Programme Details
Tuesday September 8, 201513:00 - 14:15 Registration
14:15 - 17:55 Session 1: Cancer and Autoimmune Diseases
14:15 - 14:30 Welcome
Peter Carmeliet, VIB Vesalius Research Center, KU Leuven, BE
14:30 - 15:30 Regulation of cell metabolism to support tumor growth
Matt Vander Heiden, Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, MIT, US
15:35 - 16:10 mTOR signaling in lymphocyte homeostasis and tumorigenesis
Hongbo Chi, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, US
16:10 - 16:40 Coffee Break
16:40 - 17:15 Exploiting the Metabolic Flexibility of Th17 Cells for the treatment of Autoimmunity
and Cancer
Gary Glick, University of Michigan, US
17:15 - 17:35 Short Talk
Presenter selected from abstracts
17:35 - 17:55 Short Talk
Presenter selected from abstracts
18:15 - 20:00 Reception
Wednesday September 9, 2015
09:00 - 12:40 Session 2: Angiogenesis and Cardiovascular Diseases
Keynote
09:00 - 10:00 Angiogenesis revisited: endothelial metabolism as a target?
Peter Carmeliet, VIB Vesalius Onderzoekscentrum, KU Leuven, BE
10:00 - 10:35 Metabolic control of lymphatic development
Michael Simons, Yale University, US
10:35 - 11:05 Coffee break
11:05 - 11:40 Metabolic checkpoints during vascular growth and quiescence
Michael Potente, Max Planck Institute for Heart and Lung Research, DE
11:40 - 12:15 PGC-1 and endothelial metabolism
Zolt Arany, University of Pennsylvania, US
12:15 - 12:35 Regulation of endothelial metabolism by laminar shear stress
Reinier Boon, Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main, DE
12:40 - 13:40 Lunch
13:40 - 15:10 Poster session 1
15:30 - 18:40 Session 3: Cancer and Mitochondrial Metabolism
15:30 - 16:05 How mitochondrial metabolism leads to ROS production
Mike Murphy, Cambridge, UK
16:05 - 16:40 Tricarboxylic acid cycle metabolism in cells
Sarah-Maria Fendt, VIB Vesalius Research Center, KU Leuven, BE
16:40 - 17:10 Coffee Break
17:10 - 17:45 Fatty acid metabolism in cancer cells: Are we looking at the right pathway?
Karsten Hiller, University of Luxembourg, LU
17:45 - 18:20 VEGF blockade elicits a stable metabolic shift in tumor cells
Stefano Indraccolo, Istituto Oncologico Veneto-IRCCS, IT
18:20 - 18:40 Short Talk
Presenter selected from abstracts
19:30 - 22:30 Conference Dinner
Thursday September 10, 2015
09:00 - 12:00 Session 4: Stromal Cell Metabolism
09:00 - 09:35 Macrophage metabolism in hypoxia: implications for tumor angiogenesis
Max Mazonne, VIB Vesalius Research Center, KU Leuven, BE
09:35 - 10:10 Fueling T cell activation and anti-tumor immunity
Jeff Rathmell, Duke University School of Medicine, US
10:10 - 10:40 Coffee break
10:40 - 11:15 Metabolic adaptation: implications for immunity
Russel Jones, McGill University, US
11:15 - 11:35 Short Talk
Presenter selected from abstracts
11:35 - 11:55 Short Talk
Presenter selected from abstracts
12:00 - 13:00 Lunch
13:00 - 14:30 Poster session 2
14:30 - 18:00 Session 5: Metabolism in Complex Diseases
Keynote
14:30 - 15:30 Metabolic Adaptations in Renal Cancer
Celeste Simon, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, US
15:30 - 16:05 Mitochondria, Metabolism and the Determination of Cell
Fate
Kris Olson, University of Utah, US
16:05 - 16:35 Coffee break
16:35 - 17:10 Obesity, Metabolism and Cancer: Mechanistic Lessons from Transdisciplinary Studies
Stephen Hursting, UNC School of Medicine, US
17:10 - 17:45 Metabolism bottom-up: a haystack of needles
Nicola Zamboni, ETH Zürich, CH
17:45 - 18:00 Closing remarks