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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