Photo credit: James Minchin (University of Edinburgh) and John Rawls (Duke University)
Programme
Speakers should limit the duration of their presentations to 30 minutes to ensure ample time for discussion and transition between speakers.
Click on the title of each presentation to view the abstract.
Saturday 25 March
17.00 Registration and conference materials
18.00 Welcome reception and drinks
Introductory lecture (Chair: Raul Suarez)
19.00 John Speakman (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China and University of Aberdeen, UK)
Evolutionary aspects of fat storage
20.00 Dinner
Sunday 26 March
Session 1: Making fat (Chair: Raul Suarez)
09.00-09.40 Cristina Salmerón (University of California, San Diego, USA)
09.45-10.25 Ronald Kühnlein (Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Germany and University of Graz, Austria)
Control of adiposity and lipid metabolism in Drosophila
10.30 Refreshment break
11.00-11.40 James Minchin (University of Edinburgh, UK)
Leveraging in vivo imaging in zebrafish to understand the genetic basis of adipose morphology
11.45-12.25 Siegfried Ussar (Helmholtz Zentrum München, Germany)
Adipocyte heterogeneity in development and disease
12.30 Lunch
Session 2: Diet and fat (Chair: Hans Hoppeler)
13.30-14.10 Nini Sissener (National Institute of Nutrition and Seafood Research, Norway)
Are we what we eat? Dietary fat and body fat in fish and humans
14.15-14.55 Kenneth Welch (University of Toronto, Scarborough, Canada)
15.00 Refreshment break
15.30-16.10 Matthijs Hesselink (Maastricht University, The Netherlands)
16.15-16.55 Luc Tappy (University of Lausanne, Switzerland)
Sugar as a cause of obesity and metabolic disease
19.30 Dinner
Monday 27 March
Session 3: Fat as fuel (Chair: Raul Suarez)
09.00-09.40 Martin Klingenspor (Technische Universität München, Germany)
Non-adrenergic control of fat storage and metabolism in adipose tissues
09.45-10.25 Christopher Guglielmo (Western University, Canada)
Fat metabolism in migratory birds and bats
10.30 Refreshment break
11.00-11.40 Brent Sinclair (Western University, Canada)
The many roles of fat for overwintering insects
11.45-12.25 Melinda Fowler (Springfield College, USA)
Adiposity and fat metabolism during combined fasting and lactation in elephant seals
12.30 Lunch
13.30 Social event
19.30 Dinner
Tuesday 28 March
Session 4: Fat as furnace and insulation (Chair: Hans Hoppeler)
09.00-09.40 Matthew Andrews (Oregon State University, USA)
Nature’s fat-burning machine: brown adipose tissue in a hibernating mammal
09.45-10.25 Martin Jastroch (Helmholtz Zentrum München and Philipps University of Marburg, Germany)
Insights into brown adipose tissue evolution and function from non-model organisms
10.30 Refreshment break
11.00-11.40 Heather Koopman (University of North Carolina Wilmington, USA)
Evolution and function of specialized adipose tissue in whales
11.45-12.00 Michaela Handel (JEB)
An introduction to The Company of Biologists and JEB
12.00 Lunch
12.30-16.00 JEB Editors Meeting (JEB Editors and Directors only)
14.00-15.00 History Tour of Wiston House with local historian
Session 5: Good and bad fat: regulation and dysregulation
(Chair: Raul Suarez)
16.00-16.40 Marika Charalambous (Queen Mary University of London, UK)
Regulation of metabolism by imprinted genes
16.45-17.25 Kristin Stanford (The Ohio State University, USA)
Exercise-induced adaptations to white and brown adipose tissue
17.30 Refreshment break
17.45-18.25 Laura Musselman (Binghamton University, USA)
Obesity and metabolic disease: in support of a maximum adipose expandability model
18.30 General discussion and feedback (Chairs: Raul Suarez and Hans Hoppeler)
19.30 Conference Dinner
Wednesday 29 March
Departure by 9 am
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