#CPHBAT2024
Program
May 27 - May, 2024
Organized by Rigshospitalet and University of Copenhagen
Time: May 27 -May 31 2024
Venue: Comwell Portside Copenhagen
Organizing committee: Camilla Scheele, Søren Nielsen, Bente Klarlund Pedersen & Zach Gerhart-Hines
Poster evaluation committee: George Caputa (Senior Editor, Nature), Revati Dewal (Associate Editor, Nature Metabolism)
May 27
17:00-19:00 Arrival drinks, snacks and registration
May 28
08:15-08:45 Registration & Coffee
08:45-09:00 Welcome
Keynote lecture: 09:00-10:00
Michael Paul Czech, University of Massachusetts Medical School,
The cell biology of adipose beiging
10:00-10:30 Coffee
Session 1: 10:30-12:00, Chair: Camilla Scheele
Kirsty Spalding, Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Karolinska institutet
Adipocyte plasticity and heterogeneity in humans
Paul Cohen, Laboratory of Molecular Metabolism, The Rockefellar University
Brown fat and cardiometabolic health: From human cohorts to underlying mechanisms
Short talks:
Carla Horvath, ETH Zürich, FSTL3 - a potential switch between thermogenic differentiation and immunomodulatory cells
Jacqueline Beaudry, University of Toronto, Connections between brown adipose tissue and glucose-dependent insulinotropic
peptide (GIP)
12:00-13:00 Lunch
Session 2: 13:00-14:00, Chair: Tobias Fromme
Lawrence Kazak, Department of Biochemistry, McGill University
Thermogenesis by the Futile Creatine Cycle: quantitive contribution and activation mechanism
Martin Jastroch, Department of Molecular Biosciences , The Wenner-Gren Institute, Stockholm University
Life without Uncoupling proteins
14:00-14:30 Coffee
Session 3: 14:30-15:30, Chair: Kirsi Virtanen
Christian Wolfrum, Department of Health Sciences and Technology, ETH Zürich.
Adipocytes tissue composition and metabolic control
Silvia Corvera, University of Massachusetts Medical School
Mechanisms of human adipocyte beiging
15:30-16:00 Fresh air break
Poster session A and networking: 16:00 - 18:00
Dinner on own/speakers dinner: 18:30 -
May 29
Session 4: 09:00-10:00, Chair: Søren Nielsen
Mikael Ryden, Karolinska Institutet and Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm
Turning white adipose tissue to beige- the role of glutamine metabolism
Prashant Rajbhandari, Department of Endocrinology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Microenvironmental Influences on Adipose Tissue Thermogenesis
10:00-10:30 Coffee
Session 5: 10:30-11:30, Chair: Kristin Stanford
Roland Stimson, University of Edinburgh
Pharmacological regulation of human brown adipose tissue
Anna Krook, Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Karolinska Institutet
Adipose tissue response and inter-tissue communication following an exercise bout in type 2 diabetes
Scientific event: Panel Discussion: Future Perspectives in Obesity Research. Panel: Juleen Zierath, Ruth Loos, Bente K. Pedersen,
Philipp Scherer and Mads Tang-Christensen.
12:30-13:30 Lunch
Session 6: 13:30-14:30, Chair: Roland Stimson
Jan Nedergaard, Department of Molecular Biosciences , The Wenner-Gren Institute, Stockholm University
Mouse and human UCP1: function and significance
Ruth Loos, Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research, University of Copenhagen
Brown adipose tissue epidermiology: higher BAT activity protects against type 2 diabetes
14:30-15:00 Coffee
Session 7: 15:00-16:00, Chair: Sigfried Ussar
Yu-Hua Tseng, Joslin Diabetes Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston
Epigenetic regulation of the thermogenic program
Shingo Kajimura, Kajimura Lab, Harvard Medical School
Uncoupling metabolic health from thermogenesis via mitochondrial BCAA nitrogen flux
16:00-16:30 Fresh air break
Poster session B and networking: 16:30 - 18:30
Dinner on own: 18:30 -
May 30
Session 8: 09:00-10:00, Chair: Carolina Hagberg
Philipp E. Scherer, Touchstone Diabetes Center, UT Southwestern Medical Center
The unsurpassed potential of adipose tissue to influence metabolism
Susanne Mandrup, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Southern Denmark
Plasticity of Adipose Tissue
10:00-10:30 Coffee
Session 9: 10:30-12:00, Chair: Zach Gerhart-Hines
Lori Zeltser, Department of Pathology and Cell Biology, Columbia University
Sympathetic regulation of brown adipose function and systemic metabolism
Denis Blondin, Department of Medicine, Division of Neurology, Université de Sherbrooke
Sex differences in BAT thermogenesis in humans
Short talks: 11:30-12:00
Lin Wang, Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association, Role of TRPM8 in thermogenesis in the
naked mole-rat
Farnaz Shamsi, New York University, The dialogue within fat: targeting adipose tissue neurovasculature to improve metabolism
12:00-13:00 Lunch
Session 10: 13:00-14:00, Chair: Jörg Heeren
David Guertin, University of Massachusetts Medical School
Metabolic Adaptations During Adipocyte Thermogenesis
Alexander Pfeifer, Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Bonn
Control of brown/beige adipose tissue size by EPAC1
14:00-14:30 Coffee
Concluding remarks: 14:30-1500
Scientific networking event (TBA): 15:00-17:00
Conference dinner: 18:30
May 31
Departure