Metabolic Signaling and Chronic Diseases

ACCDIS INTERNATIONAL THEORETICAL AND PRACTICAL COURSE:

METABOLIC SIGNALING AND CHRONIC DISEASES

 

Dates:                October 5-9^th, 2015

Place:                 Advanced Center for Chronic Diseases (ACCDiS)

Facultad Ciencias Químicas y Farmacéuticas, Universidad de Chile, Olivos 1007, Santiago, Chile 2015 

Organizer:      Sergio Lavandero, PhD (ACCDiS, Universidad de Chile)

Coordinators:Mario Chiong, PhD (ACCDiS, Universidad de Chile)

Rodrigo Troncoso, PhD (ACCDiS, Universidad de Chile)

Lorena García, PhD (ACCDiS, Universidad de Chile, Chile)

Topics

• Energy Metabolism
• Organelle and Metabolism
• Metabolic Cell Signaling
• Cellular Metabolism in Chronic Diseases

International Speakers 

• David A. Bernlohr, PhD. (University of Minnesota, USA)
• Dra. Laura Castro (Universidad de la República de Uruguay, Uruguay)
• Amira Klip, PhD. (The Hospital for Sick Children, Canada)
• Alicia Kowaltoski, (MD, PhD. (Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil)
• Derek LeRoith, MD, PhD. (Mount Sinai School of Medicine. NY, USA)

 National Speakers 

• Julio César Cardenas,PhD (Universidad de Chile, Chile)
• Mario Chiong, PhD (ACCDiS, Universidad de Chile, Chile)
• Mariana Cifuentes, PhD (Universidad de Chile, Chile)
• Alfredo Criollo, PhD (ACCDiS, Universidad de Chile, Chile)
• Sergio Lavandero, PhD (ACCDiS, Universidad de Chile)
• Eugenia Morselli, PhD (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile)
• Rodrigo Troncoso, PhD (ACCDiS, Universidad de Chile, Chile)
• Lorena García, PhD (ACCDiS, Universidad de Chile, Chile)
• Hugo Verdejo, MD, PhD(ACCDiS, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile)

Participants:

PhD students from the programs in Medical Sciences, Biomedical Sciences, Neurosciences, Molecular & Cell Biology, Pharmacology, Nutrition and Biochemistry of the Universidad de Chile areinvited to attend to this course.

 An open call for applications will also be issued for – but not limited to – all graduate students in Chile and the Latin American Region.

Participants will be selected based on their curriculum and pertinence of the course to their work, and scholarships will be considered for students coming from outside Santiago de Chile

 Funding 

          No fee to attend this course

          Participants are expected to cover their own travel and living costs

 Applications 

Submit your application on-line at http://www.icgeb.org/course-application.html including curriculum vitae in English and a short list of publications (if any)

Deadline for receipt: 14^th August 2015

Requests for information and applications to: secretariaaccdis@u.uchile.cl

Web page: http://www.accdis.cl/entrenamiento/courses/