DRC/NORC Retreat 2025

Location: Orin Smith Auditorium (In-Person Event)

9:00

Welcome and Opening Remarks with Josh Thaler, MD, PhD

9:01

Updates from the DRC from Steven Kahn, MB, ChB

9:15

Sina Ghrarib, MD

Professor, Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine; Director, Computational Medicine Core, Center for Lung Biology

DRC Core Highlight - Proteomics and Bioinformatics Core (PBC)

9:25

Updates from the NORC from Ellen Schur, MD, MS

9:40

Andy Hoofnagle, MD, PhD

Professor, Department of Laboratory Medicine & Pathology

NORC Core Highlight - Analytic Core

9:50

Subbu Trikudanathan, MD, MMSc

Associate Professor; Division of Metabolism, Endocrinology & Nutrition

Impact of Glycemic Exposure and Body Composition on Hepatic Steatosis in Patients with T1 Diabetes

10:10

Megan Capozzi, PhD

DRC P&F Awardee; Research Assistant Professor, Division of Metabolism, Endocrinology and Nutrition

Hepatic Glycogen Control of Insulin and Glucagon Action

10:30

Karol May, PhD

NORC ADVANCE Awardee; Postdoctoral Scholar; Division of Metabolism, Endocrinology and Nutrition

Impact of Adipocyte Free Fatty Acid Receptor 2 (FFAR2) on Energy Balance in Obese Mice Fed a Fiber-containing Diet

10:50

Break

11:10

Cara Smith

DRC Stroum Awardee; Graduate Student, Department of Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences

Associations Between Long-term Ambient Air Pollution, Neighborhood Physical
Disinvestment, and Incident Type 2 Diabetes in a UW Hispanic/Latino Cohort

11:25

Vitor Oliveira, PhD

NORC ADVANCE Awardee; Research Assistant Professor; School of Nursing’s Biobehavioral Nursing & Health Informatics

Sacropenia and Myosteatosis among people with HIV

11:45

Chau Vuong

DRC Dean’s Graduate Fellowship in Diabetes Awardee; Graduate Student, Department of Biochemistry

Determining the Role of RUNDC1 in Regulating Secretory Granule Biogenesis in
Insulin-secreting Cells

12:00

Christine Limonte, MD

DRC P&F Awardee; Assistant Professor, Division of Nephrology

Kidney Proximal Tubular Cell Ultrastructure in Type 1 Diabetes

12:20

Lunch

1:45

Kevin Williams, PhD

Keynote Speaker; Associate Professor, UT Southwestern

The Flexible Brain: Hypothalamic Plasticity in Therapeutics and Exercise

2:45

Kim Alonge, PhD

NORC P&F Awardee; Assistant Professor, Department of Medicinal Chemistry

Role of Hypothalamic PNNs in Nutrient and Hormone Sensing Dysfunction in Obesity

3:05

Marta Soden, PhD

Research Assistant Professor, Department of Pharma

Control of Motivated Behavior, Consumption, and Energy Balance by Lateral
Hypothalamus Neurotensin Neurons

3:25

Jay Parrish, PhD

UWMDI P&F Awardee - Professor, Department of Biology

Defining Epidermal Contributions to Diabetic Neuropathy

3:45

Concluding Remarks