Center for Epigenetics and Metabolism International 2022 Symposium

PROGRAM - DAY 1

Wednesday, July 13, 2022

Arnold & Mabel Beckman Center of the National Academy of Science & Engineering
 

8:00 – 9:00 a.m.    
Registration   Atrium: coffee, tea, and water
 

9:00 – 9:30 a.m.     
Opening and Introduction to the Symposium

Michael J. Stamos, MD, Dean, UCI School of Medicine
Ralph V. Clayman, MD, Distinguished Professor of Urology/Dean - UCI School of Medicine
Thomas C. Cesario, MD, Dean - Emeritus, UCI School of Medicine
Peter Kaiser, PhD, Chair, Department of Biological Chemistry, UCI School of Medicine

SESSION I   Transcription

Chair: Richard Heyman, PhD, ORIC Pharma

9:30 – 10:00 a.m.                
Bob Roeder, PhD, The Rockefeller University, Transcriptional Regulatory Mechanisms in Hematopoietic Malignancies

10:00 – 10:30 a.m.              
Ronald M. Evans, PhD, Salk Institute for Biological Studies, Physiology and its Transcriptional Underpinning

10:30 – 11:00 a.m.              
Break – coffee, tea, and water

11:00 – 11:30 a.m.              
Juan Carlos Izpisua Belmonte, PhD, Altos Labs, Biological Studies, Programming Cell Rejuvenation

11:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Masao Doi, PhD, Kyoto University, Time as Medicine - Impact of Rejuvenating Circadian Transcriptional and Metabolic Activity

12:00 – 2:00 p.m.               
Lunch, Dining Room

SESSION II    Epigenetics

Chair: Marcelo Wood, PhD, UCI

2:00 – 2:30 p.m.    
Asifa Akhtar, PhD, Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics, MOF Complexes: Epigenetics Meets Metabolism

2:30 – 3:00 p.m.    Bing Ren, PhD, UC San Diego, Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, Epigenome Analysis in Health and Disease

3:00 – 3:30 p.m.    
Break – coffee, tea, and water

3:30 – 4:00 p.m.    
Juleen R. Zierath, PhD, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden/University of Copenhagen, Denmark, Epigenetic Control and the Circadian Clock: Turning Back Time on Diabetes Pathogenesis

4:00 – 4:30 p.m.    
Sarah Kimmins, PhD, McGill University, Environmental Programming of the Heritable Sperm Epigenome

4:30 – 5:00 p.m.    
Estée Lauder’s Tribute to Paolo Sassone-Corsi’s Legacy: Nadine Pernodet, PhD, Senior Vice President of Bioscience, Global R&D, Estée Lauder Companies

5:00 – 7:00 p.m.    
Cocktail Reception, Terrace Lawn
 

PROGRAM - DAY 2

Thursday, July 14, 2022

9:00 – 9:30 a.m.                
Registration - Atrium: coffee, tea, and water

SESSION III    Circadian Rhythms

Chair: Eric J. Stanbridge, PhD, UCI School of Medicine

9:30 – 10:00 a.m.           
Michael W. Young, PhD, The Rockefeller University, What Happens to Lonely Fly?

10:00 – 10:30 a.m.        
Break - Coffee, tea, and water

10:30 – 11:00 a.m.         
Mitchell A. Lazar, MD, PhD, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Repression, Reverberations, and Reflections

11:00 – 11:30 a.m.         
Selma Masri, PhD, UCI, Mechanistic Insights Underlying Clock Disruption in Colorectal Cancer

11:30 – 1:30 p.m.          
Lunch, Dining Room

SESSION IV   Metabolism

Chair: Giuseppe Servillo, MD, PhD, University    ugia Italy

1:30 – 2:00 p.m.    
Johan Auwerx, MD, Ph.D., École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Ceramide De Novo Synthesis Links Muscle    with Mitochondrial and Protein Homeostasis

2:00 – 2:30 p.m.    
Eric Verdin, MD, Buck Institute for Research on Aging, The Biology of Reversible Protein Acylation

2:30 – 3:00 p.m.    
Break - Coffee, tea, and water

3:00 – 3:30 p.m.    
Manuela Raffatellu, MD,    San Diego, New Insights on Mucosal Immunity to Commensal and Pathogenic Bacteria

3:30 – 4:00    
Eckel-Mahan,    MD Anderson/UTHealth, Circadian Rhythms Disease:        Journey Inspired    Sassone-Corsi

4:00 p.m.    
Closing Remarks