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FEBS
Advanced Lecture Course
Spetses
Summer School on
Nuclear Receptor Signalling in
Physiology and Disease
Spetses
Hotel, Island of Spetses, Greece
August 28 - September 2, 2011
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The summer school is funded by FEBS (www.febs.org) and CRESCENDO Integrated Project (http://www.crescendoip.org).
The summer school will take place at Spetses Hotel, Island of Spetses, Greece (www.spetses-hotel.gr) that is offering idyllic surroundings and a relaxed atmosphere encouraging interactions between lecturers and students in the summer school.
The objective of the summer school is to provide young scientists an integrated view on recent advances in understanding, analyzing and targeting diverse nuclear receptor signaling pathways during development, physiology and disease.
The summer school will include the following
main scientific topics:
Regulatory principles, structure-function relationship; ligands, endocrine disrupters and drug development; genome-wide technologies; steroid receptors and reproductive cancer; NR pathways in metabolism and disease; animal models of human disease; coregulator action and biology; evolving trends (e.g. systems biology, non-coding RNAs, stem cells and regenerative medicine, genetic and epigenetic profiling of human diseases).
The summer school consists of lectures, workshops, tutorial group discussions, student poster sessions and student short talks. Workshops will focus on specific scientific topics that will be intensively discussed. Informal tutorial group discussions during lunches and a dinner will focus on lecture topics and career planning. All participants will present a poster. The posters will be discussed in groups of students and lecturers. Short talks by students will be selected based on submitted abstracts.
Lecturers: Antonio Castrillo, Spain; Karin Dahlman-Wright, Sweden; Barbara Demeneix, France; Béatrice Desvergne, Switzerland; Carlie J.M. de Vries, The Netherlands; Jan-Åke Gustafsson, Sweden; Karen E. Knudsen, USA; Adriana Maggi, Italy; Susanne Mandrup, Denmark; Antonio Moschetta, Italy; Jorma J. Palvimo, Finland; John W.R. Schwabe, UK; Iannis Talianidis, Greece.
The intended learning outcome is an in depth understanding of the recent advances in nuclear receptor signalling as well as new collaborations and interactions to push future progress of nuclear receptor research.
The summer school is intended for PhD students and post docs.
The course fee for the summer school is 350 euro. Accommodation in Spetses Hotel in double rooms August 28-September 2 (5 nights), breakfasts, lunches, coffee breaks, welcome reception and farewell dinner are included in the fee. Payment details will be supplied to accepted participants later.
Organisers: Eckardt
Treuter, Johanna Zilliacus, Jan-Åke Gustafsson,
Karolinska Institutet, Huddinge/Stockholm, Sweden (ki.se/bionut),
Barbara Demeneix, CNRS, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, France (www.mnhn.fr/rddm/umr5166/index.html?Var_Lng=en) and Adriana Maggi, University of Milan, Italy.
Contact person: Lena Magnell, Karolinska Institutet, e-mail: Lena.Magnell@ki.se