12.45 - 1.00 p.m.

Welcome Address

Carien Niessen - Vice Rector for Research, University of Cologne

Sabine Eming  -  Guenter Schwarz  -  Jens Brüning 
Scientific Coordinators - CMMC Symposium 2026

1.00 - 2.30 p.m.

Session 1  -  Regeneration and Metabolism

Metabolic Interventions in Regeneration and Cancer
Almundena Chaves Perez
Cancer Biology and Genetics Program, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center - New York, US

Title tba
Antonio Jacinto  (pending)
Inst. for Medical Systems Biology, Nova University Lisbon - Lisbon, PT

Metabolic Regulation of Heart Regeneration
Ahmed I Mahmoud
Cell & Regenerative Biology, University of Wisconsin - Madison, US

From Scar to Regeneration - Defining the Roadmap for Mammalian Spinal Cord Regeneration using Spiny Mice
Mónica M Sousa
Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde i3S - Porto, PT

2.30 - 3.00 p.m.

Coffee Break incl. Biotech Exhibition  

3.00 - 4.30 p.m.

Session 2  -  Carbohydrate Metabolism and Diabetes

Title tba
Jens Brüning
Max Planck Institute for Metabolism Research & Dept. of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Preventive Medicine, University Hospital Cologne - Cologne, DE

Heterogeneity of Type 2 Diabetes: Fact or Fiction?
Michael Roden
Dept. of Endocrinology and Diabetology, Medical Faculty and University Hospital Düsseldorf, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf - Düsseldorf, DE

The Claude Bernard Approach to Scientific Proof: The Aetiology of Type 2 Diabetes
Roy Taylor 
Translational and Clinical Research Institute, Newcastle University - Newcastle, GB

4.30 - 5.00 p.m.

Coffee Break incl. Biotech Exhibition

5.00 - 6.00 p.m.  -  Keynote Lecture I, External Scientific Coordinator

Reprogramming Fibroblasts to Make Bone

Elly Tanaka
Institute of Molecular Biotechnology (IMBA) - Vienna, AT 

6.00 - 9.00 p.m.

CMMC Poster Session and Welcome Get-Together (inkl. Finger Food and Drinks)
Selection of three posters for the Poster Awards
 

9.00 - 10.30 a.m.

Session 3  -  Amino Acid Metabolism

Sulfide Signaling: From Biomolecules to Behavior 
Ruma Banerjee
Dept. of Biological Chemistry, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor - Michigan, US

CARS1-Mediated Supersulfidation in Skeletal Muscle
Hozumi Motohashi
Dept. of Medical Biochemistry, Graduate School of Medicine, Tohoku University - Sendai, JP

Young at Heart: Neoteny and Regeneration in the Naked Mole-Rat
Jane Reznick
CECAD, University of Cologne - Cologne, DE

10.30 - 11.00 a.m.

Coffee Break incl. Biotech Exhibition

11.00 - 12.30 p.m.

Session 4  -  Immunity and Metabolism

Identification of HEV-Like Endothelial Cells and CD4+ Resident Memory T Cells in Atopic Dermatitis 
Kenji Kabashima
Dept. of Dermatology, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University - Kyoto, JP

Persistent Arginase 1 Expression drives Enhanced Mitochondrial Function in Tissue Resident Macrophages
David E Sanin Pena
Bloomberg-Kimmel Inst. for Cancer Immunotherapy, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine - Baltimore, US

Title tba
Mihai G Netea (pending)
Life & Medical Sciences Institute (LIMES), University of Bonn - Bonn, DE 

12.30 - 2.30 p.m.

Lunch Break with Poster Presentation and Biotech Exhibition

2.30 - 4.00 p.m. 

Session 5  -  Nucleic Acid Metabolism

Title tba
Ana Martin-Villalba
German Cancer Research Center - Heidelberg, DE

Title tba
Min Ae Lee-Kirsch
Dept. of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Carl Gustav Carus University Hospital - Dresden, DE

Title tba
Hendrik Poeck
Hematology and Medical Oncology, Dept. III of Internal Medicine - Regensburg, DE

4.00 - 4.05 p.m.

Announcement of the three CMMC Poster Prize Winners 

4.05 - 4.30 p.m.

Coffee Break incl. Biotech Exhibition

4.30 - 5.30 p.m.  -  Keynote Lecture II, External Scientific Coordinator

Nucleic Acid Metabolism – A Driver for cGAS/STING Signaling (tentative)

Axel Roers
Institute of Immunology, University Hospital Heidelberg - Heidelberg, DE
 

9.00 - 9.30 a.m.

Short presentation, given by the three poster awardees 

9.30 - 11.00 p.m.

Session 6  -  Lipid and Fatty Acid Metabolism

Role of Muscle Insulin Resistance in the Development of MASLD and Cardiovascular Disease
Kitt Petersen
Dept. of Internal Medicine (Endocrinology), Yale School of Medicine - New Haven, US

Regulation of Hepatic Lipid Metabolism
Gregory Steinberg
Dept. of Medicine, McMaster University, Ontario - Hamilton, CA

Title tba
Meritxell Huch (pending)
MPI of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics - Dresden, DE

11.00 - 11.30 a.m.

Coffee Break incl. Biotech Exhibition

11.30 - 12.30 p.m.  -  Keynote Lecture III, External Scientific Coordinator

Mitochondrial Protonophores to Treat MASLD/MASH, Obesity and Cardiometabolic Disease

Gerald Shulman
Dept. of Internal Medicine, Yale School of Medicine - New Haven, US

12.30 - 12.45 p.m.

Concluding Remarks and Farewell
 

Registration and participation in the CMMC Symposium "Metabolic Control of Tissue Regeneration and Degeneration" is free of charge! Registration is required. 

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