"Obesity and Thinness: Two Sides of the Same Coin?"

Program

  Keynote Address                                                        

  9:00 AM Welcome and Introduction - DRC Director Dr. Alan Saltiel

  9:10 AM Dr. Sadaf Farooqi

               Professor of Metabolism and Medicine – University of Cambridge

               “Obesity and Thinness: Two Sides of the Same Coin?”

  2020 Pilot and Feasibility Awardee Talks                 

  10:10 AM Ajit S. Divakaruni, PhD - UCLA Dean’s Award

                 Assistant Professor, Molecular & Medical Pharmacology – UCLA

                “Determining how pro-inflammatory cytokines harmfully reprogram                                   pancreatic β-cell mitochondria”

  10:30 AM Amit R. Majithia, PhD – UCSD Junior Faculty Award

                 Assistant Professor of Endocrinology – UCSD

                “Functional Human iPSC-Derived Pancreatic Islets in Co-culture with                                Isogenic Vascular endothelial Cells”

  11:10 AM Michael J. Wilkinson, MD - UCSD Dean's Award

                Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine – UCSD

               “Effect of time-restricted eating on catecholamine-sensitivity of adipose                           tissue in obese adults”

  Closing Talk                                                                 

  11:30 AM Rob Knight, PhD

                 Director of the Center for Microbiome Innovation Professor of Pediatrics                         and Computer Science & Engineering- UCSD

               “The Human Microbiome and Its Role in Diabetes”

  12:30 PM Closing