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21st Annual Irwin M. Arias, MD Symposium: Bridging Basic Science and Liver Disease

Presented by the Dr. Charles Trey Education Program

November 2nd, 2011 (8:00 am - 4:00 pm)

Contact: Sam Scott (Email)
Phone: 617-527-5600 (617-527-5636)

Hosted by American Liver Foundation New England Division
Harvard Medical School - Joseph P. Martin Conference Center - Directions
77 Avenue Louis Pasteur
Boston, MA 02115

Dr. Charles Trey Educational Program
Our education programs honor the memory of Dr. Charles Trey, the chapter’s physician- founder, who was a leading liver researcher and educator, as well as a dedicated and compassionate caregiver. The programs are designed to offer informative educational opportunities to patients, professionals and the general public.

Program Agenda

8:00 a.m. Registration and Breakfast

8:50 a.m. Welcome and Opening Remarks

9:00 a.m. CELL POLARITY, MORPHOGENESIS AND METASTASIS

Ian Macara, PhD

University of Virginia School of Medicine

9:40 a.m. THE LKB1-AMPK SIGNALING CASCADE

Grahame Hardie, PhD

University of Dundee, Scotland

10:20 a.m. Morning Break

10:50 a.m. INTEGRATION OF METABOLISM BY NAD+

Johan Auwerx, MD, PhD

Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland

11:30 a.m. PREDICTIVE AUTOANTIBODIES AND POLYREACTIVE NATURAL ANTIBODIES: NEW INSIGHTS

Abner Louis Notkins, MD

National Institutes of Health/NIDCR

12:10 p.m. Lunch

1:15 p.m. CANCER AND METASTASIS

Robert Weinberg, PhD

Whitehead Institute

1:55 p.m. HEPATOCYTE GROWTH AND CARCINOGENESIS

George Michalopoulos, MD, PhD

University of Pittsburgh Medical School

2:35 p.m. INTEGRATING LIPID GENOTYPES AND PHENOTYPES IN iPS-DERIVED HEPATOCYTES

Chad A. Cowan, PhD

Massachusetts General Hospital

3:15 p.m. PHARMACOGENETICS OF VIRAL AND DRUG-INDUCED LIVER DISEASE Thomas Urban, PhD

Duke University Center for Human Genome Variation

4:00 p.m. Concluding Comments

Irwin M. Arias, MD

Page updated: November 1st, 2011