Department of Internal Medicine
Division of Endocrinology, Metabolism and Diabetes

Metabolism Interest Group

Date Presenter Institution Title
Sep 3, 2009 Dale Abel Lab Univ. of Utah Sloan: "Contribution of Leptin Deficiency or Leptin Resistance to Myocardial Fatty Acid Oxidation in ob/ob and db/db Mice" Zhu: "The role of mTOR in murine heart development and function" 
Sep 10, 2009 Tim Graham Lab Univ. of Utah Fangjian Guo: "Liver Stra6 Homologue (LSH): The long sought vitamin A transporter of liver and gut?" Jinjin Cai: "Autophagy and metabolic fuel homeostasis in liver and fat"
Sep 17, 2009 ---NO MIG--- --------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------
Sep 24, 2009 Carolyn Cummins, Ph.D. Univ. of Toronto "Liver X Receptors in the Hepatic Response to Glucocorticoids"
Oct 1, 2009 Adam Antebi Ph.D. Baylor Univ. "Nuclear receptor control of life stages and aging"
Oct 8, 2009 Betty Leibold Lab Univ. of Utah Kym Zumbrennen: "Proteolytic Degradation of Iron Regulatory Protein 2 by the Iron-Regulated Ubiquitin Ligase FBXL5"
Oct 15, 2009 ---NO MIG--- --------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------
Oct 22, 2009 Frances Brodsky, DPHIL Univ. of California, San Francisco "Clathrin diversity and the phantom traffic jam regulating glucose metabolism"
Oct 29, 2009 Don McClain Lab Univ. of Utah "Rapid regulation of hepcidin levels after glucose challenge"
Nov 5, 2009 Amnon Schlegel, MD, PhD Univ. of California, San Francisco "A Molecular genetic approach to studying hepatic lipid metabolism"
Nov 12, 2009 Julie McMullen, PhD Baker IDI Heart & Diabetes Institute "Role of the IGF1-PI3K pathway in the heart/Targeting genes in the athlete's heart to treat heart failure"
Nov 19, 2009 Jared Rutter Lab Univ. of Utah Eric Taylor & Jin-Mi Heo: "A stress-responsive system for mitochondrial protein quality control"
Nov 26, 2009 ---NO MIG--- ---------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------
Dec 3, 2009 Jerry Kaplan Lab Univ. of Utah "Disruption of mitochondrial iron transport has effects on cellular iron homeostasis"
Dec 10, 2009 Andrew F. Stewart, MD Univ. of Pittsburgh "Co-Opting Molecular Control of the Cell Cycle for Expanding Human Beta Cell Mass in Diabetes"
Dec 17, 2009 Charlie Murtaugh Lab Univ. of Utah Daniel Kopinke: "Exocrine to endocrine conversion in the mouse pancreas."
Dec 24, 2009 ---NO MIG--- ---------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------
Dec 31, 2009 ---NO MIG--- ---------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------
Jan 7, 2010 Francis Kim, MD Univ. of Washington "Is insulin resistance a vascular condition? The role of nitric oxide and the development of insulin resistance"
Jan 14, 2010 Sihem Boudina, PhD Univ. of Utah TBD
Jan 21, 2010 Kaveh Ashrafi, PhD Univ. of California, San Francisco TBD
Jan 28, 2010 Vamsi Mootha, MD Harvard Univ. TBD
Feb 4, 2010 Papa Feroz, MD, PhD Univ. of California, San Francisco TBD
Feb 11, 2010 Umut Ozcan, MD Harvard Univ. TBD
Feb 18, 2010 Journal Club Univ. of Utah TBD
Feb 22, 2010 (Mon) Bruce M. Spiegelman, PhD Harvard Univ. TBD
Mar 4, 2010 Joe Bass, MD, PhD Northwestern Univ. TBD
Mar 11, 2010 Konstantin Kandror, PhD Boston Univ. TBD
Mar 18, 2010 Sheila Collins, PhD Hamner Institutes for Health Sciences TBD
Mar 25, 2010 ---NO MIG--- ----------------- -------------------------------------------------------------
Apr 1, 2010 Jiandie Lin, PhD Univ. of Michigan TBD
Apr 8, 2010 Tianxin Yang Lab Univ. of Utah TBD
Apr 15, 2010 Ana Maria Cuervo, MD, PhD Albert Einstein College of Medicine TBD
Apr 22, 2010 Alan Chait, MD Univ. of Washington TBD
Apr 29, 2010 Dennis Winge Lab Univ. of Utah TBD
May 6, 2010 Margaret Sedensky, MD Seattle Children's Research Institute TBD
May 13, 2010 Andrew Butler, PhD Scripps Florida TBD
May 20, 2010 Mary-Elizabeth Patti, MD Joslin Diabetes Center, Harvard TBD
May 27, 2010 Ethan J. Anderson, PhD Eastern Carolina Univ. TBD
Jun 3, 2010 Yu-Hua Tseng, PhD Harvard Univ. TBD
Jun 10, 2010 Don Ayer Lab Univ. of Utah TBD
Jun 17, 2010 Dave Symons Lab Univ. of Utah TBD
Jun 24, 2010 Li Wang Lab Univ. of Utah TBD

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