17:00 – 19:00          Early Registration & Networking

08:15 – 08:45          Registration
08:45 – 09:00          Welcome by Organizers (Alexander Pfeifer & Jörg Heeren)

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           Novel pathways regulting BAT
                                    Alexander Pfeifer (Bonn, DE)
11:30 – 12:00           To be announced
12:00 – 13:00            Lunch

Session 2 – Chair To be announced (20 min + 10 min)
13:00 – 13:30           Transcriptional and posttranscriptional activation of thermogenesis
                                    Hei Sook Sul (Berkeley, USA)
13:30 – 14:00            Primary cilia – how to determine fate and function of progenitor cells in the adipose tissue
                                     Dagmar Wachten (Bonn, DE)
14:00 – 14:30            Adipose tissue composition and its impact on metabolic control
                                     Christian Wolfrum (Zurich, CH)
14:30 – 15:00            Coffee Break

Session 3 – Chair To be announced (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 To be announced (10 min + 5 min)
16:00 – 16:15             Short presentation I selected from abstracts
16:15 – 16:30             Short presentation II selected from abstracts

Poster Session 1 with Wine, Beer & Refreshments
16:30 – 18:30             Foyer

19:00                            Participants Gathering

Session 4 – Chair To be announced (20 min + 10 min)
09:00 – 09:30          Lipid processing in thermogenic adipose tissues
                                  Joerg Heeren (Hamburg, DE)
09:30 – 10:00         Elucidating adipocyte lipid storage via spatial proteomics
                                  Natalie Krahmer (Munich, DE)
10:00 – 10:30         Coffee Break
10:30 – 11:00         Uncoupled respiration in white adipocytes: A novel mechanism for energy expenditure and thermogenesis
                                  Shannon Reilly (New York, USA)

Podium Discussion with Editors – Panel Hosts Alexander Pfeifer, Jörg Heeren, Martin Klingenspor
11:00 – 11:10          Francesca La Rosa (Nature)
11:10 – 11:20          Revati Dewal (Nature Metabolism)
11:20 – 11:30          Patrick Schaefer (Cell Metabolism)
11:30 – 11:45          Roundtable

Short Talk Session 2 – Chair To be announced (10 min + 5 min)
11:45 – 12:00          Short presentation III selected from abstracts
12:00 – 12:15          Short presentation IV selected from abstracts
12:15 – 13:00          Lunch

Session 5 – Chair To be announced (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                        Participants Gathering incl. Group Picture