Monday 13th October                      

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09:00 – 09:45                     Opening Ceremony

• Welcome from the Director of SIAT

Dong Liang

Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

 

• Welcome and house keeping

                                    John Speakman

Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), China; University of Aberdeen, UK

 

• Introduction from co-organisers the IAEA

Cornelia Loechl

International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Vienna, Austria,

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​09:45 – 12:30                     Symposium 1: 

Energy expenditure and metabolism research in China

Chair: John Speakman (China & UK)

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• Energy metabolism and thermoregulation of wild mammals in China

Dehua Wang

Shangdong University, Qingdao city, Shandong province, China

 

• Mechanisms of central regulation of metabolism

                                    Tiemin Liu

Fudan University, Shanghai, China

 

• Standardised measurement of energy balance using metabolic chambers

Shijia Pan

Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

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• New Concept and New Approach Studying Energy Metabolism and Weight-loss in a
  Lifestyle Intervention Trial 

Xu Lin

Shanghai Institute of Biological Sciences, CAS, Shanghai, China

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• Lujiang cohort: a multimodal cohort in the era of precision medicine

Wei Bao

University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China

         

13:00 – 14:30                      Lunch / Poster Session /Sponsor exhibition

 

14:30 – 17:30                      Symposium 2:

Temperature and metabolism

Chair: Susanne Keipert (Sweden) 

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• Climate Vulnerability in Reptiles: Latitudinal Pattern and Metabolic Basis

Baojun Sun

Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

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• Targeting TRPM8 uncovers a UCP1-independent thermogenic pathway to enhance
  cold resilience and metabolic efficiency across species

Ruojin Zong

Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.

*Life metabolism Scholarship domestic prize winner

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• Cellular and molecular mechanisms of cold adaption in pigs                                       Yanfang Wang

Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS), Beijing, China

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• Influence of ambient temperature on resting energy expenditure in healthy young adults: a randomized controlled crossover trial

Sara Brehmer-Henkel

University of Bonn, Germany

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• Variation in expenditure in sports: alimentary tract or heat dissipation limits?

Analiza Silva

University of Lisbon, Portugal

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• Temperature effects on human metabolism

Yosuke Yamada

Tohoku university, Japan

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​17:45 – 19:30                      Welcome Reception

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Tuesday 14th October    

 

​08:00 – 09:00                      Meet the Professor Breakfasts

 

​09:00 – 12:30                      Symposium 3:

Effects of Proteins

Chair: Leonie Heilbronn (Australia) 

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• Protein Leverage

Stephen Simpson

Charles Perkins Center, University of Sydney, Australia

 

• Effects of cysteine restriction

Lifeng Yang 

Shanghai Institute of Nutrition and Health, CAS, Shanghai, China

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• Effects of very low protein diets

John Speakman

Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced technology, CAS and University of Aberdeen, UK

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• Effects of a high protein ultra-processed diet

Anja Bosy-Westphal

University of Kiel, Germany

         

12:30 – 14:00                      Lunch / Poster Session /Sponsor exhibition

 

14:00 – 17:30                      Symposium 4:

Artificial selection on metabolic traits and related studies

Barbara Cannon (Sweden)

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• Selection on basal metabolic rate

Marek Konarzewski

Faculty of Biology, University of Bialystok, Poland

 

• Selection for metabolic and behavioral traits in bank voles

                                    Pawel Koteja

Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland

  

• Selection on maximal sustained metabolic rate in lactation

Zhi-jun Zhao

University of Wenzhou, Wenzhou, Zhejiang province, China

 

• Pregnancy and lactation are energetically costly

Amanda McGrosky

Elon University, USA

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• Maternal Adaptations to Energy Demand and Impact of Dietary Fatty Acids on Energy Regulation During Pregnancy and Lactation

Dehuang Kong

University of Groningen, Netherlands

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• Determinants of resting metabolic speed: a monozygotic co-twin control study

Jari Karppinen

University of Helsinki, Finland

*Life metabolism international scholarship prize winner

 

• Bidirectional Causal Relationship Between Physical Activity and Obesity: A Mendelian Randomization Study

Yukun Liu

Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced technology, CAS, China

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​18:00 –                                Informal Conference Dinner

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Wednesday 15th October    

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​08:00 – 09:00                      Meet the Professor Breakfasts

 

​09:00 – 12:30                      Symposium 5:

Technical Session

Chair: Shijia Pan (China) 

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• A consensus approach to preclinical indirect calorimetry experiments

Alex Banks

Harvard medical School, Cambridge, Mass USA

 

• Analysis apps for metabolic data

                                    Martin Klingenspor

Technical University of Munich, Freising, Germany

 

• Sponsor Presentations

         

12:30 – 14:00                      Lunch / Poster Session /Sponsor exhibition

 

14:00 – 17:30                      Symposium 6:

Brown and beige adipose tissue

Martin Picaud (USA)

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• BAT: past present and future

Barbara Cannon and Jan Nedergaard

Wenner-Gren Institute, University of Stockholm, Stockholm, Sweden

 

• GDF15 partially mediates the improvement in cold-induced glucose metabolism in Ucp1KO mice

                                    Min Li

Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, CAS, China

  

• Na+ K+ futile transport cycle augments energy expenditure in beige adipocytes

Hannah Hui

The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

 

• The metabolic effects of BATokine FGF21

Susanne Keipert

Wenner-Gren Institute, Stockholm University, Stockholm, SwedenXX

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• A novel BATokine governs lipolysis

Wanzhu Jin

Institute of Zoology, CAS, Beijing, China

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​18:30 –                                Conference Dinner

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Thursday 16th October    

 

​08:00 – 09:00                      Meet the Professor Breakfasts

 

​09:00 – 12:30                      Symposium 7:

New ideas in energy regulation

Chair: Herman Pontzer (USA) 

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• Energy conservation and tradeoffs

Martin Picard

Columbia University, New York, USA

 

• Changes in body composition and control of resting metabolic rate during weight
  changes: Energy allocation to the brain ‘drives’ adaptive thermogenesis

                                    Manfred Muller

University of Kiel, Germany

 

• Early life programming: in search for later thrifty metabolic phenotypes

Abdul Dulloo

University of Fribourg, Switzerland

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• Mitochondrial DNA Mutation and Metabolic Declining in Aging

Zenglong Gu

Fudan University, Shanghai, China

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• The activity paradox: A new framework for metabolic modeling

Fariza Sabit

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), 1700 Fribourg, Switzerland

*Life metabolism international scholarship winner

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• How total daily energy expenditure can affect energy balance regulation?

Pierre Boudier

Université de Haute-Alsace, Mulhouse, France

         

12:30 – 14:00                      Lunch / Poster Session /Sponsor exhibition

 

14:00 – 16:45                      Afternoon Symposium 4:

Drug effects on metabolism

Jan Nedergaard (Sweden)

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• Halofuginone

Suowen Xu

University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China

 

• Semaglutide

                                    Xueying Zhang

Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, CAS, China

  

• Tirzepatide

Eric Ravussin

Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Baton Rouge, LA, USA

 

• Metabolic adaptation after tirzepatide- or diet- induced weight loss is not associated with later weight regain: a whole-room indirect calorimetry study

Guillermo Sanchez-Delgado

Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Baton Rouge, LA, USA

*Life metabolism international scholarship winner

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• Body Weight and Fat Loss Maintenance in Adults with Overweight or Obesity: A 12- Month Follow-Up of a Randomized Controlled Trial

Jonaton Ruiz

​Instituto de Investigación Biosanitaria de Granada (ibs.GRANADA), Granada, Spain

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• Uncovering Energy Metabolism Trajectories in Response to Nutritional Challenge and Weight Loss in a Lifestyle Intervention

Wanhui Kang

Hangzhou Institute for Advanced Study, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

*Life metabolism domestic scholarship winner

 

 

Friday 17th October    

 

​08:00 – 09:00                      Meet the Professor Breakfasts

 

​09:00 – 10:30                      The Big Debate - Moderator: John Speakman (China & UK) 

Constraint and Compensation in Exercise Metabolism

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For:           Herman Pontzer

                           Duke University, NC, USA

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Against:    Javier Gonzalez​

University of Bath, UK

         

10:30 – 11:00                      Coffee

 

11:00 – 15:30                      Morning & Afternoon Symposium 5:

Metabolic extremes

Eric Ravussin (USA)

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• Superlean individuals with BMI<18

Sumei Hu

Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, CAS, China

 

• Limited energy availability in extreme sport

                                    Louise Burke

University of Melbourne, Australia

  

• Extreme individual differences in response to diets

Leonie Heilbronn

University of Adelaide, Australia

 

• Metabolism in space

Audrey Bergouignan

French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) IPHC UMR7178 and University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Denver, CO, USA​

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09:00 – 09:45                     Closing Ceremony

                                    John Speakman

Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; University of Aberdeen, UK

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