Professor Philip E Scherer, Touchstone Diabetes Center, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas // Assistant Professor Janelle Ayres, Nomis Center for Immunobiology & Microbial Pathogenesis, The Salk Institute of Biological Studies // Professor Jorge Ferrer, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Imperial College London

1. ‘Recent Advances in Metabolic Diseases’
Incorporating Leaders in Science & Society Seminar
9am-1pm Monday 22 August 2016
9.30-10.30am: Prof Philip E. Scherer
Touchstone Diabetes Center, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas
"Advances in our Understanding of Adipose Tissue Biology”
10.45-11.45am: Assistant Prof Janelle Ayres
Nomis Center for Immunobiology & Microbial Pathogenesis,
The Salk Institute for Biological Studies
“The concept of disease tolerance in host-microbiota
interactions”
LiSS, Midday-1pm: Prof Jorge Ferrer
Faculty of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Imperial College London
“Non-coding genome function in pancreatic islets”
Host: Prof Mark Febbraio
(RSVP by 17 August to Belinda Platzer)