Diabetes and Metabolism Seminar Series
Jointly sponsored by the Diabetes Research Center (DRC), Diabetes and Obesity Center of Excellence (DOCE), Nutrition Obesity Research Center (NORC) and the Pacific Northwest Diabetes Research Institute (PNDRI).
Unless otherwise listed, seminars are held in the Orin Smith Auditorium located at the UW SLU campus (815 Mercer Street). All are welcome to attend.
WINTER - SPRING SCHEDULE
Wednesday 1/4/12
Fredric E. Wondisford, MD, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicie
What's New in the Control of Hepatic Gluconeogenesis?
Orin Smith Auditorium 3:00pm
Wednesday 1/4/12
Christopher Rhodes, PhD, University of Chicago
Obesity-linked Type 2 Diabetes: Working the Beta-Cell Over Its Limits
Orin Smith Auditorium 4:00pm
Wednesday 1/11/12
Matthias Hebrok, PhD, University of California San Francisco
Constructing and Deconstructing Pancreatic Beta Cells
Orin Smith Auditorium 4:00pm
Wednesday 1/25/12
Type 1 Diabetes and Immunology Half Day Symposium
Poll Visiting Scientist: Matthias von Herrath, MD, La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology
Orin Smith Auditorium 1:00 -5:00pm
Wednesday 2/15/12
Gary Lopaschuk, PhD, University of Alberta
Role of Fatty Acid Oxidation in Cardiac Dysfunction in Obesity and Diabetes
Orin Smith Auditorium 4:00pm
Wednesday 3/7/12
Kroc Scholar: Alvin Powers, MD, Vanderbilt University
Orin Smith Auditorium 4:00pm
Wednesday 3/21/12
Gary Schwartz, PhD, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Distributed Nutrient Sensing in the Control of Energy Homeostasis
Orin Smith Auditorium 4:00pm
Wednesday 4/4/12
Bonnie Ramsey, MD, University of Washington
Cystic Fibrosis, Nutritional Disorders and Diabetes
Orin Smith Auditorium 4:00pm
Wednesday 4/18/12
John Engelhardt, PhD, University of Iowa
Modeling Cystic Fibrosis Related Diabetes in the Ferret
Orin Smith Auditorium 4:00pm
Wednesday 4/25/12
Myron Cybulsky, FRCPC, MD, University of Toronto
Intimal Dendritic Cells and the Initiation of Atherosclerosis
Orin Smith Auditorium 4:00pm
Wednesday 5/2/12
Nika Danial, PhD, Harvard Medical School
Mechanisms Underlying Beta Cell Apoptosis
Orin Smith Auditorium 4:00pm
Wednesday 5/23/12
Marcy Sorci-Thomas, PhD, Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center
Lipid Composition and Apoprotein Structure of Nascent HDL
Orin Smith Auditorium 4:00pm
Thursday 5/24/12
Annual Symposium: Genetics, Genomics and Epigenetics of Diabetes
Urban Horticulture Center 8:00am-5:00pm