Sabri Ülker Center Symposium Film

Why Metabolism?

Metabolism encompasses all 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 ensures robust function and health. The Sabri Ülker Center is committed to investigating the molecular underpinnings of metabolism, its interactions with nutrients, and its dysregulation in chronic metabolic diseases and during aging. All of this with the long-term goal of translating the findings into new therapeutic directions and strategies to prevent and treat metabolic diseases such as diabetes and prolong health span. We are thrilled to welcome you to the second Sabri Ülker Symposium on Metabolism and Life, the first of these meetings to be held at Harvard. This symposium 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


Schedule

Time Schedule Venue
Tuesday, May 29, 2018
3:30-4:30pm Registration Memorial Hall
4:30-4:50pm Musical Performance by Ahmet Kanneci Sanders Hall
5:00-5:30pm Opening Remarks Sanders Hall
5:00-5:10pm Gökhan Hotamışlıgil Opening Remarks and “Thank Yous” Sanders Theatre
5:10-5:15pm Provost, Alan Garber will give welcoming remarks and the introduction of Dean Michelle Williams Sanders Theatre
5:15-5:20pm Dean Michelle Williams Remarks and Introduction of Ali Ülker Sanders Theatre
5:20-5:30pm Ali Ülker and Gökhan Hotamışlıgil: Remarks and Introduction of the Rising Stars Session Sanders Theatre
5:30-6:30pm Rising Stars Session Sanders Hall
5:30-5:45pm Elçin Ünal | Illuminating cellular aging pathways through meiotic differentiation
University of California, Berkeley
Sanders Theatre
5:45-6:00pm Ali Güler | Central nervous system and metabolism
University of Virginia
Sanders Theatre
6:00-6:15pm Yasemin Sancak | Calcium homeostasis in the mitochondria
Washington University
Sanders Theatre
6:15-6:30pm Ömer Yılmaz | Dietary and metabolic regulation of stem cell
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Sanders Theatre
6:30-6:37pm Gökhan Hotamışlıgil: Introduction of Keynote Speakers Sanders Theatre
6:37-7:27pm Keynote Speakers:
Nobel Laureates, Joseph Goldstein & Michael Brown Cholesterol Homeostasis: From Physiology to Molecular Biology
University of Texas, Southwestern
Sanders Theatre
7:27-7:37pm Sabri Ülker Science Award Presentation Sanders Theatre
7:37-7:42pm Gökhan Hotamışlıgil will introduce Mark Elliott to deliver the closing remarks Sanders Theatre
7:42-9:30pm Closing Reception Memorial Hall
Wednesday, May 30, 2018
8:00-9:00am Guests Arrive Memorial Hall
SESSION 1 | Chair: Elçin Ünal Sanders Theatre
9:00-9:35am Linda Partridge | Metabolism and Ageing
University College London
Sanders Theatre
9:35-10:10am Bruce Spiegelman | Controlling energy expenditure for metabolic health
Harvard Medical School
Sanders Theatre
10:10-10:45am Ronald M. Evans | Nuclear hormone receptors and metabolic homeostasis
Salk Institute
Sanders Theatre
10:45-11:15am Break for Coffee & Tea Annenberg Hall
SESSION 2 | Chair: Ali Güler Sanders Theatre
11:15-11:50am Leslie Vosshall | Genetic control of innate behavior
The Rockefeller University
Sanders Theatre
11:50-12:25pm Michael Czech | Integration of metabolism with immune and neuronal responses
University of Massachusetts Medical School
Sanders Theatre
12:30-13:45pm Lunch Annenberg Hall
SESSION 3 | Chair: Yasemin Sancak Sanders Theatre
13:45-2:10pm Jean Schaffer | Molecular mechanisms of lipotoxicity
Washington University
Sanders Theatre
2:10-2:55pm Gerald Shulman | Lipids and mitochondria in health and disease
Yale University
Sanders Theatre
2:55-3:30pm Shizuo Akira | Towards understanding the mechanisms of fibrosis
Osaka University
Sanders Theatre
3:30-4:00pm Break for Coffee & Tea Annenberg Hall
SESSION 4 | Chair: Ömer Yılmaz Sanders Theatre
4:00-4:35pm Brenda Schulman | Protein homeostasis and metabolism
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
Sanders Theatre
4:35-5:05pm Vamsi Mootha | Mitochondrial function in health and disease
Massachusetts General Hospital
Sanders Theatre
5:05-5:45pm Peter Walter | The Unfolded Protein Response in Health and Disease
University of California, San Francisco
Sanders Theatre

Symposium Faculty

Elçin Ünal

University of California, Berkeley

Ali Deniz Güler

University of Virginia

Yasemin Sancak

Washington University

Ömer Yılmaz

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Joseph L. Goldstein

University of Texas

Michael S. Brown

University of Texas, Southwestern Medical Center

Linda Partridge

University College London

Bruce Spiegelman

Harvard Medical School

Ronald M. Evans

Salk Institute

Leslie Vosshall

The Rockefeller University

Michael Czech

University of Massachusetts Medical School

Jean Schaffer

Washington University

Gerald Shulman

Yale University

Shizuo Akira

Osaka University

Brenda Schulman

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

Vamsi Mootha

Massachusetts General Hosptial

Peter Walter

University of California, San Francisco

Venue