CU-DLDRC Retreat

1:00-1:10PM: Opening Remarks (Robert Schwabe, MD, Timothy Wang, MD, Rebecca

Haeusler, PhD)

KEYNOTE ADDRESS

1:10-2:00pm Elaine Fuchs, PhD, Rebecca C. Lancefield Professor, Investigator,

Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Rockefeller University, NY. “Stem Cells: Coping with Stress”

SESSION 1: Epithelial Homeostasis, Metabolism, and Regeneration

Chairs: Timothy Wang, MD and Rebecca Haeusler, PhD

2:00-2:20PM Harris Wang, PhD “Next-gen stool-based genomic technologies to dissect GI diseases”

2:20-2:40PM Kelley Yan, MD, PhD “A revisionist view of tissue regeneration in the

gut epithelium”

BREAK 2:40-3:10PM

SESSION 2: Pilot & Feasibility Awardees

Chair: Utpal Pajvani, MD, PhD

3:10-3:30PM Xiao Zhao, MD “Elucidation of pathways underlying toxin-induced biliary atresia using complementary model systems”

3:30-3.50PM Lale Ozcan, MD “Hepatic Rap1a in NAFLD and NASH pathogenesis”

3.50-4.10PM Chia-Wei Cheng, PhD “Metabolic heterogeneity: learning from stem cells in the left and right colon”

SESSION 3: Epithelial Interactions in Inflammation and Preneoplasia

Chairs: Yiping Han, PhD and Ivaylo Ivanov, PhD

4:10-4:30PM Howard Worman, MD “Nuclear Envelope, steatosis and hepatic lipid

metabolism”

4:30-4:50PM Ivaylo Ivanov, PhD “Regulation of obesity and metabolic disease by

intestinal immunity”

4:50-6:30PM Poster session & Reception