#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,
TBA
10:00-10:30 Coffee
Session 1: 10:30-12:00, Chair: TBA
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: TBA
12:00-13:00 Lunch
Session 2: 13:00-14:00, Chair: TBA
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: TBA
Christian Wolfrum, Department of Health Sciences and Technology, ETH Zürich.
Adipocytes tissue composition and metabolic control
Silvia Corvera, University of Massachusetts Medical School
TBA
15:30-16:00 Fresh air break
Poster session and networking: 16:00 - 18:00
Dinner on own/speakers dinner: 18:30 -
May 29
Session 4: 09:00-10:00, Chair: TBA
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
TBA
10:00-10:30 Coffee
Session 5: 10:30-12:00, Chair: TBA
Edward Pearce, Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Johns Hopkins University
TBA
Anna Krook, Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Karolinska Institutet
Adipose tissue response and inter-tissue communication following an exercise bout in type 2 diabetes
Short talks: TBA
12:00-13:00 Lunch
Session 6: 13:00-14:00, Chair: TBA
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
14:00-14:30 Coffee
Session 7: 14:30-15:30, Chair: TBA
Yu-Hua Tseng, Joslin Diabetes Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston
Epigenetic regulation of the thermogenic program
Shingo Kajimura, Kajimura Lab, Harvard Medical School
TBA
15:30-16:00 Fresh air break
Poster session and networking: 16:00 - 18:00
Dinner on own: 18:30 -
May 30
Session 8: 09:00-10:00, Chair: TBA
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
TBA
10:00-10:30 Coffee
Session 9: 10:30-11:30, Chair: TBA
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
Scientific event (TBA): 11:30-12:30
12:30-13:30 Lunch
Session 10: 13:30-14:30, Chair: TBA
David Guertin, University of Massachusetts Medical School
TBA
Alexander Pfeifer, Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Bonn
TBA
14:30-15:00 Coffee
Concluding remarks and introduction to Scientific networking event: 15:30-15:45
Scientific networking event (TBA): 15:30-17:30
Conference dinner: 19:00
May 31
Departure