CONFERENCES AND LECTURES
Centre Universitaire Méditerranéen
General Public Conference
"Endocrine disruptors : Research and Regulation"
Open to the public
Monday, September 16, 2024 at 7pm
Dr Sakina MHAOUTY-KODJA (Paris, France)
Sakina Mhaouty-Kodja is CNRS research director in the field of reproductive neuroendocrinology and endocrine disruption. At the Institut de Biologie - Paris-Seine (Sorbonne University), she heads a team studying the role of sex steroid hormones in the organization of neuroendocrine functions and behaviors linked to reproduction. She is also interested in environmental exposure to endocrine disruptors, and whether and how this exposure interferes with the action of sex steroid hormones, particularly on the central control of reproduction.
As part of her research activities, she coordinates several projects, heads up the Reproduction Research Group and is an expert on endocrine disruptors at Anses.
Hôtel Saint-Paul
Jacques Benoît Lecture
"The amazing molecular diversity of hypothalamic neurons: Tackling mechanisms one neuron at a time."
Dr Denise BELSHAM (Toronto, Canada)
Professor of Physiology and Medicine – Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Neuroendocrinology.
Denise Belsham has over 30 years of neuroendocrine research in obesity, circadian rhythms, and reproduction. Recently, she was awarded the “President’s Teaching Award”, the highest teaching accolade at the U of Toronto. She developed an array of over 300 clonal neuronal cell models from the hypothalamus, now in over 600 labs worldwide, and started a biotech company to distribute the lines. She currently is the President of the International Neuroendocrine Federation.
Hôtel Saint-Paul
Claude Fortier Lecture
"Susceptibility to modern food environment: a role for brain lipid sensing ?"
Dr Serge LUQUET (Paris, France)
DR1 CNRS Group leader
Serge Luquet received his undergraduate degree in Biology &Biochemistry from the University of Nice Sophia Antipolis, France in 2003. During his PhD training he was interested in the role of the fatty-activated transcription factor PPAR delta in adipose and muscle cell differentiation. He published seminal paper showing the role of PPAR delta in the controls of muscle development and oxidative capability. In 2003 he joined the laboratory of Pr Richard Palmiter (Howard Hughes Medical Institute & Department of Biochemistry) at the University of Washington, Seattle for his post-doctoral training. He studied the role of hypothalamic neurons that produce Agouti related protein in the control of feeding behavior. He was recruited at researcher by the French CNRS in 2006 and was awarded a young investigator research program that led him to conduct an independent research. His group is established at the University Paris Cité. The core approach of his team (http://bfa.univ-paris-diderot.fr/equipe-5/) is to leverage the power of modern molecular genetic tools and mouse models using integrated approaches in order to dissect out the role of discrete neural circuit elements in the control of different aspect of energy balance including feeding behavior & energy expenditure.