meeting logo= Imaging the Pancreatic Beta Cell
meeting logo April 24-25, 2006
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Sponsored by:
  • The National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Dieseases (NIDDK)
  • The National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB)
  • The National Cancer Institute (NCI)
  • The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)
  • National Institutes of Health (NIH)
  • Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS)
  • Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation International (JDRFI)
   
Monday, April 24, 2006

7:00 a.m. - 8:00 a.m. Breakfast, Registration, and Poster Mounting
   
8:00 a.m. - 8:05 a.m. Welcome
Dr. Maren Laughlin, NIDDK
Dr. Roderic Pettigrew, NIBIB
Dr. Robert Goldstein, JDRFI
   
8:05 a.m. - 8:15 a.m. Welcome and Overview From the Workshop Chairs
Co-Chairs
Dr. Anna Moore, Massachusetts General Hospital
Dr. Alvin Powers, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Dr. David Harlan, NIDDK
   
8:15 a.m. - 8:35 a.m. Islet Biology 101: Diabetes and the Pancreas
Dr. Susan Bonner-Weir, Joslin Diabetes Center
   
8:35 a.m. - 8:55 a.m. The History and Future of Islet and Beta Cell Imaging
Dr. Willy Malaisse, Brussels Free University
   
   
   
 Session I: Imaging Transplantation
   
8:55 a.m. - 9:00 a.m. Brief Introduction
Dr. David Harlan, NIDDK
   
9:00 a.m. - 9:20 a.m. Molecular Imaging of Transplantation
Dr. Anna Moore, Massachusetts General Hospital
   
9:20 a.m. - 9:40 a.m. Break and Posters
   
9:40 a.m. - 9:55 a.m. Imaging Islet Transplantation
Dr. František Saudek, Institute for Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Prague
   
9:55 a.m. - 10:10 a.m. Imaging Porcine Allo Islet Transplantation Using Positron Emission Tomography
Dr. Torbjorn Lundgren, Karolinska University Hospital
   
10:10 a.m. - 10:25 a.m. In Vivo Bioluminescence Imaging of Transplanted Islets and Early Detection of Graft Rejection
Dr. Xiaojuan Chen, Northwestern University
   
10:25 a.m. - 10:40 a.m. In Vivo MR Imaging of Transplanted Pancreatic Islets
Ellen K. Kohlmeir, Northwestern University
   
10:40 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. Panel Discussion
Moderator: Dr. David Harlan, NIDDK
   
11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. Lunch (Posters are available for viewing)
   
   
   
 Session II: Imaging Islet Mass
   
1:00 p.m. - 1:20 p.m. General Considerations for PET and Molecular Imaging
Dr. Ian Sweet, University of Washington
   
1:20 p.m. - 1:40 p.m. Longitudinal Non-Invasive PET-Based Beta Cell Mass Estimates in a Spontaneous Diabetes Rat Model
Dr. Paul Harris, Columbia University Medical College
   
1:40 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. Imaging Islet Mass with Bioluminescence
Dr. Alvin Powers, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
   
2:00 p.m. - 2:15 p.m. Dihydrotetrabenazine as an Imaging Agent for Endogenous Human and Non-Human Primate Pancreatic Islets
Dr. Eric H. Liu, NIDDK
   
2:15 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. Mapping and Quantification of the Entire Distribution of Beta Cells in the Intact Pancreas
Dr. Manami Hara, The University of Chicago
   
2:30 p.m. - 3:15 p.m. Panel Discussion
Moderator: Dr. Susan Bonner-Weir, Joslin Diabetes Center, Harvard Medical School
   
3:15 p.m. - 3:45 p.m. Break and Posters
   
   
   
 Session III: Imaging Metabolism and Physiology
   
3:45 p.m. - 4:05 p.m. PET in Diagnosis of Focal Hyperinsulinism and Pancreatic Metabolism
Dr. Pirjo Nuutila, University of Turku, Finland
   
4:05 p.m. - 4:20 p.m. Imaging of Congenital Hyperinsulinism With 18F-L-Fluoro-DOPA PET and Correlation With Histopathology
Dr. Abass Alavi, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
   
4:20 p.m. - 4:40 p.m. Cell Imaging of the Islet
Dr. Louis Philipson, The University of Chicago
   
4:40 p.m. - 4:55 p.m. Imaging Insulin Biology With Ins-C-Fluorescent Proteins in Live Human and Mouse Islets: Insulin Traffic, Secretion
and Diabetes Through the Microscope
Dr. Peter Drain, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
   
4:55 p.m. - 5:10 p.m. 3D Structure Studies of the Insulin-Secreting Pancreatic Beta Cell by Cellular EM Tomography
Dr. Brad Marsh, University of Queensland, Brisbane
   
5:10 p.m. - 5:45 p.m. Panel Discussion
Moderator: Dr. Alvin Powers, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
   
  (Poster viewing open until 6:30 p.m.)
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Tuesday, April 25, 2006

   
 Session IV: Imaging Inflammation
   
8:00 a.m. - 8:20 a.m. Imaging Inflammation
Dr. Chris Contag, Stanford University
   
8:20 a.m. - 8:35 a.m. Non-Invasive Imaging of Pancreatic Inflammation in Type 1 Diabetes
Dr. Jason L. Gaglia, Joslin Diabetes Center, Harvard Medical School
   
8:35 a.m. - 8:50 a.m. Real Time Imaging of the Pancreas During Development of Diabetes
Marianne M. Martinic, La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology
   
8:50 a.m. - 9:05 a.m. Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Autoimmune Attack in Type 1 Diabetes Progression
Dr. Zdravka Medarova, Massachusetts General Hospital
   
9:05 a.m. - 9:40 a.m. Panel Discussion
Moderator: Dr. Anna Moore, Massachusetts General Hospital
   
9:40 a.m. - 11:40 a.m. Posters
   
11:40 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. Lunch
   
   
   
 Session V: Emerging Technologies and Opportunities
   
1:00 p.m. - 1:20 p.m. Emerging Technologies: Optical Imaging
Dr. Warren Zipfel, Cornell University
   
1:20 p.m. - 1:40 p.m. Emerging Technologies: Functional Imaging
Dr. Douglas Rothman, Yale University
   
1:40 p.m. - 2:15 p.m. Emerging Technologies: New Probes and Contrast Agents
Dr. Dean Sherry, University of Texas, Dallas
Dr. Paul Grayburn, Baylor University Medical Center
Dr. Jeff Bulte, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
   
2:15 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. Development and Application of New Fluorescent Probes To Localize Proteins in Live Cells and at the Ultrastructural
Level
Dr. Ben N.G. Giepmans, University of California, San Diego
   
2:30 p.m. - 2:45 p.m. MR Microscopy of Mammalian Islets
Dr. Ioannis Constantinidis, University of Florida, Gainesville
   
2:45 p.m. - 3:15 p.m. Panel Discussion
Moderator: Dr. Louis Philipson, The University of Chicago
   
3:15 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. Wrap-Up and Adjournment
Dr. David Harlan
   
   
   
   

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