Agenda
| 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM | Luncheon and Poster Session Lobby, Smilow Center for Translational Research |
2:00 - 2:15 PM
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Welcome Opening Remarks Remarks - Kendra Bence, PhD |
| 2:15 - 2:45 PM | David B. Sarwer, Ph.D. Professor of Psychology "Bariatric Surgery to Treat Type 2 Diabetes" |
| 2:45 - 3:00 PM | Elisabetta Manduchi, Ph.D. Research Project Manager in Bioinformatics "Beta Cell Genomics: A Public Resource for Integrating and Analyzing Functional Genomics Studies Related to Pancreatic Cells and Diabetes" |
| 3:00 - 3:30 PM | Ali Naji, M.D., Ph.D. J. William White Professor of Surgical Research "Pancreatic Islet Transplantation: Will the future be BLyS-full?" |
| 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: | C. Ronald Kahn, M.D., Chief Academic Officer, Joslin Diabetes Center; Mary K. Iacocca Professor, Harvard Medical School Paula A. 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; Louise B. McGavock Chair and Professor of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, Vanderbilt University Alan R. Saltiel, Ph.D., Director, Life Sciences Institute; Professor of Internal Medicine and Physiology, University of Michigan Iphigenia (Effie) Tzameli, Ph.D., Editor, Trends in Endocrinology and |
| 4:00 - 5:00 PM | C. Ronald Kahn, M.D., Chief Academic Officer, Joslin Diabetes Center; Mary K. Iacocca Professor, Harvard Medical School |
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