30^th October - 1^st November 2014
Seggau Castle

Thursday, 30th of October
14:00 - 14:10	Opening & Welcome Notes by the Speaker and Students' speakers
14:10 - 16:00	Session 1 chaired by: Helmut Pelzmann & Vinay Sachdev
14:10 - 15:10	KeyNote Lecture: Douglas G. Mashek: Unraveling lipid droplet-nuclear crosstalk Department of Food Science and Nutrition, University of Minnesota, USA
15:10 - 16:00	Self-presentation of the DK-MCD groups:
	Scientific Advisory Board: Gerald Höfler Group of Ruth Birner-Gruenberger: Katharina Fritz Group of Juliane Bogner-Strauss: Juliane Bogner-Strauss Group of Peter Fickert: Peter Fickert Group of Wolfgang Graier: Felix Karsten Group of Klaus Groschner: Barbora Svobodova Group of Guenter Haemmerle: Stephanie Kolleritsch Group of Gerald Hoefler: Ganapathy Shanmugam Paramasivan Group of Dagmar Kratky: Stefanie Schlager Group of Frank Madeo: Katharina Kainz & Jelena Tadic Group of Ute Panzenboeck: Elham Fanaee Danesh Group of Kurt Zatloukal: Pooja Lahiri
16:00 - 16:30	Break
16:30 - 18:00	Session 2 chaired by: Helmut Pelzmann & Vinay Sachdev
16:30 - 18:00	Self-presentation of the new DK-MCD students:
	Isabelle Bina Elham Fanaee-Danesh Chaitanya Chakravarthi Gali Benjamin Gottschalk Katharina Huber Katharina Kainz Christiane Klec Stephanie Kolleritsch Melanie Korbelius Petra Krenn Christina Leopold Lei Liu Shirony Nicholson Puthen Veedu Niroj Shrestha Meghana Somlapura Barbora Svobodova Jelena Tadic Oleksandra Tiapko Tamara Tomin
18:30	Dinner
20:00 -	Get together
Friday, 31st of October
09:00 - 10:30	Session 3 chaired by: Tamara Tomin & Christiane Klec
09:00 - 09:15	Helmut Pelzmann: N-acetyltransferase 8-like (Nat8l) regulates glucose, lipid, and energy metabolism in mice
09:15 - 09:30	Corina Madreiter: Resveratrol and its derivative Piceatannol modulate mitochondrial Ca2+ uptake via inhibition of ATP synthase
09:30 - 10:30	KeyNote lecture: Thomas Gudermann: TRPM6 integrates magnesium homeostasis with energy metabolism and lifespan Walther-Straub Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich, Germany
10:30 - 11:00	Break
11:00 - 12:15	Session 4 chaired by: Melanie Korbelius & Ganapathy Shanmugam Paramasivan
11:00 - 11:15	Nemanja Vujic: Improved plaque stabilization despite increased atherosclerotic plaque size in apolipoprotein E-deficient mice lacking monoacylglycerol lipase
11:15 - 11:30	Madeleine Goeritzer: Increased autophagic flux without induction of lipophagy in macrophages with defective lipolysis
11:30 - 11:45	Vinay Sachdev: DGAT1 regulates intestinal cholesterol homeostasis
11:45 - 12:00	Stefanie Schlager: Functional consequences of Jordans’ anomaly induced by ATGL deficiency
12:00 - 12:15	Katarina Fritz: ATGL loss leads to alterations in central carbon metabolism associated with enhanced growth in neoplastic cells
12:15 - 13:30	Lunch
13:30 - 14:30	FACULTY MEETING
15:00	Departure by bus
15:15	Guided Tour at the Oil Mill Hartlieb
16:45	Guided Tour at the Wine-growing Museum Kitzeck
18:00	Joint Dinner at the Restaurant Steirerland
Saturday, 1st of November
09:00 - 10:30	Session 5 chaired by: Katarina Fritz & Oleksandra Tiapko
09:00 - 09:15	Yidan Sun: Impact of oxysterols on the feto-placental vasculature in gestational diabetes mellitus
09:15 - 09:30	Martina Zandl: Influence of simvastatin and cellular apoJ levels on amyloid-beta metabolism in cerebrovascular endothelial cells
09:30 - 10:30	KeyNote lecture: Xiao Han: The morphology and function of pancreatic islets during the development of type 2 diabetes Key Laboratory of Human Functional Genomics of Jiangsu Province, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, People’s Republic of China
10:30 - 11:00	Break
11:00 - 11:30	Session 6 chaired by: Katarina Fritz & Oleksandra Tiapko
11:00 - 11:15	Ganapathy Shanmugam Paramasivan: The role of ATGL in the pathogenesis of malignant tumors
11:15 - 11:30	Sumitra Mohan: Changes in colorectal carcinoma genomes under anti-EGFR therapy identified by whole-genome plasma DNA sequencing
11:30 - 12:00	CONSORTIUM MEETING & Concluding Remarks
12:00	Lunch