27 octobre: Launch - Faculty Diabetes Centre
Programme
9:30-9:45听听听听听听听 Welcome address, Prof. Jacques Philippe and Prof. Thierry Berney
9:45-10:45 听听听听
Dr. Yvan Gosmain (Prof. Jacques Philippe鈥檚 group): The alpha and L cells in type 1 and type 2 diabetes
Dr.Salvatore Fabbiano (Prof. Mirko Trajkovski鈥檚 group): Gut microbiota and adipose tissue browning
Dr. Ildiko Santo: Oxygen radicals in the regulation of metabolic homeostasis
10:45-11:15 鈥� Coffee break
11:15-12:15听
Dr. Charlotte Barbieux (Prof. Thierry Berney鈥檚 group): Analysis of gene expression in islet preparations released for transplantation
Dr. Jorge Altirriba Gutierrez (Prof. Fran莽oise Rohner-Jeanrenaud鈥檚 group):Oxytocin role in diabetes and metabolism
Dorothea Portius (Prof. Michelangelo Foti鈥檚 group): Hepatic insulin receptor/PTEN and IGF-1 receptor/PTEN signalling differentially affect glucose and lipid homeostasis
Dr. Estelle Brioudes (Prof. Domenico Bosco鈥檚 group): Effect of phorbol ester in actin remodelling of E cadherin鈥搈ediated adhesion of human beta- cells
12:15-14:00 - Lunch break
14:00-15:30 听听 Dr. Ursula Loizides (Dr. Charna Dibner鈥檚 group): Impact of the circadian oscillator and metabolic disorders on human skeletal muscle lipid homeostasis
Dr. Ana Vinuela (Prof. Emmanouil Dermitzakis鈥� group): Transcriptional analysis of T2D relevant tissues in humans
Valentina Cigliola (Prof. Pedro Luis Herrera鈥檚 group): Beta-cell reconstitution by islet cell-type interconversion
Dr. Nicolas Bonnet (Prof. Serge Ferrari鈥檚 group): Bone-specific ablation of Ppar纬 increases bone mass and improves energy metabolism
Prof. Pierre Maechler: Glutamate, the Swiss Army knife of metabolic control
Prof. Francesco Negro: Metabolic alterations induced by the hepatitis C virus
15:30-15:45听听听 Official launch of the Faculty Diabetes Centre, Prof. Henri Bounameaux, Dean, Faculty of Medicine UNIGE
15:45-16:15 鈥� Coffee break
16:00-17:30 听听
Prof. Alain Golay
Prof. Val茅rie Schwitzgebel: Monogenic diabetes
Dr. Miwa Umebayashi (Prof. Howard Riezman鈥檚 group): Probing the membrane environment of the human insulin receptor
Dr. Xavier Brenachot (Prof. Roberto Coppari鈥檚 group): Protein Tyrosine Phosphatase Receptor gamma: a novel anti-diabetic target?
17:30-18:00 听听 Concluding Remarks
Prof. Roberto Coppari and Prof. Val茅rie Schwitzgebel, co-ordinators, Faculty Diabetes Centre
The event will be followed by drinks, offered by Charles River Pharmaceuticals
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27 oct. 2015