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2011 MDRTC Winter Symposium
and the Ray A. and Robert L. Kroc Lectureship in Diabetes

Saturday, March 12, 2011  ~  9:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m.
Kellogg Eye Center Auditorium / 1000 Wall Street / Ann Arbor 48105
Directions & map (free parking lots adjacent to building)

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For further information, or to register a poster, contact:
Barbara Hawkins at hawkinsb@umich.edu / (734) 763-2561

8:00 a.m.

Registration / Set up posters / Continental breakfast

9:00 a.m.

Kroc Lecturer:
I. Sadaf Farooqi, Ph.D., FRCP
Wellcome Trust Senior Clinical Fellow, University of Cambridge Metabolic
Research Laboratories, United Kingdom

“Genetic, Molecular and Physiological Insights into
Human Obesity”

10:00 a.m.

Julie C. Lumeng, M.D.
Assistant Professor, Center for Human Growth and Development,
University of Michigan

“Early Predictor of Diabetes Risk? Maternal Feeding
Styles and Childhood Obesity”

10:30 a.m.

Jiandie Lin, Ph.D.
Research Assistant Professor, Life Sciences Institute and Assistant
Professor of Cell & Developmental Biology, University of Michigan

“Hyperlipidemia: A New Mechanism for an Old Drug”

11:00 a.m.

Malcolm J. Low, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor of Molecular and Integrative Physiology and Professor of
Internal Medicine, University of Michigan

“Body Fat Set-Point Theory and Proopiomelanocortin
(POMC) Neurons”

11:30 a.m.

Poster Session and Buffet Lunch for All Participants
   

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