FRIDAY APRIL 23rd

8:00 - 8:45 Continental breakfast

 8:45 - 9:00 Opening comments (UC admin, Dr. David Stern).

9:00 - 10:00 Session 1: Homeostasis & Regulation:

Chair: James Gibbs (Department of Psychiatry, Weill Medical College of Cornell University)

9:00 - 9:20      ”Homeostasis: A Limiting Concept for Thinking About Eating” - Gerard P. Smith (Weill Medical College of Cornell University)

9:20 - 9:40      ”Gastric emptying of nutrients by rats” - Edward Stricker (Department of Neuroscience, University of Pittsburgh)

9:40 - 10:00    ”Neural beta-cell regulation - How did it all start and where is it going now?” - Daniel Porte (School of Medicine, UC San Diego; School of Medicine, University of Washington)

10:00 - 10:20  BREAK - Coffee / Tea

10:20 - 12:00 Session 2: Food Intake / Obesity:  

Chair: Wolfgang Langhans (Institute of Animal Sciences, Zurich, Switzerland)

10:20 - 10:40  ”Adiposity signaling and meal size control” - Timothy H. Moran (Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine)

10:40 - 11:00  ”Insulin and glucose aren't the only peripheral signals that talk to the brain: how neurons sense fatty acids” - Barry E. Levin (Department of Neurology and Neurosciences, NJ Medical School)

11:00 - 11:20  ”Obesity Pathogenesis and the Hypothalamic Response to High-Fat Feeding” - Michael Schwartz (Department of Medicine / Division of Metabolism, Endocrinology and Nutrition, University of Washington School of Medicine)

11:20 - 11:40  ”Amylin - not such an exotic hormone anymore” - Thomas Lutz (Institute of Veterinary Physiology, Vetsuisse Faculty University of Zurich and? Centre for Integrative Human Physiology)

11:40 - 12:00  ”Energy regulatory signals and food reward” - Dianne Figlewicz Lattemann (VA Puget Sound Health Care System and the University of Washington)

12:00  - 1:10  LUNCH

1:10 - 3:10 Glucose Regulation / Insulin Secretion / Diabetes:

Chair: Anton Steffens (University of Groningen, The Netherlands)

1:10 - 1:30      ”SeXX matters” – Debborah J. Clegg (Department of Internal Medicine,Touchstone Diabetes Center, UT Southwestern Medical Center)

1:30 - 1:50      ”Role of the endocannabinoid system on glucose and lipid metabolism” - Daniela Cota (INSERM in the physiopathology of energy balance and obesity group)

1:50 - 2:10      ”Are we out of the Woods yet?” - Richard N. Bergman (Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California)

2:10 - 2:30      ”The vaga(L)ries of insulin release: It’s all in the head” - Karen Teff (Monell Chemical Senses Center; University of Pennsylvania)

2:30 - 2:50      ”An insulin personality?” - Anton J. W. Scheurink (Department of Neuroendocrinology, University of Groningen)

2:50 - 3:10      ”Brown adipose tissue and the control of BAT thermogenesis” - Denis Richard (Institut Universitaire de Cardiologie et de Pneumologie de Québec)

3:10 - 3:40  BREAK - Coffee / Tea / soft drinks / cookies

3:40 - 4:40 Learning and Anticipatory Control:   

Chair: Terry Powley (Department of Psychological Sciences, Purdue University)

3:40 - 4:00      ”Learning and unlearning appetitive behavior” - Mark E. Bouton (Department of Psychology, University of Vermont)

4:00 - 4:20      ”To eat or not to eat: A case of predictable ambiguity” - Terry Davidson (Department of Psychological Sciences, Purdue University)

4:20 - 4:40      ”Strain differences in taste aversion learning: Implication for animal models of drug abuse” - Anthony L. Riley (Psychopharmacology Laboratory, Department of Psychology, American University)

4:45 - 5:45 Keynote Address: 

“The dynamic origin of memory systems: A perspective based on contextual fear conditioning.” – Michael S. Fanselow (Department of Psychology, Brain Research Institute, UCLA)

5:45 - 6:00   Closing Comments - SCW reflects on his career