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2026
Time Session 8:00 - 8:30 Registration + Coffee 8:30 - 8:40 Welcoming Remarks
Nima Sharifi, M.D.
Session 1: Metabolic Interventions in Human Health and Disease
8:40 - 9:30 Interventional Cardiac Metabolic Pathophysiology
Zoltan Pierre Arany, M.D., Ph.D.
9:30 - 10:00 Ketogenic Fasting Interventions in Prostate Cancer
Laura Sena, M.D., Ph.D.
10:00 - 10:30 Morning Break 10:30 - 11:00 Fatty Acid Synthase Inhibition Clinical Studies in Prostate Cancer
Massimo Loda, M.D.
11:00 - 11:30 Metabolic Health and Prostate Cancer Survivorship
Alicia Morgans, M.D., M.P.H.
11:30 - 1:00 Lunch Session 2: Prostate Cancer Metabolism
1:00 - 1:30 Androgen Production, Uptake, and Conversion Enzymes in CRPC
Charles Ryan, M.D.
1:30 - 2:00 Alternative Androgen Synthesis Pathways in Prostate Cancer
Nima Sharifi, M.D.
2:00 - 2:30 Pyruvate Kinase is a Therapeutic Target in Prostate Cancer
Daniel Schmidt, M.D., Ph.D.
2:30 - 3:00 A Stress-Adaptive Lipid Kinase Axis Defines Metabolic Vulnerabilities in Neuroendocrine Prostate Cancer
Yuanyuan Qiao, Ph.D.
3:00 - 3:30 Afternoon Break Session 3: Metabolic Mechanisms and Approaches
3:30 - 4:00 Targeting Metabolism in Prostate Cancer
Shaun Stauffer, Ph.D.
4:00 - 4:30 Dark GPCRs and Mitochondrial Transport
Daniel Isom, Ph.D.
4:30 - 5:00 Ketone-body Dependent Post Translational Modifications
Zhipeng Wang, Ph.D.
5:00 Closing Remarks
Nima Sharifi, M.D.
5:00 - 8:00 Poster Session and Reception -
2025
Time Session 8:00 AM - 8:30 AM Coffee and Registration Session 1: Metabolism in Human Health and Disease
8:30 AM - 8:45 AM Welcoming remarks
Nima Sharifi, M.D.
8:45 AM - 9:30 AM Mitochondrial Dynamics and Cardiometabolic Disease
Dale Abel, M.D., Ph.D.
9:30 AM - 10:00 AM Insulin Regulation of Bile Acid Physiology
Rebecca Haeusler, Ph.D.
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM Morning Break 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM Metformin Intervention in STAMPEDE
Silke Gillessen, M.D.
11:00 AM - 11:30 PM Human Steroid Metabolism Phenotypes
Nima Sharifi, M.D.
11:30 PM - 12:00 PM Muscle Metabolic Alterations with Physical Activity and Disuse
Blake Rasmussen, Ph.D.
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM Lunch Session 2: Dietary Interventions to Combat Metabolic Dysfunction
1:30 PM - 2:00 PM Dietary Interventions and Nutrient Availability in Cancer Progression
Evan Lien, Ph.D.
2:00 PM - 2:30 PM Nutritional Strategies to Improve Metabolic Health and Potentially Longevity
Eric Ravussin, Ph.D.
2:30 PM - 3:00 PM A ketone shunt generates anti-obesity ketone metabolites
Maria Dolores Moya Garzon, Ph.D.
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM Afternoon Break Session 3: Approaches for Studying Human Metabolism
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM Spatial Imaging of Metabolites Paired with Transcript and Peptide Imaging
Erin Seeley, Ph.D.
4:00 PM - 4:30 PM Toward Single Cell Resolution for Mass Spectrometry Metabolite Imaging
Jens Soltwisch, Ph.D.
4:30 PM - 5:00 PM Physiomimetic Microsystems for Studying Metabolism
Ashutosh Agarwal, Ph.D.
5:00 PM - 8:00 PM Poster Session & Reception -
2024
Time Session 7:30 AM - 8:00 AM Coffee & Registration 8:00 AM - 8:15 AM Welcoming Remarks
Nima Sharifi, University of Miami
Session 1: Normal Metabolism and the Diversity of Human Metabolic Phenotypes
8:15 AM - 10:15 AM Overarching Perspectives on Metabolism
Ralph DeBerardinis, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, UT Southwestern
Opportunities for Studying Diverse Populations in Miami
Brandon Mahal, University of Miami
Prostate Cancer and Genetic Ancestry in Jamaican Men
Chad Ritch, University of Miami
10:15 AM - 10:45 AM Morning Break Session 2: What Happens When Metabolism Goes Awry?
10:45 AM - 12:30 PM Metabolic Adverse Effects of Hormonal Therapy
Alicia Morgans, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School
Metabolic Stress in Men Training for the Special Forces
Harris Lieberman, Department of Defense
Effects of Stress and Hormonal Therapy on Steroid Metabolism
Nima Sharifi, University of Miami
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM Lunch Session 3: How Can We Favorably Modify Human Metabolism?
1:30 PM - 3:30 PM Time Restricted Eating as a Method to Optimize Metabolism
Satchidananda Panda, Salk Institute
Mechanistic Consequences of Amino Acid Deprivation on Translation
Alicia Darnell, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Dietary Interventions with Cancer Therapy
Marcus Goncalves, Weill Cornell Medicine
Regulation of an Exercise-Inducible Appetite Suppressant
Shuke Xiao, Stanford University
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM Afternoon Break Session 4: Approaches for the Study of Human Metabolism
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM Spatial Resolution of Carbohydrate Metabolism
Ramon Sun, University of Florida
Imaging Metabolic Dependence of the Myc Oncogene
Peter Kreuzaler, University of Cologne
Molecular Mapping at Cellular Resolution with Multimodal Imaging Mass Spectrometry
Jeffrey Spraggins, Vanderbilt University
Emerging Approaches for the Study of Metabolomics in Humans
Gary Patti, Washington University
6:00 PM Closing Remarks and Adjourn Evening Cocktail Social