2012 Spring Symposium and Kroc Lecture Agenda

Agenda

12:00 PM - 2:10 PM	Luncheon and Poster Session Lobby Translational Research Center
2:10 - 2:30 PM	Welcome Mitchell A. Lazar, M.D., Ph.D. Director, Institute for Diabetes, Obesity, and Metabolism Opening Remarks Arthur H. Rubenstein, MBBCh Professor of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Perelman School of Medicine Remarks - Kendra Bence, PhD Assistant Professor of Neuroscience: Co-Director of Academic Enrichment Auditorium TRC
2:30 - 3:00 PM	Joshua D. Rabinowitz, M.D., Ph.D. Professor of Chemistry and the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, Princeton University *"Metabolomics and Flux Analysis"*
3:00 - 3:30 PM	Kenneth S. Zaret, Ph.D. Joseph Leidy Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology “Epigenetic Features that Promote Pancreatic Beta Cell Development”
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:*	Kathryn Claiborn, Ph.D., News and Reviews Editor, The Journal of Clinical Investigation Anne Granger, Ph.D., Scientific Editor, Cell Metabolism Paula Kiberstis, Ph.D., Senior Genetics Editor, Science Randy Levinson, Ph.D., Senior Editor, Nature Medicine Mark A. Magnuson, M.D., Director, Vanderbilt Center for Stem Cell Biology, and Louise B. McGavock Chair in Professor of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics; Vanderbilt University 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 Iphigenia Effie Tzameli, Ph.D., Editor, Trends in Endocrinology and Metabolism
4:00 - 5:00 PM	Kroc Lecture: Mark A. Magnuson, M.D., Director, Vanderbilt Center for Stem Cell Biology, Louise B. McGavock Chair and Professor of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, Vanderbilt University “Making New Beta Cells: Promise, Progress and Rethinking What’s Possible”

Supported by: Penn Diabetes Research Center (NIH DK 19525), and The Kroc Foundation.

For updates and Information please contact Melissa Reilly at (215) 898-4365 or mereilly@mail.med.upenn.edu