Second Annual Symposium on Friday

The Arkansas Integrative Metabolic Research Center will host its Second Annual Symposium on Friday, Nov. 18, at the Donald W. Reynolds Center with presentations starting at 8:15 a.m. and a poster session at 2 p.m.

Anyone conducting work involving bioenergetics or metabolism is welcome and encouraged to attend! Registration is open until the end of the day Thursday.

Schedule of Events

Second Annual AIMRC Symposium, Donald W. Reynolds Center Auditorium

• 8:15 a.m. — Welcome and Opening Remarks, Kyle Quinn, AIMRC director

Session I: Keynote Presentations

• 8:30 a.m. — Francis Millett, U of A
  Role of cytochrome c in mitochondrial electron transport, regulation of energy production and apoptosis

• 9:20 a.m. — Bernard Choi, UC Irvine
  Optical approaches to study microvascular structure and function

• 10:20 a.m. — Craig Porter, UAMS
  Bioenergetics in health and disease: Linking whole-body energy metabolism to mitochondrial function

• 11:10 a.m. — Nükhet Aykin-Burns, UAMS
  Space radiation can rewire your mitochondria

Session II: AIMRC Research Project Leader Presentations

• 1 p.m. — Chenguang Fan
  The role of phosphorylation of isocitrate dehydrogenase in breast cancer

• 1:15 p.m. — Adam Paré
  Imaging the bioenergetics of epithelial remodeling during Drosophila development

• 1:30 p.m. — Isabelle R. Miousse
  The KRAS/methionine axis in cancer metabolism

• 1:45 p.m. — Young Hye Song
  Tissue engineering approaches to study cancer-nerve crosstalk

• 2-3:30 p.m. — Poster Session

Please contact Kimberley Fuller at fullerk@uark.edu with any questions or for more information. 

This event is supported by the NIGMS of the National Institutes of Health under Award Number P20GM139768. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health.