“ADVENTURES IN METABOLISM” A SYMPOSIUM TO CELEBRATE JEFFREY
FLIER’S 70TH BIRTHDAY
_SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM_
9:30-9:45 – COFFEE
9:45-10:00 – Welcome, Opening Comments
10:00- 10:30 – Ron Kahn, Joslin Diabetes Center, HMS
“In the beginning,
there was the insulin receptor”
10:30 – 10:55 - Barbara Kahn, BIDMC, HMS
_ “The Glut4 glucose transporter:
after 3 decades still an oracle for understanding insulin
sensitivity.”_
_ _10:55 – 11:20 – Rex Ahima, Johns Hopkins
_“Metabolic factors
driving weight regain after weight loss”. _
_ _11:20-11:45 – David Ludwig, Children’s Hospital Boston, HMS
_“Which comes
first, overeating or obesity?”_
_ _11:45-12:10 – Terry Maratos-Flier, BIDMC, HMS, Novartis
_“FGF21:
Deciphering a complicated metabolic hormone”. _
_ _12:10-1:00 – LUNCH
1:00- 1:25 – Tony Vidal-Puig, U of Cambridge
_“Adipose tissue
expandability, lipotoxicity and Metabolic Syndrome.” _
_ _1:25- 1:50 – Erin Kershaw, U of Pittsburgh Med School
_“A novel transcriptional
regulator linked to energy and metabolic homeostasis in humans”._
_ _1:50- 2:30 – Alan Moses, Novo Nordisk and David Moller, Sigilon
Therapeutics
Moderator – Michael Rosenblatt – Flagship Pioneering
_ “Learnings from guiding scientific
discoveries into therapeutic products in diabetes”_
_ _2:30- 2:55 – Joel Elmquist, UT Southwestern
_"Ahima and Flier
Revisited: Why do Leptin Levels Fall with Fasting?”_
_ _2:55- 3:20 – Maia Kokoeva, McGill U
_“Structural basis of
hypothalamic leptin sensing”. _
_ _3:20 - 3:45 – BREAK
3:45- 4:10 – Stephanie Fulton, U of Montreal
“_Eat n’ Run: Leptin
control of motivated behavior”_
4:10- 4:35 – Brad Lowell, BIDMC, HMS
_“Control of Hunger by
Arcuate —> Paraventricular Hypothalamic Circuits”_
_ _4:35-5:15 – Steve O’Rahilly, U. of Cambridge
_“Reflections from the Old
World: the long reach of Jeff Flier”_
_ _5:15- 6:15 - RECEPTION
food
family
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