PROGRAMME


Below is an outline of the conference programme. It is still preliminary but it gives you the opportunity to start planning your travel itinerary.



 

Day 1, Tuesday October 17
09.00-10.00   Open for registration and morning coffee
10.00-10.10   Welcome
10.10-12.00   Session 1, Incretins moving beyond glycemic control
Keynote speaker: Jan Eriksson, Uppsala university
- TBA
    Nils Wierup, Lund University
- Novel regulators of GLP-1 secretion
    Johan Jendle, Örebro university
- Incretins from investigational new product to first line therapy
12.00-13.00      LUNCH
13.00-15.00   Session 2, Skeletal muscle physiology and type 2 diabetes
Keynote speaker: Juleen Zierath, Karolinska Institute
- Circadian Control of Systemic Metabolism in Physiology and Type 2 Diabetes
    William Apro, Swedish School of Sport and Health Sciences
- Intracellular signalling in skeletal muscle of young and elderly individuals
    Ola Hansson, Lund University
- Genetics of skeletal muscle
15.00-15.30      COFFEE BREAK
15.30-16.40   Young researcher session 1
16.45-17.30   Young researcher session 2
17.30   Posters and pre dinner mingle
19.00   Buffet dinner

 

Day 2, Wednesday October 18
08.00-10.00   Session 3: Non Alcoholic Fatty Liver disease/Nonalcoholic steatohepatitis
Keynote speaker: Ulf Smith, University of Gothenburg
- Cell senescence promotes NAFLD and NASH
    Mattias Ekstedt, Linneaus University
- Not all fat is equal – Investigating the ectopic fat storage syndrome as a hepatologist
    Andreas Hörnblad, Umeå University
- Diet-induced aberrant splicing and Wnt signalling in fatty liver and heptacellular carcinoma
10.00-10.30      COFFE BREAK
10.30-12.30   Session 4, Pancreatic islet and beta-cells
Keynote speaker: Per-Olof Berggren, Karolinska Institute
- A Natural Body Window to Pancreatic Islet Cell Function and Survival
    Karl Bacos, Lund University
- Identifying new players in T2D pathophysiology
    Elin Chorell, Umeå University
- Islet sphingolipid and phospholipid metabolism in beta-cell dysfunction
12.30-13.30      LUNCH
13.30-15.30   Session 5, Type 1 diabetes
Keynote speaker: Åke Lernmark, Lund University
- Triggers of islet autoantibodies heralding type 1 diabetes
    Malin Flodström Tullberg, Karolinska Institute
- One step closer to understanding the role of enterovirus infections in causing type 1 diabetes
    Joey Lau Börjesson, Uppsala University
- Generation of human stem cell-derived islets
15.30-15.45   Conference closing