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17th Annual Irwin M. Arias, MD Symposium

Bridging Basic Science and Liver Disease

November 2nd, 2007 (8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.)

Contact: Elizabeth Buell
Phone: 617.527.5600
Web: Email

The Colonnade - Directions
120 Huntington Avenue
Boston, MA 02116

Registration

Pre-registration is required and space is limited. Please pre-register by October 22, 2007.

$ 100 Physicians, nurses and allied health professionals
$ 25 Fellows, residents and students

To register, please contact Elizabeth Buell at 617.527.5600 or fill out the registration form (please print clearly) and fax to 617.527.5636 or email to ebuell@liverfoundation-ne.org.

Registration Form

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Please print clearly and fax back to chapter at 617.527.5636.

AGENDA

8:00 a.m. Registration and Breakfast

8:50 a.m. Welcome and Opening Remarks
Chairperson: Irwin M. Arias, MD
National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD; Tufts University School of
Medicine, Boston, MA (Emeritus)

9:00 a.m. Extracellular ATP : Secretion, Hydrolysis and Signaling
Guido Guidotti, MD, PhD
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

9:40 a.m. Lipid Rafts in Membrane Trafficking and Cell Polarization
Kai Simons, MD, PhD
Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden, Germany

10:20 a.m. Morning Break


10:50 a.m. How Studies of Flagellar Development in a Green Alga Lead to the Pathobiology of Cilia
Joel Rosenbaum, PhD
Yale University, New Haven, CT

11:30 a.m. Cholangiocytes, Cilia and Cysts: What's the Connection?
Nicholas F. LaRusso, MD
Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, Minnesota

12:00 p.m. Luncheon with Faculty

1:00 p.m. Hepatic Tissue Engineering at the Microscale
Sangeeta Bhatia, MD, PhD
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA

1:40 p.m. The Intersection of Manifest Destiny and Mitochondria - Navajo Neurohepatopathy
Steve Holve, MD
Tuba City Indian Medical Center, Tuba City, AZ

2:10 p.m. Modeling Human Liver Development, Physiology and Disease in Zebrafish
Michael A. Pack, MD
University of Pennsylvania, Phildaelphia, PA

2:40 p.m. Afternoon Break

3:00 p.m. Autophagy in Aging Liver: Getting the Cleaning Crew Back to Work
Ana Maria Cuervo, MD, PhD
Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY

3:30 p.m. Extending Lifespan by Nutrient Control of Liver Metabolism: Effects of Caloric Deprivation and Red Wine
Pere Puigserver, PhD
Harvard Medical School & Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA

4:00 p.m. Concluding Comments: Irwin M. Arias, MD

4:05 p.m. Wine and Cheese Reception

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