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Keep the Expert

In Keep the Expert, each expert is asked to present a new hypothesis that can address an open gap in the field. Two interrogators will be ready to help the experts sharpen their ideas, followed by a call to the crowd to contribute suggestions for experiments or tell us about their own observations that can support or challenge new theories. This is a mind-blowing session.


In this conference we will interrogate new theories in the following fields:


Mitochondria in the Heart -

Thursday December 7th 1:00-1:30 PM


Panelist:

Dale Abel, MD, PhD | Professor | UCLA


Interrogator:

Rajat Singh, MD | Professor | UCLA

Tamer Sallem, MD, PhD | Professor | UCLA


Mitochondria in Diabetes -

Thursday December 7th 1:30-2:00 PM


Panelist:

Richard Kibbey, MD PhD | Professor | Yale School of Medicine


Interrogator:

Orian Shirihai, MD, PhD, | Professor | UCLA

Marc Liesa, PhD, | Professor | Molecular Biology Institute of Barcelona (IBMB-CSIC)

Matthew Merrins, PhD, | Professor | University of Wisconsin-Madison


Mitochondria in Cancer -

Thursday December 7th 4:45 - 5:30PM


Panelist:

Nika Danial, PhD | Professor | Harvard University, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute


Interrogator:

Orian Shirihai, MD, PhD, | Professor | UCLA

Martin Picard, PhD | Professor | Columbia University

Slavica Tudzarova-Trajkovska, PhD, | Professor | UCLA


Mechanisms of Mitochondria Quality Control-

Thursday December 7th 4:45 - 5:30PM


Panelist:

Hagai Abeliovich, PhD | Professor | Hebrew University


Interrogator:

Orian Shirihai, MD, PhD, | Professor | UCLA

Thomas Langer, PhD, | Professor | Max Planck Institute


Mitochondria in Aging -

Friday December 8th 5:35 - 6:15PM


Panelists:

Jonathan Wanagat, MD, PhD | Professor | UCLA


Interrogator:

Anu Suomalainen, MD, PhD | Professor | University of Helsinki

Anthony Molina, PhD | Professor | UC San Diego

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