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

Michael Ostap, Ph.D.

Interim Senior Vice Dean and Chief Scientific Officer

Junior Faculty Talk

Juan Alvarez, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology

“TBD”

DRC Member Short Talks

• Qin Li, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Genetics
• Marie A. Guerraty, M.D., Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Medicine
• Caroline R. Bartman, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Pharmacology

BREAK

Senior Faculty Talk

Patrick Seale, Ph.D., Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology

“TBD”

Panel of Guest Judges

• E. Dale Abel, M.D., Ph.D., David Geffen School of Medicine and UCLA Health
• 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., Senior Editor, Science Translational Medicine
• Samantha Cyrill, Ph.D., Assistant Editor, Genes & Development
• Allyson Evans, Ph.D., Editor in Chief, Cell Metabolism;
• Martin Myers, M.D., Ph.D., Michigan Diabetes Research Center & Caswell Diabetes Institute
  
• Lori Sussel, Ph.D., University of Colorado Denver Anschultz Medical Campus
  
• Karen Teff, Ph.D., Former NIDDK Program Director