3rd California DDRCC Network Symposium

 1:00 PM - 1:05 PM

Welcome

Bernd Schnabl, MD, Professor of Medicine,                                   

Director of San Diego Digestive Diseases Research Center (SDDRC), UC San Diego

Basic/Experimental Session

Moderated by Bernd Schnabl, MD, UC San Diego

 1:05 PM – 1:20 PM

Phillipp Hartmann, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, UC San Diego

"Mycobiome in nonalcoholic fatty liver disease"

 1:20 PM – 1:35 PM

James Lee, MD, MHS, Assistant Professor, Division of Hematology and Oncology, UC San Francisco

"Establishing and Overcoming Mechanisms of Liver-Induced Systemic Tolerance and      Resistance to Cancer Immunotherapy"

 1:35 PM – 1:50 PM

Ana Maretti-Mira, PhD, Assistant Research Professor, Division of Gastrointestinal and Liver 

Diseases, University of Southern California (USC)

“Contribution of innate immune cells to NASH progression”

 1:50 PM – 2:05 PM

Nirmala Mavila, PhD, Assistant Professor, Biomedical Sciences, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

 “The Role of FGFR Signaling in Chronic Liver Injury and Fibrosis”

 2:05 PM – 2:15 PM

Break

Clinical/Translational Session

Moderated by Jacquelyn Maher, MD, UC San Francisco

 2:15 PM – 2:30 PM

Jin Ge, MD, MBA, Assistant Professor, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, UC San Francisco

“Big Data and Expert-Augmented Artificial Intelligence in Transplant Hepatology”

 2:30 PM – 2:45 PM

Kathleen (Kit) Curtius, PhD, Assistant Professor, Division of Biomedical Informatics,  UC San Diego

“Genomic evolution and biomarkers in IBD carcinogenesis”

 2:45 PM – 3:00 PM

Juliet Emamaullee, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, Transplant Surgery, University of Southern California (USC)

“Application of single cell technologies to explore the liver immune microenvironment” 

 3:00 PM – 3:15 PM

Ivan Vujkovic-Cvijin, PhD, Assistant Professor, Biomedical Sciences, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

“Mining the human anti-microbiota immune repertoire to investigate IBD pathogenesis”

 3:15 PM – 3:20 PM

Closing Remarks

Career Development/Networking Workshop

Moderated by Lars Eckmann, MD, UC San Diego and Jennifer C. Lai, MD, MBA, UC San Francisco

 3:20 PM – 4:00 PM

Opportunity for junior faculty, post docs, and fellows to get to know their peers, and to receive feedback on their scientific and clinical career. Participants are encouraged to introduce themselves and their work with 1-2 slides.