Short talks will be selected from submitted abstracts.
Travel grants and abstract prizes will be awarded to top-scoring abstracts.
Day 1 – Thursday 10th September
08:30–09:00
Registration and welcome
09:00–09:15
Welcome - Introduction
Speaker(s): Local organising committee
SESSION 1: New methods and models for BMA analysis
(Plenary)
09:15–09:45
Invited Lecture 1: Adipogenic phenotype from the inside and outside, the impact of cell identity and diet
Speaker: Alexander Rauch (University of Southern Denmark)
09:45–10:15
Invited Lecture 2: to be confirmed
Speaker: Kelsey Collins (Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of California San Francisco)
10:15–11:00
Short talks
Selected from abstracts
11:00–11:30
Coffee Break
Posters
SESSION 2: BMAT, haematopoiesis and malignancies
(Plenary)
11:30–12:00
Invited Lecture 3: BMAT and acute myeloid leukaemia
Speaker: Paolo Gallipoli (Barts Cancer Institute, Queen Mary University of London, UK)
12:00–12:30
Invited Lecture 4: BMAT and multiple myeloma
Speaker: Michaela Reagan (MaineHealth Institute for Research)
12:30–13:30
Short talks and poster pitching
Selected from abstracts
13:30–14:30
Lunch break and posters
SESSION 3: Population-scale BMA analyses – BMAT, bone, and beyond
(Plenary)
14:30–15:00
Invited Lecture 6: Body composition analyses in UK Biobank
Speaker: Louise Thomas (University of Westminster, London, UK)
15:00–15:30
Invited Lecture 7: To be confirmed
Speaker: To be confirmed
15:30–16:15
Short talks
Selected from abstracts
16:15–16:45
Coffee Break
Posters
16:50–17:15
BMAS General Assembly
Organiser: BMAS
Speaker: Bram van der Eerden (BMAS President)
17:20–18:20
Trainee Session - Round-table Networking and Skills Development with invited speakers
Gala dinner
19:00–21:30 (150 min)
Type: Social/General
21:30–23:00
Day 2 – Friday 11th September
SESSION 4: BMAT endocrine and cardiometabolic functions
(Plenary)
08:30–09:00
Invited Lecture 8: Novel mechanisms of lipolysis in BMAT
Speaker: Erica Scheller (Washington University, St Louis, USA)
09:00–09:30
Invited Lecture 9: Dietary impact on BMAT and bone
Speaker: Elizabeth Rendina-Ruedy (University of Oklahoma Health Campus, USA)
09:30–10:30
Short talks
10:30–11:00
Coffee Break
Posters
SESSION 5: Pharmacological modulators of BMAT and bone
(Plenary)
11:00–11:30
Invited Lecture 10: GLP-1R agonists and bone health
Speaker: Morten Frost Nielsen (University of Southern Denmark, Denmark)
11:30–12:00
Invited Lecture 11: GLP-1R agonists in rheumatology
Speaker: Francis Berenbaum (CRSA-Sorbonne Université-Hôpital Saint Antoine, Paris)
12:00–13:00
Short talks
Selected from absracts
13:00-14:00
Lunch break
Refreshments/Posters
14:00–15:00
Public engagement session – Bone health in diabetes: how to lose weight without losing bone
Invited speakers and BMAS members
SESSION 6: Future directions for BMA research
KEYNOTE/CLOSING ADDRESS
15:00–15:45
Keynote
Speakers: Next Gen BMAS members
Awards and Closing remarks
15:45–16:30
Speaker: Bram van der Eerden (BMAS President)