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Scientific program
The conference will take place at Hotel Scandic Triangeln, Malmö, Sweden
This is a preliminary program. A detailed program will be announced closer to the event.
Day 1. Wednesday, June 11th, 2025
11:00 Registration desk opens
11:50 Opening words & welcome
12:00 Session 1: Genomics of islet cells
12:00 Amélie Bonnefond (University of Lille)
12:30 Rohit Kulkarni (Harvard University)
13:00 Torben Hansen (University of Copenhagen)
13:30 Abstract-selected speaker
13:45 Abstract-selected speaker
14:00 Coffee/tea break
14:30 Session 2: Metabolism in islet cells
14:30 David Hodson (University of Oxford)
15:00 Jakob Grunnet Knudsen (University of Copenhagen)
15:30 Hindrik Mulder (Lund University)
16:00 Abstract-selected speaker
16:15 Abstract-selected speaker
16:30 Break
16:45 Poster Session 1
17:45 Poster Session 2
19:00 Dinner
Dinner venue: Restaurant Mötesplats CRC
Address: Clinical Research Centre, Jan Waldentröms gata 35, Malmö
≈ 900 m walking distance from Conference hotel
Day 2. Thursday, June 12th, 2025
9:00 Keynote Lecture 1
Prof. Lori Sussel
Director of Research (University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus)
Lecture title: TBD
9:45 Break
10:00 Session 3: The islet cell in Type-2 Diabetes and treatment strategies
10:00 Mariana Igoillo-Esteve (Université Libre de Bruxelles)
10:30 Ulf Ahlgren (Umeå University)
11:00 Lena Eliasson (Lund University)
11:30 Abstract-selected speaker
11:45 Abstract-selected speaker
12:00 Lunch
13:00 Session 4: The islet cell in Type-1 Diabetes and treatment strategies
13:00 Carmella Evans-Molina (Indiana University)
13:30 Roberto Mallone (Université Paris Cité / INSERM)
14:00 Teresa Rodriguez-Calvo (Institute of Diabetes Research, Helmholtz Munich)
14:30 Abstract-selected speaker
14:45 Abstract-selected speaker
15:00 Break
15:15 Session 5: Modelling human islet cell development
15:15 Francesca Spagnoli (King’s College London)
15:45 Diego Balboa (University of Helsinki)
16:15 Limor Landsman (Tel Aviv University)
16:45 Abstract-selected speaker
17:00 Abstract-selected speaker
17:15 Abstract-selected speaker
17:30 Poster Session 3
19:15 Dinner & Social Program
Dinner venue: Luftkastellet
Address: Utsiktsvägen 10, Limhamn, Sweden
Bus transportation from and to the Conference hotel will be provided
Lund University Diabetes Centre is the proud host of EISG 2025
Day 3. Friday, June 13th, 2025
9:00 Keynote Lecture 2
Prof. Klaus H. Kaestner
Associate Director (Diabetes Research Centre, University of Pennsylvania)
Lecture title: TBD
9:45 Break
10:00 Session 6: Signaling and crosstalk in the islet
10:00 Mark Huising (University of California, Davis)
10:30 Cécile Jacovetti (University of Lausanne)
11:00 Andraž Stožer (University of Maribor)
11:30 Abstract-selected speaker
11:45 Abstract-selected speaker
12:00 Lunch
13:00 Debate: “Are alpha cells and glucagon needed for islet function and glucose
homoeostasis?”
Chair: Mark Huising (University of California, Davis)
For: Patrik Rorsman (University of Oxford / University of Gothenburg) & Caroline Bonner (Insititute Pasteur de Lille)
Against: Pedro Herrera (University of Geneva) & Sarah Richardson (University of Exeter)
14:00 Session 7: Beta & non-beta cells
14:00 Charna Dibner (University of Geneva)
14:30 Meritxell Rovira (University of Barcelona)
15:00 Sebastian Barg (Uppsala University)
15:30 Abstract-selected speaker
15:45 Abstract-selected speaker
16:00 Abstract-selected speaker
16:15 Closing of EISG 2025