Location: Main auditorium of the Sarah Stedman Nutrition and Metabolism Building on the Center for Living campus at Duke

Time: Tuesday evenings at 5:00 pm. Light refreshments are provided.

For questions: Contact Kristy Thompson (919-479-2300)

 

Date	Speaker	Title
1/29/08	Klaus Kaestner, Ph.D.	"The Foxa Genes: Regulating Endocrine Cell Fate from Birth to Death"
	Institute for Diabetes, Obesity & Metabolism, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
2/12/08	Geoffrey Sharp, Ph.D.	"Multiple actions of the physiological inhibitors of insulin secretion on the beta-cell"
	Department of Molecular Medicine, College of Veterinary Medicine, Cornell University
3/4/08	George Thomas, Ph.D.	"mTOR/S6K1 Signaling: At the Crossroads of Cancer and Diabetes"
	Professor, Department of Molecular Oncogenesis, University of Cincinnati
3/11/08	Sheila Collins, Ph.D.	"A novel transcriptional repressor function of Liver X Receptor-a in adipocytes"
	Director, Division of Translational Biology, The Hamner Institutes for Health Sciences
3/25/08	David Millington, Ph.D. & Richard Surwit, Ph.D.	"The Relationship of Psychological Factors to Models of Glucose Kinetics"
	Duke University Medical Center
4/3/08 THURSDAY	Christopher Rhodes, Ph.D.	"Preventing Type 2 Diabetes by Protecting the Beta-Cell"
	Professor, Department of Medicine and Research Director, Comprehensive Diabetes Center, University of Chicago	Merck Visiting Professor
4/15/08	Feroz Papas, M.D., Ph.D.	"New tools to adjust a life-death switch in cells under ER stress"
	California Institute for Quantitative Biomedical Research, University of California
4/29/08	Kitt Petersen, M.D.	"Mitochondrial Dysfunction in Insulin Resistance and Aging"
	Associate Professor, Section of Endocrinology, Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine	GSK Visiting Professor
5/9/08 *Friday	Bernard Thorens, Ph.D.	"GLP-1 Control of Beta-Cell Mass and Function: Identification of Novel Regulatory Mechanisms"
	Professor of Physiology, Department of Physiology & Center for Integrative Genomics, University of Lausanne	*Special Lecture at Independence Park Facility at 4:00 p.m.