Dear Colleagues,

As we turn into the new year the 31st Meeting of the European Society of Paediatric Clinical Research (ESPCR) held in Budapest, Hungary on 26-27 May 2023 comes closer and our excitement also increases to welcome you soon!

Hereby we invite you and young colleagues from your institution to submit scientific or clinical abstracts in the following topics:

Bioinfomatics in pediatric- and adolescent medicine, basic science, child- and adolescent psychiatry, epidemiology in pediatrics, pediatric dentistry, immunological diseases in children and adolescents, neonatal care, pediatric dermatology, pediatric diabetology and endocrinology, pediatric gastroenterology, pediatric intensive care and emergency medicine, pediatric nephrology, pediatric neurology, pediatric oncology, pediatric pulmonology, pediatric surgery and transplantation, translational medicine.

Please find more information about the abstract submission and an abstract template on our webpage: 
https://espcr2023.hu/

The abstract submission deadline is 15 March 2023.

According to the traditions of our community the participation in the congress is free.

Please also refer to our webpage for registration and for information on accommodation options and opportunities to spend the long weekend in our marvellous capital city, Budapest!

We wish you a wonderful year ahead filled joy, success and lively discussions and cooperation in our scientific community!

We are looking forward to welcoming you in Budapest!

In the name of the Organizing Committee

Prof. Radvan Urbanek, Founder of ESPCR - Prof. Attila J. Szabó, Head of the Pediatric Center, Vice-Rector of Clinical Affairs, Semmelweis University

Organizing Committee:
Prof. Radvan Urbanek, (Founder of ESPCR)                                                                      
Prof. Attila J. Szabó (Head of the Pediatric Center, Vice-Rector of Clinical Affairs, Semmelweis University)
Péter Tóth-Heyn, MD, PhD (Deputy Director of the Pediatric Center, Semmelweis University)
Virág Hives, MD
Eszter Lévai, MD

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