Please note this conference has been postponed until the summer of 2023.

Agenda - cancelled

Sunday, October 3, 2021

Time Event
4:00 pm – 9:00 pm Conference Registration
6:00 pm – 7:00 pm Organizer's Welcome Reception
7:00 pm – 8:00 pm Dinner
8:00 pm – 8:15 pm Welcome and Introductions
C. L. Eric Yen, Steven Farber & FASEB Representative
8:15 pm – 9:15 pm Keynote Lecture
9:15 pm – 11:00 pm Networking and Social Time

 

Monday, October 4, 2021

Time Event
7:30 am – 1:00 pm Conference Registration
7:30 am – 9:00 am Breakfast
9:00 am – 12:10 pm Session 1: Enterocytes: Cell Biology and Lipid Trafficking I
Chair: Judith Storch (Rutgers University)
9:00 am – 9:25 am Mahmood Hussain (NYU Long Island School of Medicine)  
TBD
9:25 am – 9:50 am Kim Buhman (Purdue University)
TBD
9:50 am – 10:05 am Short Talk Speaker
10:05 am – 10:20 am Short Talk Speaker
10:20 am – 10:50 am Coffee Break
10:50 am – 11:15 am Invited Speaker
11:15 am – 11:40 am Invited Speaker
11:40 am – 11:55 am Short Talk Speaker
11:55 am – 12:10 pm Short Talk Speaker
12:10 pm – 1:10 pm Lunch
1:10 pm – 4:00 pm Free Time
4:00 pm – 6:00 pm Poster Session
6:00 pm – 7:00 pm Dinner
7:00 pm – 8:45 pm Session 2: Intestinal Stem Cell Biology
Chair: Kelley Yan (Columbia University)
7:00 pm – 7:25 pm Kelley Yan (Columbia University)
Single-cell Studies of Intestinal Stem Cells and Their Niche
7:25 pm – 7:50 pm Scott Magness (University of North Carolina) 
Genetic Mechanisms Controlling Intestinal Stem Cell Maintenance and Differentiation
7:50 pm – 8:15 pm Maria Mihaylova (Ohio State University) 
Understanding the Effects of Age and Diet-Dependent Nutrient Changes on Mammalian Gut Homeostasis
8:15 pm – 8:30 pm Short Talk Speaker
8:30 pm – 8:45 pm Short Talk Speaker
8:45 pm – 9:05 pm Coffee Break
9:05 pm – 11:00 pm Networking and Social Time
 

Tuesday, October 5, 2021

Time Event
7:30 am – 1:00 pm Conference Registration
7:30 am – 9:00 am Breakfast
9:00 am – 12:00 pm Session 3: Intestinal Microbiota and its Influence on Lipid Metabolism
Chair: John Rawls
(Duke University) 
9:00 am – 9:25 am John Rawls (Duke University)
Microbial control of dietary fat metabolism in the intestinal epithelium
9:25 am – 9:50 pm Invited Speaker
9:50 am – 10:05 am Short Talk Speaker
10:05 am – 10:20 am Short Talk Speaker
10:20 am – 10:50 am Coffee Break/Group Photo
10:50 am – 11:15 am Federico Ray (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
Connecting variation in the gut microbiome with susceptibility to cardiometabolic disease
11:15 am – 11:40 am Mark Brown (Cleveland Clinic)            
Drugging The Gut Microbial Endocrine Organ as a Therapeutic Strategy for Cardiometabolic Disease
11:40 am – 11:55 am Short Talk Speaker
11:55 am – 12:10 pm Short Talk Speaker
12:10 pm – 1:10 pm Lunch
1:10 pm – 4:00 pm Free Time
4:00 pm – 6:00 pm Poster Session
6:00 pm – 7:00 pm Dinner
7:00 pm – 9:05 pm Session 4: The Intestinal Lipid Metabolism and Organismal Physiology
Chair: Mahmood Hussain 
7:00 pm – 7:25 pm Alison Kohan (University of Pittsburgh)
Using primary murine intestinal enteroids to study the function of ApoCIII
7:25 pm – 7:50 pm Ira Goldberg (NYU Langone Health)
Lipid exodus, from blood to tissues
7:50 pm – 8:15 pm Invited Speaker
8:15 pm – 8:40 pm Invited Speaker
8:40 pm – 9:05 pm Short Talk Speaker
9:05 pm – 10:30 pm Networking and Social Time
 

Wednesday, October 6, 2021

Time Event
7:30 am – 1:00 pm Conference Registration
7:30 am – 9:00 am Breakfast
9:00 am – 10:30 am Session 5: Intestine and Metabolic Disease
Chair: Nicholas Davidson (Washington University in St. Louis)
9:00 am – 9:25 am Nada Abumrad (Washington University)
Endothelial cell CD36 influences intestinal health and the development of metabolic disease
9:25 am – 9:50 am Darleen Sandoval (University of Michigan)
The role of the gut-brain axis in regulating intestinal lipid metabolism
9:50 am – 10:15 am Nicholas Davidson (Washington University in St. Louis)
Regulating intestinal lipid transport as a strategy to mitigate NAFLD
10:15 am – 10:30 am Short Talk Speaker
10:30 am – 10:50 am Coffee Break
10:50 am – 11:15 am Rebecca Haeusler (Columbia University)
Regulation of intestinal nutrient metabolism by 12-hydroxylated bile acids
11:15 am – 11:40 am Gary Lewis (Toronto General Hospital)
Post Prandial
11:40 am – 11:55 am Short Talk Speaker 
11:55 am – 12:10 pm Short Talk Speaker
12:10 pm – 1:10 pm Lunch
1:10 pm – 4:00 pm Free Time
4:00 pm – 6:00 pm Poster Session
6:00 pm – 7:00 pm Dinner
7:00 pm – 8:20 pm Session 6: The Sex Effect on Lipid Metabolism 
Chair: Karen Reue
(UCLA)
7:00 pm – 7:25 pm Karen Reue (UCLA)
Sex differences in postprandial lipid metabolism
7:25 pm – 7:50 pm Jake Lusis (UCLA)
The immune landscape in response to a high fat, high sucrose diet
7:50 pm – 8:15 pm Invited Speaker 
8:15 pm – 8:30 pm Short Talk Speaker 
8:30 pm – 11:00 pm Networking and Social Time
 

Thursday, October 7, 2021

Time Event
7:30 am – 1:00 pm Conference Registration
7:30 am – 9:00 am Breakfast
9:00 am – 10:20 am Session 7: Bile Acid Metabolism and Their Impact on Physiology
Chair: Dennis Black
(University of Tennessee Health Science Center)
9:00 am – 9:25 am Frank Gonzalez (NIH)
Role of Intestinal Nuclear Receptors and Gut-Level Crosstalk in Metabolic Disease
9:25 am – 9:50 am Bart Staels (Institut Pasteur de Lille)
Intestinal Control of Glucose and Lipid Metabolism by Bile Acids
9:50 am – 10:15 am Sloan Devlin (Harvard University)  
Gut Bacterial Modifications of Host Metabolites Alter Host Physiology
10:15 am – 10:40 am Coffee break 
10:40 am – 11:45 am Session 8: TBD
Chair: Paul Dawson
(Emery University School of Medicine)
10:40 am – 11:05 am Tom Vallim (UCLA)
NAFLD/NASH Treatments via the Nuclear Receptor FXR: Challenging the Dogma
11:05 am – 11:30 am TBD            
TBD
11:30 am – 11:45 am Short Talk Speaker
11:45 am – 12:00 pm Business Meeting
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm Lunch
1:00 pm – 6:00 pm Free Time (optional group activity)
6:00 pm – 7:00 pm Dinner
7:00 pm – 8:05 pm Open Microphone (3-minute voluntary talks by attendees)
Stephen Farber and Eric Yen
7:00 pm – 7:25 pm TBD
7:25 pm – 7:50 pm TBD
7:50 pm – 8:05 pm TBD
8:05 pm – 8:25 pm Closing Remarks
8:25 pm – 11:00 pm Final Night: Networking and Social Time
 

Friday, October 8, 2021

Time Event
7:30 am – 9:00 am Breakfast
9:00 am Departures