PhD Students` Day 2007

Cardiovascular and Metabolism PhD Program
PhD Students’ Day 2007
Wednesday 20 June, 2007
Lausanne, UNIL - Dorigny, Biophore, room 2213
ARRIVAL
8:30
Coffee/tea
WELCOME
8:50
Thierry Pedrazzini
PHD STUDENT’S RESENTATIONS (10’ each)
9:00
Mourad Ferdaoussi: Regulation and new function for Islet Brain 1 in pancreatic
ß-cells
David Martin: Functional significance of neuronal traits of pancreatic beta cells
Sanda Ljubicic: Role of RalGTPases in the control of pancreatic beta cell
functions
Grégory Aubert: Central control of food intake: Role and action of metformin
Ana Vukolic: Clock genes: involvement in the control of blood pressure
Virgile Lecoultre: Effect of hypoxic training on endurance performance and
lactate metabolism during exercise
10:30-11:00 Coffee Break
11:00
Marcella G a m b a : Hypothalamic pathways implicated in the control of
reproduction by metabolic factors
Kim-Anne Lê: Effect of a 6-day high fructose diet on insulin sensitivity and
ecopic lipids in offspring of type 2 diabetic patients
Joao Carvas: Vascular disease in atherosclerosis and Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus
Anne Debonneville: The functional and physiological role of deubiquitylation in
the control of sodium homeostasis and hypertension
Séverine Petitprez: Molecular determinants of the regulation of the cardiac
sodium channel Nav1.5
12:30-14:30 Lunch (Unithèque, Restaurant de Dorigny,)
KEYNOTES
14:30
André Kléber (FNS, Bern): Les programmes nationaux de recherche du FNS
15:15
Natalia Giovannini (EPFL, Lausanne): Le transfert technologique en institutions
académiques
16:00
Elisabeth Gordon (Hebdo, Lausanne): La vulgarisation scientifique dans les
médias
18:00 BBQ on Dorigny Beach
Organizers : Th. Pedrazzini (Lausanne), A. Baertschi (Geneva), J-P Montani (Fribourg)
Secretary:
Elena Martinez, Secretary, Cardiovascular and Metabolism PhD Program,
Décanat de la Faculté de biologie et de médecine, Rue du Bugnon 21, CH-1005
Lausanne. Tel. 021 692 50 06, Fax 021 692 50 05, [email protected]