UC Davis Liver Research Day 10/5/2016

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UCD 2nd ANNUAL LIVER RESEARCH DAY

Metabolic Pathways to Fatty Liver

Wednesday, October 5, 2016
8:00 AM – 3:45 PM
GBSF Building, Auditorium
451 Health Sciences Drive
Davis Campus

8:00-8:30 AM Registration and Continental Breakfast

8:30-8:40 AM Welcome
Christopher Bowlus, MD, Professor and Chief, Internal Medicine, Gastroenterology/Hepatology, UC Davis

Session I

9:00-9:20 AM “Sugar Consumption and Chronic Stress”

Kevin D. Laugero, PhD, Associate Adjunct Professor, Nutrition and USDA WHNRC, UC Davis

9:25-9:45 AM “FXR, Sleeve Gastrectomy and Fatty Liver”

Karen K. Ryan, PhD, Assistant Professor, Physiology and Membrane Biology, UC Davis

9:50-10:10 AM “Lipidomics, Nutrition and Fatty Liver”

Angela M. Zivkovic, PhD, Assistant Professor, Nutrition, UC Davis

10:15-10:35 AM “Methionine Metabolism in ASH and NASH”

Kusum Kharbanda, PhD, Associate Professor, Internal Medicine, Gastroenterology/Hepatology, University of Nebraska

10:40-10:55 AMCoffee Break

Session II

10:55-11:15 AM “Non-invasive Assessment of NAFLD”

Souvik Sarkar, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, Internal Medicine, Gastroenterology/Hepatology, UC Davis

11:20-11:30 AM “Copper and Lipid Metabolism”

Valentia Medici, MD, Associate Professor, Internal Medicine, Gastroenterology/Hepatology, UC Davis

11:30-11:50 PM “Fructose as a Risk Factor for NAFLD”

Manal F. Abdelmalek, MD, Associate Professor, Gastroenterology, Duke University

11:55-12:55 PM Lunch (provided for the first 50 registrants) AND
Poster Judging (Poster Facilitators: Drs. Christopher Bowlus, Charles Halsted and James Tabibian)

Session III

1:00-1:30 PM “Advanced Glycation End Products in NASH Pathogenesis”

Natalie J. Torok, MD, MSc, Professor, Internal Medicine, Gastroenterology/Hepatology, UC Davis

1:35-1:55 PM “Mitochondria, Lipid Metabolism, Shcs and Fatty Liver”

Gino Cortopassi, PhD, Professor, Molecular Biosciences, UC Davis

2:00-2:20 PM “Fatty Liver and Risk of HCC in Different Populations”

Eric W. Chak, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor, Internal Medicine, Gastroenterology/Hepatology, UC Davis

2:25-2:45 PM Coffee Break

Session IV

2:45-3:05 PM “Emerging Therapies and Clinical Research in NAFLD”

Manal F. Abdelmalek, MD, Associate Professor, Medicine, Gastroenterology, Duke University

3:10-3:30 PM “Studies of Human Stem Cell-derived Hepatocyte-like Cells”

Jan A. Nolta, PhD, Professor, Internal Medicine and Director, Stem Cell Program, UC Davis

3:35-3:45 PM Poster Award Announcements and Closing Remarks

LiverDay_Agenda10-05-16.pdf
LiverDay_CallforAbstracts.pdf