Adipo-Cible Winter School - Obesity Unraveled: From Cellular Mechanisms to Therapeutic Pathways

The Winter School Adipo-Cible aims to disseminate the latest knowledge on obesity and related metabolic diseases, and to facilitate crucial educational exchanges that enable scientific and medical participants to understand the disease and its associated pathologies from fundamental principles to clinical patient management. It also explores the potential of artificial intelligence to enhance personalized patient care. This Winter School complements the "Pathophysiology and Emerging Therapeutic Approaches (PATH)" track of the Master's program in Life Sciences and Neuroscience. The multidisciplinary nature of our consortium, unique in France, enables us to offer participants high-level training to grasp the importance of collaborative and multidisciplinary research in understanding the mechanisms and management of obesity and associated diseases. This Winter School is organized and supported by Adipo-Cible.
 

Day 1 - December 16, 2024 : Obesity and adipose tissue

• Presentation of the Consortium and its Winter School - Christian Roux and Antonio Iannelli
• General Introduction on Obesity - Karine Clément
• Adipose tissue progenitors, key players of cardiometabolic health - Nathalie Boulet
• Lunch Break
• Role of adipose tissues in the pathophysiology of insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes - Mireille Cormont
• Human brown Adipose Tissue in obesity - Kirsi A.Virtanen
• Adipose Tissue Macrophages - Adeline Bertola
• Epicardial Adipose Tissue and Heart Diseases in Obesity - Benedicte Gaborit

Day 2 - December 17, 2024 : Obesity complications

• Epidemiology of Cancers Related to Obesity - Antonio Iannelli
• Obesity, Adipose tissue and Cancer: an infernal trio - Camille Attané
• Obesity as an Unexpected Protector in Lung Cancer - Marco Alifano
• Lunch Break
• Loss of pancreatic ß-cell mass, identity and function during obesity-associated type 2 diabetes: molecular and cellular insights - Jean-Sebastien Annicotte
• Understanding how gut hormone multiagonists are changing the treatment of type 2 diabetes and obesity - Fabrizio Andreelli
• Cardiovascular disease, cardiac regeneration and the link to lipid metabolism and adipose tissue - Kay Wagner
• Metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD): from pathogenesis to treatment - Philippe Gual
• Impact of Obesity on Osteoarthritis and Other Joint Diseases - Christian Roux

Day 3 - December 18, 2024 : Obesity management

• Nutrition is integral to both preventing and managing obesity - Stephane Schneider
• Exercise and obesity tratments: immunometabolism as the core of vitality capacity- Anne-Sophie Rousseau
• Physical Activity as an Effective Way to Fight Against POP effects in Obesity - Quentin Serrano (S. Colson)
• Lunch Break
• Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery - Antonio Iannelli
• Obesity and Addiction - Faredj Cherikh
• Data Science for Health - Lionel Fillatre

Day 4 - December 19, 2024 : Causes & consequences of obesity

• The role of the sperm epigenome in obesity - Marie-Charlotte Dumargne
• Anatomy of the Chemical Senses - Jérémie Topin
• Discovery of skeletal muscle exerkines by functional epigenomics - Romain Barrès

Day 5 - December 20, 2024 : Master's Evaluation Day
(optional - only mandatory for EUR Life Masters' students)

Master's Evaluation Day

• Article Analysis
• Courses Questions
• Christmas lunch

This Winter School is aimed at students, medical professionals, paramedics, and scientists. Its hybrid nature will allow it to be accessible to a broad national and international audience.