SRP Diabetes International Seminar Series
This seminar series with international speakers in the field of diabetes and metabolism has the aim to increase the interactions of the research community at Karolinska Institutet with interesting scientists from other institutions. The seminars are sponsored by the SRP Diabetes programme and hosted by the different research groups affiliated to the programme.
Diabetes Friday webinars continue in the fall!
Our webinars in the spring were highly popular and will be continued in the fall - tune in at this site to see who's up next. Internationally recognized scientists in the field will be invited as speakers.
Diabetes Fridays - SRP Diabetes webinars 2021
We are happy to announce the new webinar series for the spring 2021: Diabetes Fridays! Due to the pandemic the Diabetes Day 2020 excellent speakers have all agreed to each give a separate talk primarily on Fridays during the spring term 2021. So far, six of the talks have been scheduled – more information on topics and how to join will be given at this site so stay tuned! You may also sign up for our email list to get invitations directly in your mailbox.
Friday January 22, 15.00 Swedish time – Andrea Dunaif (Mount Sinai NY, research on women’s health and diabetes, polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS), https://www.mountsinai.org/profiles/andrea-e-dunaif) and Sanjiv Risal (Karolinska Institutet, research on PCOS) Host: Elisabet Stener-Victorin.
Friday February 12, 12.00 Swedish time – Karine Clement gives the Jacobaeus prize lecture (prize awarded by Novo Nordisk Fonden), (Sorbonne University/INSERM, research on pathophysiology of obesity and nutrition-related disorders) Host: Anna Krook and Novo Nordisk Fonden.
Friday February 26, 15.00 Swedish time – Marc Donath (Univ Basel, research on islet inflammation in physiology, obesity and type 2 diabetes) and Eckardt Treuter (Karolinska Institutet, research on epigenetic mechanisms in metabolic-inflammatory diseases). Host: Per-Olof Berggren.
Friday March 12, 12.00 Swedish time – Chantal Mathieu (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, research on type 1 diabetes, vitamin D and immune system and diabetes, the insulin-producing beta cell) and Sofia Carlsson (Karolinska Institutet, research on risk factors, incidence and complications of autoimmune diabetes) Host: Juleen Zierath.
Friday February March 26, 12.00 Swedish time – Matthias Blüher “Healthy obesity – a myth?” (University Leipzig, research on adipose tissue function in insulin resistance, type 2 diabetes development) Host: Peter Arner.
Wednesday May 26, 15.00 Swedish time - Jean Schaffer, (Joslin/Harvard, research on diabetic cardiovascular complications, lipotoxicity and tissue response to metabolic stress) and Anna Norhammar (Karolinska Institutet, research on cardiovascular complications of diabetes and prediabetes). Host: Juleen Zierath
Friday June 4, 12.00 Swedish time webinar on gene regulation in diabetes and metabolic disorders- Jorge Ferrer, (Imperial College London and Centre for Genomic Regulation Barcelona/CIBERDEM, research on genome regulation of pancreatic beta cells and human diabetes) and Andreas Hörnblad (Umeå University, research on gene regulatory mechanisms in obesity-associated liver cancer) Host: Helena Edlund
September-October, Date TBD, Christian Wolfrum, (ETH Zurich, research on cellular heterogeneity of adipose tissue affecting adipose tissue quality and metabolic homeostasis.) and Niklas Mejhert (Karolinska Institutet, research on mechanisms of energy storage in fat cells) Host: Mikael Rydén
Earlier seminars
2019
Midhat Abdulreda, Diabetes Research Institute, Miller School of Medicine, Miami, USA
Zachary Knight, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of California, San Fransisco, USA
Barry Freedman, Wake Forest School of Medicine Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA
Ulf Riserus, Uppsala University, Sweden
2018
Rhonda Bassel-Duby, University of Texas Southwestern, USA
Jan Frystyk, Odense University Hospital & University of Southern Denmark
Christoph Handschin, Biozentrum, University of Basel, Switzerland
Guy Rutter, Imperial College, London, UK
Antonio Vidal-Puig, Metabolic Research Laboratories, University of Cambridge, UK
2017
Kelle Moley, Washington University, USA
Bruce Spiegelman, Harvard Medical School/Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, USA
Mark Atkinson, Diabetes Institute, The University of Florida, USA
2016
Roland Stocker, Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute, Sydney, Australia
Akilesh Reddy, University of Cambridge, UK
2015
Eckhardt Lammert, Institut of Metabolic Physiology, Heinrich-Heine-University, Germany
2013
Philippe Froguel, Imperial College London/Pasteur Institute Lille, France
Barbara Corkey, Boston University School of Medicine, USA
Barry Freedman, Wake Forest School of Medicine Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA
Stephen Shears, NIEHS, Research Triangle Park, NC, USA
2012
Evan Rosen, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, USA
Yuval Dor, The Hebrew University – Hadassah Medical School, Israel
Heiko Lickert, Institute for Stem Cell Research/ Helmholtz Center, Munich, Germany
Piero Carninci, Omics Science Center, RIKEN Yokohama Institute, Japan
Alejandro Caicedo, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, USA
2011
Richard Johnson, University of Colorado, Denver
Juergen Eckel, Paul-Langerhans-Group German Diabetes Center