Yuanyuan to present at the UCSF/UCB Metabolism Mini-Symposium

 

Metabolism Mini-Symposium

jointly hosted by

UCSF Liver Center and UC Berkeley Department of Nutritional Science & Toxicology

 

FRIDAY, June 17, 2022

9:30 AM – 3:00 PM

Morgan Hall, UC Berkeley

9:30-9:45 Wally Wang, PhD, Berkeley and Holger Willenbring, MD, PhD, UCSF: Introduction

9:45-10:30 Katrin Svensson, PhD, Stanford: Polypeptide hormones – metabolic regulation and inter-organ crosstalk

10:30-10:45 Ana Arruda, PhD, Berkeley: Regulation of hepatic endoplasmic reticulum architecture in metabolism

10:45-11:00 Yuanyuan Qin, PhD, UCSF (Medina lab): The role of Tmem55b in lipid metabolism and NAFLD

11:00-11:15 Break

11:15-11:30 Wei-Chieh Mu, MS, BS, Berkeley (Chen lab): ER stress represses the somatotroph axis to control liver damage in nonalcoholic fatty liver disease

11:30-11:45 Bolus Reid, PhD, UCSF (Koliwad lab): Myeloid-specific IRE1alpha as a mediator of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease

11:45-12:00 Mangyu Choe, PhD, Berkeley (Titov lab): Leveraging genetic tools to manipulate mitochondrial physiology

12:00-12:15 Dounia Le Guillou, PhD, UCSF (Maher lab): Induced pluripotent stem cell-derived hepatocytes from patients with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease exhibit impaired mitochondrial function

12:15-12:30 Kevin Klatt, PhD, RD, Berkeley (Moore lab): Nutrigenomics of LRH-1: coconut oil goes nuclear

12:30-3:00 Lunch and posters

 

https://livercenter.ucsf.edu/content/metabolism-mini-symposium