Disorders Of Lipid Metabolism

Agenda Updated August 23, 2007

 

Thursday, September 6, 2007

 

7:00 - 8:00 am Registration and Continental Breakfast

 

SESSION I - HDL

 

8:00 am Opening Remarks

 

8:10 am Impaired ABCA1 As An Atherogenic Complication of Diabetes

John Oram

 

8:50 am HDL Proteomics: Pot of Gold or Pandora's Box?

Jay Heinecke

 

9:30 am Diabetic Heart Diseases

Ira Goldberg

 

10:10 am Break

 

10:30 am Generation of Lipid-Free/Lipid-Poor Apolipoprotein AI For Reverse Cholesterol Transport From Atherosclerotic Lesions

Linda Curtiss

 

Session II - Diabetes

 

11:10 am Nuclear Receptors Controlling Glucose and Lipid Homeostasis

Bart Staels

 

11:50 am Control of Lipid and Glucose Homeostasis by the Nuclear

Receptors FXR and LXR

Peter Edwards

 

12:30 pm Lunch

 

1:40 Inflammation, Obesity and Diabetes

Alan Chait

 

SESSION III - Genetics

 

2:20 pm PCSK9's Role In Determining Plasma LDL Cholesterol Levels

Jay Horton

 

3:00 pm Genomic Variation and Metabolic Traits

Robert Hegele

 

3:40 pm Break

 

4:00 pm Cardiovascular Disease Risk, Nutrition and Genes:

Focusing on the Individual

Jose Ordovas

 

4:40 pm Insights from Deep Resequencing in Humans

Len Pennacchio

 

5:20 pm Poster Reception

 

Friday, September 7, 2007

 

7:30 - 8:30 am Breakfast

 

SESSION IV - Metabolic Syndrome

 

8:30 am Opening Remarks 

Poster Awards Presentation and Presentation of the BioSymposia Junior Investigator Award

 

8:40 am Adipokines: Impact on the Metabolic Syndrome

Philip Scherer

 

9:20 am Inflammation in Adipose Tissue: Causes and Consequences

Ulf Smith

 

10:00 am Break

 

10:20 am Dietary Effects on Atherogenic Dyslipidemia

Ronald Krauss

 

11:00 am Nuclear Receptors, Inflammation and Metabolic Disease

Christopher Glass

 

11:40 am Lunch

 

SESSION V - Drug Targets

 

1:00 pm apo A-I Mimetic Peptides

Alan Fogelman

 

1:40 pm Genes for Type 2 Diabetes from Genetic and

Genomic Studies in Mice

Alan Attie

 

2:20 pm Break

 

2:40 pm Attenuation of Dyslipidemia, Hyperglycemia, Insulin Resistance

and Obesity Through Metabolic Reprogramming by Citrus Flavonoids

Murray Huff

 

3:20 pm Expression of Stearoyl-CoA Desaturase and It's Implication

in Human Diseases

James Ntambi

 

4:00 pm Closing Remarks

 

4:10 pm Adjourn