This symposium will deepen and widen your knowledge about the clinical and basic science perspectives of metabolic bone disease. In the symposium, you will bridge gaps between research areas and become informed about the latest, most relevant findings, especially for clinicians. Topics include:

• Treating osteoporosis
• What you need to know inside and outside of the bone
• Exercise and anabolic signalling in bone
• Energy and cellular metabolism of bone
• Rare bone diseases and management
• Scientific networking through a poster session

Confirmed speakers:

• Alexander Robling, Professor, Indiana University School of Medicine (US)
• Bente Langdahl, Professor, Aarhus University (DK)
• Lars Rejnmark, Professor, Aarhus University Hospital (DK)
• Natasha Appelman-Dijkstra, Internist-Endocrinologist, Leiden University Medical Center (NL)
• Nathalie Sims, Professor, University of Melbourne (AU)
• Pouneh Fazelli, Associate Professor, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine (US)
• Ryan Chai, Research Officer, Garvan Institute of Medical Research (AU)
• Richard Eastrell, Professor, University of Sheffield, Medical School (UK)
• Steve Stegen, Assistant Professor, Catholic University of Leuven (BE)
• Wolfgang Kemmler, Professor, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg (DE)

Organisers:

• Morten Frost, Professor, University of Southern Denmark (DK)
• Bente Langdahl, Professor, Aarhus University (DK)
• Alexander Rauch, Associate Professor, University of Southern Denmark (DK)
• Ryan Riddle, Professor, University of Maryland (US)

This symposium is intended for all researchers interested in the topic of the symposium. Seats will be filled on a first-come, first-served basis.

Participants are welcome from academia and industry, within Denmark and abroad.

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

Dinner registration

DDEA will organise a networking dinner on 2 May. Participation in the dinner is free of charge. Please sign up for the dinner upon registration, and indicate if you have any dietary requirements.

Accommodation

If you are participating in the PhD course that precedes the symposium, DDEA will cover your accommodation throughout the PhD course and symposium. Please sign up for accommodation when registering for the PhD course. You will be informed about your overnight accommodation by DDEA after the registration deadline.

All other symposium participants must book and cover the cost of their own accommodation.

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 23 April 2024.

Deadline for submission of abstracts:  17 March 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)