Conferences and symposiums Minisymposium: Rolf Luft Award and Novo Nordisk-KI
Mini-symposium: Rolf Luft Award 2022 & Novo Nordisk Postdoctoral Fellowship Programme at KI
10:30-10:40 Welcome note
10:40-11:10 Peter Kurtzhals “Changing diabetes - when science meets technology"
11:15-11:35 David Rizo Roca “Sarcomeric mitochondrial creatine kinase 2 modulates mitochondrial function and is downregulated in men with type 2 diabetes”
11:40-12:00 Ilke Sen “lncRNAs regulating skeletal muscle metabolism”
Lunch break, sandwiches served outside Lecture hall.
13:00-13:15 Kerstin Brismar Rolf Luft Award 2022 to Roger D. Cone
13:15-14:00 Roger D. Cone Rolf Luft Prize Lecture "The Remarkable Biology of the Melanocortin Peptides"
14:10-14:30 Osman Ahmed “Neural control of liver immunometabolism”
Break, coffee served outside lecture hall
15:00-15:20 Aida Collado “The red blood cell as a novel mediator of vascular endothelial injury in type 2 diabetes”
15:25-15:45 Alison Ludzki “Functional siRNA screen in primary differentiated adipocytes identifies novel transcriptional regulators of lipolysis”
15:50-16:10 Scott Frendo-Cumbo “Identifying adipocyte-specific insulin stimulated transcriptional targets that regulate lipid metabolism”
16:15-16:25 Closing remarks
Speakers:
Peter Kurtzhals, Chief Scientific Advisor, Novo Nordisk
David Rizo Roca, Assistant Professor, Dept of Physiology and Pharmacology, KI
Ilke Sen, Postdoctoral fellow, Dept of Physiology and Pharmacology, KI
Osman Ahmed, Postdoctoral fellow, Dept of Medicine Solna, KI
Aida Collado, Postdoctoral fellow, Dept of Medicine Solna, KI
Alison Ludzki, Postdoctoral fellow, Dept of Medicine Huddinge, KI
Scott Frendo Cumbo, Postdoctoral fellow, Dept of Medicine Huddinge, KI
Registration
Attendance is free of charge and open for everyone, registration is required for the food/coffee served. Please register by email to Arja Kants, Arja.Kants@ki.se, latest January 9th.