09:00 Welcome –Lluis Fajas Coll
09:15 AMP-activated protein kinase: regulating energy balance at
the cellular and whole body levels
Prof. D. Graham Hardie - University of Dundee, Scotland, UK
09:50 System Biology of Human Obesity
Prof. Philippe Froguel – University Lille 2, FR
10:25 Coffee break
10:45 Mitonuclear protein balance as a determinant of health-
and lifespan
Prof. Johan Auwerx - EPFL
11:10 Nervous glucose sensing and the control of pancreatic
islets mass and function
Prof. Bernard Thorens – CIG, UNIL
11:35 From bad to good: the need of fat in development and
homeostasis
Prof. Beatrice Desvergne – CIG, UNIL
12:00 Fructose-induced metabolic syndrome: from animal models
to human nutrition
Prof. Luc Tappy – DP, UNIL
12:25 LUNCH
14:00 Cell cycle regulators are key effectors of energy
homeostasis
Prof. Lluis Fajas Coll – DP, UNIL
14:25 FGF21 as a link between metabolism and reproduction
Prof. Nelly Pitteloud - CHUV
14:50 RBM10: an alternative splicing regulator that sets the
circadian period length in mice
Prof. David Gatfield – CIG, UNIL
15:15 Resistance to diet-induced obesity and associated
metabolic perturbations in haploinsufficient
monocarboxylate transporter 1 mice
Prof. Luc Pellerin – DP, UNIL
15:30 Effect of physical fitness and training on skeletal muscle
mitochondria in the elderly
Chiara Greggio, Post-doc – Lab. Dr Francesca Amati
DP, UNIL
15:45 Coffee Break
16:00 IGF-2 as an autocrine regulator of beta-cell plasticity in
insulin resistance and ageing
Honey Modi, PhD student - Lab Prof. Bernard Thorens
CIG, UNIL
16:15 SIRT7 Regulates Mitochondrial Homeostasis via the
deacetylation and activation of GABPβ1
Dr. Dongryeol Ryu - Lab. Prof. Johan Auwerx - EPFL
16:30 Emerging Roles of Non-Coding RNAs in the Control of β-Cell
Functions
Prof. Romano Regazzi – DNF, UNIL
16:45 Diabetic nephropathy in a new mouse model of
lipodystrophy
Barbara Toffoli, Post-doc - Lab. Prof. Beatrice Desvergne
CIG, UNIL
17:00 E2F1 -/- mice are protected to diabetes–induced liver
steatosis.
Pierre-Damien Denechaud, Post-doc - Lab. Prof. Lluis Fajas
Coll – DP, UNIL
17:15 The caspase-3/p120 rasgap stress-sensing module controls
stress regulated metabolism switch
Güliz Vanli, PhD student - Lab. Christian Widmann
DP, UNIL
17:30 NDNF as a novel gene underlying GnRH deficiency
Dr Sara Santini - Lab. Prof. Nelly Pitteloud - CHUV