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Program

Wednesday March 20th 2019

08:30-09:00 Registration, coffee/tea and fruit

09:00-09:45 Current and future perspective in diabetes research
Leif Groop, Lund University, Sweden and FIMM, Finland

09:45-10:45 Industry- and clinic perspective on current and future challenges in diabetes research

09:45-10:15 Allan Vaag, AstraZeneca, Sweden
Research needs fro the clinical trials

10:15-10:30 Peter Nilsson, Lund University and Internal medicine, SUS Malmö
Needs in the clinical diabetes research

10:30-10:45 Nael Shaat, Lund University and endocrinological clinic, SUS Malmö
Needs in the clinical diabetes research

10:45-11:00 Coffee and tea

11:00-11:40 Human Knockouts - Illuminating examples of recruitment by genotype studies?

11:00-11:20 Mikko Lehtovirta, FIMM, Finland
Human knockouts - Zinc transporter gene variant as an example of recrutiment by genotype

11:20-11:40 Rashmi Prasad, LUDC, Sweden
Extremes in temporal relationships: Parent-of-origin effects and diabetes risk

11:40-13:00 Lunch and networking

13:00-14:00 Novel approaches to clinical trails

13:00-13:30 Valeriya Lyssenko, LUDC, Sweden and University of Bergen, Norway
                     Bjørn Olav Åsvold, NTNU, Trondheim, Norway
Extremes by genetic risk score and phenotypes

13:30-14:00 Claes Wollheim, LUDC, Sweden and University of Geneva, Switzerland
Discovery of a diabetes executer gene: VDAC1 inhibitors in the prevention of T2D

14:00-14:15 Coffe and tea

Hop topics

14:15-15:15 Pancreatic cells in focus

14:15-14:45 Simona Chera, University of Bergen, Norway
Alpha cells in focus

14:45-15:15 Nils Wierup, LUDC, Sweden
Extreme single cell sequencing

15:15-16:15 Key note lecture
Kay Prüfer, Max-Planck Institute, Leipzig, Germany
Phenotypes from the past

16:15-16:30 Coffee and tea

16:30-17:30 Extreme muscle, obesity and diets

16:30-16:50 Ola Hansson, LUDC, Sweden
Extreme muscle strength

16:50-17:10 Johan Fernø, University of Bergen, Norway
Extreme obesity

17:10-17:30 Simon Dankel, University of Bergen, Norway
Extreme diets

18:00- Social activities (invitees)

Program

Thursday March 21st

08:30-09:00 Caffee/tea and fruit will be served

09:00-10:00 Diabetes subtypes

09:00-09:30 Dina Mansour-Aly, LUDC, Sweden
Extremely Novel Diabetes Subtypes

09:30-10:00 Olof Asplund, LUDC, Sweden
Diabetes classification tools for caregivers and researchers

10:00-11:00 Extreme genes and metabolic memory

10:00-10:30 Karianne Fjeld, University of Bergen, Norway
CEL: an extremely polymorphic gene involved in pancreatic disease

10:30-11:00 Yang De Marinis, LUDC, Sweden
Exocrine extremism and metabolic memory

11:00-12:00 Hunting for Xtremes and children studies

11:00-11:30 Stefan Johansson, University of Bergen, Norway

Title I: Hunting for MODY-Xtremes

Title II: Genetics of BMI in infancy and early childhood - an extreme end of the BMI-spectrum

11:30-12:00 Luiza Ghila, University of Bergen, Norway
iPS-derived pancreatic cells - extreme fiction or treatment reality?

12:00-12:15  Ola Hansson, Valeriya Lyssenko and Johan Fernø
Closing remarks and future perspective

12:15 Lunch and departure