Diabetes at Vanderbilt: From Molecules to People

Thursday, November 12, 2009
12:00 – 4:00 PM
Vanderbilt Student Life Center

Agenda

12:00–1:00
Louis Philipson, MD, Ph.D., FACP, Professor, Departments of Medicine and Pediatrics, Section of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism,
Director, Kovler Diabetes Center, The University of Chicago
"Insights from Monogenic Diabetes: More Fun Than a Barrel of GWAS"

1:00-1:25        
Shari Barkin, M.D., MSHS, Marion Wright Edelman Professor of Pediatrics,
Director of Pediatric Obesity Research
"Pediatric Obesity Prevention: Conducting Community-Based Research"

1:25-1:50
Guoqiang Gu, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Cell & Developmental Biology
"Driving Endocrine Differentiation from Multi-Potent Pancreatic Progenitors"

1:50-2:00        
Break

2:00-2:15        
Presentation of Vanderbilt Scholars in Diabetes for 2009
                       
2:15-2:45        
Owen McGuinness, Ph.D., Professor, Molecular Physiology & Biophysics,
Director, Metabolic Pathophysiology Core of MMPC
"Why Am I Not As Small As a Mouse?  I Eat Like One!"

2:45-4:00        
Poster session of research from DRTC-affiliated laboratories

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The flyer is in PDF format and will print to 8 1/2" x 11"

If you should have questions, please contact Deborah C. Brown at 322-7990 or dc.brown@vanderbilt.edu.