11/3: 糖尿病和肥胖专题研讨会

哈佛医学院华人专家学者联合会（HMS－CSSA）主办的“糖尿病和肥胖专题研讨会”于11月3日星期一中午12时30分至下午4时在 HMS Building C， Cannon Room 举行，欢迎感兴趣的朋友参加。

Please join us for the symposium: Emerging novel targets for obesity and diabetes treatment

Monday, Nov 3, 12:30 -4:00 PM Cannon Room, Building C, HMS (240 Longwood Ave., Boston, MA)

Organized by: Harvard Medical School Chinese Scientists & Scholars Association (HMS-CSSA); http://www.hms-cssa.org

Host: Xingxing Kong, M.D, Ph.D, Division of Endocrinology, BIDMC and Harvard Medical School

Session 1: 12:30 PM
Open remarks: 12:35 PM – 1:00 PM
Grb10 Promotes Thermogenesis Through Feedback Inhibition of mTORC1: 1:00 PM – 1:45 PM


Opening Keynote Address:

Diurnal regulation of mitochondrial dynamics in hepatic feeding response

1:45 PM – 2:10 PM

Adipose Regulation of Metabolic Diseases: Adipsin is an Adipokine that Improves Beta Cell Function

James Lo M.D., Ph.D. Instructor of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School

2:10 PM – 2:30 PM

IRF4 is the Thermogenic Transcriptional Partner of PGC-1 Alpha

Xingxing Kong M.D., Ph.D. PostDoc, Division of Endocrinology, BIDMC and Harvard Medical School

https://connects.catalyst.harvard.edu/Profiles/display/Person/96846

2:30 PM – 2:35 PM

Vendor talk (Sponsored by Invivoex, http://www.invivoex.com/)

2:35 PM – 2:45 PM

Coffee break (Coffee and snack will be provided.)

Section 1: Chair: Feng Liu, PhD, Professor,

University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, http://pharmacology.uthscsa.edu/faculty/Liu.asp

Meilian Liu Ph.D. Assistant Professor, University of New Mexico Health Science Center, https://vivo.health.unm.edu/display/n19893

Chih-Hao Lee Ph.D. Associate Professor of Genetics and Complex Diseases, Department of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health

Session 2:

2:45 PM – 3:10 PM

Target hypothalamic steroid receptor coactivator-1 for obesity

Yong Xu M.D., Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston

https://www.bcm.edu/research/centers/childrens-nutrition-research-center/faculty/?pmid=19130

3:10 PM – 3:30 PM

Melanocortin Signaling Regulates Energy Balance, Glucose Homeostasis and Thermogenic Properties of Adipose Tissue

Tiemin Liu Ph.D. (Instructor, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas

3:30 PM – 3:50 PM

Inflammasome activation leads to Caspase-1-dependent mitochondrial damage and block of mitophagy

Jiujiu Yu Ph.D. PostDoc, Department of Genetics and Complex Diseases, Harvard School of Public Health

3:50 PM – 3:55 PM

Recruit seminar

Metabolic Syndrome Research Center, The Second Xiangya Hospital of Central South University, Changshai, China

http://profiles.utsouthwestern.edu/profile/136338/tiemin-liu.html

http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/tiffany-horng/jiujiu-yu/

Feng Liu, PhD, Professor,
University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio

Section 2: Chair: Qin Yang M.D., Ph.D. Assistant Professor, UC Irvine, http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24717514

https://connects.catalyst.harvard.edu/Profiles/display/Person/72585