“ACCDiS INTERNATIONAL THEORETICAL AND PRACTICAL

“ACCDiS INTERNATIONAL THEORETICAL AND PRACTICAL

“ACCDiS INTERNATIONAL THEORETICAL AND
PRACTICAL COURSE:
METABOLIC SIGNALING AND CHRONIC DISEASES”
Dates: October 5-9th, 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 Garcia, PhD (ACCDiS, Universidad de Chile, Chile)
Topics
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Energy Metabolism
Organelle and Metabolism
Metabolic Cell Signaling
Cellular Metabolism in Chronic Diseases
International Speakers
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E. Dale Abel, MD, PhD. (University of IOWA. USA) *pending
David A. Bernlohr, PhD. (University of Minnesota, USA)
Dra. Laura Castro (Universidad de la República de Uruguay, Uruguay)
Sylvio Gutkind, PhD. (National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial
Research, NIH, USA) *pending
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
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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 Garcia, 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 are invited 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/courseapplication.html including curriculum vitae in English and a short list of
publications (if any)
Deadline for receipt: 14th August 2015
Requests for information and applications to: [email protected]
Web page: http://www.accdis.cl/entrenamiento/courses/