Circulating Metabolic Intermediates as Fuels and Signals (J3)
October 8-11, 2023  | Snowbird Resort, Snowbird, UT, United States
Sven Enerbäck, Joshua D. Rabinowitz and Sarah-Maria Fendt
Scholarship Deadline: Jul. 6, 2023 | Abstract Deadline: Jul. 6, 2023 | Early Registration Deadline: Aug. 8, 2023
* Session Chair † Invited but not yet accepted | Program current as of August 23, 2025 4 AM | For the most up-to-date details, visit https://www.keystonesymposia.org
Sunday, October 8, 2023
10:00–2:00 PM Arrival and Registration Ballroom Lobby
12:00–2:00 PM Welcome Mixer Ballroom Lobby
Monday, October 9, 2023
1:00–2:00 AM Breakfast Golden Cliff / Eagles
2:00–3:30 AM Welcome and Keynote Session (Joint) Ballroom 1-3
  * Sven Enerbäck, University of Gothenburg
Session Chair
 
  * Jorge Henao-Mejia, University of Pennsylvania and Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Session Chair
 
  June L. Round, University of Utah
Microbes with Benefits: Microbe-immune Interactions that Promote Metabolic Health
 
  Bruce M. Spiegelman, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Inputs and Outputs of Adipose
 
3:30–3:50 AM Coffee Break Ballroom Lobby
3:50–5:15 AM Microbiota and Circulating Metabolites in Host Physiology and Immunity (Joint) Ballroom 1-3
  * Tim Hand, University of Pittsburgh
Session Chair
 
  Kathryn E. Wellen, University of Pennsylvania
Understanding the Interplay Between Diet, Acetyl-CoA synthesis, and Hepatic Lipid Homeostasis
 
  Michael A. Fischbach, Stanford University
Microbiota Derived Metabolites and Host Physiology
 
  Nicole D. Sonnert, Yale University
Short Talk: Short Talk: A Host-Microbiota Interactome Reveals Extensive Transkingdom Connectivity
 
  Erica Maissy, UCSD
Short Talk: Short Talk: Gut Microbial Bile Acid Modifications With Engineered Native Bacteria Ameliorate Metabolic Features In Polycystic Ovary Syndrome
 
5:15–7:00 AM Poster Setup Superior/Wasatch
5:15–11:00 AM On Own for Lunch
7:00–4:00 PM Poster Viewing Superior/Wasatch
9:00–10:30 AM Workshop 1 Ballroom 3 Lobby
  * Karthikeyani Chellappa, Brown University
Session Chair
 
  Haopeng Xiao, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute/ Harvard Medical School
A Multiomic Systems Approach to Mechanistically Characterize Novel Regulators of Metabolic Pathways
 
  Rachel K. Meyer, University of Arizona
Impact of Postprandial Butyrate Production on Hepatic Glucose Production via Colonic and Hepatic Signaling Pathways
 
  Joseph R. Visker, University of Utah
Targeting the Mitochondrial Pyruvate Carrier (MPC1) Ameliorates Myocardial Ischemic Reperfusion Injury in Mice
 
  Karthikeyani Chellappa, Brown University
Microbial NAD Metabolism: Missing Link in Organismal NAD Biology
 
  Adam J. Rauckhorst, University of Iowa
Pathways of Hepatic De Novo Lipogenesis
 
  Samuel M. Lancaster, Stanford University
Deep Metabolic Phenotyping of Newborn Cord Blood Reveals Maternal-fetal Interactions and Disease Risk
 
10:30–11:00 AM Coffee Available Ballroom Lobby
11:00–1:00 PM Intermediary Metabolites as Fuels Ballroom 3
  * Sarah-Maria Fendt, VIB-KU Leuven
Session Chair
 
  * Joshua D. Rabinowitz, Princeton University
Session Chair
 
  Joshua D. Rabinowitz, Princeton University
Lactate as Waste and Fuel
 
  Marc K. Hellerstein, University of California, Berkeley
Flux in Humans.Very Useful.
 
  Maria Dolores Moya-Garzon, Stanford
Short Talk: Short Talk: A Family of Orphan Ketone Metabolites that Regulates Energy Homeostasis
 
  Eric S. Goetzman, University of Pittsburgh
Short Talk: Short Talk: Dodecanedioic Acid as an Alternative Metabolic Fuel
 
  Elaine Y. Hsiao, University of California, Los Angeles
Microbiome-diet Interactions for Regulating Neuronal Activity
 
1:00–2:00 PM Social Hour with Lite Bites Superior/Wasatch
1:30–4:00 PM Poster Session 1 Superior/Wasatch
Tuesday, October 10, 2023
1:00–2:00 AM Breakfast Golden Cliff / Eagles
2:00–5:00 AM Muscle and Exercise Ballroom 3
  * Katrien De Bock, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
Session Chair
 
  George A. Brooks, University of California, Berkeley
Muscle and Whole Body Lactate Kinetics: Organ-Organ, Cell-Cell, Intracellular, and Postprandial Lactate Shuttles
 
  Katrien De Bock, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
Glutamine Metabolism and Muscle Stem Cell Fate Decisions
 
  Zoltan Arany, University of Pennsylvania
Metabolic Flux in Exercise
 
  Charlotte Mann, ETHZ
Short Talk: Short Talk: Sulfur Amino Acid Restriction Enhances Exercise Capacity in Mice by Reprogramming Glycolytic Muscle Metabolism
 
  Arthur Kaser, University of Cambridge
Short Talk: Short Talk: A Purine Nucleotide Cycle Interlocking Energy Metabolism is Widespread across the Organism
 
3:00–3:20 AM Coffee Break Ballroom Lobby
5:00–7:00 AM Poster Setup Superior/Wasatch
5:00–11:00 AM On Own for Lunch
7:00–4:00 PM Poster Viewing Superior/Wasatch
9:00–10:30 AM Career Roundtable (Joint) Ballroom 1-3
  Zoltan Arany, University of Pennsylvania
Professor
 
  Rose L. Szabady, Ferring Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
Associate Director, IBD Research
 
  Elaine Y. Hsiao, University of California, Los Angeles
Associate Professor
 
  Romina S. Goldszmid, NCI, National Institutes of Health
Earl Stadtman Investigator
 
  Harry Sokol, INSERM
Professor
 
10:30–11:00 AM Coffee Available Ballroom Lobby
11:00–1:00 PM Metabolite Drivers of Health and Disease Ballroom 3
  * Sven Enerbäck, University of Gothenburg
Session Chair
 
  * Sarah-Maria Fendt, VIB-KU Leuven
Session Chair
 
  Sarah-Maria Fendt, VIB-KU Leuven
Metabolic Rewiring Driving Metastasis Formation
 
  Lora K. Heisler, Rowett Institute, University of Aberdeen
Metabolites Influencing Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes
 
  Gregory S. Ducker, University of Utah
Flexibility of Carbohydrate Metabolism in the Normal and Failing Heart
 
  Kyle N Dunlap, University of Utah
Short Talk: Short Talk: A Functional Genomics Screen Reveals an Essential Citrulline Transporter
 
1:00–2:00 PM Social Hour with Lite Bites Superior/Wasatch
1:30–4:00 PM Poster Session 2 Superior/Wasatch
Wednesday, October 11, 2023
1:00–2:00 AM Breakfast Golden Cliff / Eagles
2:00–5:00 AM Metabolites as Signaling Molecules Ballroom 3
  * Joshua D. Rabinowitz, Princeton University
Session Chair
 
  * Sven Enerbäck, University of Gothenburg
Session Chair
 
  Sven Enerbäck, University of Gothenburg
How Foxk1 and Foxk2 Regulate Aerobic Glycolysis – Implications for Systemic Energy Homeostasis and Type 2 Diabetes
 
  Mariia Yuneva, Francis Crick Institute
Identifying Metabolic Requirements of Tumours in vivo
 
  Edward T. Chouchani, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Mechanisms of Protein Regulation by Lactate
 
  Christine Vohwinkel, University of Colorado, School of Medicine
Lactate Mediated Metabolic Cross-talk Between Alveolar Macrophages and Epithelium in Acute Lung Injury Attenuates Excessive inflammation via histone lactylation
 
3:00–3:20 AM Coffee Break Ballroom Lobby
5:00–7:00 AM Poster Setup Superior/Wasatch
5:00–11:00 AM On Own for Lunch
7:00–4:00 PM Poster Viewing Superior/Wasatch
9:00–10:30 AM Workshop 2 Ballroom 3/Lobby
  * Andrea Galmozzi, UW Madison SMPH
Session Chair
 
  Andrea Galmozzi, UW Madison SMPH
Adipose Heme Biosynthesis Regulates Metabolic Homeostasis and Energy Expenditure
 
  Anthony Verkerke, BIDMC
BCAA Flux in Brown Fat Regulates Insulin Sensitivity Independent of Thermogenesis
 
  Tong Wang, Brigham and Women’s Hospital; Harvard Medical School
Machine Learning for Precision Nutrition
 
  Jaclyn A Rivas, University of New Mexico Health Sciences
Metabolomic and Transcriptomic Alterations in the Colon of Mice with Metabolic Syndrome in the Absence of Inflammation
 
  Hadar Israeli, Hadassa Medical School, Hebrew University
Unraveling Weight Loss-Independent Mechanisms following Sleeve Gastrectomy for Alleviating Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease
 
  Genki Ichihara, Keio University School of Medicine
MRP1-dependent Extracellular Release of Glutathione Induces Cardiomyocyte Ferroptosis After Ischemia-Reperfusion
 
10:30–11:00 AM Coffee Available Ballroom Lobby
  * Joanna Kalucka, Aarhus University
Session Chair
 
  Michelle F. Clasquin, Pfizer, Inc.
Expanding the Chemical Space of Synthetic Metabolites to Study a Protein of Unknown Function with Therapeutic Potential in NASH
 
  Joanna Kalucka, Aarhus University
Heterogeneity of Vascular Endothelial Cells in Human Adipose Tissue: Implications for Health and Disease
 
  Bowen Tan, Rockefeller University
Short Talk: Short Talk: Cellular and Molecular Basis of Leptin Resistance
 
  Rémi Montané, Restore Institute
Short Talk: Short Talk: Regulation of Systemic Lactate Fluxes by Brown and Beige Adipose Tissues
 
12:45–1:00 PM Meeting Wrap-Up: Outcomes and Future Directions (Organizers) Ballroom 3
1:00–2:00 PM Social Hour with Lite Bites Superior/Wasatch
1:30–4:00 PM Poster Session 3 Superior/Wasatch
5:00–6:45 PM Obesity and Metabolic Syndrome Ballroom 3
Thursday, October 12, 2023
2:00–2:00 AM Departure