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Event |
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McIntyre Medical Building 5th floor lobby |
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8:00 |
Breakfast/Welcome |
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8:45 |
Opening Remarks Session Chair: Peter Siegel |
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9:00 |
McIntyre Medical Building Room 504 |
"The expanding translational universe of the GLP-1 system" Daniel Drucker, Gairdner Laureate, Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute |
10:00 |
"Energy balance, diet-regulated hormones, and cancer"Michael Pollak, Departments of Medicine and Oncology, McGill University and Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research |
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McIntyre Medical Building 5th floor lobby |
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10:30 |
Coffee Break and Poster session |
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Session Chair: Peter Siegel | ||
11:30 |
McIntyre Medical Building Room 504 |
"Dysregulation of amino acid and sphingolipid metabolism in co-morbidities of diabetes" Christian Metallo, The Salk Institute for Biological Studies |
12:00 |
"Impact of Lifestyle on Brain-Body Communication" Filip Swirski, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York City |
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McIntyre Medical Building 5th floor lobby |
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12:30 |
Lunch and Poster Session |
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Session Chair: Maia Kokoeva | ||
14:00 |
McIntyre Medical Building Room 504 |
"Obesity Causes and Treatment: The End of the Beginning" Jeffrey Friedman, Gairdner Laureate, Rockefeller University |
15:00 |
"How does the brain talk to the liver?" Alexandre Caron, Faculté de Pharmacie, Université Laval |
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McIntyre Medical Building 5th floor lobby |
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15:30 |
Coffee Break and Poster Session |
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McIntyre Medical Building Room 504 |
Session Chair: Peter Siegel | |
16:00 |
"Dissecting disease-mediated dysregulation of gut-brain circuits" Lisa Beutler, Northwestern University |
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16:30 |
Lay Talk: Understanding Why We Eat What We Eat? Dana Small, Departments of Neurology and Neurosurgery, and of Psychology, McGill University AND Department of Medicine, Research Institute of the McGill University Health Center (RI-MUHC) Lay Talk: Is Rising Uncertainty Caused by Sensed Versus Metabolized Nutrients Contributing to the Obesity Epidemic? Mark Schatzker, Writer in Residence, Modern Diet and Physiology Research Centre, McGill University Lay Talk: Dietary carcinogens Joe Schwarcz, Professor, Department of Chemistry and Director, Office for Science and Society, McGill University |
Time |
Location |
Event |
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McIntyre Medical Building 5th floor lobby |
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8:00 |
Breakfast |
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8:50 |
McIntyre Medical Building Room 504 |
Opening Remarks Session Chair: Lisa Beutler |
9:00 |
"Novel mechanisms of energy dissipation: quantitative contribution and activation mechanism" Lawrence Kazak, Department of Biochemistry, McGill University and Rosalind and Morris Goodman Cancer Institute |
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9:30 |
"Immunometabolic regulation of mood and motivation" Stephanie Fulton, Université de Montréal |
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10:00 |
"Deciphering Thermogenic Adipose Tissue from Inside-Out" Yu-Hua Tseng, Joslin Diabetes Center, Harvard Medical School |
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McIntyre Medical Building 5th floor lobby |
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10:30 |
Coffee Break and Poster Session |
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McIntyre Medical Building Room 504 |
Session Chair: Lisa Beutler | |
11:30 |
"Legacy Effects of Cold Exposure on Adipose Tissue Plasticity" |
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Rana Gupta, Duke University School of Medicine |
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12:00 |
"Mesenchymal progenitor cells and adipose tissue remodeling" |
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Patrick Seale, University of Pennsylvania |
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GCI 5th Floor Atrium |
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12:30 |
Lunch and Meet and Greet |
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Bellini Building Atrium |
Session Chair: Lawrence Kazak |
14:00 |
"Fuelling cancer progression through the myeloid compartment" |
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Daniela Quail, Department of Physiology, McGill University and Rosalind and Morris Goodman Cancer Institute | ||
14:30 |
"The power of ONE: Immunology in the age of spatial and single cell genomics" |
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Ido Amit, The Weizmann Institute of Science |
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15:00 |
"Diet-dependent tumor addictions in prostate cancer: A basis to precision nutrition strategies?" |
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David Labbé, McGill University and Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre |
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15:30 |
"Obesity-induced neuroinflammtion and leptin signaling" Maia Kokoeva, McGill University and Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre |
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Bellini Building Atrium |
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16:00 |
Concluding Remarks |
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16:30 |
End of Event |
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Daniel Drucker, M.D., University of Toronto
Gairdner laureate and plenary lecture presenter
Christian Metallo, Ph.D., The Salk Institute for Biological Studies
David Labbé, Ph.D., Department of Surgery, McGill University and Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre
Dana Small, Ph.D., Departments of Neurology and Neurosurgery, and of Psychology, McGill University AND Department of Medicine, Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre
Joe Schwarcz, Professor, Department of Chemistry and Director, Office for Science and Society, McGill University
Yu-Hua Tseng, Ph.D., Joslin Diabetes Center, Harvard Medical School
Patrick Seale, Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
Ido Amit, Ph.D., The Weizmann Institute of Science
Stephanie Fulton, Ph.D., Université de Montréal
Maia Kokoeva, Ph.D., McGill University and Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre
Jeffrey Friedman, M.D., Ph.D., Rockfeller University
Gairdner laureate and plenary lecture presenter
Lisa Beutler, M.D., Ph.D., Northwestern University
Lawrence Kazak, Ph.D., Department of Biochemistry, McGill University and Rosalind and Morris Goodman Cancer Institute
Mark Schatzker, Writer in Residence, Modern Diet and Physiology Research Centre, McGill University
Alexandre Caron, Ph.D., Faculté de Pharmacie, Université Laval
Rana Gupta, Ph.D., Duke University School of Medicine
Filip Swirski, Ph.D., Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York City
Daniela Quail, Ph.D., Department of Physiology, McGill University and Rosalind and Morris Goodman Cancer Institute
Michael Pollak, M.D., Professor, Departments of Oncology, Medicine, and Pharmacology, McGill University
Investigator, Lady Davis Research Institute of the Jewish General Hospital
Member, Segal Cancer Centre and Rosalind and Morris Goodman Cancer Institute, Montreal