Metabolic control: from micro-organisms to human
Annual meeting of SFBM
Göteborg
22-23 September 2008

 

Program Registration Location Accommodation

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The annual Symposium of the Swedish Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology,
22-23 September, Göteborg
 
"Metabolic control: from micro-organisms to human"
 

Plenary session topics:

  • Specific metabolic processes

  • Conserved control circuits

  • Transport proteins

  • Metabolic diseases

Registration and fees
Register to the symposium by filling in and submitting the electronic REGISTRATION FORM.

Category

SEK

Academic 1 500
Students 1 000
Industry 2 000
Members of SFBM  -300

Registrations made after 1 September, an extra SEK 500 will be debited.
We regret that for cancellations made after 1 September, fees are not refundable.

Abstracts and scientific contribution
Submission deadline for abstracts is 1 September. A number of abstracts will be selected for oral presentation.
Abstracts should be submitted using the ABSTRACT SUBMISSION FORM. You have to be registered to submit an abstract.

Location
The venue of the conference is Wallenbergsalen, Medicinareberget, Göteborg

Program

Sunday 21 September

19.00-22.00 Informal get-together (Incontro, Gothia Towers)

Monday 22 September

09.30-09.40 Opening remarks  
09.40-10.20 Jack Pronk
Kluyver Centre Delft, Netherlands
Dissection of multi-level regulation in yeast
10.20-11.00 Dusko Ehrlich
INRA, Paris
The complex microbiota of the human intestinal tract
11.00-11.30 COFFEE  
11.30-12.15 Three presentations from selected abstracts  
12.15-13.15 LUNCH  
13.15-14.00 Three presentations from selected abstracts  
14.00-14.40 Jan Nedergaard
Wennergren Institute, Stockholm
To be announced
14.40-15.10 COFFEE  
15.10-15.50 Christopher Lelliott
AstraZeneca Mölndal
Control of Metabolic Status by the PGC1 Coactivator Family
15.50-16.30 Claudio de Virgilio
Medicine, University of Fribourg
The ins and outs of G0 in yeast
16.30-17.15 FEBS Lecture: Grahame Hardie
University of Dundee, Scotland
AMP-activated protein kinase and its homologues:
an energy sensor that matches supply and demand
17.30-18.15 SFBM proceedings (årsmöte)  
17.30-19.00 Poster session  
19.00-21.00

DINNER

 

Tuesday 23 September

09.00-09.40 The Svedberg Lecture To be announced, press release end August 2008
09.40-10.20 Jan Borén
Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg
 
10.20-10.50 COFFEE Studying the dynamics of lipoprotein metabolism in the metabolic syndrome
10.50-11.35 Three presentations from selected abstracts  
11.35-12.15 Samuel Cushman
NIH, Bethesda MD, USA
Glucose transporter subcellular trafficking and its response to insulin
12.15-13.15 LUNCH  
13.15-14.00 Three presentations from selected abstracts Dynamics of the sodium-D-glucose cotransporter SGLT1: Molecular and cellular aspects
14.00-14.40 Rolf Kinne
Max-Planck Institute Dortmund, Germany
 
14.40-15.10 COFFEE  
15.10-15.50 Poul Nissen
Centre for Structural Biology, University of Aarhus
To be announced
15.50-16.00 Closing remarks


Accommodation

A number of hotel rooms have been prebooked at Hotel Gothia Towers. Please note that you have to book before 22 August.

More information
Chair: Stefan Hohmann, University of Gothenburg. Stefan.Hohmann@gu.se

For further information, please contact Kristina Lund at the Swedish Chemical Society
e-mail: kristina@chemsoc.se or phone: + 46 8 411 52 60.

THE MEETING IS FINANCIALLY SUPPORTED BY:

the Wenner-Gren Foundations
 

 
 
 
     
     
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