Tuesday 5th February                     

​

12:45 – 13:00                     Opening Remarks

Edward Melanson & Paul MacLean

​

13:00 – 13:55                      Opening Debate  - Moderator: Edward Melanson

Impact of Adaptive Thermogenesis

Angelo Tremblay vs. Dale Schoeller

​

14:00 – 15:30                      Breakout 1 (concurrent)

Clinical Applications and Data Analysis

​

Issues for Clinical Nutrition - Moderator: Ian Brown

​

• Measuring energy expenditure in clinical practice 

Troy Donahoo

​

• Best practices for measuring resting metabolic rate

                                             Lilian de Jonge

​

• Clinical use of radioactive dietary tracers 

Janine Higgins

​

Issues for Clinical Nutrition - Moderator: Jed Friedman

​

• Considerations for indirect calorimetry calculations

Paul MacLean

​

• Innovations in body composition analysis 

                                             Tim Nagy

​

• Examining the energy gap after weight loss 

James Hill

         

15:30 – 16:00                      Coffee/tea break

​

16:00 – 16:50                      Emerging Controversy - Moderator: Steve Heymsfield

Relevance of Brown Fat to Human Metabolism

Jan Nedergaard

​

17:00 – 18:00                      Sable Travel Award Presentations  - Moderator: John Lighton

​

• The acetate recovery factor to correct tracer derived dietary fat oxidation in humans

Audrey Bergouignan, Dale A Schoeller, Susanne Votruba, Chantal Simon, Stéphane Blanc

​

• A novel approach for the evaluation of physical activity: recognition of human movements and assessment of their durations and intensities using a triaxial accelerometer.

                                             Alberto G Bonomi, Annelies HC Goris, Bin Yin and Klaas R Westerterp

​

• Insulin sensitivity, mitochondrial function and fat metabolism are related in children with burn injury, and improved with PPAR-α agonist treatment. 

Melanie G Cree, Jennifer J Zwetsloot, David N Herndon, Ting Qian, Ricki Fram, Asle Aarsland, Robert R Wolfe.

​

• Normal metabolic flexibility to glucose in Type-2 Diabetes after controlling for glucose disposal rate.

Jose Galgani, Leonie Heilbronn, Koichiro Azuma, David Kelley, Jeanine Albu, Xavier Pi-Sunyer, Steven Smith, Eric Ravussin, the Look AHEAD Adipose Research Group. 

​

18:00 –                                 Opening Reception

​

​

Wednesday 6th February                     

​

08:00 – 08:15                     Opening Remarks

Paul MacLean

​​

13:00 – 13:55                      Keynote 1 - Moderator: James Hill

Energy expenditure and body weight regulation

Arnie Astrup

 

09:15 – 09:30                      Coffee/tea break

​

09:30 – 11:30                      Plenary 1 - Moderator: Dan Bessesen

Topics in Metabolic Efficiency

​

• Technical considerations for estimating metabolic efficiency

Michael Toth

​

• Body size, energy metabolism, and lifespan 

                                               John Speakman

​

• Weight loss, leptin, and skeletal muscle work efficiency 

                                             Michael Rosenbaum

​

11:30 – 12:30                      Lunch, Exhibits

​

12:30 – 14:00                      Breakout 2 (concurrent)

Indirect Calorimeter Systems

​

Human Calorimetry Systems - Moderator: Lillian de Jonge

​

• New developments in whole room calorimetry 

Paul Schoffelen

​

• Larger and faster responding whole-room indirect calorimeters

                                             Tuong Nguyen

​

• Energetics of weight gain in children  

Nancy Butte

​

Animal Calorimetry Systems - Moderator: Patrick Even

​

• Innovations in animal calorimetry

Ken Kober

​

• Oxygen consumption/metabolic rate in small animals 

                                             John Lighton

​

• Ambient temperature and energy balance  

Mike Overton

         

14:00 – 15:30                      Posters and Exhibits

​

15:30 – 17:30                      Plenary 2 - Moderator: Edward Melanson

Using Stable Isotopes to Assess Metabolism

​

• Isotopic approaches vs other measurements of energy expenditure

Klaas Westerterp

​

• Applications to clinical and basic research  

                                               Dale Schoeller

​

• Examining fuel partitioning in animals  

                                             Stephen Previs

​

Thursday 7th February                     

​

08:00 – 08:15                     Opening Remarks

Edward Melanson

​​

08:15 – 09:15                      Keynote 2 - Moderator: Robert Eckel

Fuel Utilization and Body Weight Regulation

Eric Ravussin

​

09:15 – 09:30                      Coffee/tea break

​

09:30 – 11:30                      Plenary 3 - Moderator: Yves Schutz

Topics in Fuel Utilisation

​

• Ingested fuels and the energetics of weight change 

Richard Feinman

​

• Assessing metabolic flexibility in human health and disease

                                               Bret Goodpaster

​

• Fuel trafficking in humans and animals 

                                             Daniel Bessesen

​

11:30 – 12:30                      Lunch, Exhibits

​

12:30 – 14:00                      Breakout 3 (concurrent)

Exercise and Physical Activity

​

Free Living Assessments in Humans - Moderator: Klaas Westerterp

​

• Innovations in accelerometry & GPS

Yves Schutz

​

• Processing data from accelerometer studies  

                                             Dave Pober

​

• Validity and feasibility in the epidemiological setting 

Soren Brage

​

Exercise and Physical Activity in Animals - Moderator: Mike Overton

​

• APS guidelines for physical activity in animals

Kevin Kregel

​

• Monitoring levels of physical activity in animals  

                                             Catherine Kotz

​

• Fast-response systems for pharmaceutical and exercise studies  

Patrick Even

         

14:00 – 15:30                      Free Communications (concurrent)

Oral Abstract Presentations

​

Session 1 - Moderator: Ray Browning

​

• Artificial Neural Network for Predicting Energy Expenditure from Actigraph Accelerometer.

Elizabeth A Booth, Megan Rothney, Ashley Beziat, Cindy A Dorminy, Jason Rapaport, Kong Y Chen, Mac S Buchowski. 

​

• A New Approach to Detect Short Term Changes in Human Energy Expenditure in Whole Room Indirect Calorimetry.

Robert J Brychta, Tuong Nguyen, Megan P Rothney, Emily Schaefer, Monica C Skarulis, Kong Y. Chen.

​

• Different Indices of Activity Energy Expenditure Lead to Differing Interpretations of Data Among Women of African Descent. 

Amy Luke,  Lara Dugas, Adebowale Adeyemo, Ramon A Durazo-Arvizu1, Guichan Cao, Dale A Schoeller.

​

• Contribution of Sedentary, Locomotive and Lifestyle Activity in Daily Life Assessed by a Triaxial Accelerometer.

Yoshitake Oshima, Kaori Kawaguchi, Ryosuke Doi, Kazunori  Ohkawara, Yuki Hikihara, Kazuko Ishikawa-Takata, Shigeho Tanaka, Naoyuki Ebine, Kazuo Aoki, Junichi Misumi, Izumi Tabata. 

​

• An Error Analysis of the Doubly Labeled Water Technique.

                                             George D Swanson.

​

• Cross-Sectional Time Series Modeling to Predict 24-h Total Energy Expenditure from Heart Rate and Accelerometry.

Issa Zakeri, Anne Adolph, Maurice Puyau, Firoz Vohra, Nancy Butte.

​

​

Session 2 - Moderator: Nicole Stob

​

• Computational Model of Whole-Body Human Energy Metabolism

Kevin D Hall.

​

• Hyperthermia-Induced Hyperventilation Dissociates Respiratory Exchange Ratio from Respiratory Quotient. 

François Haman and Matthew White.

​

• The Effect of UCP1 Expression in Skeletal Muscle on Lifespan, Substrate and Energy Metabolism in Mice.

Susanne Keipert, Yvonne Katterle, Susanne Klaus.

​

• Oxygen Reperfusion Damage in an Insect: A Case Study of Small Animal Respirometry.

John RB Lighton and Pablo E Schilman. 

​

• An Error Analysis of the Doubly Labeled Water Technique.

                                             George D Swanson.

​

• Using Modeling Techniques to Analyze the Energy Expenditure in Open-Circuit Respiration Chambers.

Jaap van Milgen, Serge Dubois and Jean Noblet.

​

• Acute Effects on Metabolism and Appetite Profile of One Meal Difference in the Lower Range of Meal Frequency.

                                             Astrid J. Smeets and Margriet S. Westerterp-Plantenga.

​

15:30 – 05:45                      Coffee/tea break

​

15:45 – 18:00                      Plenary 4 - Moderator: Troy Donahoo

Uncoupling,  Substrate Cycling, and Tissue Metabolism

​

• Connecting mitochondrial proton leak to whole body metabolism

Mary Ellen Harper

​

• Substrate cycling and measuring substrate oxidation and fuel utilization

                                               Abdul Dulloo

​

• Measuring metabolis rates of specific tissues

                                             Steven Heymsfield

​

18:00 –                                 Closing Remarks