Rising Stars Symposium
Sponsored by the Diabetes and Obesity Research Priority Area and the UK Barnstable Brown Diabetes and Obesity Research Center
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This all-day symposium features nationally recognized early-career research scholars who have demonstrated scientific achievements in diabetes and obesity-related research.
Event Details
Date: Thursday, Nov. 30, 2023
Time: 8 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Location: University of Kentucky, Healthy Kentucky Research Building, Conference Room 150
Deadline to Register: Nov. 10, 2023
This symposium will include a poster session featuring the exciting research of our students, postdoctoral scholars, fellows, staff and faculty.
Prizes will be awarded for top poster presentations in each category.
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Keynote Speaker
Dr. Darleen Sandoval
Professor of Pediatrics
Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism
University of Colorado Denver – Anschutz Medical Campus
Targeting the gut-brain axis in obesity treatment
Additional Speakers
Emily Noble, PhD
Assistant Professor, University of Georgia
Melanin concentrating hormone and the neural regulation of impulsive eating
Mauricio Dorfman, PhD
Research Assistant Professor, University of Washington Diabetes Institute
Exploring Sex Hormones and Sex Differences in Hypothalamic Inflammation and Metabolic Disease
Laura Eloise Rupprecht, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Medicine, Division of GI, Duke University
A gut signal for food reward
Jingyi Qian, PhD
Instructor in Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School
Circadian Rhythms, physical activity, and Cardiometabolic Health
Phyo Htoo, MD, PhD
Research Fellow in Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School
Comparative effectiveness and safety of sodium-glucose cotransporter 2 inhibitors versus alternative glucose-lowering medications
Mudassir Rashid, PhD
Research Assistant Professor, Illinois Institute of Technology
Artificial Intelligence in Diabetes Care
Margo Emont, PhD
Instructor in Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School
A single cell atlas of human and mouse white adipose tissue
Phillip Dumesic, MD, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School
RBM43 controls adipose inflammation and glucose homeostasis through translational regulation of PGC1⍺
Sadeesh Ramakrishnan, PhD
Assistant Professor, University of Pittsburgh
A novel link between ketone metabolism and hypoxia signaling in HCC pathogenesis