2023 UCI Diabetes and Metabolism Symposium

UCI Diabetes Center Symposium 2023

November 30, 2023

* Complimentary parking provided.

Program

8:00 AM -8:50 AM: Registration, breakfast

8:50 AM -8:55 AM: Dean Michael Stamos, MD, Welcome Remarks

8:55 AM-9:00 AM: Dean Yoost, Chair, Executive Council: UCI Diabetes Initiatives

Keynote (Moderator: Qin Yang MD PhD)

9:00 AM-10:00 AM: Dale Abel, MD PhD (UCLA)

Title: Mitochondria and Cardiometabolic Disease

10:00 AM-10:15 AM: Coffee Break

Session 1 (Moderator: Qin Yang MD PhD)

10:15-10:45 AM: Charles Brenner, PhD (City of Hope)

Title: Citrin Deficiency as a Window into ChREBP, FGF21 and the Desire for Sweets

10:45 AM-11:15 AM: Xia Yang, PhD (UCLA)

Title: Multitissue Multiomics Systems Biology of Cardiometabolic Diseases

11:15 AM- 11:45 AM: Gengsheng Feng, PhD (UCSD)

Title: Shp2 and mechanistic dissection of liver metabolism and regeneration

1 1:45 AM - 12:45 PM: Lunch and Poster Setup

Session 2 (Moderator: Bogi Andersen MD)

12:45 PM - 1:00 PM: Quinton Smith, PhD

Title: Engineered Models of Development and Disease

1:00 PM - 1:15 PM: Cholsoon Jang, PhD

Title: Novel insulin-regulated metabolites and their relevance in diabetes

1:15 PM - 1:30 PM: Dequina Nicholas, PhD

Title: Hiding in Plain Sight: Lipids as the Villain in Type 2 Diabetes

1:30 PM - 1:45 PM: Mei Kong, PhD

Title: Role of protein phosphatase complex in metabolism

1:45 PM - 2:00 PM: Kalidas Ramamoorthy, PhD

Title: Uptake of Vitamin B1 by the Endocrine and Exocrine Pancreatic Cells; Effects of Proinflammatory Cytokines

2 :00 PM - 2:15 PM: Andrew Odegaard PhD

Title: Levels of Visceral Adipose Tissue and Regional Subcutaneous Adipose Tissue Depots and Type 2 Diabetes Risk: The Women's Health Initiative

2 :15 PM - 2:30 PM: Kishore Gadde MD

Title: Pharmacotherapy in conjunction with lifestyle counseling for management of weight regain after bariatric surgery (PROJECT-BARI)

2:30 PM - 2:45 PM: Elliot Botvinick, PhD

Title: Continuous multi-analyte monitor: technology overview and results from pilot clinical study

2:45 PM-3:00 PM: Coffee Break

Session 3 (Moderator: Mei Kong PhD)

3:00 PM-3:15 PM: Wei Li PhD

Title: Alternative polyadenylation transcriptome-wide association study identifies APA-linked susceptibility genes in diabetes

3:15 PM-3:30 PM: Qing Nie PhD

Title: Computational tools and mathematical modeling for diabetes research

3:30 PM-3:45 PM: Bogi Andersen, MD

Title: Interactions between aging and insulin resistance at a single cell level

3:45 PM -4:00 PM: Marcus Seldin, PhD

Title: Leveraging inter-individual differences to dissect mechanisms of tissue communication

4:00 PM -4:15 PM: Chen Li PhD

Title: Texera system for collaborative data analysis

4:15 PM-4:30 PM: Uma Rao, MD

Title: Adolescent Eating Behavior: Effects of Race/Ethnicity, Stress and Negative Affect

4:30 PM-4:45 PM: Wenjun Fan, MD, PhD

Title: Multifactorial Risk Control in Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease Among Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: Findings from the UK Biobank

4:45 PM-6:45 PM: Poster Session, Dinner, Social Time