Past Events
Michigan Diabetes Research and Training Center (MDRTC)
2009 Winter Symposium and
Ray A. and Robert L. Kroc Lecture in Diabetes
Saturday, March 7, 2009
9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
Biomedical Science Research Building
Auditorium, Ground Floor
109 Zina Pitcher Place
Ann Arbor, MI 48104
No fee; advance registration not necessary. All interested are invited to attend.
SCHEDULE
| 8:30 a.m. | Coffee and Continental Breakfast |
| 9:00 – 10:00 a.m. | Kroc Lecturer: Rudolph L. Leibel, M.D. Professor of Pediatrics and Medicine; Head, Division of Molecular Genetics; and Co-Director, the Naomi Berrie Diabetes Center at Columbia University, New York "Molecular Physiology of the Bioenergetics of Weight Perturbation" |
| 10:00 – 10:30 a.m. | Carey N. Lumeng, M.D., Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Pediatric Pulmonology and Molecular and Integrative Physiology, University of Michigan "Adipose Tissue Macrophage Activation in Obesity and Insulin Resistance” |
| 10:30 – 11:00 a.m. | Rodica Pop-Busui, M.D., Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Division of Metabolism, Endocrinology and Diabetes, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan "The Glucose-Cardiovascular Disease Connection: the Search for the Missing Link" |
| 11:00 – 11:30 a.m. | Michael L. Boehnke, Ph.D. Richard G. Cornell Distinguished University Professor of Biostatistics, University of Michigan "Genome-Wide Association Studies for Type 2 Diabetes and Related Traits" |
| 11:30 a.m. – 1 p.m. | Poster Session and Buffet Lunch |
Questions: Barbara Hawkins, hawkinsb@umich.edu or 734-763-2561
