Program

DAY 1

8:30 - 9:00 
Welcoming coffee

9:00 - 10:00
Plenary: Pharmacological targeting of obesity via the brain. Are we there yet?

• Matthias Tschöp, Helmholtz Zentrum Muenchen, Germany  
  Overcoming obesity: the discovery of multi receptor drugs

10:00 - 10:30
Coffee break + sponsor booth

10:30 - 12:30
Session 1: New insights on neurobiological mechanisms of motivation and decision-making to eat

• Tatiana Korotkova, University of Köln, Max Planck Institute for Metabolism Research, Germany
  State-dependent regulation of feeding by complementary neuronal populations in the lateral hypothalamus

• Serge Luquet, CNRS, University of Paris  
  Brain lipid sensing and adaptive response to modern food environment?

• Soyoung Park, DIFE, Germany    
  Body-brain interaction as driving force for human adaptation
  
• Short talks:
  - Victor Jouque: Beyond satiety: new roles for POMC neurons in feeding
  - Cristina Miralpeix: Hypothalamic POMC neurons control competing behaviors
  

12:30 - 12:35
Commercial talk

• Columbus Instruments
  

12:35 - 14:00
Lunch + Poster session (from 1pm) + sponsor booth

14:00 - 17:00
Session 2: Central control of body weight and metabolism

• Nicholas Betley, University of Pennsylvania, USA   
  A cerebellar memory of a meal: adaptive control of food intake

• Marcelo Dietrich, Yale University, USA  
  Early life transitions in the regulation of energy metabolism

• Cristina Garcia-Caceres, Helmholtz Zentrum Muenchen, Institute for Diabetes and Metabolism, Germany
  Hunger Timing Influence by Hypothalamic Astrocytes
  
• Coffee break
  

• Vincent Prevot, INSERM U1172, Lille, France   
  Tanycytic Shuttles: Guardians of Lipid and Glucose homeostasis for Healthy Aging
• Short talks:
  - Jean-Charles Nicolas: New insights in the Functional heterogeneity of POMC neurons
  - Louise Eygret: Olfaction and feeding behaviour: Neuronal substrates underlying odour modulation of food intake regulating neuronal circuits

17:00 - 18:00
Plenary: Gut microbiome resilience: strategies for intervention

• Joel Doré, University of Paris-Saclay, INRAE, Franc

18:00 - 20:00
Wine & cheese + Poster session + sponsor booth

DAY2

8:30 - 9:00
Welcome coffee

9:00 - 11:30
Session 3: Nutrition and mental health

• Sophie Nicklaus, INRAE Dijon, France  
  Development of eating behavior during the first 1000 days: mechanisms, consequences on health outcomes, and public health communication

• Lucile Capuron, INRAE NutriNeuro Bordeaux, France  
  The role of diet in modulating immune function and influencing mental health
• Coffee break
  

• John Cryan, University College Cork, Ireland   
  The Diet-Microbiota-Gut-Brain Axis- A Key Regulator of Brain and Behaviour Across the Lifespan
• Short talks:
  - Quentin Leyrolle: The gut-derived metabolites as a new tool to improve mental health
  - Flore Marchaland: Neurobiological mechanisms protecting FAT-1 offspring from memory impairment induced by maternal dietary n-3 polyunsaturated fatty acid deficiency

11:30 - 12:30
Poster session 

12:30  - 14:00
Lunch  + sponsor booth

14:00 - 16:00
Session 4: Nutrition and Neurodegenerative diseases: Where are we at?

• Sandrine Thuret, King's College London, UK   
  Dietary modulation of adult hippocampal neurogenesis: Implications for cognitive ageing and dementia
• David Rubinsztein, University of Cambridge, Dementia Research Institute, UK    
  Regulation of mTORC1 and autophagy by nutrients
• Michel Neunlist, TENS - UMR INSERM 1235, Nantes, France
  Microbiota contribution to gut brain dysfunctions in neurodevelopmental diseases
• Short talks:
  - Marie-Laure Arotçarena : Boosting autophagy through trehalose production as a potential therapeutic strategy for Parkinon’s disease
  - Fabien Ducrocq: Reduced local GABA transmission onto ventral tegmental area dopamine neurons underlies vulnerability for hyperactivity in a mouse model of Anorexia Nervosa

16:00 - 16:30
Coffee break + sponsor booth

16:30 - 17:30
Plenary: The genetics of the obese brain

• Sadaf Farooqi, University of Cambridge, UK       
  Neural regulation of human body weight

From 19:00 
Gala dinner at the chateau Labottière

DAY3

9:30 - 12:30
Session 5: Nutrients-brain interaction in disease: therapeutic perspectives

• Sophie Leclercq, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium    
  Role of the gut microbiota  in alcohol use disorder: experimental approaches and clinical perspectives

• Richard Bazinet, University of Toronto, Canada   
  New methods lead to new findings regarding how diet and the liver regulate brain fatty acid levels

• Frédéric Calon, Université de Laval, Québec    
  Exploring Nutraceutical Treatment Options for Neurodegenerative Diseases
  
  Coffee break + sponsor booth

• Cécilia Samieri, ISPED, Bordeaux, France  
  The food exposome of brain aging and dementia: epidemiological approach
• Short talks:
  Wassilios Meissner : GLP1 ago and Parkinson
  Liam Barry-Carroll : Investigating the role of extracellular vesicles in the relationship between n-3 polyunsaturated fatty acid status and cognitive abilities
  

12:30
Closing remarks

12:45
Lunch