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2010 Child Health and Signal Transduction
The 2010 NICHe Conference on Child Health and Signal Transduction, was held on May 21-23, 2010 in Sweden. For information contact professor Kerstin Albertsson Wikland (kerstin@albertsson.wikland.net).
The Endocrine Reviews article from the meeting has been published online:
http://edrv.endojournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/er.2009-0039v1
Organisation
Foundation Växthuset for children in collaboration with
European Society for Paediatric Endocrinology (ESPE)
Organizing committee
Kerstin Albertsson Wikland
Per-Olof Berggren
Cecilia Camacho-Hubner
Jean-Claude Carel
Ze'ev Hochberg
When Where
Varberg, Sweden, May 21-23, 2010
Conference organizer
SemSer-Seminar Service
e-mail: sten.renstad@semser.se
Scientific correspondence
Kerstin Albertsson Wikland
mailto:kerstin@albertsson.wikland.net
Program
Scientific Program
Welcome Kerstin Albertsson-Wikland (Göteborg)
Friday, May 21
Introduction Moderator: Jean-Claude Carel
09.00 Ze´ev Hochberg (Haifa) Endocrine resistance at the clinical level
09.45 Alan Saltiel (Ann Arbor) Regulation of hormone sensitivity
10.30 Kerstin Albertsson Wikland (Gothenburg) Clinical responsiveness to GH therapy
11.15-14.15 Lunch
ST pathways in growth regulation Moderator: Heiko Krude
14.15 Cecilia Camacho-Hubner (Stockholm) GH insensitivity syndrome
15.00 Michael Waters (Brisbane) GH signaling
15.45-16.15 Break
16.15 David R Clemmons (Chapel Hill) IGF signaling
17.00-17.45 Discussion Moderators: Cecilia Camacho-Hübner, David R Clemmons
Saturday, May 22
GP-coupled signaling in childhood physiology and disease
Moderator: John Achermann
09.00 Robert Lefkowitz (Durham, North Carolina) GPCR signaling
09.45 Nicolas de Roux (Paris) Lessons from GPR54 mutations on the physiology of gonadotropic axis and pubertal onset
10.30-11.30 Poster tour No. 1-7 (Coffee will be served)
11.30-13.00 Lunch
GP-coupled signaling in childhood physiology and disease, contd. Moderator: Olle Söder
13.00 Ana Claudia Latronico (São Paulo) Hyperfunction and resistance of the G-protein coupled receptor
13.45 Yossi Cohen (Tel Aviv) Novel GPCR peptide ligands and their potential therapeutic usage
14.30-15.00 Break
15.00-16.00 Discussion Moderators: Ze'ev Hochberg, Ana Claudia Latronico
Sunday, May 23
Insulin signaling and childhood diabetes Moderator: Claire Levy-Marchal
08.00 Claire Levy-Marchal (Paris) Insulin resistance in children
08.45 David Savage (Cambridge) Lessons from rare syndromes of insulin resistance in humans
09.30-10.30 Poster tour, No. 8-14 (Coffee will be served)
10.15 Ronald C Kahn (Boston) Insulin ST pathways in T2D and obesity
11.00 Morris White (Boston) Insulin ST-targeted therapy
11.45-12.30 Discussion Moderators: Jean-Claude Carel, Ronald C Kahn
12.30-13.30 Lunch
13.30 Heiko Krude (Berlin) Prereceptor regulation of thyroid hormones
14.15-15.00 General Discussion Moderators: Kerstin Albertsson Wikland, Alan Saltiel
