Program

DAY 1

Welcoming + Poster session

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
• Serge Luquet, CNRS, University of Paris, France
• Soyoung Park, DIFE, Germany

Lunch + Poster session

Session 2: Central control of body weight and metabolism

• Nicholas Betley, University of Pennsylvania, USA
• Marcelo Dietrich, Yale University, USA
• Cristina Garcia-Caceres, Helmholtz Zentrum Muenchen, Institute for Diabetes and Metabolism, Germany
• Vincent Prevot, INSERM U1172, Lille, France
  

Plenary: The genetics of the obese brain

• Sadaf Farooqi, University of Cambridge, UK

Wine & cheese at the conference venue

DAY2

Poster session + coffee

Session 3: Nutrition and mental health

• Sophie Nicklaus, INRAE Dijon, France
• Lucile Capuron, INRAE NutriNeuro Bordeaux, France
• John Cryan, University College Cork, Ireland

Lunch + poster session

Session 4: Nutrition and Neurodegenerative diseases: Where are we at?

• Cécilia Samieri, ISPED, Bordeaux, France
• David Rubinsztein, University of Cambridge, Dementia Research Institute, UK
  
• Michel Neunlist, TENS - UMR INSERM 1235, Nantes, France

Plenary: Gut microbiome resilience: strategies for intervention

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

Gala dinner at the chateau Labottière

DAY3

Session 5: Nutrients-brain interaction in disease: therapeutic perspectives

• Sophie Leclercq, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium 
• Richard Bazinet, University of Toronto, Canada 
• Frédéric Calon, Université de Laval, Québec 
• Sandrine Thuret, King's College London, UK 

Plenary: Pharmacological targeting of obesity via the brain. Are we there yet?

• Matthias Tschöp, Helmholtz Zentrum Muenchen, Germany 

Closing remarks

Lunch