PRELIMINARY programme

Sunday 23 August - Monday 24 August

Pre-conferences organized by e.g., INFORM, ERNDIM, E-HOD, MetabERN and Recon4IMD. For more information please contact them directly. 

Monday 24 August

13:00         SSIEM Dietitians’ Group Academy Review: addressing dietetic challenges
(open to all)



16:00SSIEM Council meeting (by invitation only)



Tuesday 25 August

Meetings by various groups continue from Monday

08:15 - 10:00Introductory session by the local organizing committee: Brief talks on clinic,
lab and diet for those who are new to the field and to the SSIEM 



08:30 - 12:00Nutrition and Dietetics session organized by the SSIEM Dietitians’ Group (open to all)



08:30 - 12:00SSIEM Adult Metabolic Physicians’ Group: Tailoring and discontinuation of
therapy in adulthood (open to all)



12:15 - 13:45SSIEM Adult Metabolic Physicians’ Group business meeting



12:45 - 13:45Satellite meetings by the sponsors



14:00 - 14:10Opening of the Symposium



14:10 - 14:40Opening Lecture: Genes, Environment and Chance (title tbc)
Juha Kere (Sweden)



14:40 - 16:15Plenary 1 - The Foeto-Maternal Unit and Inborn Errors of Metabolism (IEM)
  • Prenatal Therapies for IEM
    Tippi McKenzie (USA)
  • Managing Pregnancy in Inherited Metabolic Disorders: A Dietary Approach
    Charlotte Ellerton (UK)



16:15 - 17:45Parallel sessions A (these will be designed after the abstract review)



17:50 - 18:30Garrod Award Lecture (speaker tbc)



18:30 - 21:00Welcome Reception, Posters



19:30 - 20:30YSSIEM (Young SSIEM) Inaugural Meeting




Wednesday 26 August

07:30 - 08:30Speed Mentoring



07:30 - 08:30Satellite meetings by the sponsors



08:00 - 08:30Lab Talk by Philippa Mills (UK)



08:45 - 10:15Parallel sessions B (these will be designed after the abstract review)



08:45 - 10:15From presentation to diagnosis: a case-based education session
with the SSIEM Educational and Training (ETAC) Academy



10:30 - 14:00Patient advocacy group (PAG) session: Making PAG work sustainable                      



10:40 - 12:15Plenary 2 - New Diseases and Mechanisms
  • What have we learned from the undiagnosed disease program?
    William Gahl (USA)
  • Niemann-Pick Disease Type C: From Molecular Pathways to
    Therapeutic Impact
    Frances Platt (UK)
  • Cobalamin metabolism and ribosomopathies (title tbc)
    Annita Achilleos (CYP): 



12:20 - 13:00SSIEM Advisory Council & Council meeting (by invitation only)



13:00 - 14:00SSIEM Annual General Meeting (AGM) (SSIEM members only)



14:00 - 16:00SSIEM Dietitians’ Group internal meeting



14:15 - 15:45Parallel sessions C (these will be designed after the abstract review)



16:00 - 17:30Plenary 3 - Physics and Mathematics Enter the World of IEM                                  
  • Physics and IEM (title tbc)
    Massimiliano Esposito (LUX)
  • Membrane biology, chemistry and physics (title tbc)
    Andre Nadler (GER)
  • Machine Learning and IEM (title tbc)
    Ines Thiele (IRL)



17:30 - 19:30Poster Walk



18:00 - 20:00GalNet meeting


19:00 - 20:00Satellite meetings by the sponsors




Thursday 27 August

07:00 - 08:30Speed Mentoring


07:30 - 08:30Satellite meetings by the sponsors



08:00 - 08:30LAB Talk by Sean Froese (CH)



08:45 - 10:15Plenary 4 - OMICS data help us understand pathology in metabolic pathways     
  • Glycomics and other biochemical analyses on sugars help us
    understand glycobiology better (title tbc)
    Dirk Lefebre (NL)
  • New findings from the bileome (title tbc)
    William Griffiths (UK)
  • Metabolomics and Lipidomics in clinical lab (title tbc)
    Katja Elgstoen (NOR)



10:30 - 12:00Parallel sessions D (these will be designed after the abstract review)


10:30 - 12:00Nurses session


12:30 - 13:30Plenary 5 - Mitochondria Now and Forever
  • Organic acid metabolism and Mitochondria (title tbc)
    Patrick Forny (USA)
  • Mitochondrial Insights into Fatty Acid Oxidation Disorders
    Rikke Olsen (DK)
  • Nicotinamide and Mitochondria (title tbc)
    Anu Suomalainen (FIN)



13:45 - 15:15Parallel sessions E (these will be designed after the abstract review)


13:45 - 15:15Training in IEM: A roundtable discussion
(paed/adult clin, clin lab, diet, nursing) 




Friday 28 August

09:00 - 10:00Late-Breaking News: 4 talks



10:30 - 12:00Plenary 6 - Looking Forward
  • Metabolic gene regulation - from molecular mechanism to
    physiological outcomes
    Ville Hietakangas (FIN)
  • Through the looking-glass; Congenital Disorders of Glycocylation                 
    Eva Morava (USA)
  • Nutrition for Precision Health (title tbc)
    Holly Nicastro (USA)



12:00 - 12:45Komrower lecture (speaker tbc)



12:45 - 13:00Awards Ceremony (LBN, posters)



13:00Closing remarks