Program

2012 DEUEL Program Chair

Ira Tabas
Columbia University
Email:iat1@columbia.edu

2012 DEUEL Program Co-Chair

Karin Bornfeldt
University of Washington
Email:bornf@u.washington.edu

2012 Deuel Conference on Lipids, March 6 – 9, 2012

Rancho Las Palmas, Palm Springs, CA


Preliminary Meeting Program

Tuesday, March 6

3:00 – 6:30 pm: Registration

6:30 – 10:00 pm: Open reception, Posters, and Dinner

Wednesday, March 7, 8:30 am to 12:00 pm

Session Leader: Joe Witztum

Session 1    Inflammation and Lipids in Metabolic Disease and Atherosclerosis

8:30-9:10 am:  "Inflammasomes: The CARD Containing Regulators of Obesity-Related Comorbidities"  Vishwa Deep Dixit, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 

9:10-9:50 am:  "Inflammasomes, Macrophages, and Atherosclerosis"  Eicke Latz, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany 

9:50-10:20 am:  Coffee Break

10:20-11:00 am:   "MicroRNAs that Modulate Lipoprotein Metabolism: Transport and Intracellular Regulation " Alan Remaley, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 

11:00-11:40 am:   "A Systems Approach to Dissecting Inflammation"  Alan Aderem, Institute for Systems Biology, Seattle, WA     

11:40 am -12:00 pm:  "microRNA-144 Regulates Hepatic ABCA1 and Plasma HDL Following Activation of the Nuclear Receptor FXR"   Thomas A. Vallim, University of California, Los Angeles

Wednesday, March 7, 7:30 to 8:30 pm

Session Leader: Ira Tabas

The Havel Lecture

"Inflammation, Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress and Lipids:  Emerging Networks Regulating Metabolism"  Gokhan Hotamisligil, Harvard University, Boston, MA   

Wine reception and Poster Session


Thursday, March 8, 8:30 am to 12:00 pm

Session Leader: Bob Farese

Session 2  Brown Fat, Thermoregulation, and Lipid Metabolism         

8:30-9:10 am:  "Epigenomic regulation of inflammation, energy metabolism, and adipogenesis" Juro Sakai, University of Tokyo

9:10-9:50 am:  "Role of Acyl-CoA Synthetase-1 in Thermoregulation"  Rosalind Coleman, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC   

9:50-10:20 am:  Coffee Break

10:20-11:00 am: "Brown Adipose Tissue in Humans" Sven Enerback, Goteborg University, Sweden 

Lecture Leader: Steve Young

11:00-11:40 am:  The Journal of Lipid Research Lecture:  "Brown Fat Development and Therapeutics of the Metabolic Syndrome"  Bruce Spiegelman, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 

11:40 am -12:00 pm:  "Lipolysis fuels the nuclear receptor PPARs with ligands: a role for fatty acids in promoting oxidation in brown adipocytes"   Emilio P. Mottillo, Wayne State University School of Medicine

Thursday, March 8, 7:30 to 9:30 pm

Session Leader: Alan Attie

Session 3    Circadian Rhythm and Lipid Metabolism

7:30-8:10 pm:  "Clock Genes in Fuel Selection and Energy Homeostasis"  Joe Bass, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL   

8:10-8:50 pm:  "Rev-erb-alpha and the Circadian Control of Lipid Metabolism"  Mitch Lazar, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA   

8:50-9:30 pm:  "Cryptochromes mediate rhythmic repression of glucocorticoid signaling"  Katja Lamia, Salk Institute, La Jolla, CA 

Friday, March 9, 8:30 am to 12:00 pm

Session Leader: Dan Rader

Session 4    Therapeutics and Clinical Studies in Lipoprotein and Lipid Metabolism

8:30-9:10 am:  "New Therapeutic Approaches to the Treatment of Type 2 Diabetes and Obesity"   Nancy Thornberry, Merck, Rahway, NJ     

9:10-9:50 am:  "Update on PCSK9 Function and Activity"  Jay Horton, University of Texas-Southwestern, Dallas, TX     

9:50-10:20 am:   Coffee Break

10:20-11:00 am:  "FGF21: From Famine to Feast to Pharmacology"  Steve Kliewer, University of Texas-Southwestern, Dallas, TX   

11:00-11:40 am:  "Mechanisms underlying nicotinic acid's wanted and unwanted effects"  Stefan Offermanns, Max-Planck-Institut, Bad Nauheim, Germany