puce Program : January 18th, 2008 (UCLA - Auditorium)

WHY IS DIET AND EXERCISE THE FOUNDATION OF DIABETES TREATMENT?

8.00am - 8.30am
How Exercise Alters Skeletal Muscle Metabolism and Upregulates PGC1
Christoph Handschin PhD
8.30am - 9.00am
PGC1b Regulates Acid Ulitization To Combat Skeletal Muscle Lipotoxicity
Deborah Muoio PhD (Duke)
9.00am - 9.30am
Weight Loss Effects on Fatty Acid Partitioning and Insulin Sensitivity
Jeffrey Horowitz PhD
9.30am - 10.00am
Can Resveratrol Improve Metabolism Without Exercise?
Johann Auwerx PhD (France)
10.00am - 10.30am
COFFEE BREAK

 

NUCLEAR RECEPTORS OF THE FUTURE FOR DIABETES

10.30am - 11.00am
PPARd - The Right Ligand could Negate Diabetes
Ronald Evans PhD (Salk)
11.00am - 11.30am
FXR – The Bile Way to Lower Glucose
Peter Edwards PhD (UCLA)
11.30am - 12.00pm
Can “Weak” PPARg Ligands beat the “Strong” Ligands?
Jerrold Oletsky MD (UCSD)
12.00pm - 12.30pm
The NOR-1 Family and Liver Glucose Production
Peter Tontonz PhD (UCLA)
12.30pm - 2.00pm
LUNCH BOXES

 

THE PROMISE FOR ISLET CELL PROTECTION

2.00pm - 2.30pm
GLP-1 and GIP
Peter Butler MD (UCLA)
2.30pm - 3.00pm
Rosiglitazone and Pioglitazone
Tom Buchanan MD (USC)
3.00pm - 3.30pm
COFFEE BREAK
3.30om - 4.00pm
What Makes b Cells Replicate?
Anil Bhushan (UCLA)
4.00pm - 4.30pm
Prevention of Inflammation and Oxidative Stress
Paul Robertson MD (University of Washington, Seattle)

 

puce Program : January 19th, 2008 (UCLA - Auditorium)

WHY IS THE CARDIOMYOPATHY OF OBESITY: A TOXIC BEAT

8.00am - 8.30am
How Free Fatty Acid Injure the Heart
Jean Schaffer MD (Washington University)
8.30am - 9.00am
Characteristics of Diabetic Heart
Dale Able MD (University of Utah)
9.00am - 9.30am
Approach to the Failing Heart in Diabetes
Greg Fonarow (UCLA)
9.30am - 10.00am
The “Yeah and Nay” of PPARg activation in the Heart
Willa Hsueh (UCLA)
10.00am - 10.30am
COFFEE BREAK
10.30am - 11.00am
Are ppart a blessing or a curse; Is it all timing?
Steven Haffner MD (UT San Antonio) - Yehuda Handlesman (Los Angeles)

 

IS THE BRAIN THE WAY TO CONTROL ADIPOSE?

11.00am - 11.30am
Basic Mechanisms of CB1 antigonism
Umberto
11.30am - 12.00pm
The Prosand cons of CB1 antigonism in Man
Andrew Drexler (UCLA)
12.00pm - 12.30pm
Multiple Anorexigenic Peptides are Necessary
Alain Baren (Amylin Pharmaceuticals)
12.30pm - 1.00pm
Dopaminergic Neurons and the Arcuate Nucleus in Ghrelin Action
Jeffery Zigman, MD, PhD
1.00pm
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