2007 Program Schedule
Thursday, October 11, 2007
7:00pm: Registration
Friday, October 12, 2007
8:00 AM - 10:00
AM
Session 1:
Lipid Oxidation, Inflammation, and Vascular Disease
Moderator: Norbert Leitinger, University
of Virginia
8:00-8:30 AM- Norbert Leitinger, University of Virginia
“Oxidation, Inflammation, and Vascular
Disease”
8:30-9:00 AM- Suzanne Barbour, Virginia Commonwealth
University
“Lp-PLA2/PAF-AH Regulation”
9:00-9:30 AM- Aimee Landar, University of Alabama-Birmingham
“Protein Modification by Oxidized Lipids”
9:30-9:45 AM- Jody
Ullery, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
"Triglyceride
Enrichment Alters Cholesterol Metabolism and ER Stress in Macrophage
Foam Cells"
9:45-10:00 AM-
Samar Hammad, Medical University of South Carolina
“Intracellular trafficking of free oxidized LDL and oxidized LDL
immune complexes in macrophages”
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
BREAK
10:30 AM - 12:30 AM
Session 2:
Cellular Lipid Metabolism
Moderator: Nobuyo Maeda, University of
North Carolina-Chapel Hill
10:30-11:00 AM- Mike Altenburg, University of North
Carolina-Chapel Hill
“Human ApoE Isoforms and VLDL Clearance”
11:00- 11:30 AM- Mark Brown, Wake Forest University School
of Medicine
“Role of CGI-58 in Hepatic Lipid
Mobilization and Secretion”
11:30-
12:00 AM- Shadab
A. Siddiqi, University of Tennessee Health
Sciences Center-Memphis
“VLDL-transporting-vesicle (VTV): A New Member of the ER-derived
Vesicle Family”
12:00-
12:30 AM- Larry
Swift, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
“Microsomal Triglyceride Transfer
Protein: Another Lipid Droplet Protein?”
AFTERNOON FREE
7:00
PM - 9:00 PM
Session 3: Steps in
Chylomicron Formation and Export from the ER
Moderator: Charles Mansbach, University of
Tennessee Health Sciences Center-Memphis
7:00-
7:30 PM- Dennis
Black, University of Tennessee Health Sciences Center-Memphis
“Role of apo A-IV in Neonatal Lipid Absorption”
7:30-
8:00 PM- Mahmood
Hussain, SUNY- Downstate Medical Center
"Regulation of MTP and intestinal lipoprotein assembly".
8:00- 8:30 PM- Charles Mansbach, University of Tennessee
Health Sciences Center-Memphis
“The Regulation of Budding of the Pre-chylomicron
Transport Vesicle from Intestinal ER”
8:30- 9:00 PM- Rosalind Coleman, University of North
Carolina-Chapel Hill
“Why Do We Need 4 (+?) Enzymes to Initiate
Triacylglycerol Synthesis?”
Saturday, October 13, 2007
8:00 AM - 10:00
AM
Session 4: Diabetes, Metabolic
Syndrome and Adipocyte Biology
Moderator: Alyssa Hasty, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
8:00-
8:30 AM- Lisa
Tannock, University of Kentucky
“Diabetes, Obesity, and Inflammation: a Clinical Perspective”
8:30-
9:00 AM- Ron F.
Morrison, University of North Carolina -Greensboro
“Ubiquitin E3 Ligases in Targeted Protein Degradation during
Adipocyte Hyperplasia”
9:00- 9:30 AM-
Marshall (Barney) Elam, University of Tennessee Health Sciences
Center
“Transcriptional and Posttranscriptional Regulation of SREBP-1c by
Insulin”
9:30-
9:45 AM- Jerod
Denton, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
“Accumulation of Adipocyte Triglyceride Triggers ER stress in
Macrophages”
9:45- 10:00 AM-
Saraswathi Viswanathan, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
“Accumulation of Intracellular Free Fatty Acids Induces a
Pro-inflammatory Response and Apoptosis in Macrophages”
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
BREAK
10:30 AM - 12:30 AM
Session 5: HDL Structure and
Function
Moderator: Ling Li, University of Alabama at Birmingham
10:30-
10:50 AM- Ling
Li, University of Alabama at Birmingham
“HDL Dynamics:
Assembly and Structural Plasticity of ApoA-I-Phospholipid
Complexes”
10:50-
11:15 AM- James
Patterson, University of Alabama at Birmingham
“Computational
Simulations of Model ApoA-I:Lipid Complexes”
11:15-
11:40 AM- Yan Ru
Su, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
“The effects
of ApoA-I and ApoA-I Milano Variant on Macrophage Cholesterol
Efflux and Atherosclerosis”
11:40-
12:05 AM- John
S. Parks, Wake Forest University Health Science
“Pre-beta HDL
Formation and Metabolism”
12:05-
12:30 AM- Hong
Wang, Temple University
“Hyperhomocysteinemia with HDL Metabolism”
_______________________________
6:00
PM - 7:00 PM
Saturday Evening Keynote Address
Dr. Ira
Tabas, Columbia University
"Macrophage Death in Advanced Atherosclerosis"
______________________________
Sunday, October 14, 2007
8:00 AM - 10:00
AM
Session 6:
what are future targets
for treatment among the apoB containing
lipoproteins?
Moderator: Virgil Brown, Emory University
8:00- 8:30 AM- Peter W. F.
Wilson, Emory University
“Lipid Assessment is Adequate”
8:30- 9:00 AM- W. Virgil Brown,
Emory University
“Apolipoproteins hold Promise as Targets”
9:00- 9:30 AM- Jim Otvos,
LipoScience, Inc.
“LDL particle number may be the best treatment target”
9:30- 10:00 AM- Nhoc-Anh Le,
Emory University
“Post-challenge Changes in Risk Assessment”
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
BREAK
10:30 AM - 12:30 AM
Session 7: Immunity, lipids,
and vascular disease: closing the gap
Moderator: Amy Major, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
10:30-11:00 AM-
Nilamadhab Mishra, Wake Forest University Health Sciences
“Histone Deacetylases at the
Crossroads of Inflammation and Lipid Metabolism”
11:00- 11:30 AM-
Cornelia Weyand, Emory University
“Immune Activation in the
Atherosclerotic Plaque”
11:30-
11:50 AM- Vicki
King, University of Kentucky
“Interferon-g
and the Interferon-Inducible Chemokine, CXCL10 Have Discordant
Effects of Atherosclerosis and Aneurysm Formation”
11:50-
12:10 AM- Janusz
Kabarowski, University of Alabama-Birmingham
“Modulation of Lipoprotein metabolism
and Atherosclerosis by the G2A Receptor”
12:10-
12:30 AM- Todd
Hulgan, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
“Dyslipidemia, Oxidant Stress, and
Cardiovascular Disease during HIV Therapy” |