Vanderbilt Diabetes Research and Training Center
June 18, 2013

SEPTEMBER 2010

206 Preston Research Building 12:00 P.M.

Friday, September 3
Adrian Vella, MD, FRCP
Mayo Clinic
"Using Physiology to Inform our Understanding of Common Genetic Variation and the Pathogenesis of Type 2 Diabetes"

Friday, September 10
P. Charles Lin, Ph.D.
National Cancer Institute
"Vascular Inflammation and Human Disease"

Friday, September 17 - VIOM Speaker
Joseph W. Thompson, M.D., MPH
Rovt. Wood Johnson Foundation
"Ending the Childhood Obesity Epidemic by 2015"

Friday, September 24
No Seminar

OCTOBER 2010

Friday, October 1 (CANCELLED)
Ann Marie Schmidt, M.D.
New York University
"RAGE – A Multi-Ligand Receptor in Chronic Diseases"

202 Light Hall 12:00 P.M. (note room change)

Friday, October 8 - VIOM Speakers
Sabina Gesell, Ph.D.
Vanderbilt Pediatrics
"Physical Activity in Children in After-Care"
AND
Cyndya Shibao, M.D.
Vanderbilt Division of Pharmacy
"Racial Differences in the Autonomic Contribution to Blood Pressure in Obesity"

206 Preston Research Building 12:00 P.M.

Friday, October 15
Pietro Galasetti, MD, PhD
University of California, Irvine
"Early Pathogenetic Mechanisms of Future Cardiovascular Complications in Pediatric Obesity and Diabetes"

206 Preston Research Building 12:00 P.M.

Friday, October 22
David Moller
Lilly Research Laboratories
"Challenges and Opportunities for Diabetes Drug Discovery"

208 Light Hall 12:00 P.M. (note room change)

Friday, October 29
Marzzieh Salehi, M.D.
University of Cincinnati College of Medicine
"Gastric Bypass Surgery and Glucose Metabolism: Beyond Weight Loss"

NOVEMBER 2010

206 Preston Research Building 12:00 P.M.

Friday, November 12 - VIOM Speaker
Philipp Scherer, Ph.D.
Southwestern Medical Center
"Novel Aspects of the Physiology of Adipocyte-Derived Factors"

Friday, November 19 - DIABETES DAY@ SLC
Lawrence J. Mandarino, Ph.D.
Arizona State University
"Novel Mechanisms of Insulin Resistance in Skeletal Muscle"

DECEMBER 2010

206 Preston Research Building 12:00 P.M.

Friday, December 3
Owen Chan
Yale University
"The Role of the VMH GABAergic System in Regulating Glucose Counterregulatory Responses to Hypoglycemia"

Friday, December 10 - VIOM Speaker
Kari North, Ph.D.
University of North Carolina
"The Genetic Epidemiology of Obesity: the New Frontier"

Friday, December 17
Lori Sussell, Ph.D.
Columbia University Medical Center
"Regulation of Islet Cell Fates"

The Vanderbilt Diabetes Research and Training Center is supported by NIH grant DK20593.