Annual Center Symposia and Retreat

25^th Annual Symposium - Wednesday, November 12th, 2025 - "Fibrosis and Wound Healing Across the Spectrum of Digestive and Liver Disease"

24^th Annual Symposium - Thursday, October 10, 2024 - "What Bugs You? New Insights Into Infectious Pathogens in Digestive Disease"

Into the wild: advances in mouse models integrating the natural environment

2023 Joint Microbiome Symposium

22^nd Annual Retreat - 2022 "High Dimensional Analytics in Digestive and Liver Disease: From Single Cell to the Whole Human"

21^st Annual Retreat - 2021 "Liver Disease across the Age Spectrum: Studies of Genetics and the Environment"

20^th Annual Retreat – 2020 “Metabolic Control of GI Biology”

19^th Annual Retreat – 2019 "Technological Advances in the Use of Human Digestive Tissues for Basic Science Research”

DDRC Symposium – 2018 "The Gut Microbiome as a Paradigm for the Opportunities and Challenges of Human Subject Research"

18^th Annual Retreat – 2017 "Riding the innovation wave in preclinical models and therapies"

17^th Annual Retreat – 2016 "3D organoids in the GI tract, liver and pancreas"

16^th Annual Retreat – 2015 "Innovative perspectives on pancreatitis and pancreatic cancer"

15^th Annual Retreat – 2014 "Liver biology and translational therapeutics"

14^th Annual Retreat – 2013 "The intestinal stem cell: from the niche to the bedside"

13^th Annual Retreat – 2012 "IBD, Functional Genomics and the Intestinal Mucousal Interface"

12^th Annual Retreat – 2011 "Embryology to regenerative medicine in digestive and liver diseases"

11^th Annual Retreat – 2010 "The biology of pancreatic development, regeneration & malignancy"

10^th Annual Retreat – 2009 "Intestinal microbia in health & diseases"

9^th Annual Retreat – 2008 "Stem cells in development, inflammation & cancer"

8^th Annual Retreat – 2007 "Gut-brain-adipose interplay in health & disease"

7^th Annual Retreat – 2006 "Advances in GI cancers: animal models to proteomics"

6^th Annual Retreat – 2005 "Stem cells in development and diseases"

5^th Annual Retreat – 2004 "The present & future of enteric pathogenesis & the GI tract"

4^th Annual Retreat – 2003 "Endoderm-derived organs in GI liver development, differentiation & disease"

3^rd Annual Retreat – 2002 "Regulation of lymphocyte biology in health & disease"

2^nd Annual Retreat – 2001 "Molecular basis for neoplasia in the digestive tract"

1^st Annual Retreat – 2000 "Molecular basis to hepatic gene regulation: From bench to bedside"