THANKS for an inspiring, open-minded and fruitful week in the French Alps dedicated to IMAGING METABOLISM!
Date: 21-26 January 2018
Venue: Ecole de Physique des Houches
Les Houches, France
Imaging Metabolism
New in vitro and in vivo applications of physics and mathematics for the imaging of metabolism at the cellular, organ and organism levels will be discussed. For decades shelved as old biochemistry for undergraduates, the central position of metabolism in biology recently revived. Metabolism is central in brain activity and firing of neurons; in heart and muscle physiology; cancer is a metabolic glutton; accumulation of metabolic waste leads to atheroma; and diabetes, obesity and other metabolic disorders are the plague of modern medicine. Novel metabolites emerge in oncology as drivers of disease; while our microbiome as well as pathogens exert some of their beneficial and detrimental effects via their own unique metabolism. Non-invasive imaging is now crossed with high throughput metabolomics and mathematical analysis of metabolic pathways to produce game-changing concepts in physiology and physiopathology.
TOPIM 2018 Committee
Standing committee:
- Bertrand Tavitian – Paris, France CHAIR
- Michal Neeman – Rehovot, Israel CO-CHAIR
- Vasilis Ntziachristos – Munich, Germany CO-CHAIR
- Emmanuel Bossy – Grenoble, France CO-CHAIR
Committee 2018:
- Kevin Brindle – Cambridge
- Uwe Himmelreich – Leuven
- David Lewis – Glasgow
Overall concept
Since 2007 the overall concept of TOPIM has been that experienced, high-level international scientists and younger/less experienced scientists from diverse disciplines are spending one week together at an inspiring place and to provide a “think tank” for knowledge exchange and intensive discussion.
Presentations are held during the morning and early evening; so that there are plenty of opportunities for continued scientific discussions.
Topim 2018
SPEAKERS
- Asaph Aharoni – Rehovot, Israel
- Martial Balland – Grenoble, France
- Robert Gillies – Tampa, USA
- Xavier Golay – London, UK
- Martin Gotthardt – Nijmegen, The Netherlands
- Anke Henning – Tübingen, Germany
- Craig Malloy – UT Southwestern, USA
- Guillem Pratx – Stanford, USA
- Sabrina Ronen – University of California, USA
- Matthew Vander Heiden – MIT, USA
- Tim Witney – London, UK
- Albert D. Windhorst – Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Further Speakers – selected from abstract submissions
- Mario Amend Tubingen
- Annasofia Anemone Torino
- Karlas Angelos Neuherberg
- Robert Bielik Cambridge
- Marti Boss Nijmegen
- Arnaud Comment Lausanne
- Eleni Demetriou London
- Caterina Facchin Paris
- Bénédicte Jordan Brussels
- Marcel Krueger Tubingen
- Rosa Maria Moresco Segrate
- Marie-Aline Neveu Tubingen
- Tom Peeters Nijmegen
- Luka Rejc San Sebastian
- Sima Stroganov Rehovot
- Thomas Viel Paris
- Evita Wiegers Nijmegen