Agenda
| 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM | Luncheon and Poster Session Lobby Biomedical Research Building II/III |
2:00 - 2:15 PM
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Welcome Arthur H. Rubenstein, MBBCh |
| 2:15 - 2:45 PM | Patrick Seale, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology "Transcriptional control of brown and white fat cell development" |
| 2:45 - 3:00 PM | Kathryn Schmitz, PhD, MPH Associate Professor of Epidemiology “Transdisciplinary Research on Obesity, Exercise and Cancer: Connecting to NCI’s TREC Initiative at Penn" |
| 3:00 - 3:30 PM | Rex Ahima, M.D., Ph.D. Associate Professor of Medicine "Connecting leanness and fat metabolism" |
| 3:30 - 3:45 PM | BREAK |
| 3:45 - 4:00 PM | IDOM Outstanding Research Project Awards Presentation *Basic Science *Patient-Oriented Research |
| Panel of Guest Judges: | Domenico Accili, M.D., Professor of Medicine, Columbia University James F. Hyde, Ph.D., Senior Advisor, Career Development (“K” awards) & Diabetes Centers Programs, Division of Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolic Diseases, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases National Institutes of Health Paula Kiberstis, Ph.D., Senior Genetics Editor, Science Randy Levinson, Ph.D., Senior Editor, Nature Medicine Ushma S. Neill, Ph.D., Executive Editor, The Journal of Clinical Investigation Gerald I. Shulman, M.D., Ph.D., F.A.C.P., F.A.C.E., Professor of Medicine and Cellular & Molecular Physiology; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Yale University |
| 4:00 - 5:00 PM | Kroc Lecture: Douglas C. Wallace, Ph.D., Director, Center for Mitochondrial and Epigenomic Medicine; Michael and Charles Barnett Chair of Pediatric Mitochondrial Medicine and Metabolic Disease. Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.
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Supported by: Penn Diabetes and Endocrinology Research Center (NIH DK 19525), and The Kroc Foundation.
For updates and Information please contact Gina Burgese at (215) 898-4365 or gburgese@mail.med.upenn.edu.