2012 Mid-Atlantic Diabetes Research Symposium

Event Details

Meeting Objectives

The purposes of the 2012 Annual Mid-Atlantic Diabetes Research Symposium, co-sponsored by the Diabetes, Endocrinology, and Obesity Branch at the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases and the Mid-Atlantic Nutrition Obesity Research Center (NORC) at the Department of Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, are to encourage collaborations and enhance interactions at the regional level through the sharing of both reagents and expertise. This year's format will comprise two 60-minute plenary lectures (Morrie Birnbaum, University of Pennsylvania, The Regulation of Hepatic Metabolism; and Anna Mae Diehl, Duke University, Diabetes and Liver Disease); three 30-minute invited talks (Elisabetta Mueller, National Institutes of Health (NIH), Novel Transcriptional Regulators of Adipocyte Differentiation and Lipid Metabolism; Rosario Scalia, Temple University, Is the Microcirculation an Early Instigator of Adipose Tissue Inflammation and Insulin Resistance?; and Bret Goodpaster, University of Pittsburgh, Intramyocellular Lipids, Mitochondria, and Insulin Resistance: Lost in Translation?); and six short, hot-topic talks (both invited and selected from the abstracts). Jesse Roth, Feinstein Institute, and Carol Haft, NIH, will chair the oral presentations. Plenary and invited speaker titles will be available shortly. Space also will be available for up to 40 posters. Coffee breaks will be long enough to view the posters and renew acquaintances; and a 2-hour lunch break will feature good food at a reasonable price, a comprehensive poster session, and a poster discussion chaired by Simeon Taylor, Bristol-Myers Squibb. Early registration is encouraged.

Agenda

Friday, September 28, 2012

7:30 a.m. - 8:30 a.m.

Registration and Poster Setup

Morning Session

Chair: Jesse Roth, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases

8:30 a.m. - 9:00 a.m.

Intramyocellular Lipids, Mitochondria, and Insulin Resistance: Lost in Translation?
Bret Goodpaster, University of Pittsburgh

9:00 a.m. - 9:20 a.m.

Short Talk: Distinctive Roles of Rab Gaps AS160 and Tbc1d1 in Skeletal Muscle and Adipocyte Glucose Uptake and Whole Body Glucose Homeostasis
Susanna R. Keller, University of Virginia

9:20 a.m. - 9:50 a.m.

Novel Transcriptional Regulators of Adipocyte Differentiation and Lipid Metabolism
Elisabetta Mueller, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases

9:50 a.m. - 10:20 a.m.

Is the Microcirculation an Early Instigator of Adipose Tissue Inflammation and Insulin Resistance?
Rosario Scalia, Temple University

10:20 a.m. - 10:50 a.m.

Break

10:50 a.m. - 11:35 a.m.

Diabetes and Liver Disease
Anna Mae Diehl, Duke University

11:55 a.m. - 1:55 p.m.

Lunch, Posters, and Poster Discussion

12:55 p.m. - 1:55 p.m.

Virtual Poster Tour (Auditorium)
Chair: Simeon Taylor, Bristol-Myers Squibb

Afternoon Session

Chair: Carol Haft, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases

1:55 p.m. - 2:15 p.m.

Short Talk: Genome Wide Search for Genetic Causes of Latent Autoimmune Diabetes in Adults (LADA)
Struan F. A. Grant, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia

2:15 p.m. - 2:35 p.m.

Short Talk: Hydroxybutyrate Is an Early Biomarker of Insulin Resistance and Glucose Intolerance in a Nondiabetic Population
Yang Chen, Metabolon, Inc.

2:35 p.m. - 2:55 p.m.

Short Talk: Effects of Antecedent GABA(A) Receptor Activation With Alprazolam on Counterregulatory Responses to Exercise in Type 1 Diabetes
Maka S. Hedrington, University of Maryland

2:55 p.m. - 3:25 p.m.

Break

3:25 p.m. - 4:10 p.m.

The Regulation of Hepatic Metabolism
Morris Birnbaum, University of Pennsylvania

4:10 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.

Short Talk: Flavonol Kaempferol Promotes Pancreatic Beta-cell Survival and Function, and Reduces Hyperglycemia in a Non-genetic Mouse Model of Type 2 Diabetes
Dongmin Liu, Virginia Tech

4:30 p.m.

Adjournment and Poster Removal