Adventures in Metabolism Symposium to Celebrate Jeffrey Flier’s 70th Birthday

  “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