The "Ancel Keys International Seminar on Mediterranean Diet and Sustainable Dietary Policies - II Edition" is an innovative high-level teaching action aiming at: 1) providing young researchers and health professionals in the broad nutritional field the essential instruments to mature full knowledge of the problems inherent to the implementation of a modern effective Mediterranean-like dietary pattern; 2) helping generate an international young investigators and field workers network highly qualified to take action and develop synergic initiatives in support of healthy and sustainable dietary models and for the revitalization and diffusion of the Mediterranean diet worldwide.

The Seminar is an initiative of the Italian Society for Human Nutrition, in collaboration with Federico II University of Naples and University of Salerno, the Institute of Food Sciences of the National Research Council and the NEUROMED Institute.

The event is supported by the Cilento National Park, enlisted since 1998 as UNESCO World Intangible Heritage, and by the Ancel Keys Association for Mediterranean Diet and Life Style Pioppi.

The seminar takes place at the Fondazione Alario in the archeological site of Velia (Ascea) from 30 September to 4 October 2019: here up to 30 participants will have the opportunity to spend five days sharing experiences and ideas with an international Faculty made by top scientists in the field.

Course description, mode of application and registration details can be found at https://www.mediterraneandietseminar.org/

Deadline for registration August 31st, 2019.

Thursday morning
Prelude
9.00 - 10.00:
The Selfish Brain Theory - An overview; Achim Peters, Luebeck, Germany
Physiology of Brain ATP Control
10.30 - 12.00:
Energy demand: Glutamatergic control of astrocytic fuel supply; Luc Pellerin, Lausanne, Switzerland
Monitoring of stored and available fuel by the brain; Stephen C. Woods, Cincinnati, US
 
Thursday afternoon
Glucose Allocation
14.00 - 15.30 and 16.00 - 17.30
Energy request: Glutamatergic control of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal system Patricia Molina, New Orleans, US
Leptin and Katp-Channels; Dave Spanswick, Warwick, UK
Adipostatic signals; Denis Baskin, Seattle, US
Leptin Resistance: a neuroprotective mechanism?; Hendrik Lehnert, Warwick, UK/Magdeburg, Germany
 
Friday Morning
Learning how to control brain glucose
8.00 - 9.30 and 10.00 - 11.30
Molecular basis of bistability in synaptic plasticity; John Lisman, Waltham, Massachusetts, US
Stress and plasticity; Gal Richter-Levin, Haifa, Israel
Insulin, food and brain plasticity; Niels Birbaumer, Tuebingen, Germany
Sleep and consolidation of metabolic setpoints; Jan Born, Luebeck, Germany
 
Friday Afternoon
The Brain's Primacy and Obesity
12.30 - 14.00 and 14.30 - 16.00
Chronic stress and glucose metabolism; Mary Dallman, San Francisco, US
Melancholic and atypical depression and respective body mass changes; Ulrich Schweiger, Lübeck, Germany
Dopaminergic neural circuits and the metabolic syndrome; Hanno Pijl, Leiden, Netherlands
The role of the LHPA-System in the origin of obesity; Horst Lorenz Fehm, Luebeck, Germany

Registration is available at
http://www.uni-luebeck.de/aktuelles/pressemitteilungen/2005/1121self.php
In German

http://www.selfish-brain.org/   In English