Continental Breakfast

8:00 — 8:40 AM

 

Welcome

8:40 — 9:00 AM

 

                         Jacquelyn J. Maher, MD

                                     Professor, School of Medicine/Gastroenterology

                                                 Director, UCSF Liver Center

 

 

 

Hepatic Physiology and Metabolism

9:00 — 10:30 AM

 

                         DGAT1 is a new cofactor of Hepatic C Virus infection

                         Melanie Ott, MD, PhD

                                 Assistant Professor, School of Medicine

                                 Associate Investigator, Gladstone Institute of Virology and Immunology

 

 

A molecular genetic approach to studying hepatic lipid metabolism

Amnon Schlegel, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor, Medicine/Endocrinology and Metabolism

 

 

The comparative value of different imaging modalities in evaluating hepatic steatosis

Aliya Qayyum, MD

Associate Professor, Radiology/Abdominal Imaging

 

 

 

Conversation Break

10:30 — 11:00 AM

 

Liver Injury and Repair

11:00 — 12:15 PM

 

Ubiquitin sensing in TNF signaling

Averil Ma, MD, PhD

Professor, School of Medicine/Gastroenterology

Interim Division Chief of Gastroenterology

 

 

 

Human occludin is an essential HCV entry factor

Charles M. Rice, PhD—Keynote Speaker

Maurice R. And Corinne P. Greenberg Professor, The Rockefeller University
Scientific and Executive Director, Center for the Study of Hepatitis C

 

 

 

Lunch & Poster Session

12:30 — 2:00 PM

The California Parlor (Level 2)

Poster Session will be in the Marina Room

 

Liver Injury and Repair (cont’d.)

2:00 — 2:30 PM

 

Acute hepatitis C virus infection: incidence, resolution, and re-infection

Kimberly Page, PhD, MPH

Associate Professor, Epidemiology and Biostatistics

 

 

 

Progenitor Cells, Growth and Development

2:30 — 4:00 PM

 

 

Conditional models of liver cancer for the development of novel therapeutics and 13C-MRS metabolic imaging

Andrei Goga, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor, School of Medicine/Hematology-Oncology

 

 

 

Outcome of downstaging HCC prior to liver transplantation

Francis Y. Yao, MD

Professor, Transplant Hepatology Medicine/Gastroenterology

Medical Director, Liver Transplantation

 

 

 

microRNA-regulated hepatocyte genes and functions

Holger F. Willenbring, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor, Surgery

Enrichment Director, Liver Center

 

 

 

 

Adjourn

4:00 PM

 

Contact Information

To further the Center's educational mission and to encourage wider participation from students, faculty and community members, the registration fee for this event is waived. Please email Sue Ngo to register for or present your poster at the Symposium.

Palace Hotel, San Francisco

The Sea Cliff Conference Room (Level 2)

2 New Montgomery Street

 

2009 Annual Advisory Board Symposium

Saturday, May 16, 2009