Lunch and Poster Session

Lobby, Smilow Center for Translational Research

Welcome

Mitchell A. Lazar, MD, PhD

Director, Institute for Diabetes, Obesity, and Metabolism

Willard and Rhoda Ware Professor in Diabetes and Metabolic Diseases

Opening Remarks

Jonathan A. Epstein, MD

Executive Vice President, University of Pennsylvania for the Health System;
Dean, Raymond and Ruth Perelman School of Medicine

Junior Faculty Talk

David M. Merrick, MD, PhD
"The Surprising Mechanobiology of Adipose Tissue Following Weight Loss"

DRC Member Short Talks

• Theodore G. Drivas, MD, PhD, "The Primary Cilium as a Regulator of Insulin Signaling"
• Ravinder Reddy, PhD "Functional Metabolic Changes During GLP-1 Therapy: A 7T MRI/MRS Study"
• Eleonora Scorletti, PhD
  "Genetic Variation in Metabolic Receptors: Implications for Metabolic Disease and Precision Medicine"

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Senior Faculty Talk

Michael R. Rickels, MD, MS
Willard and Rhoda Ware Professor in Diabetes and Metabolic Diseases
"Long-Term Outcomes and New Approaches for Islet Transplantation in Type 1 Diabetes"

IDOM Outstanding Research Project Awards Presentation:

Panel of Guest Judges

• E. Dale Abel, MD, PhD, David Geffen School of Medicine and UCLA Health
• Krista Bledsoe, PhD, Scientific Editor, Molecular Cell
• Samantha Cyrill, PhD, Associate Editor, Genes & Development
• Jose C. Florez, MD, PhD, Jackson Professor of Clinical Medicine, Harvard Medical School
• Amber Mueller, PhD Scientific Editor, Genes & Development
• Beste Mutlu, PhD, Scientific Editor, Cell Metabolism
• Martin Myers, MD, PhD, Michigan Diabetes Research Center & Caswell Diabetes Institute
• Lori Sussel, PhD, University of Colorado Denver Anschultz Medical Campus
  
• Karen Teff, PhD, Former NIDDK Program Director
• Yevgeniya Nusinovich, MD, PhD, Senior Editor, Science