The Arkansas Integrative Metabolic Research Center will host its fourth annual symposium on Thursday, Nov. 7, in the Arkansas Union's Verizon Ballroom with presentations starting at 8:15 a.m. and poster sessions at 10:30 a.m. and at 2:10 p.m.

Anyone conducting work involving bioenergetics or metabolism is welcome and encouraged to attend! Registration is appreciated and is open until the end of the day Tuesday, Nov. 5.

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

• Welcome and opening remarks, Kyle Quinn, AIMRC director – 8:15 a.m.

Session I

• Nic Greene, U of A — 8:30 a.m.
  Biological sex divergence in the onset, phenotype and mechanisms of cancer-induced cachexia
• Chenguang Fan, U of A — 9:30 a.m.
  The role of phosphorylation of isocitrate hydrogenase in breast cancer
• Jian Zhang, U of A — 9:50 a.m.
  Investigating the bioenergetics of tumor cell clustering and cell-cell interactions
• Poster session — 10:30 a.m.

Session II

• Alan Tackett, UAMS — 12:30 p.m.
  Leveraging the NIH IDeA Program for Capacity Building in Arkansas
• Isabelle Miousse, UAMS — 1:30 p.m.
  Dietary methionine restriction as a therapeutic strategy for metastatic melanoma
• Xuan Zhuang, U of A — 1:50 p.m.
  Unraveling Gene-Environment Interactions Shaping Metabolism: A Multi-Omics Analysis in Drosophila
• Poster competition — 2:10 p.m.

Please contact Kimberley Fuller at fullerk@uark.edu with 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.