Time
Item
Location
9:30 – 9:40 AM
Opening Remarks: Dr. Deborah O’Connor
University Room
9:40 AM – 10:40 AM
Invited Speaker Address: Dr. Daniel Drucker
Senior Scientist, Sinai Health, Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute
Canada Research Chair in Regulatory Peptides and the Banting and best Diabetes Centre-Novo Nordisk Chair in Incretin Biology
Topic: “Next Generation GLP-1: New Mechanisms and Indications"
10:40 – 11:40 AM
Poster Presentations (Light refreshments available)
Terrace Room
11:40 – 12:25 PM
Post Doctoral Oral Presentations
12:25 – 1:25 PM
Lunch
1:25 – 2:25 PM
2:25 – 4:05 PM
Graduate Students Oral Presentations
4:05 – 4:30 PM
Break
4:30 – 5:30 PM
Presentation of Graduate Student Oral and Poster Awards and Undergraduate Awards
5:30 – 6:30 PM
6:30 – 7:30 PM
7:30 – 7:45 PM
Networking time (Research Day Speaker/EP speaker and Graduate students - Light refreshments available
Edna Park Lecture: Dr. Eileen Kennedy
Professor, Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, Tufts University
Title: "Transforming Food Systems: What Needs to be Done?"
Networking time (Alumni with EP speaker)