EPFL BioE Talks Series - Minisymposium on Metabolism
WEEKLY EPFL BIOE TALKS SERIES - Special Minisymposium on Metabolism
Program
(download abstracts and speaker bios HERE - pdf, 559 kB)
13:00-13:05 Opening Words by Johan Auwerx (EPFL)
13:05-13:45 Kristina Schoonjans (EPFL, Lausanne, CH)
A Systems Genetics Approach to Identify Novel Determinants
Of Bile Acid Homeostasis
13:45-14:25 Ronald M. Evans, Salk Institute, La Jolla, USA)
Colon Cancer Checks in When Bile Acids Check Out
14:25-15:05 Christian Metallo, Salk Institute, La Jolla, USA)
Dysregulation of Amino Acid and Sphingolipid Metabolism In
Co-morbidities of Diabetes
15:05-15-30 Coffee Break
15:30-16:10 Johan Auwerx (EPFL, Lausanne, CH)
Ceramide de Novo Synthesis Links Muscle Disorders With
Mitochondrial and Protein Homeostasis
16:10-16:50 Giovanni D’Angelo (EPFL, Lausanne, CH)
The Lipotype Hypothesis
16:50-17:30 Armand Kurum (EPFL, Lausanne, CH)
Cancer-Cell Stiffening via Cholesterol Depletion Enhances
Immunotherapy
17:30 (approx.) end
Zoom link (with one-time registration for the whole weekly EPFL BioE Talks series) for attending remotely: https://go.epfl.ch/EPFLBioETalks
Instructions for 1st-year Ph.D. students who are under EDBB’s mandatory seminar attendance rule:
IF you are not attending in-person in the room, please make sure to
Program
(download abstracts and speaker bios HERE - pdf, 559 kB)
13:00-13:05 Opening Words by Johan Auwerx (EPFL)
13:05-13:45 Kristina Schoonjans (EPFL, Lausanne, CH)
A Systems Genetics Approach to Identify Novel Determinants
Of Bile Acid Homeostasis
13:45-14:25 Ronald M. Evans, Salk Institute, La Jolla, USA)
Colon Cancer Checks in When Bile Acids Check Out
14:25-15:05 Christian Metallo, Salk Institute, La Jolla, USA)
Dysregulation of Amino Acid and Sphingolipid Metabolism In
Co-morbidities of Diabetes
15:05-15-30 Coffee Break
15:30-16:10 Johan Auwerx (EPFL, Lausanne, CH)
Ceramide de Novo Synthesis Links Muscle Disorders With
Mitochondrial and Protein Homeostasis
16:10-16:50 Giovanni D’Angelo (EPFL, Lausanne, CH)
The Lipotype Hypothesis
16:50-17:30 Armand Kurum (EPFL, Lausanne, CH)
Cancer-Cell Stiffening via Cholesterol Depletion Enhances
Immunotherapy
17:30 (approx.) end
- Participation is free of charge, however registration is required
- The event is officially recognized by ResAL as continuing education for animal experimentation license holders: registered attendees who are requesting this upon registration may be granted an attendance certificate counting for one half day of continuing education.
- Registration deadline: Thursday, September 28, 2023, noon.
Zoom link (with one-time registration for the whole weekly EPFL BioE Talks series) for attending remotely: https://go.epfl.ch/EPFLBioETalks
Instructions for 1st-year Ph.D. students who are under EDBB’s mandatory seminar attendance rule:
IF you are not attending in-person in the room, please make sure to
- send D. Reinhard a note before noon on seminar day, informing that you plan to attend the talk online, and
- be signed in on Zoom with a recognizable user name (not a pseudonym making it difficult or impossible to be identified).