Spring 2011 IDOM / DERC Research Seminar Series
Spring 2011 Schedule (pdf version)
| 01/11 | Stephen F. Previs, Ph.D., Merck Research Laboratories | |
Title: “Diet-Mediated Disruption of Lipid Synthesizing Pathways” |
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| 01/18 | Sheila Collins, Ph.D., Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute | |
Title: “Coordinated Signaling Pathways Control Fat Cell Metabolism and Thermogenesis” |
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| 01/25 | Tracy L. Bale, Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania | |
Title: “Epigenetic and Transgenerational Programming Effects of Maternal Obesity: More Reasons to Blame Mom” |
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| 02/01 | Evan Dale Abel, M.D., Ph.D., University of Utah | |
Title: "Insulin Signaling and Cardiovascular Pathophysiology" |
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| 02/08 | Teresa M. Reyes, Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania | |
Title: “High Fat Diet and Epigenetic Regulation of CNS Gene Expression” |
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| 02/15 | Gregory S. Barsh M.D., Ph.D., Stanford University (Student Invited Speaker) | |
Title: ““Discovering new roles for acyl-CoA synthesis in atherosclerosis and diabetes” |
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| 02/22 | Franck Mauvais-Jarvis, M.D., Ph.D., Northwestern University | |
Title: “Emerging Role of Extranuclear Estrogen Receptors in Pancreatic Islet Protection” |
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| 03/01 | Brett A. Kaufman, Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania | |
Title: “Mitochondrial Oxidative Stress and Altered mtDNA Metabolism in Diabetes” |
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| 03/08 | Ali Naji, M.D., Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania | |
Title: “Can We Preserve ß Cells?” |
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| 03/16 | 2011 Spring Symposium and Kroc Lecture | |
| Douglas C. Wallace, Ph.D., The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia | ||
| Title: “Energyomics-Energenomics: A Mitochondrial Etiology of Metabolic and Degenerative Diseases, Cancer, and Aging” | ||
| 03/22 | Gary F. Lewis, F.R.C.P.C, M.D., University of Toronto | |
Title: “Intestinal Lipoprotein Overproduction is a Newly Appreciated Feature of Insulin Resistance” |
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| 03/29 | Bassil M. Kublaoui, M.D., Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania | |
| Title: “Oxytocin and Sim1 in the Hypothalamic Regulation of Feeding” | ||
| 04/05 | Peter Arvan, M.D., Ph.D., University of Michigan | |
| Title: "Next Generation Sequencing and the Study of Diabetes" | ||
| 04/12 | Eleftheria Maratos-Flier, M.D., Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center | |
| Title: “FGF21: A Novel Metabolic Regulator with Therapeutic Potential” | ||
| 04/26 | Raghavendra G. Mirmira, M.D., Ph.D., Indiana University | |
| Title: “Diabetes: An Islet Inflammed” | ||
| 05/03 | Daniel Rader, M.D., University of Pennsylvania | |
| Title: “New Pathways in Lipoprotein Metabolism” | ||
| 05/10 | Hammond Lecture: David D. Moore, Ph.D., Baylor College of Medicine | |
| “Nuclear Receptors vs. Diabetes – McGarry Was Right” | ||
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