2007 - 2008 IDOM / DERC Research Seminar Series
Spring 2008 Schedule
| January 8 | Mitchell A. Lazar, M.D., Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. "New Clear Functions of Nuclear Receptors" |
| January 15 | Morris White, Ph.D., HHMI Children's Hospital Boston, Harvard Medical School. "Insulin and IRS2 Signaling in the Coordination of Lifespan and Homeostasis" |
| January 22 | Muredach Reilly, M.D., University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine "Human Genomic Studies of Insulin Resistance and Atherosclerosis" |
| January 29 | Charles Stanley, M.D., Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. "Hyperinsulinemic hypoglycemia in children with HADH deficiency: Dancing in the moonlight?" |
February 5 CANCELLED |
Laurie Goodyear, Ph.D., Joslin Diabetes Center, Harvard Medical School. "Rab GTPases and the Regulation of Skeletal Muscle Metabolism" |
| February 12 | Volker Haase, M.D., University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. "Hypoxia, HIF and Fat Metabolism" |
| February 19 | Linda Greenbaum, M.D., University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. "Integrating metabolic demands with the hepatic growth response" |
| February 26 | Bryan Wolf, M.D., Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. "Role of PANDER in Diabetes?" |
| March 4 | Hank Kung, Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. "PET Imaging of Beta Cell Mass in the Pancreas" |
| March 11 | Annual Spring Symposium & Kroc Lecture - Kenneth Polonsky, M.D., Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis (BRB Auditorium & Lobby) |
| March 18 | David Sabatini, M.D., Ph.D., Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research Massachusetts Institute of Technology. "Growth Control through the mTOR Pathway" |
| March 25 | Diva De Leon, M.D., Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. "Incretins in Hypoglycemia: from the bedside to the bench and back to the bedside" |
| April 1 | Rexford Ahima, M.D., Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine."Role of adipose-differentiation related protein in lipid and glucose metabolism" |
| April 8 | Richard N. Bergman, Ph.D., Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California. "Understanding the Metabolic Xyndrome" |
| April 15 | Anne Cappola, M.D., University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine "Insulin Resistance and Testosterone in Non-Diabetic Postmenopausal Women" |
April 22 CANCELLED |
Michael Pagliassotti, Ph.D., Colorado State University "Understanding Liver Impairments in Obesity Involves a Trip to the ER" |
| April 29 | Kevin L. Grove, Ph.D., Oregon Health & Science University "Maternal high fat diet and fetal lipotoxicity in the nonhuman primate" |
| May 6 | Karen Teff, Ph.D., Monell Chemical Senses Center "Vagal Contribution to Human Metabolism: From Anti-inflammatories to Anti-psychotics" |
| May 13 |  Hammond Lecture - Bruce Spiegelman, Ph.D., Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard University. "Transcriptional basis of energy homeostasis in health and disease".(BRB Auditorium & Lobby). |
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