RACMEM 2008 Brochure

 

PROGRAM DAY 1
Adam's Mark Denver- Tower Building
Tuesday, February 5th

 
TIME
SESSION
VENUE
11:00 REGISTRATION OPENS
Tower Foyer
12:45 – 1:00 pm

OPENING REMARKS
Edward Melanson, PhD & Paul MacLean , PhD

Windows
1:00 – 1:55 pm

OPENING DEBATE
Impact of Adaptive Thermogenesis
Moderator – Edward Melanson, PhD

Angelo Tremblay, PhD & Dale Schoeller, PhD

Windows
2:00 – 3:30 pm CLINICAL APPLICATIONS AND DATA ANALYSIS
 

BREAKOUT 1A (Concurrent)
Issues for Clinical Nutrition
Moderator – Ian Brown, PhD

Measuring energy expenditure in clinical practice
Troy Donahoo, MD

Best practices for measuring resting metabolic rate
Lilian de Jonge, PhD

Clinical use of radioactive dietary tracers
Janine Higgins, PhD

Windows

BREAKOUT 1B (Concurrent)
Data Analysis and Interpretation
Moderator – Jed Friedman, PhD

Considerations for indirect calorimetry calculations
Paul MacLean, PhD

Innovations in body composition analysis
Tim Nagy, PhD

Examining the energy gap after weight loss
James Hill, PhD

Court D
3:30 – 4:00 pm Coffee break
Tower Foyer
4:00 – 4:50 pm

EMERGING CONTROVERSY

Moderator – Steve Heymsfield, MD

Relevance of Brown Fat to Human Metabolism
Jan Nedergaard, PhD

Windows
5:00 – 6:00 pm

SABLE TRAVEL AWARD PRESENTATIONS

Moderator – John Lighton, PhD (See Abstracts, p 16-19)

Windows
5:00 – 5:15 pm

The acetate recovery factor to correct tracer derived dietary fat oxidation in humans.

Audrey Bergouignan , Dale A Schoeller, Susanne Votruba, Chantal Simon, Stéphane Blanc.

5:15 – 5:30 pm

A novel approach for the evaluation of physical activity: recognition of human movements and assessment of their durations and intensities using a triaxial accelerometer.

Alberto G Bonomi , Annelies HC Goris, Bin Yin and Klaas R Westerterp.

5:30 – 5:45 pm

Insulin sensitivity, mitochondrial function and fat metabolism are related in children with burn injury, and improved with PPAR-α agonist treatment.

Melanie G Cree, Jennifer J Zwetsloot, David N Herndon, Ting Qian, Ricki Fram, Asle Aarsland, Robert R Wolfe.

5:45 – 6:00 pm

Normal metabolic flexibility to glucose in Type-2 Diabetes after controlling for glucose disposal rate.

Jose Galgani, Leonie Heilbronn, Koichiro Azuma, David Kelley, Jeanine Albu, Xavier Pi-Sunyer, Steven Smith, Eric Ravussin, the Look AHEAD Adipose Research Group.

6:00 – 7:00 pm OPENING RECEPTION

Tower Foyer

7:00 – 10:00 pm OPENING SOCIAL, DINNER

Grand Ballroom 1

 

 

PROGRAM DAY 2
Anschutz Medical Campus
Wednesday, February 6th

 
TIME
SESSION
VENUE
7:15 – 8:15 am BREAKFAST

HP Foyer & Walkway

8:00 – 8:15 am
OPENING REMARKS, Paul Maclean, PhD
HP West
8:15 – 9:15 am KEYNOTE 1
Moderator – James Hill, PhD

Energy expenditure and body weight regulation
Arne Astrup, MD

HP West
9:15 – 9:30 am Coffee break, exhibits
HP Foyer
9:30 – 11:30 pm PLENARY 1
Topics in Metabolic Efficiency
Moderator – Dan Bessesen, MD

Technical considerations for estimating metabolic efficiency
Michael Toth, PhD

Body size, energy metabolism, and lifespan|
John Speakman, PhD

Weight loss, leptin, and skeletal muscle work efficiency
Michael Rosenbaum, MD

HP West
11:30 – 12:30 pm LUNCH, EXHIBITS

HP Foyer & Walkway

12:30 – 2:00 pm BREAKOUT 2 (Concurrent)
INDIRECT CALORIMETER SYSTEMS
Human Calorimetry Systems
Moderator – Lillian de Jonge, PhD

New developments in whole room calorimetry
Paul Schoffelen, BE

Larger and faster responding whole-room indirect calorimeters
Tuong Nguyen, MS

Energetics of weight gain in children
Nancy Butte, PhD

HP West

Animal Calorimetry Systems
Moderator – Patrick Even, PhD

Innovations in animal calorimetry
Ken Kober

Oxygen consumption/metabolic rate in small animals
John Lighton, PhD

Ambient temperature and energy balance
Mike Overton, PhD

HP East
2:00 – 3:30 pm POSTERS AND EXHIBITS
Exhibits
HP Foyer
Posters 1 - 5
Rm 1404
Posters 6 - 10
Rm 1405
Posters 11 - 15
Rm 1406
Posters 16 -20
Rm 1407
Posters 21 - 25
Rm 1408
3:30 – 5:30 pm PLENARY 2

HP West

Using Stable Isotopes to Assess Metabolism
Moderator – Edward Melanson, PhD

Isotopic approaches vs other measurements of energy expenditure
Klaas Westerterp, PhD

Applications to clinical and basic research
Dale Schoeller, PhD

Examining fuel partitioning in animals
Stephen Previs, PhD

 

 

PROGRAM DAY 3
Anschutz Medical Campus
Thursday, February 7th

TIME
SESSION
VENUE
7:15 – 8:15 am BREAKFAST

HP Foyer & Walkway

8:00 – 8:15 am OPENING REMARKS Edward Melanson, PhD
HP West
8:15 – 9:15 am

KEYNOTE 2
Moderator – Robert Eckel, MD

Fuel Utilization and Body Weight Regulation
Eric Ravussin, PhD

HP West
9:15 – 9:30 am Coffee break, exhibits
HP Foyer
9:30 – 11:30 pm PLENARY 3
Topics in Fuel Utilization
Moderator – Yves Schutz, PhD

Ingested fuels and the energetics of weight change
Richard Feinman, PhD

Assessing metabolic flexibility in human health and disease
Bret Goodpaster, PhD

Fuel trafficking in humans and animals
Daniel Bessesen, MD

HP West
11:30 – 12:30 pm LUNCH, EXHIBITS

HP Foyer & Walkway

12:30 – 2:00 pm BREAKOUT 3 (Concurrent)
EXERCISE AND PHYSICAL ACTIVITY

Free Living Assessments in Humans
Moderator – Klaas Westerterp, PhD

Innovations in accelerometry & GPS
Yves Schutz, PhD

Processing data from accelerometer studies
Dave Pober, PhD

Validity and feasibility in the epidemiological setting
Soren Brage, PhD

HP West

Exercise and Physical Activity in Animals
Moderator – Mike Overton, PhD

APS guidelines for physical activity in animals
Kevin Kregel, PhD

Monitoring levels of physical activity in animals
Catherine Kotz, PhD

Fast-response systems for pharmaceutical and exercise studies
Patrick Even, PhD

HP East
2:00 – 3:30 pm

FREE COMMUNICATIONS (Concurrent)
ORAL ABSTRACT PRESENTATIONS

Session 1
Moderator – Ray Browning, PhD

HP West
2:00 – 2:15

#1 Artificial Neural Network for Predicting Energy Expenditure from Actigraph Accelerometer.

Elizabeth A Booth, Megan Rothney, Ashley Beziat, Cindy A Dorminy, Jason Rapaport, Kong Y Chen, Mac S Buchowski.

2:15 – 2:30

#2 A New Approach to Detect Short Term Changes in Human Energy Expenditure in Whole Room Indirect Calorimetry.

Robert J Brychta, Tuong Nguyen, Megan P Rothney, Emily Schaefer, Monica C Skarulis, Kong Y. Chen.

2:30 – 2:45

#3 Different Indices of Activity Energy Expenditure Lead to Differing Interpretations of Data Among Women of African Descent.

Amy Luke, Lara Dugas, Adebowale Adeyemo, Ramon A Durazo-Arvizu1, Guichan Cao, Dale A Schoeller
2:45 – 3:00

#4 Contribution of Sedentary, Locomotive and Lifestyle Activity in Daily Life Assessed by a Triaxial Accelerometer.

Yoshitake Oshima, Kaori Kawaguchi, Ryosuke Doi, Kazunori Ohkawara, Yuki Hikihara, Kazuko Ishikawa-Takata, Shigeho Tanaka, Naoyuki Ebine, Kazuo Aoki, Junichi Misumi, Izumi Tabata.

3:00 – 3:15

#5 An Error Analysis of the Doubly Labeled Water Technique.

George D Swanson.

3:15 – 3:30

#6 Cross-Sectional Time Series Modeling to Predict 24-h Total Energy Expenditure from Heart Rate and Accelerometry.

Issa Zakeri, Anne Adolph, Maurice Puyau, Firoz Vohra, Nancy Butte.

2:00 – 3:30 pm

Session 2
Moderator – Nicole Stob, PhD

HP East
2:00 – 2:15

#7 Computational Model of Whole-Body Human Energy Metabolism.

Kevin D Hall
2:15 – 2:30

#8 Hyperthermia-Induced Hyperventilation Dissociates Respiratory Exchange Ratio from Respiratory Quotient.

François Haman and Matthew White
2:30 – 2:45

#9 The Effect of UCP1 Expression in Skeletal Muscle on Lifespan, Substrate and Energy Metabolism in Mice.

Susanne Keipert, Yvonne Katterle, Susanne Klaus.

2:45 – 3:00

#10 Oxygen Reperfusion Damage in an Insect: A Case Study of Small Animal Respirometry.

John RB Lighton and Pablo E Schilman.

3:00 – 3:15

#11 Using Modeling Techniques to Analyze the Energy Expenditure in Open-Circuit Respiration Chambers.

Jaap van Milgen, Serge Dubois and Jean Noblet

3:15 – 3:30

#12 Acute Effects on Metabolism and Appetite Profile of One Meal Difference in the Lower Range of Meal Frequency.

Astrid J. Smeets and Margriet S. Westerterp-Plantenga
3:30 – 3:45 pm Coffee break, exhibits
HP Foyer
3:45 – 6:00 pm PLENARY 4
Uncoupling, Substrate Cycling, and Tissue Metabolism
Moderator – Troy Donahoo, MD
HP West

Connecting mitochondrial proton leak to whole body metabolism
Mary Ellen Harper, PhD

Substrate cycling and measuring substrate oxidation and fuel utilization
Abdul Dulloo, PhD

Measuring metabolic rates of specific tissues
Stephen Heymsfield, MD

6:00 pm CLOSING REMARKS
HP West

 

Last updated: February 4, 2008