2017 ECLip Annual Meeting

April 21-22 2017
Rome
Villa Mondragone


Program (Download the pdf file)

April 21th

08:30  Current status of the ECLip registry (for ECLip members only)
Prof. Dr. Martin Wabitsch, University of Ulm, Germany

10:30  Welcome
Prof. Giuseppe Novelli, University of RomeTor Vergata, Italy

10:45  Diagnose and treatment of unfrequent lipodystrophies: A multi-society practical guidelines
Dr. Rebecca Brown, NIH, Bethesda, USA

11:30  Recent progress in understanding the genetics of FPLD
Dr. David Savage, University of Cambridge, UK

12:00  Coffee break

12:30  Next-generation sequencing (NGS) for genetic diagnosis of lipodystrophy
Dr. Maria Rosaria D’Apice, Policlinico Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy

13:00  Fat excess and fat depletion, apparently opposite conditions with similar features of the immune system
Dr. Margherita Maffei, Centro Obesità-Ospedale Cisanello, Pisa, Italy

13:30  Lunch

14:30  Autoimmune generalized lipodystrophy and type 1 diabetes
Dr. Giovanni Ceccarini, University Hospital of Pisa, Italy

15:00  Altered brown and white adipogenesis in FPLD2
Prof. Giovanna Lattanzi, CNR, Unit of Bologna, Italy

15:30  Coffee break

16:00  Pleiotropic functions of seipin: brain and adipose tissue
Prof. David Araujo-Vilar, University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain

16:30  Anticipation of metabolic complications in LMNA-associated partial lipodystrophy
Dr. Isabelle Jéru, Centre de Recherche Saint-Antoine, Paris, France

17:00  LMNA-associated complex overlapping syndromes
Dr. Cristina Guillín-Amarelle, University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain


April 22nd

09:00  Cardiometabolic assessment of lamina A/C mutation carriers according to R482 or non-R482 mutation
Prof. Marie Christine Vantyghem, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire (CHRU) de Lille, France

09:30  Bone mineral density in Familial Partial Lipodystrophy
Dr. Antia Fernández-Pombo, University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain

10:00  Metreleptin treatment in lipodystrophic syndromes : impact on quality of life
Dr. Camille Vatier, Centre de Recherche Saint-Antoine, Paris, France

10:30  Clinical benefit of the surgical removal of the adipose tissue of the neck in LMNA-associated partial lipodystrophy.
Dr. Alessandra Gambineri, S. Orsola-Malpighi Hospital, Bologna, Italy

11:00  Coffee break11:30 Therapeutic approach to Celia’s encephalopathy: a window of hope?
Prof. David Araujo-Vilar, University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain

12:00  Comparison of radioimmunoassay versus ELISA for measurement of endogenous leptin in lipodystrophy
Dr. Rebecca Brown, NIH, Bethesda, USA

12:30  The Undiagnosed Diseases Network International
Dr. Domenica Taruscio/Dr. Marco Salvatore, National Centre for Rare Diseases, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome (Italy)

13:00  European network of lipodystrophies help lines
Naca Pérez de Tudela, AELIP, Spain

13:30  The Role and Impact of the Patient Voice; and Updates from the US
Andra Stratton, Lipodystrophy United, New Mexico, US

14:00  Final conclusions
Prof. Giuseppe Novelli, University of RomeTor Vergata, Italy

Venue
Villa Mondragone Congress and Representation Centre
University of Rome Tor Vergata
via Frascati, 51, 00040 Monte Porzio Catone (Rome), Italy

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