The theme for the Annual Meeting in the Danish Society for Neuroscience 2018 is crossroads between metabolism and the brain. This year, we will bring together basic scientists, clinicians, epidemiologists and industry to address topics relevant for neuroscience.

2018.04.17 | Louise Gjørtz Christensen

Date	Mon 14 May — Tue 15 May
Time	09:00  —  12:30
Location	Hotel Hesselet in Nyborg, Denmark.

Danish Society for Neuroscience (DSfN)

The central nervous system (CNS) has an important role in the regulation of food intake, insulin sensitivity and glucose metabolism. On the other hand, factors regulating glucose and lipid metabolism in the periphery critically affect brain function as well as the development of neurological and psychiatric disorders. Furthermore, the field of delivering therapeutics from the periphery to the CNS is rapidly developing and is of immense clinical interest.
The theme for the Annual Meeting in the Danish Society for Neuroscience 2018 is crossroads between metabolism and the brain. This year, we will bring together basic scientists, clinicians, epidemiologists and industry, and address topics including access to the brain, the brain and appetite regulation, gut to brain signaling, the brain and glucose metabolism, and how metabolism and neurological disorders intersect.

Monday May 14th

09.00 – Arrival, coffee and registration

10.00 - Welcome

Session 1: Mechanisms in appetite regulation
Chair: Simon Glerup, Aarhus University

10.10 – Niels Vrang, Gubra, Hørsholm
The brain in energy homeostasis

10.40 – Henning Fenselau, Max-Planck Institute for Metabolic Research, Köln
Synaptic plasticity in energy homeostasis
 
11.10 – Tune Pers, University of Copenhagen
Single cell sorting of hypothalamic neurons

11.40 – Kristoffer Lihme Egerod, University of Copenhagen
Gut to brain communication

12.10 - Lunch

Session 2: Case stories in appetite regulation
Chair: Niels Vrang, Gubra

13.10 – Lotte Bjerre Knudsen, Novo Nordisk, Måløv
GLP-1 and appetite regulation

13:40  - Mads Kjølby, Aarhus University
            SorCS1 and appetite regulation

14.10 - Coffee and cake

 
Session 3: Natural and pharmacological access to the brain
Chair: Lotte Bjerre Knudsen, Novo Nordisk, Måløv

14.30 – Morten Nielsen, Aarhus University
Receptor-mediated drug delivery to the brain

15.00 – Hans Christian Cederberg , University of Copenhagen
Tanycytes as uptake mechanism to the brain

15.30 – Birger Brodin, University of Copenhagen
In vitro modeling of the brain endothelium for drug delivery studies

16.00 – Kristian Strømgaard, University of Copenhagen
            Targeting receptor complexes in the brain
 
16.30 – Short coffee break

16.40 – DataBlitz 5x10 min (selected abstracts)
Organizer: Simon Glerup, Aarhus University

17.30 – Break

18.30 – Drinks and Dinner

21.00 – Drinks and posters. The Gubra Brain Award

Tuesday May 15th

07.30 - Breakfast

Session 4: Exercise and the brain
Chair: Mads Kjølby, Aarhus University
 
08.30 – Maiken Nedergaard, University of Copenhagen
Exercise and glymphatics

09.00 – Carl-Johan Boraxbekk, Umeå University and Danish Research Center for Magnetic Resonance, Copenhagen
The effect of exercise on brain function measured by PET and MRI
 
Session 5: Crosstalk between metabolism and neurological disorders
Chair: Simon Glerup, Aarhus University

9.30 – Bente Finsen, University of Southern Denmark
Inflammatory cytokines, metabolism and neurodegenerative disorders

10.00 – Søren D. Østergaard, Aarhus University
Statins, SSRIs and their interplay in depression

10.30 - Coffee

10.45  – John Dirk Nieland, Aalborg University
Can we treat CNS diseases by blocking lipid metabolism?

11.15 – Simon Glerup, Aarhus University
PCSK9 and brain development

11.45 – Anders Fink-Jensen, Psykiatrisk Center, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen
GLP-1 in psychiatric diseases.

12.15 – Concluding remarks 

12.30 – Lunch and departure

Further details and registration is available on the website.