Workshop: Is islet dysfunction in T2D reversible?
Öresund Islet study group presents the workshop “Is islet dysfunction in T2D reversible?”
Date: Monday, May 27, 2019, at 12:00-17:30
Place: Panum Institute, Blegdamsvej 3, Faculty Club, Building 16, 6th Floor
Program:
12:00-12:30: Light lunch
12:30-13:00: Nils Wierup, Lund University Diabetes Center: “Immediate, food intake- and body weight-independent effects of RYGB on beta cell function in humans and experimental models.
13:00-13:30: Jens Juul Holst, Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Copenhagen: “The role of glucagon in the development of T2DM”
13:30-14:00: Claes Wollheim, Lund University Diabetes Center and University of Geneva: “VDAC1 as a novel executer gene in T2D”
14:00-14:30: Refreshments and socialization
14.30-15.00: Nils Billestrup, Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Copenhagen: “In vitro studies of cytokine-induced islet dysfunction; mechanisms and reversibility”
15:00-15:30: Jonathan Esguerra, Lund University Diabetes Center: "Can we correct islet dysfunction in T2D by RNA-based therapeutics?"
15:30-16:00: Henning Beck-Nielsen, University of Southern Denmark and University of Copenhagen: “Insulinopenic T2D, a new subgroup with a primary beta cell defect”
16:00-16:30: Annemarie Lundsgaard, Department of Molecular Physiology, University of Copenhagen: “Dietary fat and carbohydrate ratio – effects on hepatic glucose production, insulin secretion and insulin clearance”
16:30-17:30: Refreshments and socialization.
The workshop is sponsored by the PhD Program in Basic Metabolism at the Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Copenhagen.
If you want lunch, please send an E-mail to Jens Høiriis Nielsen (jenshn@sund.ku.dk).