| 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 | "ROS and the development of diet-induced obesity." |
| Jan 21, 2010 | Kaveh Ashrafi, PhD | Univ. of California, San Francisco | "C. elegans fat and feeding regulatory pathways" |
| Jan 28, 2010 | Vamsi Mootha, MD | Harvard Univ. | "Systems Mitochondrial Biology". |
| Feb 4, 2010 | Papa Feroz, MD, PhD | Univ. of California, San Francisco | "New Approaches to Measure and Reduce ER Stress." |
| Feb 18, 2010 | Journal Club - Yu-Chan Chen & Hannah Gordon | Univ. of Utah | "Autophagy regulates lipid metabolism" & "Location, Location, Location: Compartmentalization Sheds Light on Ceramide-induced Akt Inhibition". |
| Feb 22, 2010 (Monday) | Bruce M. Spiegelman, PhD | Harvard Univ. | “Control of Brown Fat Development: Toward Human Therapy” |
| Feb 25, 2010 (Thursday) | Michelle Kimple | Duke University | "cAMP signaling pathways in pancreatic islet cell function." |
| Mar 4, 2010 | Joe Bass, MD, PhD | Northwestern Univ. | "The Clock Gene Switch in Behavior and Metabolism." |
| Mar 11, 2010 | Konstantin Kandror, PhD | Boston Univ. | "Insulin regulation of lipolysis" |
| Mar 18, 2010 | Sheila Collins, PhD | Hamner Institutes for Health Sciences | "Adrenergic signaling mechanisms in white and brown fat." |
| Mar 25, 2010 | ---NO MIG--- | ----------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Apr 1, 2010 | Jiandie Lin, PhD | Univ. of Michigan | "Integration of circadian clock and metabolism through PGC-1 transcriptional coactivators" |
| Apr 8, 2010 | Tianxin Yang Lab | Univ. of Utah | "PPAR gamma links fluid metabolism and circadian rhythms to energy metabolism". |
| Apr 15, 2010 | Sihem Boudina, PhD | Univ. of Utah | "The Seahorse XF24: capabilities and limitations for measuring oxygen consumption in cells and tissue". |
| Apr 22, 2010 | Alan Chait, MD | Univ. of Washington | "Atherosclerosis in Obesity - an indirect route from adipose tissue to the artery wall" |
| Apr 29, 2010 | Dennis Winge Lab | Univ. of Utah | "Assembly of Mitochondrial Respiratory Chain Complexes". |
| May 6, 2010 | Margaret Sedensky, MD | Seattle Children's Research Institute | "Worms as a model for human mitochondrial dysfunction." |
| May 13, 2010 | Andrew Butler, PhD | Scripps Florida | "Adropin - a new factor in the homeostatic adaptation of metabolism to calorie intake?" |
| May 20, 2010 | Mary-Elizabeth Patti, MD | Joslin Diabetes Center, Harvard | "Molecular Signatures of Diabetes Risk" |
| May 27, 2010 | Don Ayer Lab | Univ. of Utah | Mohan Kaadige, PhD.:"Nutrient sensing and cancer" |
| Jun 3, 2010 | Dave Symons Lab | Univ. of Utah | TBD |
| Jun 10, 2010 | Ethan J. Anderson, PhD | Eastern Carolina Univ. | "Lipids, H2O2 and Ca2+: Mediators of Cardiac Health and Disease that Converge on the Mitochondria". |
| Jun 17, 2010 | Yu-Hua Tseng, PhD | Harvard Univ. | "Regulation of Brown Adipose Tissue Development: Progenitors, BMPs, and Beyond" |
| Jun 24, 2010 | Li Wang Lab | Univ. of Utah | "SHP in metabolic and liver diseases". |
* Continuing Medical Education (CME) Credit