and G2L2 Meeting

 

“2018 Symposium on Metabolism”

 

 

October 17-18, 2018

In Geneva

 

 

Registration is required and free of charge: To register, please send an email to Luli.Billecchi(at)unige.ch by October 1, 2018

 

Venue: University Hospital of Geneva, HUG (Auditorium Marcel-Jenny)

 

Organizing Committee: Roberto Coppari, Valerie Schwitzgebel, Ildiko Szanto, Franco Negro, Pedro Herrera, Charna Dibner 

 

 

Symposium Program

 

Wednesday, October 17th

 

14:00 - 14:30 Registration and welcoming coffee

 

14:30 - 14:40 Opening remarks

Prof. Dominique Soldati-Favre, Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva

 

14:40 - 18:15 Session 1: Circadian clocks in Metabolism and Diabetes

 

14:40-16:10 Chair: Roberto Coppari

 

14:40-15:25 Paolo Sassone-Corsi, University of California Irvine, USA

15:25 -16:10 Ueli Schibler, University of Geneva, Switzerland

 

16:10-16:30 Coffee break

 

16:30-18:15 Chair:Ueli Schibler 

 

16:30 – 17:15 Joseph Bass, Northwestern University, USA

17:15 - 17:45 Charna Dibner, University of Geneva, Switzerland

17: 45 - 18:15 Frederic Gachon, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland

 

17:45 - 19:45 Posters session 1 and beers

 

20:00   Speakers Dinner

 

 

Thursday, October 18th

 

8:30 - 9:00 Welcoming coffee

 

9:00 - 12:00  Session 2: Islet Cells and Diabetes

Chair:Pedro Herrera and Lluis Fajas

 

9:00    -   9:30        Markus Stoeffel, ETH Zurich, Switzerland

9:30    -   10:00   Roland Stein, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, USA

10: 00 - 10:30     Bernd Bodenmiller, University of Zurich, Switzerland

 

Coffee break 10:30- 11:00

 

11:00 – 11:30 Didier Stainier, Max Planck Institute Bad Nauheim, Germany

11:30 -11:45  Selected abstracts (students and post-docs)

11:45 -12:00  Selected abstracts (students and post-docs)

 

 

12:00 -13:45 Poster Session 2 and lunch

 

13:45 – 16:00 Session 3: Liver physiology and pathophysiology

Chairs: Franco Negro and Michelangelo Foti

 

13:45 -14:15  Gianluca Svegliati-Baroni, University of Ancona, Italy

The gut-liver axis and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease

14:15- 14:45  Herbert Tilg, Innsbruck, Austria

The gut-liver axis and insulin resistance/type 2 diabetes

14:45 -15:15  Gilles Mithieux, INSERM, Lyon, France

The gut-brain axis and glucose homeostasis

 

15:15-15:30 Editor of the new Nature journal (Nature Metabolism)

15:30 – 15:45 Selected abstracts (students and post-docs)

15:45 -16:00 Selected abstracts (students and post-docs)

 

16:00 -16:30 Coffee break

 

16:30  - 18:30 Session 4: Selected aspects of metabolism and diabetes

Chairs:Valerie Schwitzgebel and Ildiko Szanto

                       

16:30 - 17:00 Ellen Van-Obberghen, INSERM, Nice, France

17:00 - 17:30 Matthias Bluher, Leipzig, Germany

17:30 - 18:00 Serge Bottari, University of Grenoble, France

 

18:00 – 18:15 Prizes for best short presentation/poster

 

18:15 - 19:00 Closing lecture

Ronald Kahn, Joslin Diabetes Center, Harvard Medical School, USA

 

19:00 - 19:05 Closing remarks

To Be Determined