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LSS 2017

Programme

Full programme & posters abstracts

Frontiers in Metabolism

From system physiology to precision medicine

  24 October 2017 Lectures open to public - registration mandatory

13:30  -  15:45
Registration & welcome
15:45  -  16:00
Welcome and official opening
Johan Auwerx
Chair Johan Auwerx
16:00  -  16:45
The bioethics of metabolism: a bridge back to the future
Paul B. Thompson
16:45  -  17:15
Digital Health & Epidemiology
Marcel Salathé
17:15  -  17:20
Lausanne Integrative Metabolism Nutrition Alliance
Lluis Fajas Coll
Chair Carmen Sandi
17:20  -  17:50
Transparency and reproducibility in science: how to make it work? EMBO Press Session
Thomas Lemberger
17:50  -  18:20
Connecting the obesity and the narcissism epidemics
Bruno Lemaitre
Chair Gisou van der Goot
18:20  -  18:25
The Brocher Foundation: research on the ethical, legal and social implications of medical progress
Jean-Dominique Vassalli
18:25  -  18:40
Closing remarks – EPFL President
Martin Vetterli
18:40  -  20:40
Standing dinner in the conference hall

  25 October 2017 Scientific Sessions

Chair Johan Auwerx
08:30  -  09:00
Autophagy, metabolism and cancer
Eileen White
09:00  -  09:30
Mitochondrial behavior
Jodi Nunnari
09:30  -  10:00
Cellular protein traffic: Signalling pathways regulating mitochondrial protein import
Chris Meisinger
10:00  -  10:30
Coffee break & posters session in the conference hall
Chair Jodi Nunnari
10:30  -  11:00
Proteolytic control of mitochondrial dynamics and metabolism
Thomas Langer
11:00  -  11:30
Mitochondrial Priming By CD28
Erika Pearce
11:30  -  12:00
Regulation of Growth by the mTOR pathway
David Sabatini
12:00  -  13.30
Lunch & posters session in the conference hall
Chair Eileen White
13:30  -  14:00
Mitochondria as signaling organelles
Navdeep Chandel
14:00  -  14:30
Mitochondria, metabolic waste and cancer
Marcia Haigis
14:30  -  15:00
Systematic functional characterization of mitochondrial proteins
Dave Pagliarini
15:00  -  15:30
Coffee break & posters session in the conference hall
Chair Marcia Haigis
15:30  -  16:00
Mitonuclear genetic interactions and personalized genomic responses to diet in Drosophila
David Rand
16:00  -  16:30
Gut bacterial genome sequencing and omics study reveals stratified treatment for metabolic disorder
Xun Xu
16:30  -  17:00
Complex Phenotypes and their Proteomic Basis
Ruedi Aebersold
17:00  -  17:15
Exploiting natural genetic variation to understand macrophage identity and function
Verena Link
17:15  -  17:30
Immunometabolic Biology of the Endoplasmic Reticulum
Alexander Bartelt
17:30  -  20:30
Posters session, exhibitors and cocktail dinner in the conference hall

  26 October 2017 Scientific Sessions

Chair Lluis Fajas Coll
08:30  -  09:00
Mitokine control of metabolism and longevity – supported by LIMNA
Andrew Dillin
09:00  -  09:30
Convergent mechanisms of longevity – supported by LIMNA
Adam Antebi
09:30  -  10:00
Obesity: genetics and beyond – supported by LIMNA
Sadaf Farooqi
10:00  -  10:30
Coffee break & posters session in the conference hall
Chair Kristina Schoonjans
10:30  -  11:00
Targeting Specific Ceramide Synthases in Metabolic Disorders – supported by LIMNA
Jens Brüning
11:00  -  11:30
Systemic Energy Metabolism in Mice with Mitoribosomal Dysfunction
Minho Shong
11:30  -  12:00
Temporal tracking of microglia activation in neurodegeneration at single-cell resolution
Li Huei Tsai
12:00  -  12:30
Epigenetics in metabolic disease: stochastic, bi-stable and intergenerational effects
J. Andrew Pospisilik
12:30  -  13:30
Lunch & posters session in the conference hall
Chair Bart Deplancke
13:30  -  14:00
RNA binding proteins and liver metabolism
Markus Stoffel
14:00  -  14:30
The Diverse Metabolic Actions of FGF21
David Mangelsdorf
14:30  -  15:00
Novel approaches for personalized medicine
Eran Segal
15:00  -  15:30
Coffee break & posters session in the conference hall
Chair Etienne Meylan
15:30  -  16:00
Glucose sensing neuronal networks that control pancreatic islet hormone secretion and feeding behavior
Bernard Thorens
16:00  -  16:30
Determinants for how metabolism supports cancer progression
Matthew Vander Heiden
Co-chairs Johan Auwerx & Thomas Lemberger
16:30  -  16:45
Short Talk : Natural genetic variation in C. elegans reveals genomic loci controlling metabolite levels
Arwen Gao
16:45  -  17:00
Short Talk : A link between the microbiota and chromatin through histone crotonylation?
Rachel Fellows
17:00  -  17:15
Short Talk : Vascular endothelial Mitofusin 2 is involved in metabolic control
Marc Claret
17:15  -  17:25
3 posters EPFL-EMBO Press awards
17:25  -  17:30
Closing remarks