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POSITION: Professor of Cardiovascular Research at University of Gothenburg, chair of Dept of Molecular and Clinical Medicine, Institute of Medicine, University of Gothenburg, and part-time physician at Clinical Chemistry, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Gothenburg, Sweden

RESEARCH: My main long-term interest has been to understand the underlying mechanisms that lead to, and consequences of, lipid accumulation in the liver, arterial wall and heart, with the goal of translating this knowledge into ...

Professor Patrice D. Cani is researcher from the Belgian Fund for Scientific Research and group leader in the Metabolism and Nutrition lab at the Louvain Drug Research Institute from the UCL, Brussels, Belgium. He is WELBIO investigator and recipient of an ERC Starting Grant 2013 and a PoC ERC Grant 2016. He is laureate of the Baillet-Latour grant for medical research and the international prize of Physiology Lucien Dautrebande. His main research interests are the investigation of interactions ...

Position : Professor, Centre of Integrative Genomics, Faculty of Biology and Medicine, University of Lausanne

My research interests focus on understanding metabolic homeostasis. We are mainly using genetically modified mouse models and systems approaches. I am also very keen in exploring how Omics approaches is changing, or not changing, key biological concepts. Link to complete publication list : http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5483-288X

My scientific interests revolve around functional genomics, systems biology and the development of algorithms and software for the analysis of high-throughput data (mainly, but not restricted to, Next Generation Sequencing) and its application to the relationship between genotype and phenotype, mainly oriented to personalized and precision medicine. I am especially interested in the study of disease mechanisms and drug action mechanisms, drug repositioning and the definition of mechanism-based ...

Sven Francque is currently Head of the Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology of the Antwerp University Hospital and full professor of gastroenterology and hepatology at the University of Antwerpen, with a longtanding interest and expertise in the field of Non-Alcohloic Fatty Liver Disease. In collaboration with the Department of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolic Diseases, a large cohort of well-phenotyped patients has been built up.

POSITION Professor of Systems Medicine/Biology at the Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam and University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands

RESEARCH My major projects focus on understanding the etiology of metabolic syndrome and its comorbidities type2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease. To get grip on the sequence of events in disease progression we make use of longitidunal models and apply multiscal systems biology approaches.

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Expert in lipid metabolism and adipose tissue

POSITION Professor of Experimental Neuroendocrinology at the Academic Medical Center (AMC) and the Hypothalamic Integration Mechanisms group at the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience (NIN), Amsterdam, The Netherlands RESEARCH My major projects focus on understanding how the hypothalamic biological clock controls hormonal rhythms and energy metabolism. For this we mainly use the rat as an animal model. Important techniques include blood sampling from and targeted brain infusions in awake and ...

Alexander Kel received his Ph.D. in Bioinformatics, Molecular Biology and Genetics in 1990. He studied biology and mathematics at Novosibirsk State University and obtained his M.S. in biology with special focus on mathematical biology in 1985. He worked for 15 years at the Institute of Cytology and Genetics, Russia (ICG) holding positions as a programmer, scientist, senior scientist and Vice-Head of the Laboratory of Theoretical Molecular Genetics. In 1995, he won the Academician Belaev Award. ...

Dr. Sander Kersten received his PhD in Nutritional Biochemistry from Cornell University in 1997. After a postdoctoral stay in the laboratory of Dr. Walter Wahli at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland, he moved to Wageningen in 2000, initially as a fellow of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences and later as Associate Professor. Since 2011 he is Full Professor in Molecular Nutrition and since 2014 chair of the Nutrition, Metabolism and Genomics group. His current research interests ...

My research activities has been to use mathematical models and Computational Biology to answer biological questions, intertwining in silico and experimental methods at all stages. I have a strong interest in exploring the interfaces between Fundamental Biology and bona fide Engineering, specifically in the realm of environmental and industrial problems. The research goals of my group are to contribute to the elucidation of mechanisms underlying basic cellular processes, evolution and ecological ...

Associate Professor for Systems Biomedicine, Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine, University of Luxembourg

POSITION I am an emeritus professor in Biochemistry at the University of Amsterdam (retired 2010).

RESEARCH My research focussed on the human chromatin in its natural environment, i.e. the nucleus of cultured living human cells. Aspects, such as the dynamic folding of the chromatin fiber inside the nucleus and local chemical modification of histones and DNA at genetic loci, are the physical and chemical basis for epigenetic regulation of gene expression. In my group we worked parallel on human ...

POSITION Prof. Dr. Natal van Riel is Professor in Computational Modelling at the Academic Medical Center - University of Amsterdam (AMC - UvA) and Associate Professor in Systems Biology and Metabolic Diseases at the Department of Biomedical Engineering of the Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e).

RESEARCH My research applies mathematical modelling and computation to study metabolic diseases, in particular Metabolic Syndrome and co-morbidities. Systems biology approaches are developed for ...

Anton JM Wagenmakers is Professor of Exercise Metabolism and Academic Lead of the Exercise Metabolism and Adaptation Research Group (EMARG) at Liverpool John Moores University, UK. Anton is a leading researcher in skeletal muscle and integrative human physiology and metabolism with 185 peer reviewed journal publications and a Web of Science h-index of 50. His research is focussing on mechanisms by which impairments in fat metabolism lead to impaired glucose tolerance, insulin resistance, and ...

POSITION Lecturer/Assistant Prof in Computational Biology at the University of Ulster.

RESEARCH My research focusses principally on cholesterol metabolism and its role in cardiovascular disease and atherosclerosis. I have also studied its role in innate immunity and infection. In addition, I have worked on areas of personalised and stratified medicine for cardiovascular disease and rheumatoid arthritis.

PUBLICATION My publications can be seen at: https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=oMccxPwAAAAJ&hl=en ...

Professor in genetics and systems biology of the metabolic syndrome

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