A burst of energy in metabolic disease research
A burst of energy in metabolic disease research
A report on the 'Diabetes Mellitus' and 'Adipogenesis and Obesity' joint Keystone Symposia, Banff, Canada, 4-10 March 2004.
The genomic era has injected a fresh burst of energy into the study of complex metabolic diseases. Over 900 delegates congregated at the foothills of the Rockies in Banff, Canada to learn about the latest developments in research into obesity and the commonly associated disorder, type 2 diabetes mellitus. Allen Spiegel (National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, USA) kicked off the line up and introduced the major initiatives that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have recently established to support diabetes and obesity research. These include the establishment of large-scale, multidisciplinary, collaborative efforts that combine and coordinate information generated from genomics, proteomics, stem-cell biology and bioinformatics. In particular, members of the following consortia were well represented by the speakers at the meeting: the Beta Cell Biology Consortium and Endocrine Pancreas Consortium http://www.cbil.upenn.edu/EPConDB; the Diabetes Genome Anatomy Project http://www.diabetesgenome.org; the Nuclear Receptor Signaling Atlas http://www.nursa.org and the Mouse Metabolic Phenotyping Centers http://www.mmpc.org. Other initiatives that are clearly beginning to make an impact on diabetes and obesity research include the identification of obesity genes in invertebrates, and interdisciplinary research bridging neurobiology and behavioral science. Some of the major new developments that dominated the conference stemmed from these initiatives and are discussed in this report. It was refreshing, however, to note that these collaborative efforts were not limited to US-based research groups and often appear to be truly global collaborations.
Sethi, Jaswinder K.
923f1a81-91e4-46cd-8853-bb4a979f5a85
2004
Sethi, Jaswinder K.
923f1a81-91e4-46cd-8853-bb4a979f5a85
Sethi, Jaswinder K.
(2004)
A burst of energy in metabolic disease research.
Genome Biology, 5 (6), [327].
(doi:10.1186/gb-2004-5-6-327).
Abstract
A report on the 'Diabetes Mellitus' and 'Adipogenesis and Obesity' joint Keystone Symposia, Banff, Canada, 4-10 March 2004.
The genomic era has injected a fresh burst of energy into the study of complex metabolic diseases. Over 900 delegates congregated at the foothills of the Rockies in Banff, Canada to learn about the latest developments in research into obesity and the commonly associated disorder, type 2 diabetes mellitus. Allen Spiegel (National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, USA) kicked off the line up and introduced the major initiatives that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have recently established to support diabetes and obesity research. These include the establishment of large-scale, multidisciplinary, collaborative efforts that combine and coordinate information generated from genomics, proteomics, stem-cell biology and bioinformatics. In particular, members of the following consortia were well represented by the speakers at the meeting: the Beta Cell Biology Consortium and Endocrine Pancreas Consortium http://www.cbil.upenn.edu/EPConDB; the Diabetes Genome Anatomy Project http://www.diabetesgenome.org; the Nuclear Receptor Signaling Atlas http://www.nursa.org and the Mouse Metabolic Phenotyping Centers http://www.mmpc.org. Other initiatives that are clearly beginning to make an impact on diabetes and obesity research include the identification of obesity genes in invertebrates, and interdisciplinary research bridging neurobiology and behavioral science. Some of the major new developments that dominated the conference stemmed from these initiatives and are discussed in this report. It was refreshing, however, to note that these collaborative efforts were not limited to US-based research groups and often appear to be truly global collaborations.
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