Program

DAY 1

Welcoming coffee

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

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

Lunch + Poster session

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

• CristinaGarcia-Caceres, Helmholtz Zentrum Muenchen, Institute for Diabetes and Metabolism, Germany
  Hunger Timing Influence by Hypothalamic Astrocytes

• Vincent Prevot, INSERM U1172, Lille, France   
  Tanycytic Shuttles: Guardians of Lipid and Glucose homeostasis for Healthy Aging

Plenary: Gut microbiome resilience: strategies for intervention

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

Wine & cheese at the conference venue

DAY2

Poster session + coffee

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

• John Cryan, University College Cork, Ireland   
  The Diet-Microbiota-Gut-Brain Axis- A Key Regulator of Brain and Behaviour Across the Lifespan

Lunch + poster session

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

Plenary: The genetics of the obese brain

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

Gala dinner at the chateau Labottière

DAY3

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

• Cécilia Samieri, ISPED, Bordeaux, France  
  The food exposome of brain aging and dementia: epidemiological approach
  

Closing remarks

Lunch