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

 

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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"

SFBM's annual meeting 2008 gathered 80 participants and the programme consisted of 17 exciting lectures. Professor Thomas Helleday, Stockholm University and University of Oxford was awarded the The Svedberg Prize and Professor Grahame Hardie, University of Dundee was awarded the FEBS National Lecture award, during the symposium.

Plenary session topics:

  • Specific metabolic processes

  • Conserved control circuits

  • Transport proteins

  • Metabolic diseases

Location
Venue: Wallenbergsalen, Medicinareberget, Göteborg

Abstracts and scientific contribution
A number of abstracts were submitted prior to the symposium and a few were selected for oral presentation. The rest were presented as posters. Abstracts can be found here (pdf).

Programme

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  
11.30-11.50 Ignacio Rangel
University of Gothenburg
Unravelling the composition and complexity of the intestinal microbiota by combination of computational biology, molecular biology techniques and multivariate statistics
11.50-12.15 Gionata Scalcinati
Chalmers
Metabolic engineering of Saccharomyces cerevisiae for biochemical production from xylose
12.15-13.30 LUNCH  
13.30-14.10 Jan Nedergaard
Wennergren Institute, Stockholm

Uncoupling proteins and metabolic control in mice and men

14.10-14.40 COFFEE  
14.40-15.20 Christopher Lelliott
AstraZeneca Mölndal
Control of Metabolic Status by the PGC1 Coactivator Family
15.20-16.00 Claudio de Virgilio
Medicine, University of Fribourg
The ins and outs of G0 in yeast
16.00-16.45 FEBS Lecture: Grahame Hardie
University of Dundee, Scotland
AMP-activated protein kinase and its homologues:
an energy sensor that matches supply and demand
17.00-17.45 SFBM annual proceedings (årsmöte)  
17.45-18.30 Poster session  
19.00-21.00

DINNER

 

Tuesday 23 September

09.00-09.40 The Svedberg awardee Thomas Helleday
Stockholm University / University of Oxford
DNA Replication Repair: from basic mechanism to cancer therapy (given via link)
09.40-10.20 Jan Borén and Martin Adiels
Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg
Studying the dynamics of lipoprotein metabolism in the metabolic syndrome
10.20-10.50 COFFEE  
10.50-11.10 Subir Kumar Nandy
Chalmers
Reconstruction of network models of Snf1 from signaling in yeast
11.10-11.35 Ye Tian
University of Gothenburg
Quantitative analysis of signalling through the yeast Snf1 pathway
11.35-12.15 Poul Nissen
Centre for Structural Biology, University of Aarhus
The sodium-potassium pump ‒ structure, function and regulation
12.15-13.15 LUNCH  
13.15-13.35 Cornelia Spetea-Wiklund
Linköping University
Thylakoid solute transporters in Arabidopsis thaliana
14.35-14.00 Urszula Kosinska-Eriksson
University of Gothenburg
Structural mechanism of yeast aquaporin gating
14.00-14.30 COFFEE  
14.30-15.10 Rolf Kinne
Max-Planck Institute Dortmund, Germany
Dynamics of the sodium-D-glucose cotransporter SGLT1: Molecular and cellular aspects
15.10-15.50 Samuel Cushman
NIH, Bethesda MD, USA
Glucose transporter subcellular trafficking and its response to insulin
15.50-16.00 Closing remarks

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 WAS FINANCIALLY SUPPORTED BY:

The Wenner-Gren Foundations
The Royal Swedish Academy for Scinces/The Nobel Institute for Chemistry
FEBS
University of Gothenburg

 

 
     
     
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