Speaker articles
Take a look at what some of our Neurometabolism in health and disease speakers have published recently and chat with them about their work in Singapore.
Keynote Speakers
Jeffrey Friedman, The Rockefeller University, USA
      A Role of Drd2 Hippocampal Neurons in Context-Dependent Food Intake 
      Top-down  control of conditioned overconsumption is mediated by insular cortex Nos1  neurons
Speakers
Ivan De  Araujo, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, USA   
      An  inter-organ neural circuit for appetite suppression  
Jens  Brüning, Max Planck Institute for Metabolism Research, Germany   
      GLP-1  Receptor Signaling in Astrocytes Regulates Fatty Acid Oxidation, Mitochondrial  Integrity, and Function
Issac Chiu, Harvard  University, USA
      Nociceptor neurons  direct goblet cells via a CGRP-RAMP1 axis to drive mucus production and gut  barrier protection
Daniela Cota, Université de Bordeaux, France
      
Alain Dagher, McGill University, Canada
      Relationship  between impulsivity, uncontrolled eating and body mass index: a hierarchical  model
Sabrina  Diano, Columbia University, Institute of Human Nutrition, USA 
      Microglial UCP2  Mediates Inflammation and Obesity Induced by High-Fat Feeding
Ana Domingos,  University of Oxford, UK 
      The sympathetic  nervous system in the 21st century: Neuroimmune interactions in metabolic  homeostasis and obesity
Yu Fu, Institute  of Molecular and Cell Biology - A*STAR, Singapore   
      A neural circuit  for excessive feeding driven by environmental context in mice
Tamas  Horvath, Yale School of Medicine, USA
      LINE-1 activation  in the cerebellum drives ataxia
Holly  Ingraham, University of California, San Francisco, USA
      An evolutionary  trade-off between host immunity and metabolism drives fatty liver in male mice
Martin Klingenspor, Technical  University of Munich, Germany 
      Loss of UCP1  function augments recruitment of futile lipid cycling for thermogenesis in  murine brown fat
Yulong Li, Peking  University School of Life Sciences, China
      A sensitive GRAB  sensor for detecting extracellular ATP in vitro and in vivo
Christian  Luscher, University of Geneva, Switzerland 
      Depression of  Accumbal to Lateral Hypothalamic Synapses Gates Overeating
Irene  Miguel-Aliaga, MRC London Institute of Medical Sciences, UK
      Sex  Differences in Intestinal Carbohydrate Metabolism Promote Food Intake and Sperm  Maturation
Róisín M. Owens,  University of Cambridge, UK
      Biomembranes in  bioelectronic sensing
Soyoung  Park, Charité mental Health, Germany 
      Eating to  dare - Nutrition impacts human risky decision and related brain function
Greg S.B.  Suh, NYU Grossman School of Medicine, USA & Korea Advanced Institute of 
      Science and  Technology, Korea 
  Periphery  signals generated by Piezo-mediated stomach stretch and Neuromedin-mediated  glucose load regulate the Drosophila brain nutrient sensor
Marc Tittgemeyer, Max  Planck Institute for Metabolism Research, Germany 
      GLP-1 and hunger  modulate incentive motivation depending on insulin sensitivity in humans
José Henrique Veiga-Fernandes,  Champalimaud Foundation, Portugal
      Neuro-mesenchymal  units control ILC2 and obesity via a brain-adipose circuit