Rising Stars Symposium
Sponsored by the Diabetes and Obesity Research Priority Area and the UK Barnstable Brown Diabetes and Obesity Research Center
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This all-day symposium features nationally recognized early-career research scholars who have demonstrated scientific achievements in diabetes and obesity-related research.
Event Details
Date: Thursday, Nov. 7, 2024
Time: 8 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Location: University of Kentucky, Healthy Kentucky Research Building, Conference Room 150
Deadline to register and submit abstracts: Oct. 25, 2024
This symposium will include a poster session featuring the exciting research of our students, postdoctoral scholars, fellows, staff and faculty.
Prizes will be awarded for top poster presentations in each category.
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Agenda
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Dean's Distinguished Lecture
Mary-Elizabeth Patti, MDInvestigator and adult endocrinologist, Joslin Diabetes Center
Director, Hypoglycemia Clinic and co-director, Molecular
Phenotyping and Genotyping Core
Associate professor of medicine, Harvard Medical School
Intestinal Control of Glucose Metabolism: What Have We Learned from Clinical Medicine?
Additional Speakers
Catherine Cohen, PhD, RDNResearch associate
Epidemiology of Adiposity and Diabetes (LEAD) Center, Colorado School of Public Health
University of Colorado Denver-Anschutz Medical Campus
Lifecourse Nutritional Determinants of Altered Body Fat Distribution in Youth
Wagner Dantas, PhDAssistant professor and director of the Muscle Molecular Physiology Laboratory
Human Physiology Department, University of Oregon
Sarcopenic Obesity: Emerging Mechanisms and Therapeutic Potential
Kimberley El, PhDSenior researcher
Duke University
Improving glucagon as a therapeutic for insulin-induced hypoglycemia
Justin Gregory, MD, MSCIAssistant professor of pediatrics
Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
Hyperinsulinemia is a Greater Risk Factor for Insulin Resistance than Hyperglycemia in Type 1 Diabetes and GCK-MODY
Ramiah Jacks, PhDResearch investigator
University of Michigan
Adipose Tissue T cell Dynamics with Short-term High Fat Diet
Pedro Latorre-Muro, PhDInstructor
Department of Cancer Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Department of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School
Interorganelle Mechanisms of Mitochondrial Adaptative Function
Daniel Ruiz, PhDPostdoctoral fellow
Department of Human Genetics
Emory University School of Medicine
Single-Cell Gene Expression Assessment of the Mouse Tuberal Hypothalamus and Preoptic Area from Birth to Puberty
Magdalena Sevilla-Gonzalez, PhDInstructor
Clinical & Translational Epidemiology Unit
Massachusetts General Hospital
Unraveling Health Disparities in Type 2 Diabetes Through Large-Scale Omics Analysis