October 2 (Fri.)

14:50-15:40	JASSO・AOCO Special Lecture 1
Hall 1 Relay:Hall 8
Chair : Yasuhiko Minokoshi (National Institute for Physiological Sciences, Japan)
Speaker : Joseph S. Takahashi, Ph.D (Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Neuroscience, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, USA) "Molecular architecture of the circadian clock in mammals"
15:40-16:30	JASSO・AOCO Special Lecture 2
Hall 1 Relay:Hall 8
Chair : Masatomo Mori (Kitakanto Molecular Novel Research Institute for Obesity and Metabolism, Japan)
Speaker :
Richard Palmiter, Ph.D (Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Department of Biochemistry, University of Washington, USA) "Deciphering neuronal circuits that control appetite"
16:40-16:50	AOCO Opening Remarks
Hall 8
Speaker : Masato Kasuga (National Center for Global Health and Medicine, Japan)
16:50-18:50	AOCO International Symposium 1 "Obesity: Risk Factor and Disease"
Hall 8
Chair : Yuji Matsuzawa (Sumitomo Hospital, Japan) Takashi Kadowaki (Department of Diabetes and Metabolic Diseases, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Japan) Speaker : Mohd Ismail Noor (School of Hospitality, Tourism and Culinary Arts, Taylor’s University, Malaysia) Yuji Matsuzawa (Sumitomo Hospital, Japan) Moon-Kyu Lee (Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Korea) Timothy P.Gill (Boden Institute, Charles Perkins Centre, University of Sydney, Australia)
19:00-20:30	Get-together

October 3 (Sat.)

7:30-8:20	AOCO Morning Seminar 1 "Advance and unmet medical needs in insulin treatment" Sponsored by Sanofi K.K.
Hall 8
Chair : Eiichi Araki (Department of Metabolic Medicine, Faculty of Life Sciences, Kumamoto University, Japan) Speaker : Munehide Matsuhisa (Diabetes Therapeutics and Research Center, Tokushima University, Japan)
8:30-10:40	JASSO・AOCO Joint Symposium 1 "Obesity Surgery"
Hall 1 Relay:Hall 8
Chair : Tohru Tani (Biomedical Innovation Center, Shiga University of Medical Science, Japan) Wei Jei Lee (Department of Surgery, Min-Sheng General Hospital, National Taiwan University, Taiwan) Speaker : Wei Jei Lee (Department of Surgery, Min-Sheng General Hospital, National Taiwan University, Taiwan) Kazunori Kasama (Weight Loss and Metabolic Surgery Center, Yotsuya Medical Cube, Japan) Takeshi Naitoh (Department of Surgery, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Japan) Shinichi Okazumi (Department of surgery ,Toho University Sakura medical center, Japan JSTO Database Committee) Commentator : Shashank Shah
10:50-11:40	Special Lecture 3
Hall 1 Relay:Hall 8
Randy J. Seeley, Ph.D (Department of Surgery, University of Michigan, USA) "Bariatric surgery"
12:00-12:50	AOCO Luncheon Seminar 1 "Regulation of energy homeostasis in insulin’s target organs and pathogenesis of insulin resistance" Sponsored by MSD.K.K.
Hall 8
Chair : Iichiro Shimomura (Department of Metabolic Medicine, Internal Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine Osaka University, Japan) Speaker : Wataru Ogawa (Division of Diabetes and Endocrinology, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Japan)
13:00-13:45	AOCO Oral Session
Hall8
Chair : Shuji Inoue (Department of Clinical Nutrition, Faculty of Health Care, Kiryu University, Japan) Roberto C. Mirasol (St. Luke's Medical Center, Section of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Philippines)
13:50-14:10	Nagoya Declaration 2015
Hall 1
14:20-17:10	AOCO International Symposium 2 "Epidemiology and Prevention / Treatment Strategies in Each Country"
Hall 8
Chair : Kazuyo Tsushita (Aichi Health Promotion Public Interest Foundation Comprehensive Science Center, Japan) Speaker : Shashank Shah Timothy Gill (Boden Institute, Charles Perkins Centre, University of Sydney, Australia) Chun Chun Francis Chow (Hong Kong Association for the Study of Obesity Division of Endocrinology & Diabetes, Department of Medicine & Therapeutics, Prince of Wales Hospital, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong) Saksono Harbuwono Kazuyo Thushita (Comprehensive Health Science Center, Aichi Prefecture, Japan) Moon-Kyu Lee (Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Korea) Mohd Ismail Noor (School of Hospital, Tourism and Culinary Arts, Taylor's University, Malaysia) Roberto C. Mirasol (St. Luke's Medical Center, Philippines) Kwang-Wei Tham Kuo-Chin Huang (Department of Family Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taiwan)
14:20-16:20	JASSO・AOCO Joint Symposium 2 "Obesity and Inflammation" Sponsored by Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited
Hall 1
Chair : Jae Bum Kim (School of Biological Science, Institute of Molecular Biology & Genetics, Seoul National University, Korea) Yoshihiro Ogawa (Department of Molecular Endocrinology and Metabolism, Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Japan) Speaker : Takayoshi Suganami (Department of Molecular Medicine and Metabolism, Research Institute of Environmental Medicine, Nagoya University, Japan / Department of Molecular Endocrinology and Metabolism, Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Japan / PRESTO, Japan Science and Technology Agency, Japan) Iichiro Shimomura (Department of Metabolic Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University, Japan) Ichiro Manabe (Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, The University of Tokyo Graduate School of Medicine, Japan) Jae Bum Kim (School of Biological Science, Institute of Molecular Biology & Genetics, Seoul National University, Korea)
17:20-18:10	AOCO Evening Seminar "Impact of SGLT-2 inhibitors for the treatment of type 2 diabetic patients" Sponsored by Astellas Pharma Inc.
Hall 8
Chair : Kazuyuki Tobe (First Department of Internal Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine and Pharmaceutical Sciences for Research, Toyama University, Japan) Speaker : Masafumi Matsuda (Department of Endocrinology and Diabetes,Saitama Medical Center, Saitama Medical University, Japan)

October 4 (Sun.)

6:50-7:50	AOCO Demonstrative and Participative Yoga Session
Instructor : Pallavi M. Patankar
8:00-8:50	AOCO Morning Seminar 2 "Targeting obesity in management of diabetes: potential role of incretin-based therapies" Sponsored by NOVO Nordisk Pharma Ltd.
Hall 8
Chair : Toshimasa Yamauchi (Department of Diabetes and Metabolic Diseases, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Japan) Speaker : Koutaro Yokote (Department of Diabetes, Metabolism and Endocrinology, Chiba University, Graduate School of Medicine, Japan)
8:50-11:00	Rising-Star Symposium in Asia-Oceania Sponsored by MSD.K.K.
Hall 8
Chair : Iichiro Shimomura (Department of Metabolic Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University, Japan) Kwang Wei Tham Speaker : Soumitra Ghosh (Department of Internal Medicine, Obesity and Lifestyle Diseases Division, Institute of Post-Graduate Medical Education and Research, India) Radhika Seimon (NHMRC Early Career Research Fellow University of Sydney, The Boden Institute of Obesity, Nutrition, Exercise and Eating Disorders, Australia) Kitty Kit Ting Cheung (Division of Endocrinology and Diabetes, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong) Masato Iwabu (Department of Diabetes and Metabolic Diseases, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Japan / PRESTO, Japan Science and Technology Agency, Japan) Jong-Woo Sohn (Department of Biological Sciences, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea) See Ling Loy (KK Research Centre, KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital, Singapore) Maria Katrina Mallonga-Palanginan (Section of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Department of Medicine, St. Luke’s Medical Center, Philippines) Khoo Chin Meng (Department of Medicine, National University Hospital, Singapore / Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, Singapore DUKE-NUS Graduate School of Medicine, Singapore) Chia-Wen Lu (Department of Family Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taiwan)
11:00-11:50	Special Lecture 4
Hall 8
Chair : Masato Kasuga (National Center for Global Health and Medicine, Japan) Speaker : Frank B. Hu, M.D, Ph.D (Department of Nutrition and Epidemiology Harvard T.H.Chan School of Public Health, USA / Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, USA) "Prevention of Global Obesity Epidemic: From Science to Policy"
12:00-12:50	AOCO Luncheon Seminar2 "Evolution and Deepening of Adiposcience: From the point of view of adipocytokines" Sponsored by Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited
Hall 8
Chair : Yuji Matsuzawa (Sumitomo Hospital, Japan) Speaker : Noriyuki Ouchi (Molecular Cardiovascular Medicine, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Japan)
12:50-13:00	AOCO Closing Remarks
Hall 8

The 46th NIPS International Symposium

"Homeostatic mechanisms among interacting organ systems –Key to understanding obesity"

Session1	October 2 (Fri.)　16:50-18:50
Chair : Toshihiko Yada (Department of Physiology, Division of Integrative Physiology Jichi Medical University, School of Medicine) FeiFan Guo (Institute for Nutritional Sciences, Shanghai Institute for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China) Speaker : Scott M. Sternson (Janelia Research Campus, HHMI, Ashburn, Virginia, USA) Toshimasa Yamauchi (Department of Diabetes and Metabolic Diseases, The University of Tokyo) Tetsuya Yamada (Department of Metabolism and Diabetes, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine) Kunihiro Tsuchida (Division for Therapies against Intractable Diseases, Institute for Comprehensive Medical Science, Fujita Health University) Hirofumi Misu (Department of Comprehensive Metabology, Kanazawa University Graduate School of Medical Sciences / PRESTO, Japan Science and Technology Agency) Kazuhiro Nomura (Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Diabetes and Endocrinology)
Session2	October 3 (Sat.)　8:10-9:34
Chair : Shin-Ichiro Imai (Department of Developmental Biology, Department of Medicine (Joint), Washington University School of Medicine, USA) Michihiro Matsumoto (Departments of Molecular Metabolic Regulation, Diabetes Research Center, Research Institute, National Center for Global Health and Medicine) Speaker : Shiki Okamoto (Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, National Institute for Physiological Sciences / Department of Physiological Sciences, SOKENDAI [The Graduate University for Advanced Studies]) Alan Saghatelian (The Salk Institute for Biological Studies, Peptide Biology Laboratory, USA) Takahisa Nakamura (Divisions of Endocrinology and Developmental Biology, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, USA) Michihiro Matsumoto (Department of Molecular Metabolic Regulation, Diabetes Research Center, Research Institute, National Center for Global Health and Medicine)
Session3	October 3 (Sat.)　9:34-10:40
Chair : Shingo Kajimura (University of California, San Francisco UCSF Diabetes Center and Department of Cell and Tissue Biology) Takahisa Nakamura (Divisions of Endocrinology and Developmental Biology Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center) Speaker : Shin-ichiro Imai (Department of Developmental Biology, Department of Medicine (Joint), Washington University School of Medicine, USA) Shingo Kajimura (University of California, San Francisco UCSF Diabetes Center and Department of Cell and Tissue Biology, USA) Takeshi Inagaki (Division of Metabolic Medicine, Research Center for Advanced Science and Center, Technology, The University of Tokyo)
Session4	October 3 (Sat.)　14:20-15:32
Chair : Tetsuya Yamada (Department of Metabolism and Diabetes, Tohoku University Graduate Shcool of Medicine) Takeshi Inagaki (Division of Metabolic Medicine, Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo) Speaker : FeiFan Guo (Institute for Nutritional Sciences, Shanghai Institute for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China) Hiroshi Inoue (Metabolism and Nutrition Research Unit, Innovative Integrated Bio-research Core, Institute for Frontier Science Initiative, Kanazawa University) Ryoichi Banno (Department of Endocrinology and Diabetes, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine) Kiminori Hosoda (Faculty of Human Health Science, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine)
Session5	October 3 (Sat.)　15:32-16:38
Chair : Masamitsu Nakazato (Division of Neurology, Respirology, Endocrinology and Metabolism, Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Miyazaki) Hiroshi Inoue (Metabolism and Nutrition Research Unit, Innovative Integrated Bio-research Core, Institute for Frontier Science Initiative, Kanazawa University) Speaker : Zachary A. Knight (Department of Physiology, University of California, USA) Masamitsu Nakazato (Division of Neurology, Respirology, Endocrinology and Metabolism, Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Miyazaki) Toshihiko Yada (Department of Physiology, Division of Integrative Physiology, Jichi Medical University School of Medicine)