The Next Frontier in Adipose Biology
Bridging Wisdom with Innovation
Our conference is a dynamic platform that unites scientists at all career stages, fostering collaboration, knowledge exchange and mentorship to propel groundbreaking advancements in mechanisms of adipose tissue biology.
Our Speakers
Bruce Spiegelman
Harvard University
André Carpentier
University of Sherbrooke
Carolyn Cummins
University of Toronto
André Marette
Laval University
Daniel Bernard
McGill University
Camilla Scheele
University of Copenhagen
David Guertin
University of Massachusetts
Evan Rosen
Beth Israel
Gareth Lim
Université of Montréal
Jae Bum Kim
Seoul National University
Jae Myoung Suh
Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology
Joseph Bass
Northwestern
Kristy Townsend
Ohio State University
Li Ye
Scripps Research Institute
Lori Zeltser
Columbia University
Mikael Ryden
Karolinska Institute
Paul Cohen
Rockefeller University
Rana Gupta
Duke University
Yu-Hua Tseng
Harvard University
Yuwei Jiang
University of Illinois Chicago
Zachary Gerhart-Hines
University of Copenhagen
Our Team
Lawrence Kazak, Ph.D.
McGill University
Associate Professor
Dr. Lawrence Kazak's research focuses on the molecular underpinnings controlling energy dissipation by adipocytes. In recent years, his lab has focused on a UCP1-independent pathway called the futile creatine cycle. Along with identifying the effector proteins of the futile creatine cycle, and their transcriptional regulation in vivo, the Kazak lab has generated genetic mouse models to explore the quantitative contribution of the futile creatine cycle to thermogenesis and has used structural and biochemical methods to elucidate its activation mechanism.
Jacqueline Beaudry, Ph.D.
University of Toronto
Assistant Professor
Dr. Beaudry’s lab focuses on trying to better understand how the body regulates energy homeostasis under hormonal stimuli, and energy demanding conditions and how abnormalities in these processes can lead to obesity and chronic disease development such as insulin resistance, dyslipidemia, and type 2 diabetes. In particular, her lab uses in vitro and in vivo tissue specific knockout mouse models to study how pancreatic, gut-derived and stress hormones regulate adipose tissue function and the effects this may have on other peripheral tissues regulating whole body energy metabolism.
Hoon-Ki Sung, M.D., Ph.D.
University of Toronto & SickKids Hospital
Associate Professor
Dr Sung received his M.D. from South Korea in 1997. In 2004, he obtained his Ph.D. in the Department of Clinical Oriented Anatomy and Functional Histology at the University of Yeungnam. Following his Ph.D., he did his postdoctoral research at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) in the laboratory of Dr Gou Young Koh. In 2006, he moved to Toronto and joined the laboratory of Dr Andras Nagy in the Tanenbaum-Lunenfeld Research Institute at Mount Sinai Hospital. In 2014, he established his laboratory in the Physiology and Experimental Medicine Program at the Hospital for Sick Children Research Institute. His main research interests include adipose biology and metabolism, angiogenesis, and stem cells.
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