2019-2020 GI Research Conferences

DatePresenterTitle
9/11/2019CLOUSE LECTURER:
Yuri A. Saito Loftus, MD
Mayo Clinic
12th Annual Ray E. Clouse Visiting Professor of Excellence
IBS and Diet: Fact Versus Fad?
9/13/2019ASW:
Rodney Newberry, MD
Deborah Rubin, MD
Matt Ciorba, MD
Using the DDRCC Cores to Advance your Scientific Research Program
9/20/2019Jason Mills, MD, PhDMechanisms that Mediate Metaplasia: the Conserved Cellular Program of Paligenosis
9/27/2019Gwen Randolph, PhDLymphatic Vessel Transport in Small Bowel Crohn’s Disease
10/4/2019William Stenson, MDIntestinal Growth, Wound Repair and Radioprotection, a Unifying Mechanism
10/11/2019Marco Colonna, MDCircadian Clock and Gut Immune Responses
10/18/2019Jonathan Miner, MD, PhDSTING-Mediated Sensing of Commensals During Autoimmunity
10/24/2019ALPERS LECTURER:
Gail Hecht, MD
Loyola University Chicago
21st ANNUAL DAVID ALPERS LECTURE
Location: Clopton Auditorium,
Time: 8:00AM
Title: Enteropathogenic E. coli (EPEC) in developed countries: What does it mean?
10/25/2019Jae-Sung Kim, PhDAutophagy in Ischemic Aged Livers
11/1/2019CANCELEDGALAXY OF GI
11/8/2019Devesha Kulkarni, PhD
Brigida Rusconi, PhD
Kulkarni: Crohn’s Disease- Associated Dysbiotic Microbiota Alter Intestinal Immune Cell Composition in a Goblet Cell-Dependent Manner
Rusconi: Early Life Exposure to Antibiotics and Tolerance to Dietary Antigens
11/15/2019Rajan Sah, MD, PhDDysfunctional Adipocyte Mechano-Sensing Contributes to non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease
11/22/2019Chyi-Song Hsieh, MD, PhDHost Commensal Immune Interactions
11/29/2019CANCELEDTHANKSGIVING
12/6/2019Brian Finck, PhDTargeting Intermediary Metabolism to Understand and Treat Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease
12/13/2019GURTNER LECTURER:
Jonathan Jacobs, MD, PhD
University of California, LA
15th ANNUAL GREGORY GURTNER MEMORIAL LECTURE
Location: CSRB-NTA, Rm 901 (Alpers Conference Room)
Time: 12:00pm
Title: Defining a Pre-disease Microbial Risk State for Inflammatory Bowel Disease
12/20/2019

Ramon Jin, MD, PhD

Michael Thompson, MD, PhD

Jin: Patient-Derived Organoids to Study Barrett’s Esophagus and Esophageal Carcinogenesis
Thompson: Generational Transmission of Liver Disease Due to Parental Obesogenic Diet Exposure
12/27/2019CANCELEDHOLIDAY
1/3/2020CANCELEDHOLIDAY
1/10/2020Mike Diamond, MD, PhDNeurotropic Flaviviruses cause Gastrointestinal Tract Dysmotility
1/17/2020ASW Seminar:
Parakkal Deepak, MBBS, MS
Matt Ciorba, MD
Networking and Social Media Tools and Skillsets to Advance your Academic Career in Gastroenterology
1/24/2020William Hawkins, MD, FACSME-1 Deficiency Presents an Opportunity for Cancer Therapy
1/31/2020Rodney Newberry, MDThe Immune System’s Interactions With Dietary Antigens And Gut Microbes
2/7/2020Juanita Merchant, MD, PHD
University of Arizona, Tucson
DDRCC VISITING SPEAKER
Impact of Pro-inflammatory Cytokines on Gastrin-Mediated Acid Secretion: Implications for Helicobacter infection in the Antrum
2/14/2020Matthew Ciorba, MDTryptophan Metabolism in Colon Cancer: Mechanisms and Therapeutic Interventions
2/21/2020David Rudnick, MD, PhDUnexpected Lessons Learned From Studying Metabolic Influences on alpha-1 Antitrypsin Deficiency Liver Disease
2/28/2020Nicholas Davidson, MD, DScVLDL Secretion Defects in the Pathogenesis of Hepatocellular Cancer
3/6/2020ASW Seminar:
Jason Mills, MD, PhD
Academic Skills Workshop: Anecdotes and Advice Towards Publishing and Flourishing
3/13/2020CANCELED 
3/20/2020CANCELEDSPRING BREAK
3/27/2020CANCELEDTBD
4/3/2020CANCELEDCANCELED
4/10/2020CANCELEDCANCELED
4/17/2020CANCELEDCANCELED
4/24/2020Spencer Willet, PhDDynamics of Gastric Proliferation and Differentiation During Homeostasis and Injury
5/1/2020Ta-Chiang Liu, MD, PhDWestern diet modulation of Paneth cells
5/8/2020Jose Saenz, MD, PhDEstablishing the Gastric Metaplastic Milieu: Host and Pathogen Perspectives.
5/15/2020Yatrik Shah, PhD
University of Michigan
DDRCC “ZOOM VISITING” SPEAKER
Title: Decoding cellular networks of iron in health and disease
5/22/2020P&F Awardees:
Kim Liss, MD
Jim White, PhD
Liss: Monoacylglycerol acyltransferase 1 knockdown exacerbates hepatic ischemia-reperfusion injury in mice with hepatic steatosis
White: West Nile virus-Induced Changes to the Host Microbiota Modulates Gastrointestinal Function
5/29/2020Jeff Brown, MD, PhDSulfated Lewis Antigens:
A Post-translational Modification that Controls Cellular Dedifferentiation
6/5/2020GI Fellows:
Ben Rogers, MD
Aymen AlMuhaidb, MD
Farhan Quader, MD
Rogers: Number of Reflux Episodes on pH impedance Monitoring and GERD Symptom Outcome
AlMuhaidb: Comparison of the Efficacy and Safety of the FDA-Approved Intragastric Balloon Systems in a Clinical Setting
Quader: Contraction Reserve with Ineffective Esophageal Motility on Esophageal High Resolution Manometry (HRM) is Associated With Lower Acid Exposure Times Compared to Absent Contraction Reserve
6/12/2020GI Fellows:
Rebecca Roediger, MD
Rajeev Ramgopal, MD
Mike Weaver, MD
Roediger: Comparison of two Ready-To-Use Supplementary Foods (RUSF) in the treatment of moderate acute malnutrition (MAM)
Ramgopal:
Focal Neurologic Signs in Hepatic Encephalopathy are Predictors of Structural Brain Lesions
Weaver:
Clinical Outcomes and Endoscopist’s Perception of the
use of Hemospray for Gastrointestinal Bleeding: Outcomes from a US Academic Tertiary Care Medical
Center
6/17/2020Shatz Lecturer –
Grace Elta, MD
University of Michigan
The 21th Annual Burton A. Shatz Visiting Professor
ZOOM Conference
Time: 5:00PM
Talk Title: Diagnosis and Management of Pancreatic Cysts