At the DDEA Summer School, internationals and national experts will give lectures and facilitate workshops.

In 2023, the programme includes scientific sessions on:

• Mitochondria & Energy Expenditure
• Hormones – For good and worse
• Obesity & Body Weight Regulation
• Bone Metabolism and Organ Cross Talk
• Type 1 Diabetes and Cell Stress
• Personalized Medicine – insights from Phosphoproteomics and CrispR Technologies

Furthermore, there will be workshops on:

• Pregnancy and Implementation Science
• User Involvement
• Peripheral actions of Thyroid Hormones
• Tracer Studies
• Is the gold standard for measuring insulin sensitivity accurate after exercise?
• Memorable and powerful presentations

Speakers

• Brendan Battersby, Research director, University of Helsinki (FI)
• Carsten Dirksen, Endocrinologist, Amager og Hvidovre Hospital (DK)
• Emily Sims, MD, Associate Professor, Indiana University School of Medicine Center for Diabetes and Metabolic Diseases (US)
• Elise Needham, EMBO Fellow, University of Cambridge (UK)
• Feyza Engin, Associate Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison, School of Medicine and Public Health (US)
• Isha Jain, Assistant Profesor & Investigator, University of California San Francisco (US)
• Martin Hey Mogensen, Department Manager, Novo Nordisk (DK)
• Morten Hostrup, Associate Professor, University of Copenhagen (DK)
• Ryan Riddle, Professor, University of Maryland, School of Medicine, Department of Orthopaedics (US)
• Tatiane Vilaca, MD, Postdoc, University of Sheffield (UK)
• Terhi Piltonen, Professor, Oulu University Hospital (FI)
• Yonglun Luo, Associate Professor, Aarhus University, Department of Biomedicine (DK)

Workshop instructors

• Antonio Bianco, Professor, University of Chicago (US)
• David McIntyre, Professor, University of Queensland (AU)
• Louise Munch Blicher, Creative Lead, Gubra (DK)
• Glenn Mcconell, Emeritus Professor, Victoria University (AU)
• Mette Rothmann, Associate Professor, Odense University Hospital (DK)
• Olav Rooijackers, Professor, Karolinska Institutet (SE)

Organisers

• Dorte Glintborg, Associate Professor, Odense University Hospital (DK)
• Dorte Møller Jensen, Professor, University of Southern Denmark, Steno Diabetes Center Odense (DK)
• Esben Søndergaard, Associate Professor, Steno Diabetes Center Aarhus, Aarhus University Hospital (DK)
• Jørgen Wojtaszewski, Professor, University of Copenhagen (DK)
• Louise Dalbøge, PhD, Project Leader, Gubra (DK)
• Louise Torp Dalgaard, Professor, Roskilde University (DK)
• Morten Frost, Professor, University of Southern Denmark (DK)
• Nils Færgeman, Professor, University of Southern Denmark (DK)
• Stephanie Holm, PhD Student, University of Copenhagen (DK)
• Vinni Faber Rasmussen, PhD student, Aarhus University (DK)

The DDEA Summer School is for PhD students, both clinicians and basal scientists working within metabolism and endocrinology and metabolic diseases including diabetes, obesity, and cardiology.

Due to the limited number of seats, you are not guaranteed a seat until you receive an e-mail with final confirmation. You will initially be placed on a waiting list, which will be prioritized, according to your enrollment date. DDA-funded researchers and 2^nd / 3^rd year PhD students will be prioritized, as will PhD students from Danish research institutes. However, a few seats are open to PhD students from abroad.

To apply for a seat, you will have to submit an abstract. If you are selected for participation, you are expected to present your data at a poster session.

Accommodation

The DDEA offers accommodation for all participants from 21-24 August 2023.
Please indicate upon registration whether you would be willing to share a room with another participant.

Transportation

The DDEA offers joint transportation from Odense Central Station to the venue on Monday 21^st of August. Please indicate upon registration if you would like to join the joint transportation.

Certification

A course certificate will be sent to all participants upon request at the end of the course. Full participation is required to attain ECTS points. The course equals 3.2 ECTS points. 

No-show fee

It is free of charge to participate in the course however the DDEA will charge a no-show fee of 2000 DKK if you do not show up and have not unregistered from the course prior to its start.

Please note that we expect all participants to have approval from their supervisors for the week-long, full presence and participation prior to completing the registration form.

Deadline for submission of abstracts

4 June 2023

Abstract guidelines

Be sure your abstract contains the following information and adheres to the following formatting guidelines before submission.

You may download the abstract template.

The abstract should be max 1500 characters incl. spaces and written in Arial 10.

• Title of abstract (Use a short and specific title with title-style capitalization and put it in bold)
• Presenting author name(s) (Underline the presenting author’s name)
• Affiliation (Include unit, institution/company/hospital, city and country for all authors and put it in italic)

The body of the abstract contains the following content:

• Background and aim:
  Text in Arial 10
• Material and methods:
  Text in Arial 10
• Results (if obtained to-date)
  Text in Arial 10
• Conclusion (and perspectives)
  Text in Arial 10

No images, figures, charts or tables should be included in the abstract.
Please proofread carefully before submission and submit a word file.