Wednesday, August 17, 2022
All sessions held in the Rocky Mountain Meeting Room
Session IV: White/Beige/Brown Adipose Tissue Physiology: Impact on Systemic Lipid Metabolism
7:30-9:00 AM Breakfast Buffet (Mt Powell Breakfast Room)
8:30 AM Franz Simon Poster Award/Introduction – Recipients To be Announced - Moshe Levi, MD, President, Kern Lipid Conference/Georgetown University - USA
8:40 AM “Targeting Mitochondria Interaction with Lipid Droplets to Affect Lipid Storage and Utilizations” - Orian Shirhai, MD, PhD, UCLA – USA
9:10 AM “Mesenchymal Progenitor Cells and Adipose Tissue Remodeling" -
9:40 AM “Physiological Roles of Lipokines Derived from Thermogenic Adipose Tissue" -
10:10 AM Coffee Break
Session V: White/Beige/Brown Adipose Tissue Physiology: An Industry Perspective on Adipose Dysfunction
10:30 AM “Metabolic Adaptations that Power Adipocyte Thermogenesis” -
David Guertin, PhD, UMass Worcester, USA11:00 AM “Industry Roundtable -The Future of Adipose Directed Therapeutics”
11:30 PM “Adipogenesis and Age-Related Adiposity” - Qiong Annabel Wang, PhD, City of Hope - USA
12:00 PM “Characterizing the Adipose Secretome” - Paul Cohen, MD, PhD, The Rockefeller University - USA
12:25 PM Lunch - The Fitz Bar & Creekside Patio, Fitz Bridge
Session VI: Sex Differences, Adaptive Functions and Organ Crosstalk
1:30 PM “Systems Network Modeling of Metabolic Diseases and Sex Differences” -
Xia Yang, PhD, UCLA - USA2:00 PM “Common Denominators for Increased COVID-19 Sensitivity with Diabetes, Obesity and Dyslipidemia” - Philipp Scherer, PhD, UT Southwestern - USA
2:30 PM “The X Chromosome Impacts Obesity and Statin Drug Adverse Effects” - Karen Reue, PhD, UCLA - USA
3:00 PM Afternoon Break
3:15 PM “Regulation and Function of Adipogenic Stromal Subpopulations in Adipose Tissue” - Rana Gupta, PhD, UT Southwestern - USA
3:45 PM “GIP-R and GLP-R: an Update” -
Matthew Coghlan, PhD, Lilly - USA4:15 PM Introduction to David L. Williams Lecture and Award
4:20 PM “TBD” - David L. Williams Lecture
4:50 PM Afternoon Break
6:30 - 10:00 PM Dinner Reception - Golden Peak Gardens
Adjourn