Following, you can find the tentative program of the BATenergy conference 2025 in Bonn:
17:00 – 19:00 Early Registration & Networking
08:15 – 08:45 Registration
08:45 – 09:00 Welcome by Organizers
Keynote Lecture (45 min + 15 min)
9:00 – 10:00 Brown fat as a tool to understand mitochondrial bioenergetics
Shingo Kajimura (Boston, USA)
Session 1 – Chair Stephan Herzig (20 min + 10 min)
10:00 – 10:30 Exploring thermogenic adipose tissue from inside-out
Yu-Hua Tseng (Boston, USA)
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 – 11:30 Alternative regulators of BAT
Alexander Pfeifer (Bonn, DE)
11:30 – 12:00 UCP1: Regulation and metabolic significance
Jan Nedergaard (Stockholm, SE)
12:00 – 13:00 Lunch
Session 2 – Chair Barbara Cannon (20 min + 10 min)
13:00 – 13:30 Transcriptional and posttranscriptional activation of thermogenesis
Hei Sook Sul (Berkeley, USA)
13:30 – 14:00 Elucidating adipocyte lipid storage via spatial proteomics
Natalie Krahmer (Munich, DE)
14:00 – 14:30 Mechanisms of brown fat involution
Joerg Heeren (Hamburg, DE)
14:30 – 15:00 Coffee Break
Session 3 – Chair Alexander Pfeifer (20 min + 10 min)
15:00 – 15:30 Non-invasive imaging of brown fat activity
Martin Klingenspor (Munich, DE)
15:30 – 16:00 Circadian and thermogenic control of metabolite transport in adipocyte mitochondria
Zach Gerhart-Hines (Copenhagen, DK)
Short Talk Session 1 – Chair Christian Schlein (10 min + 5 min)
16:00 – 16:15 Irina Shabalina (Stockholm, SE)
16:15 – 16:30 Tongtong Wang (Zurich, CH)
Poster Session 1 with Wine, Beer & Refreshments
16:30 – 18:30 Foyer
19:00 Pub Quiz or Speaker’s Dinner
09:00 – 09:30 Adipose tissue composition and its impact on metabolic control
Christian Wolfrum (Zurich, CH)
09:30 – 10:00 Primary cilia – how to determine fate and function of progenitor cells in the adipose tissue
Dagmar Wachten (Bonn, DE)
10:00 – 10:30 Coffee Break
10:30 – 11:00 Uncoupled respiration in white adipocytes: A novel mechanism for energy expenditure and thermogenesis
Podium Discussion with Editors – Panel Hosts Alexander Pfeifer, Jörg Heeren, Martin Klingenspor
11:00 – 11:30 Francesca La Rosa (Nature Communications), Revati Dewal (Nature Metabolism)
Short Talk Session 2 – Chair Anna Worthmann (10 min + 5 min)
12:00 – 12:15 Isabel Reinisch (Zurich, CH)
12:15 – 13:00 Lunch
Session 5 – Chair Carolina Hagberg (20 min + 10 min)
13:00 – 13:30 Novel insights into brown fat biology from a third dimension
Yongguo Li (Bonn, DE)
13:30 – 14:00 Defining the vascular niche of human adipose tissue across metabolic conditions
Joanna Kalucka (Aarhus, DK)
Social Event
16:00 Boat Trip
Session 6 – Chair Anne Bouloumie-Diehl (20 min + 10 min)
09:00 – 09:30 Pharmacological and nutritional activation of thermogenic adipose tissue
Jan-Wilhelm Kornfeld (Odense, DK)
09:30 – 10:00 Recent advances in human BAT research
Kirsi Virtanen (Turku, FI)
10:00 – 10:30 Coffee Break
Poster Session 2
10:30 – 12:30 Foyer
12:30 – 13:30 Lunch
Session 7 – Chair Tobias Fromme (20 min + 10 min)
13:30 – 14:00 Mapping brown adipose tissue in humans
Kirsty Spalding (Stockholm, SE)
14:00 – 14:30 Understanding the role of human brown adipose tissue in health and disease
- Insights from studies in patients with cancer
Maria Chondronikola (Cambridge, UK)
Short Talk Session 3 – Chair Kerstin Wilhelm-Jüngling (10 min + 5 min)
14:30 – 14:45 Hannah Hui (Hongkong, CN)
14:45 – 15:00 Livia Petriskova (Bratislava, SK)
15:00 – 15:15 Closing Remarks by Alexander Pfeifer & Organizing Committee
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