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Date Presenter & Institution Title
July 28, 2011 Babak Razani, MD, PhD
Instructor in Medicine, Cardiovascular Division, Washington University, St Louis School of Medicine
When the heart can't make its own fat: De novo lipogenesis in myocardial dysfunction
August 31, 2011 Metabolic Signaling Symposium
University of Utah
From Mechanisms to Medicine
September 1, 2011 Rolf Bodmer, PhD Professor and Program Head, Development and Aging, Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute, La Jolla, California Diabetic Cardiomyopathy in the Drosophila model
September 8, 2011 Jerry Kaplan  PhD
Benning Presidential Endowed Chair, Professor of Pathology, Associate Dean for Research, School of Medicine
Assistant Vice President for Basic Sciences  at the Health Sciences Center, University of Utah School of Medicine
Hepcidin- dependent and hepcidin-independent regulation of vertebrate iron export
September 13, 2011
RIP Presentation by Stephen Jenkins, Donya Mohebali and Erik Ostler, Abel Lab
Division of Endocrinology, University of Utah Research in Progress
September 15, 2011 No MIG
Medical Student Research Symposium and Molecular Medicine Retreat
Deer Valley
September 20, 2011 Chalk Talk by Babak Razani,  MD, PhD
Instructor in Medicine, Cardiovascular Division, Washington University, St. Louis School of Medicine 
Autophagy Links Inflammasomes to Atherosclerotic Progression
September 22, 2011 Brian Shirts, MD, PhD
Molecular Genetic Pathology Fellow, University of Utah Health Sciences Center
Gene-Environment Interaction in Lipid Levels: Multifaceted Informatics Puzzle
September 29, 2011 Chris Gregg, PhD.
Assistant Professor  of Neurobiology and Anatomy, Adjunct Professor of Human Genetics, University of Utah
Genomic Imprinting and the Modulation of Neural Circuits Underlying Feeding and Foraging
October 6, 2011 Tianxin Yang, MD, PhD.
Professor of Medicine, Adjunct Professor of Physiology, Department of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Utah
Defining PPAR gamma/PGE2/VEGFR2 pathway in the vasculature: Implication for regulation of capillary permeability and energy metabolism in the adipose tissue
October 13, 2011 John Chatham, D.Phil
Professor and Director, Division of Molecular and Cellular Pathology, Department of Pathology, University of Alabama at Birmingham
Protein O-GlcNAcylation: How sugar signals 
October 20, 2011 Adam Wende PhD & Christian Riehle, MD, PhD, Abel Lab
Division of Endocrinology, University of Utah
Mechanisms of Glucose-Mediated Cardiac Mitochondrial Dysfunction/Understanding the Contribution of IRS Signaling in the Heart
October 27, 2011 Lisa Lesniewski, PhD
Assistant Professor of Geriatrics, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Physiology, School of Medicine, University of Utah
Mechanisms underlying an age-associated exacerbation of western diet induced endothelial dysfunction
November 3, 2011 Journal Club by Elizabeth Sloan, Ayer Lab
Graduate Student, Ayer Lab, University of Utah
Carnitine palmitoyltransferase 1C promotes cell survival and tumor growth under conditions of metabolic stress.
November 10, 2011 Li Wang, PhD
Associate Professor, Gastroenterology, University of Utah
Function of SHP in regulation of Mdm2/p53 signaling
November 17, 2011 Yury Miller, MD, PhD
Associate Adjunct Professor of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology & Metabolism, University of California San Diego
Hypercholesterolemic Zebrafish
November 24, 2011 Thanksgiving N/A
December 1, 2011 Yuriy Kirichok, PhD.
Assistant Professor of Physiology, University of California San Francisco, Department of Physiology, San Francisco, California
The Mechanism of Fatty Acid-Dependent Mitochondrial Uncoupling in Brown Fat
December 8, 2011 Personalized Health Care Retreat  
December 15, 2011 Linda Peterson, MD, F.A.C.C., F.A.H.A., F.A.S.E.
Associate Professor of Medicine and Radiology, Diabetes Research and Training Center (DRTC) Washington University in St. Louis, Internal Medicine Cardiovascular Division
In Search of the Sorcerer's Stone for Obesity and Heart Failure
December 22, 2011 No MIG Christmas break
December 29, 2011 No MIG Christmas break
January 5, 2012 Doris Stoffers MD, PhD.,
Associate Professor of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Pdx1 partners and targets in the development and function of pancreatic beta cells
January 12, 2012 Brian Finck, PhD.
Research Assistant Professor in Medicine, Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine, Division of Geriatrics and Nutritional Science St. Louis, Missouri 
Unexpected roles for lipin 1 in regulating signaling and metabolism
January 19, 2012 Gary Lopaschuk, PhD.
Scientific Director, Professor of Pediatrics, Adjunct Professor of Pharmacology, President and CEO of Metabolic Modulators Research Ltd, University of Alberta
Role of fatty acid oxidation in cardiac dysfunction in obesity and diabetes
January 26, 2012 Rutter Lab
Yu-Chan Chen, Graduate Student, Rutter Lab, Department of Biochemistry
Eric Taylor, Research Instructor
Rutter Lab, Department of Biochemistry, University of Utah
Respiratory Supercomplex Assembly The Mitochondrial Pyruvate Carrier
February 2, 2012 Matt Vander Heiden, MD, PhD
Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT Cambridge, MA
Understanding how altered metabolism promotes biosynthesis
February 9, 2012 Kun-Liang Guan, PhD
Professor of Pharmacology, University of California San Diego, Moores Cancer Center, Department of Pharmacology, La Jolla, California
Metabolism Regulation and Cancer
February 16, 2012  Dan Bricker, B.S.
Graduate Student, Thummel Lab, University of Utah
Identification of the mitochondrial pyruvate carrier and its role in maintaining metabolic homeostasis in Drosophila
February 23, 2012   Dr. Roberta A. Gottlieb, MD
Director, BioScience Center, Professor of Biology, San Diego State University, San Diego, California
Role of Mitophagy in Cardioprotection
March 1, 2012 Suneil Koliwad, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor, PhD/JAB Chair in Diabetes Research, Diabetes Center, University of California San Francisco
Dissecting the Response of Innate Immune Cells to Toxic Lipids
March 8, 2012  Navdeep Chandel, PhD
Associate Professor of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine and Cell and Molecular Biology, Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois 
Mitochondrial ROS regulate signaling
March 15, 2012  Journal Club by Ashot Sarsgyan
Graduate Student, Graham Lab, University of Utah
A PGC1-α-dependent myokine that drives brown-fat-like development of white fat and thermogenesis”Bostro¨m et al, Nature, 2012
March 22, 2012  Hyung Kim, PhD, Winge Lab Putting Together Respiratory Complex II:  The Interplay Between Cofactor Insertion and Subunit Assembly
March 29, 2012  Metabolism & Cardiovascular Disease Symposium
EIHG Auditorium
Diabetes, Metabolism, and Vascular Complications
April 5, 2012  Laura Young, M.S,
PhD Student, Exercise Physiology, Symons Lab, University of Utah
Dysfunction of lipid sensor GPR120 leads to obesity in both mouse and human
April 12, 2012  Donald A. McClain, MD, PhD.
Member of the Scientific Advisory Board for U2M2;Bettilyon Endowed Chair for Diabetes Research; Director, GCRC;Program Director, Endocrinology Fellowship Program;
Professor of Medicine and Biochemistry; University of Utah
Metabolic Adaptations to High Altitude
April 19, 2012  Lourdes Cruz Garcia, PhD
Post Doctoral Fellow, Molecular Medicine Program, School of Medicine, Schlegel Lab, University of Utah
Using Zebrafish to Study Liver X Receptor Regulation of Lipid Metabolism
April 26, 2012  Erica Graham, PhD Candidate
Department of Mathematics
Mechanisms of Skeletal Muscle Insulin Resistance: Insights from Mathematical Modeling
May 3, 2012  Renata Pereira, PhD. and Yi Zhu
Post-Doctoral Fellow, Abel Lab
Graduate Research Assistant
Division of Endocrinology, Metabolism & Diabetes
Glucose Transport in the Heart
May 10, 2012  Karin Bornfeldt, PhD
Professor in the Department of Pathology and Associate Director of the Diabetes & Obesity Center of Excellence, University of Washington School of Medicine, South Lake Union Campus, Diabetes and Obesity Center of Excellence Department of Pathology. Seattle, Washington
Diabetes-Accelerated Atherosclerosis and Inflammation – Revealing the Picture One Piece at a Time
May 17, 2012  Ivor Benjamin, MD, FAHA, FACC,
Christi T. Smith Endowed Chair for Cardiovascular Research, Professor of Medicine and Biochemistry
Cross-talk between Redox Signaling Networks and Metabolic Pathways
May 24, 2012  No MIG  
May 31, 2012  J. David Symons, PhD.
Associate Professor, COH, Endocrinology, University of Utah
Lipotoxicity and Endothelial Dysfunction – a Review
June 7, 2012  Russell S. Richardson, PhD.
Professor of Medicine, Professor of Exercise and Sport Science, Associate Director for Research, Geriatric Research, Education, and Clinical Center, SLC VAMC
Determinants of maximal respiration (VO2max) in humans: Implications in Health and Disease
June 14, 2012  Alejandro Caicedo, PhD.
Research Assistant Professor in the Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Diabetes Research Institute, Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, Miami, Florida
Determinants of maximal respiration (VO2max) in humans: Implications in Health and Disease
June 21, 2012  Timothy Graham, MD

Autophagy in Adipocytes:  Chewing the Fat

June 28, 2012  Brett Baumgartner, Murtaugh Lab
Graduate Student

TBD

* Continuing Medical Education (CME) Credit