Annual Symposium 2025 — Inter-organ Communication in Metabolic Disease and its Complications

This will be an in-person event with no remote option.

Free Parking Available to Public @ Center for Urban Horticulture, 3501 NE 41st Street, Seattle, 98195

Location: Center for Urban Horticulture

9:00

Opening Remarks

9:10

J. Ernie Blevins, PhD

Research Professor, UW Department of Medicine, Division of Metabolism, Endocrinology and Nutrition

Effectiveness of Oxytocin and the Selective Glucagon-Like Peptide-1 Receptor Agonist, Semaglutide, as a Combination Therapy to Treat Obesity in Diet-Induced Obese Rodents

9:40

Maria Grant, MD

Professor, Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Science, University of Alabama

Inside Out Solutions: Gut Targeted Approaches to Treat Diabetic Retinopathy

10:30

Break

10:50

Clair Crewe, PhD

Assistant Professor, Washington University - St. Louis, Department of Cell Biology and Physiology

The Surprising Functions of Adipocyte Extracellular Vesicles

11:35

Dennis Wang, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor, UW Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology

MitoEVs in Heart Failure: A New Perspective on Sterile Inflammation

12:05

Lunch

1:30

Matthew Potthoff, PhD

Professor, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences, Harold Hamm Diabetes Center

FGF21: Stopping the Monster MASH

2:15

Megan Capozzi, PhD

Research Assistant Professor, UW Department of Medicine, Division of Metabolism, Endocrinology and Nutrition

Islet-Liver Crosstalk in Hepatic Glycogen Metabolism

2:45

Break

3:05

Jarrad Scarlett, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor, UW Department of Pediatrics, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Role of Brain Fibroblast Growth Factor 1 in the Regulation of Energy Homeostasis

3:35

Kristy Townsend, PhD

Associate Professor, The Ohio State University, Department of Neurological Surgery

Sensory Nerves in Adipose Tissues - Making Sense of an Overlooked Nerve Supply

4:20

Concluding Remarks