2009:Christophe Magnan - Peninsula College - Exeter, U.K.Does GLP-1 improve vascular function and thrombosis-potential independent of obesity associated inflammation? Valeriya Lyssenko - Lund University - Malmö, Sweden GIP and osteopontin in the development of diabetic vascular complications Åke Sjöholm - Karolinska Institutet - Stockholm, Sweden GLP-1 receptor up-regulation in human coronary artery endothelium compensating for glucotoxicity Bart Staels - Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore - Rome, Italy The role of p16INK4a in macrophages during the development of obesity and insulin resistance Heike Weiss - Institute of Medical Biochemistry - Rostock, Germany Bioinformatic analysis of CD4 immunomodulation in IDDM rats - an animal model for autoimmune diabetes 2008:Christophe Magnan - German Cancer Research Center - Heidelberg, GermanyControl of cholesterol lipotoxicity through transcriptional hormone receptor complexes Noel Morgan - Peninsula College - Plymouth, U.K. Role of protein kinase R in the regulation of cytotoxicity by long chain fatty acids in pancreatic beta cells Romeo Ricci - Institute of Cell Biology - Zurich, Switzerland The role of the p38δ-PKD signalling pathway in pancreatic beta cell function and survival Giovambattista Pani - Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore - Rome, Italy Role of the longivity protein P66shc and of mitochondrial oxygen species (ROS) in obesity-induced insulin resistance and in metabolic syndrome 2007:Christophe Magnan - CNRS Université Paris 7 - FranceBrain fatty acid sensing in relationship with nervous control of insulin secretion and hepatic glucose production Lorella Marselli - University of Pisa - Italy Pancreatic islet beta cell inflammation in human type 2 diabetes and the role of gluco- and lipotoxicity Claudia Miele - CNR Naples - Italy The role of endoplasmic reticulum stress in the insulin-resistance induced by chronic hyperglycaemia Patrick Schrauwen Maastricht University - The Netherlands Fatty acid-induced uncoupling in the prevention of mitochondrial lipotoxicity in type 2 diabetes mellitus Michael Roden - University of Vienna - Austria Lipid storage and mitochondrial function - from fatty liver to type 2 diabetes |