Annual Centre Seminar, March 23

Oslo Diabetes Research Centre’s annual whole-day seminar was held on March 23. In addition to an exciting scientific program, there was time for exchanging research ideas, plans and views with each other and to socialize.

Sindre Lee-Ødegård talking about: ”What did we learn about insulin resistance from the DIASA 1 studies: liver, fat and inflammation”, Jens Petter Berg prestenting: “ChatGPT: Will it change the way we plan, perform and publish research in the near future?” and Naveed Sattar giving an Update on “DIABETES AND CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE IN SOUTH ASIANS”.

Program:

09.00 WELCOME Kåre Birkeland

TOPIC I: DIABETES IN SOUTH ASIANS Chair: Kåre Birkeland

09.15 DIABETES AND CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE IN SOUTH ASIANS – AN UPDATE (Invited zoom lecture: Naveed Sattar, Glasgow)

10.00 Changes in hepatic insulin clearance – a novel mechanism in the development of type 2 diabetes. Results from the DIASA 1 studies (Archana Sharma)

10.10 Insulin resistance in fat tissue – Results from the DIASA 1 studies (Anita Suntharalingam)

10.20 What did we learn about insulin resistance from the DIASA 1 studies: liver, fat and inflammation (Sindre Lee Ødegård)

10.30 General discussion

11.00 Coffee break

TOPIC II: TYPE 1 DIABETES AND AUTOIMMUNITY Chair: Lars Christian Stene

11.30 What can we learn about the etiology of 1 diabetes from recent research in autoimmune polyendocrine syndromes and covid-19? (Anette Susanne Bøe Wolff, Bergen)

12.00 General discussion

12.30 LUNCH

TOPIC III: TYPE 1 DIABEETS Chair: Tore Julsrud Berg

13.30 Can We Arrest the Progression of Type 1 Diabetes? (Lars Krogvold)

14.00 Do late complications of diabetes start in childhood? (Maryam Saeed)

14.15 General discussion

14.45 DIACHEIVE – using e-health technology in a large pragmatic lifestyle intervention study in Norway (Anne Marie Aas)

15.15 Coffee break

TOPIC V: Artificial intelligence, large language model and ChatGPT Chair: Jens Petter Berg

15.45 ChatGPT: Will it change the way we plan, perform and publish research in the near future? Introduction (Jens Petter Berg).

Discussion in groups and plenum

17.00 GENERAL ASSEMBLY

18.00 DINNER