Conferences and symposiums Symposium: Epigenetics and Nutrition

Welcome note:
Professor Karl Ekwall, Head of the department, Biosciences and Nutrition, Karolinska Institutet

First session
Chair: Olle Bygren
13.00 - 13.45 The role of epigenetics in the relation nutrition and health
Anna Krook, Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Integrative physiology Group, Karolinska Institutet

13.45 – 14.15   The fat cell and the histone modification at obesity/overweight/diabetes
Mikael Rydén, Department of Medicine, Karolinska Institutet and Karolinska University Hospital.

14.15 – 14.30 Obesity and histone modifications
Karl Ekwall Head of the department, Biosciences and Nutrition, Karolinska Institutet

14.30 – 15.00   Epigenetic regulation of diabetogenic adipose morphology
Ingrid Dahlman, Department of Medicine, Huddinge Lipid Laboratory, Karolinska Institutet

15.00 – 15.30      Coffee break in the Neo lunch room

Second session
Chair: Karl Ekwall
15.30 – 16.00   Excess sugar, male-line intergenerational obesity, and sperm tRNA
Anita Öst, Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Division of Neuro and Inflammation Sciences, Linköping University

16.00 – 16.30   Nutrition meets heredity
Minoo Rassoulzadegan, Université Côte d’Azur, France

16.30 – 16.45   Transgenerational epigenetic responses to food availability
Birgitta Mc Ewen, Department of Health Sciences, Karlstad University

16.45 –               Post-seminar in the Neo lunch room

Welcome!