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METABOLISM and LIFE

İSTANBUL 5-6 MAY 2016
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Why Metabolism?

Metabolism encompasses all of the reactions that generate and use energy. At the cellular and organismal levels, metabolic flux and balance is required to move, to replicate, to repair damage, and to sustain life, and indeed disruptions to this delicate balance are a major contributor to disease and aging. Thus, in some sense metabolism is life; it is the molecular explanation of how we interact with the internal and external environment and operate as living organisms, and proper metabolism insures robust function and health. The Sabri Ülker Center at Harvard University is committed to investigating the molecular underpinnings of metabolism, its interactions with nutrients, and its dysregulation in chronic metabolic diseases and during aging, with the long-term goal of translating the findings into new therapeutic directions and strategies to prolong healthspan. We are thrilled to welcome you to the third Sabri Ülker Symposium on Metabolism and Life, which brings together a spectacular array of global experts exploring various aspects of metabolism in health and disease states and during the aging process.

Gökhan S. Hotamışlıgil, MD, PhD, Chair of the Symposium


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Preliminary Schedule

Time Schedule
Thursday, May 5th.
15:00 - 18:00 Arrival and Registration
18:00 - 19:00 Welcome reception and remarks by Gökhan Hotamışlıgil and introduction of the Sabri Ülker Center and the Symposium.
19:00 - 19:45
G-protein coupled receptors, signaling and metabolism
Introduced by Gökhan Hotamışlıgil
Brian Kobilka, Stanford University
Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, 2012
Speaker Profile & Abstract
20:00 - 23:00 Gala Dinner
Sabri Ülker International Science Award Ceremony
Friday, May 6th.
09:00 - 10:30
Transcriptional regulation of metabolism
Session I: Chair, Kıvanç Birsoy
09:00 - 09:30 Peter Tontonoz, UCLA, HHMI Speaker Profile & Abstract
09:35 - 10.05 Susanne Mandrup, University of Southern Denmark Speaker Profile & Abstract
Rising Star: 10:10 – 10:20 Kıvanç Birsoy, Rockefeller University Speaker Profile & Abstract
10:00 - 10.50 Coffee Break and Poster Viewing
10:50 - 12:10
Metabolic mediators and emerging pathways
Session II. Chair, Lale Özcan
10:50 - 11:20 Alan Attie, University of Wisconsin Speaker Profile & Abstract
11:25 - 11:55 Robert Farese, Harvard University, HHMI Speaker Profile & Abstract
Rising Star: 12:00 - 12:10 Lale Özcan, Columbia University Speaker Profile & Abstract
12:15 - 14:00 Lunch Break and Poster Viewing
Featuring Emilie Marcus, Cell Press and Elsevier, Editor-in-Chief: "Scientific Journalism, Ethics, and Integrity"
14:00 - 16:00
Organelle function and metabolic signaling
Session III: Chair, Deniz Atasoy
14:00 - 14:30 Laurie Glimcher, Cornell University Speaker Profile & Abstract
14:35 - 15:05 Ira Tabas, Columbia University Speaker Profile & Abstract
Rising Star: 15:10 - 15:20 Deniz Atasoy, Medipol University Speaker Profile & Abstract
15:20 - 15:50 Coffee Break and Poster Viewing
16:00 - 17:20
Immunometabolic homeostasis and disease
Session IV: Chair, Ebru Erbay
16:00 - 16:30 Ruslan Medzhitov, Yale University, HHMI Speaker Profile & Abstract
16:35 - 17:05 Gökhan S. Hotamışlıgil, Harvard University Speaker Profile & Abstract
Rising Star 17:10 - 17.20 Ebru Erbay, Bilkent University Speaker Profile & Abstract

Symposium Faculty

ALAN D. ATTIE

Professor, Biochemistry
University of Wisconsin

LAURIE H. GLIMCHER

Professor, Dean of Cornell Medical School

ROBERT FARESE

Professor, Genetics and Complex Diseases Harvard T.H. Chan
School of Public Health

GÖKHAN HOTAMIŞLIGİL

Professor, Genetics and Metabolism and Nutrition Harvard
University

BRIAN KOBILKA

Professor, Department of Molecular and Cellular Physiology
Stanford University

SUSANNE MANDRUP

Professor, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
University of Southern Denmark

EMILIE MARCUS

CEO of Cell Press and Editor of Cell

RUSLAN MEDZHITOV

David W. Wallace Professor of Immunobiology; Investigator,
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Yale University, HHMI

IRA TABAS

Professor of Anatomy Cell Biology
Columbia University

PETER TONTONOZ

Professor, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
University of California Los Angeles

DENİZ ATASOY

Assistant Professor, Physiology, School of Medicine
İstanbul Medipol University

EBRU ERBAY

Assistant Professor, Molecular Biology and Genetics
Bilkent University

KIVANÇ BİRSOY

Assist. Professor, Rockefeller University

LALE OZCAN

Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine
Columbia University Medical Center