2018 Spring Symposium and 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 Willard and Rhoda Ware Professor in Diabetes and Metabolic Diseases Arthur H. Rubenstein Auditorium, Smilow Center for Translational Research Opening Remarks Arthur H. Rubenstein, MBBCH Professor of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism Former Dean of Perelman School of Medicine
1:15 - 1:45 PM	Ben Z. Stanger, M.D., Ph.D. Associate Professor of Medicine “Unmaking, Restoring, and Protecting Pancreatic Islets”
1:45 - 2:15 PM	Matthew R. Hayes, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Nutritional Neuroscience in Psychiatry “Mechanistic Insights into Neuroendocrine Modulation of Brainstem Neurocircuitry Critical for Energy Balance Regulations”
2:15 - 2:30 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”
2:30 - 2:45 PM	BREAK
2:45 PM - 3:45 PM	Jeffrey S. Flier, M.D. Distinguished Service Professor at Harvard University; Higginson Professor of Medicine, Physiology and Neurobiology at Harvard Medical School; Former Dean of Harvard Medicinal School “Starvation in the Midst of Plenty: Reflections on the History and Biology of Insulin and Leptin”
3:45 - 4:00 PM	IDOM Outstanding Research Project Awards Presentation
*Panel of Guest Judges:*	Morris J. Birnbaum, M.D., Ph.D., Pfizer Mathew Beymer, Ph.D., Editor, Trends in Endocrinology and Metabolism Laureen Connell, Ph.D., Senior Editor, Genes & Development; Associate Editor, Molecular Case Studies Michael P. Czech, M.D., University of Massachusetts Jeffrey S. Flier, M.D., Harvard University Paula A. Kiberstis, Ph.D., Senior Genetics Editor, Science Rudolph L. Leibel, M.D., Columbia University Randy Levinson, Ph.D., Senior Editor, Nature Medicine Ushma S. Neill, Ph.D., Editor at Large, JCI
4:00 - 5:00 PM	Kroc Lecture: Michael P. Czech, Ph.D., Isadore and Fannie Foxman Professor of Medical Research; University of Massachusetts Medical School "Adipose Signaling Circuits Controlling Thermogenesis”

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