Wednesday, August 17, 2022
Session IV: White/Beige/Brown Adipose Tissue Physiology: Impact on Systemic Lipid Metabolism
7:30-9:00 AM Breakfast Buffet (Grand Ballroom Foyer)
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 “Lipid Droplet Interactions of Adipocyte Mitochondria with Lipid Droplets” - Orian Shirhai, MD, PhD, UCLA – USA
9:10 AM “Brown and Beige Fat Physiology" -
9:40 AM “Lipokines Driving Thermogenesis" -
10:10 AM Coffee Break
Session V: White/Beige/Brown Adipose Tissue Physiology: An Industry Perspective on Adipose Dysfunction
10:30 AM “Brown Fat Adipogenesis” -
David Guertin, PhD, UMass Worcester, USA11:00 AM “Industry Roundtable -The Future of Adipose Directed Therapeutics”
11:30 PM “The Life of the Mammary Adipocyte” - Qiong Annabel Wang, PhD, City of Hope - USA
12:00 PM “Approaches to Weight Loss: What will Future Therapies Look Like?” - Andrew Whittle, PhD -Novo Nordisk - USA
12:25 PM Lunch - Mountain View Patio
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 “Obesity and the X Chromosome” - Karen Reue, PhD, UCLA - USA
3:00 PM Coffee Break
3:15 PM “Modulation of Metabolic Pathways – Impact on Disease States” - Xia Yang, PhD, UCLA - 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 - Grand Ballroom
Adjourn