Luncheon and Poster Session

Lobby, Smilow Center for Translational Research

Welcome

Mitchell A. Lazar, M.D., Ph.D

Willard and Rhoda Ware Professor in Diabetes and Metabolic Diseases

Director, Institute for Diabetes, Obesity, and Metabolism

Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania

Opening Remarks

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

Executive Vice President, University of Pennsylvania for the Health System;

Dean, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania

Golnaz Vahedi, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Genetics

Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania

“Multiomic Profiling of the Immune System in Pancreatic Lymph Nodes of Individuals with Type 1 Diabetes”

Klaus H. Kaestner, Ph.D.

Thomas and Evelyn Suor Butterworth Professor in Genetics; Associate Director, Diabetes Research Center, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania

Tribute to Dr. Franz M. Matschinsky - “Franz Matschinsky – Scientific Leader and Great Friend and Mentor”

Paul M. Titchenell, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Physiology
Co-Director, DRC Academic Enrichment Program

Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania

“Defining a New Role for Hepatic mTORC1 Signaling in Glycogen Metabolism”

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Wenli Yang, Ph.D.

Research Assistant Professor of Medicine

Director, IDOM Stem Cell Program

Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania

“Deriving, Modifying and Differentiating Pluripotent Stem Cells”

Panel of Guest Judges

• Morris J. Birnbaum, M.D., Ph.D., Pyrus Partners, LLC and Emeritus Professor, University of Pennsylvania
• Ashley Castellanos-Jankiewicz, Ph.D., Associate Editor, Nature Metabolism
• Catherine Charneski, Ph.D. Associate Editor, Science Translational Medicine
• Laureen Connell, Ph.D. Senior Editor, Genes & Development; Associate Editor, Molecular Case Studies
• Daniel J. Drucker, M.D., Mt. Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Ontario
  
• Amber L. Mueller, Ph.D., Scientific Editor, Cell Metabolism
• Yevgeniya Nusinovich, M.D., Ph.D., Senior Editor, Science
• Lori Sussel, Ph.D., University of Colorado Denver Anschults Medical Campus
  
• Karen Teff, Ph.D., Former NIDDK Program Director, National Institutes of Health