DRC/NORC Retreat

9:00

Welcome & Introductory Remarks

9:00

Updates from the DRC from Steven Kahn, MB, ChB

9:15

DRC Core Highlight - Cellular and Molecular Imaging Core

Presenter: Nicole Liachko, PhD

Research Associate Professor, Division of Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine

9:30

DRC P&F Awardee - Ana Valencia, PhD

Research Assistant Professor, Division of Metabolism, Endocrinology and Nutrition

Differences in Metabolic Flux when Weight Loss Plateaus

9:55

NORC P&F Awardee - Leticia Sewaybricker, MD, PhD

Research Assistant Professor, Division of General Internal Medicine

Neonatal MRI of the Hypothalamus: Insights into Infant Growth

10:20

Break

10:40

NORC P&F Awardee - Carlos Campos, PhD

Assistant Professor, Division of Metabolism, Endocrinology and Nutrition

Foundational Behavior Modeling in Rodents

11:05

Rising Star - Kimberly Alonge, PhD

Assistant Professor, Division of Metabolism, Endocrinology and Nutrition

Perineuronal Nets in Dorsomedial Hypothalamus Protect Against Obesity

11:45

Lunch

1:15

Keynote Speaker - Cameron McAlpine, PhD

Associate Professor, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Brain-body Axes Connect Lifestyle to Cardiovascular Disease

2:15

Updates from the NORC from Ellen Schur, MD, MS

2:30

NORC Core Highlight - Energy Balance Core

Presenter: Greg Morton, PhD

Research Professor, Division of Metabolism, Endocrinology and Nutrition

2:45

Break

3:05

DRC New Investigator Awardee - Devasena Ponnalagu

Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacology

Unraveling the Implications of Chloride Channels in Diabetes-Related Cardiac
Dysfunction

3:30

NORC P&F Awardee - Kendra Francis, MD

Acting Assistant Professor, Seattle Children’s Hospital

Nutritional Therapy for Small Bowel Crohn's Disease: Insights into Extracellular
Matrix Remodeling

3:55

Concluding Remarks