Schedule 2023

Place Kadir Has University
Turkey Local Time Schedule
Day 1: Tuesday, May 9, 2023
17:00 Reception
17:30

Performance: Güldiyar Tanrıdağlı, Pianist

Performance: Cengiz Özkan, Musician
17:45 Welcoming Remarks 
18:00
Rising Stars
1. Tuğçe Aktaş, Max Planck Institute
“Taming the Repetitive Transcriptome with RNA Binding Proteins”
2. Sinem Saka, EMBL Heidelberg
3. Baran Ersoy, Weill Cornell Medicine
“Metabolic Aberrations in Subcellular Protein Localization”
4. Elvan Böke, Centre for Genomic Regulation
19:00 Sabri Ülker Science Award Ceremony
19:20 Keynote Lecture
Randy W. Schekman, PhD, University of California Berkeley
20:20 Closing Remarks
Day 2: Wednesday, May 10, 2023
8:00 – 9:00

Guest Arrival 
Session I: Metabolic Integration
Chaired By: Elvan Böke 
9:00 – 9:30

Daniel Drucker
University of Toronto
“Rethinking Cardiometabolic Mechanisms of GLP-1 Action”
9:30-10:00

Barbara Kahn
Harvard Medical School 
10:00-10:30

Mitch Lazar
University of Pennsylvania
“Nuclear Receptors, Circadian Rhythms, and Metabolism”
10:30-11:00 BREAK

Session II: Metabolic Control and Tumorigenesis 
Chaired By: Sinem Saka 
11:00-11:30

Kathryn Wellen
University of Pennsylvania
“Acetyl-CoA Metabolism in the Interplay Between Skin and Systemic Lipid Homeostasis”
11:30-12:00

Brendan Manning
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
“The PI3K-mTOR Signaling Network in the Cellular and Systemic Control of Metabolism”
12:00-12:30

Matthew Vander Heiden
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
“How Metabolism Influences Cancer Progression”
12:30-13:45 LUNCH

SESSION III: CARDIO METABOLISM

Chaired By: Baran Ersoy
14:00-14:30

Rui-Ping Xiao
Peking University
“Role of MG53 in Cardiometabolic Disease”
14:30-15:00

Helen Hobbs, MD,

University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
15:00-15:30

Kathryn Moore, PhD,

New York University
15:30:16:00 BREAK

Session IV: Metabolism, Immunity, & Infection
Chaired By: Tugce Aktas
16:00-16:30

James Ntambi
University of Wisconsin-Madison
“Regulation of Lipogenesis, Inflammation, & Systemic Metabolism”
16:30-17:00

Erika Pearce
John Hopkins University
17:30-18:00

Akiko Iwasaki
Yale University
“Immunology of Long Covid”
18:00 Closing Remarks