Lunch and Poster Session

Lobby, Smilow Center for Translational Research

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

Opening Remarks

Jonathan A. Epstein, M.D.

William Wikoff Smith Professor;

Interim Executive Vice President of the University of Pennsylvania for the Health System & Dean of the Perelman School of Medicine

Diva D. DeLeon-Crutchlow, M.D., M.S.C.E.

Professor of Pediatrics

“Novel insights into insulin secretion from the study of hyperinsulinism”

David A. Hill, M.D., Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Pediatrics (Allergy/Immunology)

“A novel liver-adipose tissue axis of immunometabolic communication”

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Paul M. Titchenell, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Physiology

“IDEAL (Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Learner) Research at Penn”

Panel of Guest Judges

• Morris J. Birnbaum, M.D., Ph.D., Pyrus Partners, LLC and Emeritus Professor, University of Pennsylvania
• Krista Bledsoe, Ph.D., Scientific Editor, Molecular Cell
• Catherine Charneski, Ph.D., Associate Editor, Science Translational Medicine
• Samantha Cyrill, Ph.D., Assistant Editor, Genes & Development
• Rosalind Mott, Ph.D., Senior Editor, Cell Metabolism;
• Martin Myers, M.D., Ph.D., The Michigan DRC & Caswell Institute
  
• Ushma S. Neil, Ph.D., Vice President, Scientific Education & Training Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
• Yevgeniya Nusinovich, M.D., Ph.D., Senior Editor, Science
• Lori Sussel, Ph.D., University of Colorado Denver Anschultz Medical Campus
  
• Corinne Silva, Ph.D., National Institutes of Health
• Karen Teff, Ph.D., Former NIDDK Program Director