2017 Spring Symposium and Kroc Lecture Agenda

Agenda

11:30 AM - 1:30 PM	Luncheon and Poster Session Lobby, Smilow Center for Translational Research
1:30 - 1:45 PM	Welcome Mitchell A. Lazar, M.D., Ph.D. Director, Institute for Diabetes, Obesity, and Metabolism Willard and Rhoda Ware Professor in Diabetes and Metabolic Diseases 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
1:45 - 2:15 PM	Matthew R. Hayes, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Nutritional Neuroscience in Psychiatry “Neuroendocrine Signaling in Novel Reward Brain Nuclei Control Motivated Feeding Behaviors”
2:15 - 2:45 PM	Ben Z. Stanger, M.D., Ph.D. Associate Professor of Medicine “Cellular Plasticity as Trigger and Treatment in Diabetes”
2:45 - 3:00 PM	BREAK
3:00 - 3:45 PM	Klaus H. Kaestner, Ph.D., M.S. Thomas and Evelyn Suor Butterworth Professor in Genetics; Associate Director, Penn Diabetes Research Center “Transplantation Plus: a Moonshot by the IDOM Type 1 Diabetes Unit”
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 Laureen Connell, Ph.D., Senior Editor, Genes & Development; Associate Editor, Molecular Case Studies Michael Czech, M.D., University of Massachusetts Paula A. Kiberstis, Ph.D., Senior Genetics Editor, Science Rudolph L. Leibel, M.D., Columbia University Randy Levinson, Ph.D., Senior Editor, Nature Medicine Rosalind E. Mott, Ph.D., Scientific Editor, Cell Metabolism Ushma S. Neill, Ph.D., Editor at Large, JCI *Iphigenia Effie* Tzameli, Ph.D.,** Editor, Trends in Endocrinology and Metabolism
4:00 - 5:00 PM	Kroc Lecture: Michael Czech, Ph.D., Isadore and Fannie Foxman Professor of Medical Research; Founding Chair, Program in Molecular Medicine; University of Massachusetts Medical School "CRISPR Approaches to Diabetes and Inflammation”