Today is

2015 Kroc Lecture

Agenda

 

11:00 AM - 1:00 PM Luncheon and Poster Session
Lobby, Smilow Center for Translational Research

1:00 - 1:15 PM

 


Welcome
Mitchell A. Lazar, M.D., Ph.D.
Director, Institute for Diabetes, Obesity, and Metabolism
Sylvan H. Eisman Professor of Medicine
Arthur H. Rubenstein Auditorium, Smilow Center for Translational Research

Opening Remarks
J. Larry Jameson, M.D., Ph.D.

Executive Vice President of the University of Pennsylvania for the Health System
Dean, Perelman School of Medicine

1:15 - 1:45 PM Jorge Henao-Mejia, M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
“Host-Microbiota Interactions Regulate the Progression of Obesity-Associated Disorders”
1:45 - 2:00 PM Joshua D. Rabinowitz, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor of Chemistry and Integrative Genomics, Princeton University, Metabolomics Core
“Tracking Redox Metabolism in Lipogenic Cells”
2:00 - 2:30 PM Doris A. Stoffers, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor of Medicine
“Of Mice and Men: Mining the Pdx1 Cistrome for Novel Insights into Diabetes”
2:30 - 2:45 PM BREAK
2:45 - 3:45 PM Panel Discussion with Journal Editors
3:45 - 4:00 PM IDOM Outstanding Research Project Awards Presentation
*Basic Science
*Patient-Oriented Research
Panel of Guest Judges:

Morris J. Birnbaum, M.D., Ph.D., Pfizer Inc., Chief Scientific Officer, Cardiovascular and Metabolic Disease Research

C. Ronald Khan, Ph.D, Harvard Medical School; Chief Academic Officer, Joslin Diabetes Center

Paula A. Kiberstis, Ph.D., Senior Genetics Editor, Science

Randy Levinson, Ph.D., Senior Editor, Nature Medicine

Ushma S. Neill, Ph.D., Editor at Large, JCI

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 Metabolism

4:00 - 5:00 PM

 

Morris J. Birnbaum, M.D., Ph.D., Pfizer Inc., Chief Scientific Officer, Cardiovascular and Metabolic Disease Research

“The Complex World of Hepatic Metabolism”