Friday 21: Arrival Saturday 22:
8:30-9 Opening Ceremony
9:00-10:00 Opening overview
Stephen O’Rahilly (UK): Fat: Can’t live with it; Can’t live without it.
10:00-12:30 Morning Session 1: Central route to obesity (Chair: Wim Saris & John Rodgers)
10:00-11:00 John Blundell (UK): PsychoBiological system: Human appetite and its relationship to obesity 11:30-12:30 Bradford Lowell (US): Genetic dissection of neural circuits mediating the anti-obesity effects of leptin and melanocortins
12:30-13:30 Short talks: (Chair: John Rodgers) Maria Gabriella Caruso (IT): Cannabinoid type-1 receptor polymorphism and macronutrient intake Udval Sedbazar (JP): Reductions of POMC in nucleus tractus solitarius and oxytocin in hypothalamic paraventricular nucleus in obese hyperphagic OLETF rats Harriet Schellekens (IE), Promiscuous G-protein coupled receptor (GPCR) dimerization in appetite regulation and food reward 13:30-15 Lunch break 15:00-17:00 Afternoon session 1: Central
route to obesity 2: (Chair: Arne
Astrup & Alessandro Bartolomucci) Matthias
Tschoep (DE): Targeting gut-brain communication for the treatment
of obesity and diabetes 16:00-17:00 Daniele Piomelli (US:IT): Fats sensing fats - the roles of lipid signals in the control of energy balance
17:00-17:30 Short talks: (Chair: Antonio Vidal-Puig) Fernando Rodriguez de Fonseca (ES), NP-1, an adiponectin releaser, reduces body weight and hepatic steatosis in high fat diet-fed animals Johannes Grosse (UK), Insulin like factor 5 (Insl5) is a gastrointestinal hormone with orexigenic function 18:00-19:00 Nutrition & Sante` Science Award (Obesity Research) and Medical Award (Weight Management) 19:00. Aperitif offered by Nutrition & Sante` Sunday 23: 9:00-10:00 Saverio Cinti (IT): The obese organ: news and views
10:00-11:00 Antonio
Vidal Puig (UK): The thermogenic disconnect: a strategy to treat
obesity
11:00-11:30 coffee break
11:30-12:30 Short talks: (Chair: Alessandro Bartolomucci) Gema Medina-Gomez (ES), The role of glucolipotoxicity in the renal pathogenesis associated with metabolic syndrome. Susanna Hofmann (US), HDL as a novel modulator of mitochondrial energetics and glucose homeostasis. Paul T. Pfluger (US), Muscle-specific ablation of calcineurin protects from detrimental effects of high-fat diet exposure. Angela Longo (IT), Conditional knockout unravels a novel role of limbic Y1 receptor in regulating body weight and anxiety that is modulated by maternal care. 12:30-15:00. Poster session (Buffet lunch) Afternoon Session 2: Stress &
Obesity (Chair: Enzo
Nisoli & Maria Antonia Fusco) Anna Moles (IT): Effects of unstable maternal environment on the regulation and functioning of the reward system 16:00-17:00 Zofia Zukowska (US): Stress, obesity, and the role of NPY
17-17:30 coffee break 17:30-18:30 Alessandro Bartolomucci (US): Social stress, obesity and diabetes: from models to mechanisms Monday 24: Matej Orešič (FI): Lipidome in health and metabolic disease
John Wilding (UK): Drug therapy for obesity: challenges and solutions
11:00-11:30 coffee break 11:30-12:30 John Rodgers (UK): Behavioural specificity and clinically-relevant appetite suppression 1/2 day excursion Visit to Selinunte
or Segesta Jerry Heindel (US):
Developmental basis of disease: Obesogen hypothesis 10:00-11:00
Frederick Vom Saal (US): Bisphenol A, obesity and metabolic syndrome 11:00-11:30 coffee break 11:30-12:30 Fredrik Bäckhed (SE): The gut microbiota as a novel modulator of host metabolism and obesity
12:30-14:30 Lunch break 14:30-15:30 Short talks: (Chair: Stefano Parmigiani) GianCarlo Panzica (IT), Hypothalamic NPY expression in adult male mice is influenced by adult exposure to environmental endocrine disruptors. Maria Street (IT), Relationships between urinary concentrations of PHTALOX, obesity and insulin sensitivity in obese children: a pilot study. Gianna Ferretti (IT), Is prader-willi syndrome associated with oxidative damage? 15:30-16:00 coffee break 16:00-18:00 Afternoon session 4: Why an obese species? (Chair: John Blundell & Stefano Parmigiani) 16:00-17:00 Jonathan Wells (UK): The evolution of human obesity: where did it all go wrong? 17:00-18:00 John Speakman (UK): The evolution of obesity – thrifty genes or drifty genes? 18:00 Closing
overview/closing discussion/ (Chair: Alessandro Bartolomucci, Stefano Parmigiani, John Rodgers, Antonio Vidal-Puig) The program is susceptible to changes. |
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