Symposium Programme, 16 May 2013

8.30

REGISTRATION, COFFEE, EXHIBITION

Chair

Professor Jonathan Arch, Clore Laboratories, University of Buckingham, UK

9.15

Welcome
Professor Sudhesh Kumar, Warwick Medical School, UK

9.30

Plenary Session: Uncoupling proteins
Professor David Nicholls, Buck Institute for Research on Aging, USA

10.00

Fatty acid-induced defects in the bioenergetics of INS-1 insulinoma and skeletal muscle cells
Dr Charles Affourtit, Plymouth University, UK

10.30

Studying mitochondrial morphology and dynamics
Professor Orian Shirihai, Boston University School of Medicine, USA

11.00

COFFEE, POSTER SESSION, EXHIBITION

Chair

Dr John Clapham, Warwick Medical School, UK

11.45

Regulation of lipogenesis in developing adipocytes
Dr Justin Rochford, Rowett Institute of Nutrition and Health, University of Aberdeen, UK

12.15

CIDEA-dependent lipid droplet enlargement: how cells get fat
Dr Mark Christian, Warwick Medical School, UK

12.45

LUNCH, POSTER SESSION, EXHIBITION

Chair

Professor Charles Hutchinson, Warwick Medical School, UK

14.15

IDEAL-MRI for the imaging of brown adipose tissue in human adults
Professor Charles Hutchinson, Warwick Medical School

14.35

Quantifying brown adipose tissue in human adults
Dr Tom Barber, Warwick Medical School & University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire, UK

14.55

Imaging ectopic fat: a lesson from the heart
Professor Caroline Apovian, Boston Medical Center, USA

15.25

MRI of pericardial fat and heart function: (i) Newly refined ventricle-specific analyses and (ii) imaging pre-and post-bariatric subjects
Professor James A Hamilton, Boston University School of Medicine, USA

15.50

Closing remarks
Professor Victor Zammit, Warwick Medical School, UK

16.00 - 18.00

CHEESE & WINE, POSTER PRIZES

19.30

Dinner, Scarman House

Please note

CHANGE OF VENUE

This meeting will now be held at Scarman House, University of Warwick.