16th Annual JBL Symposium
“Metabolism and Epigenetics in Stress Response”
October 18-19, 2013
Kresge Building – Snyder Auditorium
Friday, October 18, 2013
WELCOME AND INTRODUCTIONS |
John B. Little, M.D.
James Stevens Simmons Professor of Radiobiology, Emeritus, Department of Genetics & Complex Diseases, Harvard School of Public Health |
Gökhan S. Hotamisligil, M.D., Ph.D.
Chair and J.S. Simmons Professor of Genetics & Metabolism, Department of Genetics & Complex Diseases, Harvard School of Public Health |
Julio Frenk, M.D., M.P.H., Ph.D.
Dean of the Faculty, Harvard School of Public Health ; T & G Angelopoulos Professor of Public Health & International Development, Harvard School of Public Health and Harvard Kennedy School |
Gerald Chan, D.Sc.
Founder, The Morningside Foundation |
Brendan D. Manning, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Genetics & Complex Diseases, Harvard School of Public Health |
Marc Montminy, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor, The Salk Institute for Biological Studies, The Clayton Foundation Laboratories for Peptide Biology “Epigenetic Regulation of Glucose Balance by the cAMP Pathway” |
Chi Dang, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor and Director, Abramson Cancer Center, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine “Targeting Myc-mediated Cancer Metabolism” |
Katharine Yen, Ph.D.
Director, Biology, Agios Pharmaceuticals “IDH Mutations and Tumorigenicity” |
Guillermina Lozano, Ph.D.
Professor and Chair, Department of Genetics, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center “Regulation of p53 activities by the Mdm proteins” |
Kevin Struhl, Ph.D.
David Wesley Gaiser Professor of Biological, Chemistry & Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School “An epigenetic switch linking inflammation to cancer” |
Saturday, October 19, 2013
SESSION II: |
William B. Mair, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Genetics & Complex Diseases, Harvard School of Public Health |
Douglas Green, Ph.D.
Doherty Chair of Immunology, Department of Immunology, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital “LC-3 Associated Phagocytosis at the interface of autophagy, innate immunity, and aging” |
Anne Brunet, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Genetics, Stanford University School of Medicine “Epigenetic and metabolic regulation of aging” |
Evan Rosen, M.D., Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Broad Institute “The epigenetic and transcriptional basis of insulin resistance” |
Sally Kornbluth, Ph.D.
Vice Dean for Basic Science, James B. Duke Professor of Pharmacology and Cancer Biology, Duke University School of Medicine “Metabolic control of Caspase 2-mediated apoptosis” |
James R. Mitchell, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Genetics & Complex Diseases, Harvard School of Public Health |
Tiffany Horng, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Molecular Metabolism, Harvard School of Public Health “Regulation of macrophage polarization by the TSC-mTOR pathway” |
Raul Mostoslavsky, M.D., Ph.D.
Associate Professor, The Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center, Harvard Medical School “Linking Epigenetics to Metabolism: SIRT6 provides some clues” |
Mitchell Lazar, M.D., Ph.D.
Sylvan Eisman Professor of Medicine Chief, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism; Director, Institute for Diabetes, Obesity, and Metabolism, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania “Circadian and Epigenomic Regulation of Metabolism” |