Tentative Meeting Agenda
02/19/2024
10:00 AM - 5:30 PM: Registration
12:00PM - 1:30PM: Lunch
1:30 PM - 1:45 PM: Opening Remarks
Alberto Pugliese, MD, Mark Atkinson PhD, and Carmella Evans-Molina MD, PhD
nPOD Executive Directors
1:45 PM - 3:00 PM: Cutting Edge Seminar I: Differences in T1D Diagnosis between Children and Adults
Co-Chairs: TBA
Characteristics of T1D in Children and Adults (1:45 PM – 2:10 PM)
Presenter: Kathleen Gillespie, PhD
Age and Genetic Correlates With Type 1 Diabetes (2:10 PM – 2:35 PM)
Presenter: Nick Thomas, PhD
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Considering Age in Immune Correlates of Response (2:35 PM – 3:00 PM)
Presenter: Alice Long, PhD
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3:00 PM - 3:45 PM: Discussion Session I: Differences in T1D Diagnosis between Children and Adults
Led by: TBA
3:45 PM - 4:15 PM: Networking Break
4:15 PM - 5:30 PM: Cutting Edge Seminar II: Prohormone or Post Translational Antigenic Processing Defects in the T1D Pancreas
Co-Chairs: TBA
Prohormone Processing Defects in T1D (4:15 PM – 4:40 PM)
Presenter: Peter Arvan, MD PhD
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Quantification of Beta Cells by DNA Methylation (4:40 PM – 5:05 PM)
Presenter: Zeina Drawshy, MS
Oxidized Insulin Epitopes in T1D (5:05 PM – 5:30 PM)
Presenter: Rocky Strollo, MD PhD
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5:30 PM - 6:15 PM: Discussion Session II: Prohormone or Post Translational Antigenic Processing Defects in the T1D Pancreas
Led by: TBA
6:15PM - 6:30PM: Networking Break
6:30 PM - 7:15 PM: George Eisenbarth Memorial Lecture
Interdicting Type 1 Diabetes – A 40 Year Perspective
Presenter: Jay Skyler, MD
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7:15 PM - 8:15 PM: Reception
Light hors d’oeuvres provided
8:15 PM: Dinner (on your own)
02/20/2024
7:30 AM - 4:30 PM: Registration
7:00 AM - 8:30 AM: Breakfast
7:30 AM - 8:30 AM: Special Breakfast Meeting: Value vs. Environmental Impact of In-Person Scientific Meetings Moving Forward
Led by: Mark Huising, PhD
8:30 AM - 9:15 AM: Keynote Speaker
Atoms Up – Targets to Treatments
Presenter: John Williams, PhD
9:15 AM - 10:30 AM: Cutting Edge Seminar III: The Role of the Exocrine Pancreas in T1D Development
Co-Chairs: TBA
Exocrine Pancreas in T1D: Gene Expression Studies (9:15 AM – 9:40 AM)
Presenter: Kyle Gaulton, PhD
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Exocrine Pancreas Development: Any Alterations in T1D? (9:40 AM – 10:05 AM)
Presenter: Marcella Brissova, PhD
Functional Assessment of Exocrine Function in T1D (10:05 AM – 10:30 AM)
Presenter: Stephan Speier, PhD
10:30 AM - 11:15 AM: Discussion Session III: The Role of the Exocrine Pancreas in T1D Development
Led by: TBA
11:15 AM - 11:45 AM: Networking Break
11:45 AM - 12:15 PM: Oral Abstracts I
Co-Chairs: TBA
TBA (11:45 AM – 11:55 AM)
Presenter: TBA
TBA (11:55 AM – 12:05 PM)
Presenter: TBA
TBA (12:05 PM – 12:15 PM)
Presenter: TBA
12:15PM - 12:45PM: Questions Asked and Lessons Learned from HIRN HPAP T1D
Led by: Klaus Kaestner, PhD
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12:45 PM - 1:30 PM: Lunch
1:30 PM - 3:10 PM: Cutting Edge Seminar IV: In Vivo and In Vitro Translational Studies to Advance Therapies for T1D
Co-Chairs: TBA
Pancreas Slice Live Tissue Platforms Overview, Pros and Cons, Ongoing & Potential Applications I (1:30 PM – 1:55 PM)
Presenter: Julia Panzer, PhD
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Ongoing & Potential Applications II (1:55 PM – 2:20 PM)
Presenter: Ed Phelps, PhD
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Artificial Organ Platforms for T1D (2:20 PM – 2:45 PM)
Presenter: TBA
Advanced Humanized Mice Platforms for Modeling T1D and Response to Therapy (2:45 PM – 3:10 PM)
Presenter: Audrey Parent, PhD
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3:10 PM - 3:55 PM: Discussion Session IV: In Vivo and In Vitro Translational Studies to Advance Therapies for T1D
Led by: TBA
3:55 PM - 4:25 PM: Networking Break
4:25 PM - 5:05 PM: Oral Abstracts II
Co-Chairs: TBA
TBA (4:25 PM – 4:35 PM)
Presenter: TBA
TBA (4:35 PM – 4:45 PM)
Presenter: TBA
TBA (4:45 PM – 4:55 PM)
Presenter: TBA
TBA (4:55 PM – 5:05 PM)
Presenter: TBA
5:05 PM - 7:00 PM: Free Time/Networking
Includes annual meeting photos during California sunset
Sunset predicted at 5:41 PM – please meet at 5:30 PM
Organized by: Alberto Pugliese, MD
7:00 PM - 10:00 PM: Dinner, Awards Ceremony & nPOD Talent Show
02/21/2024
7:00 AM - 8:30 AM: Breakfast
7:30 AM - 8:30 AM: Special Breakfast Meeting: Women Inspiring and Elevating Leadership in Diabetes (WEILD)
Led by: Jessica Dunne and Amelia Linnemann
8:30 AM - 10:10 AM: Cutting Edge Seminar V: β- and Islet-Cell Specific Targets
Co-Chairs: TBA
Many Antigen Targets, Which Ones Matter? (8:30 AM – 8:55 AM)
Presenter: Roberto Mallone, MD PhD
Antigen Specific Cell Therapies (8:55 AM – 9:20 AM)
Presenter: Qizhi Tang, PhD
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Autoantigens and Neoantigens: Current Status and Relevance to Prediction and Prevention (9:20 AM – 9:45 AM)
Presenter: Aaron Michels, MD
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Progress on TCR Discovery Efforts (9:45 AM – 10:10 AM)
Presenter: TBA
10:10 AM - 10:55 AM: Discussion Session V: β- and Islet-Cell Specific Targets
Led by: TBA
10:55 AM - 11:25 AM: Break
11:25 AM - 12:55 PM: Shark Tank
Shark Tank III (now with Piranhas)
Sharks: TBA
Piranhas: TBA
TBA (11:25 AM – 11:40 AM)
TBA (11:40 AM – 11:55 AM)
TBA (11:55 AM – 12:10 PM)
TBA (12:10 PM – 12:25 PM)
Audience Response (12:25 PM – 12:55 PM)
12:55 PM - 2:00 PM: Lunch
2:00 PM - 2:30 PM: Hot Topic: Progress in Understanding Beta Cell Functional Heterogeneity (CD63 et al)
Led by: Mark Huising, PhD
2:30 PM - 3:45 PM: Cutting Edge Seminar VI: How Can nPOD studies Better Guide Clinical Trials Seeking to Understand Disease and Racial Diversity?
Co-Chairs: TBA
Racial Diversity in T1D Clinical Trials (2:30 PM – 2:55 PM)
Presenter: Susanne Cabrera, MD
Racial Diversity in T1D Versus T2D (Lessons from Discover Study) (2:55 PM – 3:20 PM)
Presenter: Maria Redondo MD, PhD, MPH
T1D Racial Diversity: Lessons From the TEDDY Study (3:20 PM – 3:45 PM)
Presenter: Kendra Vehik, PhD, MPH
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3:45 PM - 4:30 PM: Discussion Session VI: How Can nPOD studies Better Guide Clinical Trials Seeking to Understand Disease and Racial Diversity?
Led by: TBA
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM: Networking Break
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM: Poster Session
Hors d’oeuvres provided
8:00 PM: Dinner (on your own)
02/22/2024
7:00 AM - 9:00 AM: Breakfast & Checkout
Hotel checkout is 11 AM.
If checking out today, please bring luggage to the back of the meeting room for the remainder of the meeting.
7:30 AM - 8:30 AM: Special Breakfast Meeting
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM: Oral Abstracts III
Co-Chairs: TBA
TBA (9:00 AM – 9:10 AM)
Presenter: TBA
TBA (9:10 AM – 9:20 AM)
Presenter: TBA
TBA (9:20 AM – 9:30 AM)
Presenter: TBA
TBA (9:30 AM – 9:40 AM)
Presenter: TBA
TBA (9:40 AM – 9:50 AM)
Presenter: TBA
TBA (9:50 AM – 10:00 AM)
Presenter: TBA
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM: Break
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM: What questions were not asked that should have been asked?
Co-Chairs: TBA
11:00 AM - 11:15 PM: End of Meeting Remarks
Alberto Pugliese, MD, Mark Atkinson PhD, and Carmella Evans-Molina MD PhD
nPOD Executive Directors