Liver Center Annual Symposium
Friday, April 24, 2025
8:00 am - 1:15 pm
Lange Room, 5th floor, kalmanovitz library at Parnassus Heights
8:00 Introduction
Holger Willenbring, MD, PhD, Liver Center director
8:20 - 9:40 Pilot/Feasibility Grant Awardee Presentations, moderated by Jackie Maher, MD
Arielle Klepper, MD, PhD, UCSF: Immunologic and Microbial Characterization of Ascites Fluid in Patients with Decompensated Cirrhosis
Amar Nijagal, MD, UCSF: Deciphering the Role of Macrophage Mediated Signals on Immune Tolerance in the Developing Liver
Joni Nikkanen, PhD, UC Berkeley: Beyond Transcription: Post-translational Modifications in Controlling Sex-specific Hepatic Gene Programs
Garrett Roll, MD, UCSF: Study of Molecular Markers for Early Allograft Dysfunction in Liver Transplantation
9:40 Break
10:00 Community Advisory Board Member Talk by Wendy Lo, introduction by Jen Lai, MD
10:15 Keynote, introduction by Jen Chen, MD
Tatiana Kisseleva, MD, PhD University of San Diego: Hepatic Myofibroblasts in Liver Fibrosis Resolution
11:00 Break/lunch box pick up
11:30 - 1:15 Breakout Sessions (in class rooms in Kalamanovitz Library)
Liver Injury & Immunology (CL220)
Liver Regeneration & Clinical -Transplantation (CL221)
Liver Metabolism & Organ Cross-Talk ( CL222)
