Actualités
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 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