RACMEM2025国际会议

The 6th International Conference on Recent Advances & Controversies in the Measurement of Energy Metabolism (RACMEM 2025), organized by the RACMEM Steering Committee and hosted by the Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (SIAT), will be held in Shenzhen, China, from October 13 to 17, 2025.

Since its inception in Denver, USA in 2008, RACMEM has been held triennially — in Maastricht, Netherlands (2011), Tokyo, Japan (2014), Fribourg, Switzerland (2017), and Quebec City, Canada (2022) — establishing itself as a premier international forum focused on methodologies and frontiers in energy metabolism measurement.

The RACMEM Steering Committee comprises eight internationally renowned experts from the USA, Europe, Japan, and New Zealand (3 from USA, 3 from Europe, 1 from Japan, 1 from New Zealand). Full committee information is available at https://www.racmem.org/ under the 'Committee' tab.

The proposal to host RACMEM 2025 was submitted by Prof. John Speakman (Foreign Member of CAS, Foreign Associate of NAS, Fellow of Royal Society, Member of Academia Europaea) at the 2022 Quebec meeting and formally approved by the RACMEM Steering Committee. The Local Organizing Committee includes Prof. Speakman, Dr. Xueying Zhang, Dr. Sumei Hu, Senior Engineer Chaoqun Niu, and Research Assistant Zengguang Jin, all from SIAT.

The conference will continue its interdisciplinary, methodology-driven, and collaborative ethos, focusing on the latest measurement technologies and applications for energy expenditure and metabolism in animals and humans. Topics include, but are not limited to: novel metabolic measurement techniques and methodological advances; climate change and energy metabolism; obesity and energy balance; evolutionary anthropology of metabolic rates; animal energy adaptation in extreme environments; molecular and cellular mechanisms of metabolic regulation; and links between energy metabolism and diabetes/chronic diseases.

Diverse formats will be featured — plenary talks, methodology forums, and early-career researcher showcases — to foster cross-disciplinary dialogue and collaboration.

We warmly invite researchers, graduate students, and industry representatives worldwide working in energy metabolism, physiology, medicine, animal ecology, nutritional science, and related fields to participate and advance scientific frontiers and international cooperation in this domain.