Program

Wednesday, September 3 08:00 - 17:00
Thursday, September 4 09:00 - 18:00
Friday, September 5 09:00 - 12:15

The program will be updated until the conference. 

Wednesday September 3

08:00-08:45 Registration
08:45-09:00
 
Introduction/purpose of the meeting (organizers);
Introduction of the keynote speaker
   
Keynote Speaker:
09:00-09:45 Sir Peter Ratcliffe
   
09:45-10:00 Coffee break
   
Session 1: Metabolite-mediated generation of Malignancy
Chair: Jorge Ruas
 

10:00-10:30
 

Craig Thompson, MD, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
What oncometabolites have taught us about biology
10:30-11:00
 
Celeste Simon, PhD, University of Pennsylvania
Exploiting tumor metabolism for therapeutic gain
11:00-11:30
 
Sara-Maria Fendt, Professor. PhD, VIB-KU Leuven Center for Cancer Biology
Metabolic rewiring driving metastasis formation
11:30-12:00 Russell Jones, PhD, Chair and professor, Van Andel Research Insitute
   
12:00-13:00 Lunch
   
Session 2: Metabolites and Immune Response
Chair: Randall Johnson
 
13:00-13:30
 
Erika Pearce, Professor, Johns Hopkins University
Delineating the metabolic signals that direct immune cell differentiation and function
13:30-14:00 Carl June, MD, The University of Pennsylvania
14:00-14:30
 
Marcia Haigis, PhD, Harvard Medical School, 
Metabolites in cancer and immunity
   
14:30-15:00 Coffee break
   
15:00-15:30
 
Luke O’Neill, PhD, Trinity College Dublin
How mitochondria control cytokines
15:30-16:00
 
Claudio Mauro, PhD, University of Birmingham
Mechanisms of immune modulation by lactate and palmitate in inflammation
16:00-16:30
 
Lydia Lynch, Professor, Princeton University
Cytokines as ancient metabolic messengers
16:30-17:00
 
Marina Kreutz, PhD, University Hospital Regensburg
The immunological Warburg effect – a metabolic checkpoint
   
17:00-19:00 Reception, drinks and light snacks in Nobel Forum
   

Thursday September 4

Session 3: Metabolites generated by the Microbiome and by Nutrition
Chair: Mikael Rydén
 
09:00-09:30
 
Harry Sokol, PhD, Sorbonne Université
Gut Microbiota-derived metabolite and intestinal inflammation
09:30-10:00
 
Sara Vieira-Silva, Professor. Dr, Johannes Gutenberg University
Tracking microbial metabolism in health and disease
10:00-13:30
 
Max Nieuwdorp, Professor. Dr, AmsterdamUMC
Tryptophan metabolites as modulators of immunological tone in autoimmune DM1
   
10:30-10:45 Coffee break
   
10:45-11:15 Martin Bergö
11:15-11:45
 
Juleen Zierath, Professor, Karolinska Institutet
Metabolites, exercise, and type 2 diabetes
   
12:00-13:00 Lunch
   
Session 4: Metabolites and energy regulation
Chair: Carolina Hagberg
   
13:00-13:30
 
Navdeep Chandel, PhD, Northwestern University
Mitochondria signaling in physiology and disease
13:30-14:00
 
Audrey Carriére, PhD, Restore
Lactate as a redox metabolite supporting non shivering thermogenesis.
14:00-14:30
 
Joshua Rabinowitz, MD. PhD, Princeton University
Metabolism in action
14:30-15:00 Matthew Vander Heiden, MD. PhD, MIT
   
15:30-16:00 Coffee break
   
Session 5: Metabolites and organismal metabolism
Chair: Juleen Zierath
   
16:00-16:30
 
David James, Professor, The University of Sydney
Probing metabolic disease using systems genetics
16:30-17:00
 
Lydia Finley, PhD, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Metabolic control of cell fate decisions
17:00-17:30 Jorge Ruas
17:30-18:00
 
Mikael Rydén, Professor, Karolinska Institutet
Novel insights into the link between metabolites and white adipose tissue function
   

Friday September 5

Session 6: Metabolites, epigenetics, and post-translational modification
Chair: Thomas Perlmann
   
09:00-09:30
 
Sonia Rocha, Professor, University of Liverpool
Mechanisms controlling gene expression in hypoxia
09:30-10:00 Yingming Zhao, Professor, The University of Chicago
10:00-10:30
 
Christian Frezza, Professor, University Hospital of Cologne, CECAD
The role of fumarate hydratase in cancer
   
10:30-10:45 Coffee break
   
10:45-11:15
 
Ed Chouchani, PhD, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute / HHMI
Mass spectrometry and machine learning to identify a cellular cysteine sensor
11:15-11:45
 
Ralph DeBerardinis, MD/PhD, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Metabolic reprogramming and cancer progression in patients
11:45-12:15 Randall Johnson
   

Speakers

Martin Bergö
Audrey Carrière
Navdeep Chandel
Edward Chouchani
Ralph DeBerardinis
Sarah-Maria Fendt
Lydia Finley
Christian Frezza
Marcia Haigis
David E. James
Randall Johnson
Russell Jones
Carl June
Marina Kreutz
Lydia Lynch
Claudio Mauro
Max Nieuwdorp
Luke O'Neill
Erika Pearce
Joshua D. Rabinowitz
Sir Peter Ratcliffe
Sonia Rocha
Jorge Ruas
Mikael Rydén
Celeste Simon
Harry Sokol
Craig Thompson
Matthew Vander Heiden
Sara Vieira-Silva
Yingming Zhao
Juleen Zierath