Conferences and symposiums Nobel Mini-Symposium: Metabolism and Cell Fate

14-11-2025 9:00 am - 6:00 pm Add to iCal
Campus Solna Nobel Forum, Nobels väg 1, Karolinska Institutet, Solna
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Welcome to the Nobel Mini-Symposium on Metabolism and Cell Fate in the series 'Frontiers in Medicine', supported by the Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet.

The 1-day symposium will bring together scientists with different research focus around the central theme: the important role of metabolism in regulating cell fate. The symposium will have four sessions on the following topics: Metabolic disease, Cancer Metabolism, Immunometabolism and Stem Cell Metabolism. 

While the symposium is free to attend, we kindly ask you to register promptly due to limited seating. The event will be held in Nobel Forum, Campus Solna on Friday 14 November 2025. 

Speakers

  • KEYNOTE SPEAKER Lydia Finley, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, USA
  • Susanne Mandrup, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark
  • Anu Suomalainen, University of Helsinki, Finland
  • Liron Bar-Peled, Cancer Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, USA
  • Anna Wredenberg, Karolinska Institutet
  • Maria Rodriguez Colman, UMC, Utrecht, Netherlands
  • Marcia Haigis, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA
  • Mikael Rydén, Karolinska Institutet
  • Ping-Chih Ho, Ludwig Instiute of Cancer Research, Lausanne, Switzerland
  • Marlen Knobloch, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
  • Pekka Katajisto, Karolinska Institutet
  • Volkan Sayin, University of Gothenburg 

Program

9:00-9:10
Welcome words

Pekka Katajisto

9:10-10:40
Session 1, Metabolic Disease

Chair: Nils-Göran Larsson

  • Anu Suomalainen, University of Helsinki, Finland
    “Stress response -mediated change of cell behavior in mitochondrial diseases”
     
  • Susanne Mandrup, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark
    “Adipose plasticity in obesity at single cell resolution”
     
  • Anna Wredenberg, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden  
    “Mitochondrial S-Adenosylmethionine in metabolic disease”
10:40-11:00
Coffee break
11:00-12:30
Session 2, Cancer Metabolism

Chair: Elias Arnér

  • Liron Bar-Peled, Cancer Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, USA
    "Identification of Druggable and Redox Vulnerabilities in Cancer”
     
  • Maria Rodriguez Colman, UMC Utrecht, The Netherlands
    "Driving Fate: Metabolic Control of Genotypes and Phenotypes in the Intestine"
     
  • Volkan Sayin, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
    "Metabolic Regulation of Cell Fate in Aging Tumors: To Spread or to Grow?”
12:30-13:30
Lunch
13:30-15:00
Session 3, Immunometabolism

Chair: Juleen Zierath

  • Marcia Haigis, Harvard Medical School, US 
    “Investigating the role of metabolites in tumor and immune cell functions”
     
  • Ping-Chich Ho, Ludwig Institute of Cancer Research, Switzerland 
    “Mitochondrial guided T-cell differentiation and anti-tumour immunity”
     
  • Mikael Rydén, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden 
    ”Immunometabolic aspects of white adipose tissue”
15:00-15:30
Coffee break
15:30-17:15
Session 4, Stem Cell Metabolism

Chair: Maria Kasper

  • 15:30-16:15, KEYNOTE SPEAKER Lydia Finley, Memorial Sloan Kettering, US 
    “Metabolic regulation of cell fate decisions” 
     
  • 16:15-16:45, Marlen Knobloch, University of Laussane, Switzerland 
    “The metabolic regulation of adult neural stem cells”
     
  • 16:45-17:15, Pekka Katajisto, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden
    “Metabolic regulation of cell fate through selective segregation of organelles”

Organizers

Pekka Katajisto, Agustín Sola-Carvajal from Karolinska Institutet and Emilia Kuuluvainen from University of Helsinki.