09:00 – 10:00

• Welcome and overview – Katrien Wijndaele and Paddy Dempsey
• Keynote presentation:  Approaches to identifying the role of specific behaviours in epidemiological research – Nick Wareham

 

10:00 – 10:30  Morning tea

 

10:30 – 12:30 Invited presentations

• Get Up, Stand Up, Stand Up for your Health: Prevention of sedentary behaviors to improve metabolic flexibility and metabolic health – Audrey Bergouignan
• Experimental evidence: current insights and future directions – Tom Yates
• Changing sedentary behaviour in the prevention and management of chronic diseases – triangulating on mechanisms – David Dunstan
• An epigenome-wide association study of television viewing time in the Melbourne Collaborative Cohort Study – Eline Van Roekel

 

12:30 – 13:30 Lunch and games on the lawn

 

13:30 – 16:00 Invited presentations

• Text mining to identify potential mechanisms linking sedentary behaviour to disease outcomes – Brigid Lynch
• Mendelian randomization of objectively-measured sedentary behaviour in large-scale biobanks – Aiden Doherty
• Mediation analysis: introduction to the methods – Ghazaleh Dashti
• Interactive panel discussion – Chaired by Charles Matthews

 

16:00 Meeting close

Networking drinks (not included in registration)