Preliminary Program:

7/9/26 Monday: Brain sensing and metabolic homeostasis

09:00 – 10:00
Bernard Thorens (Université de Lausanne, Switzerland)
“The central nervous system in the control of glucose homeostasis”

Coffee break

10:30 – 11:30
Jens Bruning (Max Planck Institute for Metabolism Research, Cologne, Germany)
“Brain glucose sensing in control of metabolism”

Lunch

Site visiting: Villa del grumello and its botanical garden

15:00 – 16:00
Serge Luquet (Université Paris Cité, CNRS UMR 8251, Paris, France)
“Brain lipid sensing and adaptive response to modern food environment”

16:00 – 17:00

Michele Solimena (Department of Molecular Diabetology, University Hospital and Faculty of Medicine, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany)

“Title of the seminar to be determined”

20.00: Social Dinner

8/9/26 Tuesday: Hypothalamic circuits, development and metabolic programming

09:00 – 10:00
Fanny Langlet (Université de Lausanne, Switzerland)
“Tanycytes at the core of hypothalamic metabolic regulation”

Coffee break

10:30 – 11:30
Tibor Harkany (Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden)
“The diversity of cellular trajectories during hypothalamus development and their maternal programming for life”

11:30 – 12:30

Student session 2: Flash Talks

Lunch

14:30 – 15:30
Sophie Steculorum (Max Planck Center for Metabolism Research, Cologne, Germany)
“Sensory regulation of metabolism”

15:30 – 16:30

Michela Matteoli (Humanitas University, Milan, Italy)

“TREM2-Mediated Microglial Control of Metabolic Homeostasis”

17:00 Boat Tour of Como lake 

9/9/26 Wednesday – Gut–brain axis, reward and behavior

09:00 – 10:00
Ivan de Araujo (Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, USA)
“Gut-Brain Mechanisms of Hunger Emergence and Suppression”

Coffee break

10:30 – 11:30
Giuseppe Gangarossa (Université Paris Cité, Institut Universitaire de France, Paris, France)
“When the vagus whispers, the dopamine reward system listens”

Site visiting: Museum of Alessandro Volta

Lunch

14:30 – 15:30
Ana Andreazza (University of Toronto, Canada)
“Brain, Mitochondrial and Metabolism in mood disorder”

15:30 – 16:30

Thierry Galli (Université Paris Cité, Institute of Psychiatry and Neuroscience of Paris (IPNP), Paris, France)

“Mitochondria and Vesicular Trafficking: Why They Matter in Brain Cancer and Neurodegeneration”

17:00 – 18:00

Student session 2: Flash Talks

10/9/26 Thursday – Metabolic dysfunction and therapeutic perspectives

09:00 – 10:00
Martin Heni (Ulm University, Endocrinology and Diabetology, Germany)
“The insulin resistant brain – impact on metabolism and body fat distribution in humans”

Coffee Break

10:00 – 11:00
Timo Müller (Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Germany)
“A novel quintuple Polyagonist eliminates obesity and diabetes in mice”

12:00 – 13:00

Davide Pozzi (Humanitas University, Milan, Italy)

Immune signalling and neuronal metabolisms: the role of IL-17

Lunch

Departure