Join us for a two-day symposium that explores the critical interface between neuroscience and endocrinology!

The program will examine the brain’s central role in regulating metabolic balance, with a particular focus on its influence on health and its implications in conditions such as obesity and type 2 diabetes. You will gain a deeper understanding of how alterations in brain function can increase susceptibility to cardiometabolic disorders, as well as new perspectives on how peripheral signals affect the brain’s ability to maintain energy homeostasis. Together, these insights will shed light on mechanisms of disease and point toward potential avenues for future therapeutic strategies.

Specifically, scientific sessions include:

• Endocrine Circuits Across the Gut, Brain, and Adipose Axis
• Short Talks Selected from Submitted Abstracts
• Circuits Controlling Food Intake – Food Motivation and Reward
• Central Regulation of Energy Balance and Metabolism
• Emerging Technologies to Identify Novel Energy-Homeostatic Circuits
• Short Talks Selected from Submitted Abstracts
• Poster presentations

You are invited to present your research at the symposium. Short talks, posters and poster presetations will be arranged based on selected abstracts (please see guidelines under “Abstract Instruction”). The organisers will select the oral presentations based on submitted abstracts.

All who have signed up with an abstract will present their research in an open poster session. More information will follow after the registration deadline.

There will also be additional, excellent opportunities to expand your professional network and seek out possible future collaborators within different scientific fields as well as across national and international borders.

Confirmed speakers:

• Alexander Jais, Group Leader, Munich (DE)
• Christian Lüscher, Professor, Geneva University Neurocenter (CH)
• Clémence Blouet, Programme Leader, University of Cambridge (UK)
• Daniela Cota, Team Leader, University of Bordeaux (FR)
• Helena Kilpinen, Assistant professor, University of Helsinki (FI)
• Marie Holt, Assistant Professor, University of Warwick (UK)
• Sophie Steculorum, Principal Investigator, Cologne (DE)
• Soyoung Park, Professor, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin and German Institute for Human Nutrition (DE)
• Susanne Keipert, Professor, University of Lübeck (DE)
• Vincent Prévot, Senior Research Director and Head of Laboratory, National Institute of Health and Medical Research and Lille Neuroscience & Cognition Research Center (FR)

Organisers:

The symposium is jointly organized by Neuroscience Academy Denmark and the Danish Diabetes and Endocrine Academy.

Organisers of the scientific programme:

• Anna Mathia Klawonn, Associate Professor, Group leader, Danish Research Institute of Translational Neuroscience (DANDRITE), University of Aarhus (DK)
• Charlotte Høy Sander Kruse, PhD Student, Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Metabolic Research, University of Copenhagen (DK)
• Christoffer Clemmensen, Associate Professor, Group leader, Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Metabolic Research, University of Copenhagen (DK)
• Henriette Kirchner, Professor, Group leader, Institute for Human Genetics, Center of Brain, Behavior and Metabolism, University of Lübeck (DE)
• Jan-Wilhelm Kornfeld, Professor, Group leader, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Southern Denmark (DK)
• Tune H. Pers, Professor, Group leader, Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Metabolic Research, University of Copenhagen (DK)

The symposium is intended clinicians and researchers at all levels working within any field of neuroscience and endocrinology in Denmark and abroad. However, we also welcome undergraduate students, representatives from the life science industry and the private sector and interested editors at scientific journals, to attend.

We encourage early career researchers to submit an abstract for poster sessions. Researchers who submit an abstract may be selected to take part in the programme with a short talk.

All participants are selected on a first come, first served basis. However, if the symposium is overbooked, participants who submit an abstract will be prioritised for attendance.

Please note that you are not guaranteed a seat at the symposium if you do not meet the target group requirements. Priority is given to participants employed at research and health institutions or in the life science industry in Denmark and abroad. If the event is overbooked, the DDEA reserves its right to select participants based on the defined requirements.

Dinner registration
The NAD and DDEA organises a networking symposium dinner on 28 May 2026. Participation in the dinner is free of charge. Please sign up for the dinner upon registration, and indicate whether you have any dietary requirements.

Latest cancellation date & no-show fee
Please note that it is free of charge to participate in the event however the DDEA will charge a no-show fee of 1000 DKK if you do not show up and have not unregistered from the event by 7 May 2026 23:59.

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

You may download the template here

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 and please name the file that you submit with your name.

Format of poster

Size of poster: A0 or A1 – width max. 1 m/height max. 1.25 m (“Portrait format” is visually preferred)