#CPHBAT2024
Program
May 30 - June 3, 2022
Organized by Rigshospitalet and University of Copenhagen
Time: May 30 -June 3 2022
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Venue: Comwell Portside Copenhagen
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Organizing committee: Camilla Scheele, Søren Nielsen, Bente Klarlund Pedersen & Zach Gerhart-Hines
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Poster evaluation committee: George Caputa, Isabella Samuelson & Kristan van der Vos
May 30
17:30-19:00 Arrival drinks, snacks and registration
May 31
08:15-08:45 Registration & Coffee
08:45-09:00 Welcome
Keynote lecture: 09:00-10:00
Silvia Corvera, ​ University of Massachusetts Medical School,
Development and function of human thermogenic adipose tissue
10:00-10:30 Coffee
Session 1: 10:30-12:00, Chair: Jan Kornfeld
Søren Nielsen, ​Centre for Physical Activity Research, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen.
Noncoding RNA localization determines metabolic state in human adipocytes
Yu-Hua Tseng, Joslin Diabetes Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston.
Evolving views of thermogenic adipose tissue: inter-cellular and inter-organ communications
Short talks: TBA
12:00-13:00 Lunch
Session 2: 13:00-14:00, Chair: Camilla Scheele
Paul Cohen, ​Laboratory of Molecular Metabolism, The Rockefellar University
Mechanisms Underlying the Protective Effects of Brown Fat in Cardiometabolic Disease
Barbara Cannon, Department of Molecular Biosciences , The Wenner-Gren Institute, Stockholm University
Plasticity and brown adipose tissue
14:00-14:30 Coffee
Session 3: 14:30-15:30, Chair: Kristan van der Voss
Aaron Cypess, ​Diabetes, Endocrinology, and Obesity Branch, NIDDK, NIH
Known and Novel Roles of β3-Adrenergic Receptors in Human Physiology, Adipose and Otherwise
Roland Stimpson, ​Centre for Cardiovascular Science, The University of Edinburgh
Novel regulators of human brown adipose tissue activation
15:30-16:00 Fresh air break
Session 4: 16:00-17:00, Chair: Jens Brüninng
Zach Gerhart-Hines, NFF Center for Basic Metabolic Research, University of Copenhagen.
Leveraging the thermogenic fat-brain axis to counteract metabolic disease
Christian Wolfrum, Department of Health Sciences and Technology, ETH Zürich.
Adipocytes of different color regulating energy metabolism
Poster session and networking: 17:00 - 18:30
June 1
Session 5: 09:00-10:00, Chair: Naja Zenius Jespersen
Jan Nedergaard, Department of Molecular Biosciences , The Wenner-Gren Institute, Stockholm University
UCP1 and brown fat bioenergetics
Denis Blondin, Department of Medicine, Division of Neurology, Université de Sherbrooke
Brown adipose tissue in humans: from therapeutic target to canary in the coal mine
10:00-10:30 Coffee
Session 6: 10:30-12:00, Chair: Brice Emanuelli
Martin Jastroch, Department of Molecular Biosciences , The Wenner-Gren Institute, Stockholm University
How and when UCP1 sparked fire
Michael Paul Czech, ​ University of Massachusetts Medical School,
CRISPR-enhanced adipocyte browning as therapeutic strategy
Short talks: TBA
12:00-13:00 Lunch
Session 7: 13:00-14:00, Chair: Julie Abildgaard
Patrick Rensen, Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Endocrinology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden,
Role of BAT in lipoprotein metabolism: from mice to humans
Kirsi Virtanen, Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Turku
Eating induced changes in hBAT function
14:00-14:30 Coffee
Session 8: 14:30-15:30, Chair: Søren Nielsen
Richard Lang, Center for Chronobiology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
Atypical opsin light sensing pathways and regulation of metabolism
Orian S. Shirihai, Department of Molecular and Medical Pharmacology, University of California Los Angeles
Biology of Lipid Droplet-Bound Mitochondria: Cell-Free Reconstitution of Mitochondria-Lipid Droplet Attachment & Detachment
15:30-16:00 Fresh air break
Session 9: 16:00-17:00, Chair: George Caputa
Martin Klingenspor, Institute for Fodd and Health, Technical University of Munich
Impact of thermogenic adipocytes on diet-induced obesity
Patrick Seale, Institute for Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism, Perelman School of Medicine
Mesenchymal progenitor cells and adipocyte development
Poster session and networking: 17:00 - 18:30
Dinner on own: 18:30 -
June 2
Session 10: 09:00-10:00, Chair: Isabella Samuelson
Gregory Steinberg, Department of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton
Endocrine Regulation of Energy Expenditure
Shingo Kajimura, Kajimura Lab, Harvard Medical School
Mechanisms of beige fat biogenesis
10:00-10:30 Coffee
Session 11: 10:30-12:00, Chair: Carla Rudiger
Antonio Vidal-Puig Dept of Clinical Biochemistry, University of Cambridge.
Mechanisms of BAT regression in obesity
Alexander Pfeifer, Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Bonn
Novel alternatives to beta adrenergic activation of brown fat
Short talks: TBA
12:00-13:00 Lunch
Session 12: 13:00-14:00, Chair: Fabian Finger
Kirsty Spalding, ​Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Karolinska institutet, Stockholm
Adipocyte heterogeneity in human white adipose tissue
Philipp E. Scherer, Touchstone Diabetes Center, UT Southwestern Medical Center
The Many Faces of the Adipocyte
14:00-14:30 Coffee
Session 13: 14:30-15:30, Chair: Zach Gerhart Hines
Mikael Ryden, ​Karolinska Institutet and Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm
Some novel aspects on white adipose tissue heterogeneity
Joerg Heeren, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Cell Biology, University Medical Center Hamburg
Mechanisms of brown adipose tissue degeneration
Concluding remarks and introduction to career event: 15:30-15:45
Stretching legs: 15:45-16:00
Career event
Vaida Bankauskaite, MD, PhD ERC LS4 Panel coordinator
Physiology in Health, Disease and Ageing: Important Insights in ERC Funding schemes
16:00-16:30
Scientific mingle: 16:30-18:00
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Dr. Isabella Samuelson, Editor at Nature Metabolism
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Prof. Dr. Jens Brüning, Director and Scientific Member at the Max Planck Institute for Metabolism Research
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Dr. Kristan van der Vos, Editor at Cell Reports Medicine
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Dr. George Caputa, Editor at Nature
Conference dinner: 19:00
June 3
Departure