Liver Center Virtual Annual Symposium

Date: Thursday, March 25, 2021
Time: 
8:00 - 11:00 AM
Location: 
Zoom

2021 Liver Center Virtual Annual Symposium

The Liver Center invites you to attend the 2021 Liver Center Virtual Annual Symposium. All Liver Center members and trainees, as well as guests who are performing liver-related research, are encouraged to attend. The program will include a Keynote presentation from Dr. Stewart Cooper and presentations from the Liver Center Pilot/Feasibility Grant awardees from 2019 & 2020.

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8:00 - 9:00 AM: Keynote Speaker
Stewart Cooper, MD
California Pacific Medical Center
Chief, Division of General & Transplant Hepatology
Director, Kalmanovitz Liver Immunology Laboratory & Liver Disease Research

"Banking on a Liver"

 

 

9:15 - 10:00 AM:
2020 Pilot/Feasibility Grant Awardee Presentations

  • Feng Chen, PhD
    Examining hepatocyte regenerative behavior at single cell resolution
  • James Lee, MD
    Overcoming liver metastasis induced systemic immune tolerance and immunotherapy
    resistance
  • Peter Turnbaugh, PhD
    Systematic discovery of gut microbial strains and metabolites that boost hepatic drug clearance

10:15 - 11:00 AM:
2019 Pilot/Feasibility Grant Awardee Presentations

  • Ari Molofsky, MD, PhD
    Defining liver type 2 lymphocyte niches with 3D imaging
  • Amar Nijagal, MD
    The role of monocytes during perinatal liver inflammation
  • Michele Tana, MD
    Searching the peptidome and virome for antigens in autoimmune hepatitis