2018
2018 Fifth Annual Lipids@Wayne Symposium
Thank you to everyone who attended the Fifth Annual Lipids@Wayne Symposium on May 2, 2018. We hope you had a wonderful day of stimulating scientific discussion. Congratulations to our three poster winners listed below.
Poster Winners
1st place
Rayanne Burl: Deconstructing in vivo adipogenesis with single-cell expression profiling
2nd place
Matthew Fountain: Isoflavones increase radiation-induced apoptosis and modify proinflammatory signaling in EAhy926 endothelial cells
3rd place
Wenjia Lou: A novel role for cardiolipin remodeling in mitigating the effects of cardiolipin peroxidation
Featured speakers
Keynote Speaker
Charles N. Serhan, Ph.D., D.Sc. - Professor, Harvard University and Brigham & Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA - Talk Title: "Pro-Resolving Mediators in Infectious Inflammation and Tissue Regeneration"
Plenary Speakers
Floyd H. Chilton, Ph.D. - Professor, Department of Physiology & Pharmacology, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC - Talk Title: "Precision Nutrition and Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids: A Case for Personalized Dietary Approaches for the Prevention and Management of Human Inflammatory Diseases"
Susan Henry, Ph.D. - Professor, Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY - Talk Title: "The Multifaceted Roles of Phosphatidic Acid in Lipid Metabolism, Signaling and Gene Regulation in Yeast"
Anne K. Kenworthy, Ph.D. - Professor, Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN - Talk Title: "Membrane Domain Biogenesis and Function"
Jerry L. Nadler, M.D. - Professor, Eastern Virginia Medical School, Norfolk, VA - Talk Title: "12-Lipooxygenase: A Promising Target for Diabetes Prevention and Treatment"