10.15-10.30 Opening

10.30-11.15 Session 1 (Branding)
Marius Tausk lecture
Chairperson: Ron de Kloet (Leiden)
Steven Lamberts (Rotterdam): Genetic endocrinology of aging (pdf)

11.30-13.00 Parallel sessions

Session 2 (Branding)
The ubiquitous insulin hormone
Chairpersons: Michaela Diamant (Amsterdam) and Margriet Ouwens (Leiden)
Hannele Yki-Järvinen (Helsinki, Finland): Insulin resistance: beyond insulin-mediated glucose uptake (30) (pdf)
Christa Boer (Amsterdam): High-fat diet induced myocardial insulin resistance (15) (pdf)
Elena Korsheninnikova (Leiden): Insulin resistance and adipose tissue (15) (pdf)
Marco Mensink (Maastricht): Insulin sensitivity in skeletal muscle: the influence of life style (15) (pdf)
Aldo Grefhorst (Groningen): The role of nuclear hormone receptors in hepatic insulin resistance (15) (pdf)

Session 3 (Doorwerth)
Steroid resistance
Chairperson: Erica van den Akker (Rotterdam)
Guy Haegeman (Gent, Belgium): Molecular mechanisms of gene repression by the glucocorticoid receptor (45) (pdf)
Richard Feelders (Rotterdam): Expression of glucocorticoid receptor splice variants in peripheral blood mononuclear leukocytes in hyper- and hypocortisolism (15) (pdf)
Pauline Smit (Rotterdam): Differential effects of synthetic glucocorticoids on gene expression levels of IL-2 and glucocorticoid-induced leucine zipper (GILZ) in peripheral blood mononuclear cells (15) (pdf)
Harry Vermeer (Utrecht): A comparison of in vitro bioassays to determine cellular glucocorticoid sensitivity (15) (pdf)

Session 4 (Gelderland)
Radiolabelled peptides for imaging and therapy of neuroendocrine tumors
Chairperson: Marion de Jong (Rotterdam)
Eric Krenning (Rotterdam): Tumor imaging and radionuclide therapy: current status (30) (pdf)
Jaap Teunissen (Rotterdam): Radionuclide therapy and quality of life (15) (pdf)
Astrid Capello (Rotterdam): Radionuclide therapy and apoptosis using a hybrid peptide (15) (pdf)
Susanne Verwijnen (Rotterdam): Gene therapy using a somatostatin receptor (15) (pdf)
Marion de Jong (Rotterdam): Radionuclide therapy: future perspectives (15) (pdf)

13.00-15.00 Lunch / poster session Endocrinology (Branding)

15.00-16.00 Plenary session 5 (Branding)
Chairperson: Sytze van Dam (Amsterdam)
Hans Reul (Bristol, UK): Glucocorticoid action in the brain: from modified histones to modified behavior (pdf)
(sponsored by Elsevier BV, Amsterdam)
Felipe Casanueva (Santiago de Compostela, Spain): Ghrelin: regulatory, hormonal and metabolic aspects (pdf)
(sponsored by Pfizer BV, Capelle a/d IJssel)

16.00-16.30 Break

16.30-18.00 Parallel sessions

Session 6 (Doorwerth)
From MODY to hyperinsulinism
Chairperson: Carrie Ris-Stalpers (Amsterdam)
Khalid Hussain (Londen, UK): Congenital hyperinsulinism (30) (pdf)
Ton Maassen (Leiden): MODYs and mitochondrial diabetes: diseases with a genetic defect leading to beta cell dysfunction (15) (pdf)
Paul van Trotsenburg (Amsterdam): CHI: a curable case in an infant (15) (pdf)
Eelco de Koning (Leiden): Clinical aspects of MODY (15) (pdf)
Kees Noordam (Nijmegen): Congenital hyperinsulinism: activating glucokinase mutations (15) (pdf)

Session 7 (Gelderland)
Glucocorticoids, cognition and behavior
Chairpersons: Annet Kingma and Bauke Buwalda (Groningen)
Mechiel Korte (Wageningen): The Darwinian concept of stress (30) (pdf)
Rieneke van Dommelen (Groningen / Veldhoven): Dexamethasone induced behavioral changes in children treated for acute lymphoblastic leukemia (15) (pdf)
Nathalie Jansen (Groningen / Utrecht): Cognitive effects of dexamethasone in children treated for acute lymphoblastic leukemia (15) (pdf)
Marjolein Gerrits (Groningen): The effects of cyclic estradiol replacement in ovariectomized rats on the response to chronic stress (15) (pdf)
Patrick Kamphuis (Utrecht): Life-long adverse effect of postnatal dexamethasone treatment on behavior and cognition in rats (15) (pdf)

Session 8 (Branding)
Cardiovascular endocrinology
Chairperson: Marcel Twickler (Utrecht)
(sponsored by Novo Nordisk Farma B.V., Alphen aan de Rijn)
Eric Bruckert (Paris, France): Hypothyroidism and new risk factors in cardiovascular disease: what is the link? (30)
Pieter Doevendans (Utrecht): Growth factors and cardiac modeling (15) (pdf)
Angela Maas (Zwolle): Estrogens and the heart, doubts and benefits(15) (pdf)
Robin Dullaart (Groningen): Endocrinological diseases and related expression of the HDL phenotype (15) (pdf)
Martin den Heijer (Nijmegen): Homocysteine and arteriovenous thrombosis (15) (pdf)

19.00 Dinner
Poster Award Ceremony Endocrinology

21.00-21.45 Session 9 (Branding)
Laqueur lecture
Chairperson: to be announced by NVE
Henk Goos (Utrecht): What we learned from fish