Organization: Hans Fischer Senior Fellow Tamas Horvath (Yale University)
Date: December 21-22, 2015
Location: TUM Institute for Advanced Studies, Faculty Club (4th floor), Lichtenbergstraße 2 a, 85748 Garching, Germany
Program
Monday, December 21, 2015
9:00 Arrival/Coffee
9:50 Introduction
Tamas Horvath, Yale University
10:00 CNS control of glucose metabolism
Jens Brüning (Max Planck Institute for Metabolism Research, Cologne, Germany
10:30 Mitofusin proteins in POMC neurons differentially regulate systemic glucose
Marc Claret (IDIBAPS Diabetes and Obesity Research Laboratory, Barcelona, Spain)
11:00 Central mitochondrial dynamics in the regulation of glucose homeostasis
Sabrina Diano (Yale University, New Haven, USA)
11:30 Astrocytic insulin signaling couples brain glucose uptake with nutrient availability
Cristina Garcia Caceres (Institute for Diabetes and Obesity, HelmholtzZentrum Munich, Germany)
12:00 Lunch
13:00 mTORC1 and endocannabinoid signaling set hypothalamic melanocortin tone to regulate feeding
Daniela Cota (Neurocentre Magendie, Bordeaux, France)
13:30 Endocannabinoid signaling in the hypothalamic arcuate nucleus: identification of novel players and mechanisms controlling energy homeostasis
Marco Koch (University of Leipzig, Germany)
14:00 A cannabinoid link between mitochondria and memory
Giovanni Marsicano (Neurocentre Magendie, Bordeaux, France)
14:30 Cannabinoid-induced actomyosin contraction shapes neuronal structure and connectivity at several spatiotemporal scales
Zsolt Lenkei (ESPCI, Paris, France)
15:00 Coffee Break
15:30 Metabolic determinants driving the expression of Foxp3 splicing variants in health and autoimmunity
Veronica De Rosa (IEOS, Naples, Italy)
16:00 Metabolic overwork and loss of self-immune tolerance: the leptin story
Giuseppe Matarese (IEOS, Naples, Italy)
16:30 Palatability can drive feeding independent of AgRP neurons
erge Luquet (Paris, France)
19:00 Speakers’ Dinner
Restaurant Der Pschorr, Viktualienmarkt 15, 80331, Munich
Tuesday, December 22, 2015
9:00 Arrival/Coffee
10:00 Metabolic checkpoint in direct neuronal reprogramming
Magdalena Götz (Institute of Stem Cell Research, Helmholtz Munich, Germany)
10:30 Early environmental influences on metabolism and hypothalamic inflammation
Julie Chowen (Hospital Infantil Universitario Niño Jesús, Madrid, Spain)
11:00 Aging microglia in Alzheimer’s disease and obesity
Ingo Bechmann (University of Leipzig, Germany)
11:30 Hypothalamic targets of exercise
Susanna Hoffmann (Institute of Diabetes and Regeneration Research, HelmholtzZentrum Munich, Germany)
12:00 Closing remarks / Lunch
Matthias Tschöp (Institute of Diabetes and Obesity, HelmholtzZentrum München)