Invited Speakers

Special Session for Young Investigators and Post-docs:

“Combining Clinical and Translational Research in Endocrinology”
An informal meeting with Dr. Dolores Shoback, a leading clinical/translational investigator who has also served as President of the ASBMR and leader of multiple guideline panels. She will share her perspective on combining translational perspectives with clinical investigation; this should be of interest both to patient-based and laboratory-based investigators.

Keynote Speakers:

“Dysregulation of Skeletal Matrix and Cell signaling in Human Skeletal Dysplasias”
Brendan Lee, M.D., Ph.D.
Robert and Janice McNair Endowed Chair in Molecular and Human Genetics
Professor and Chairman
Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine

“Translational Studies of the Calcium-Sensing Receptor in the Parathyroid Gland and Bone”
Dolores Shoback, M.D.
Professor of Medicine, University of California San Francisco
Department of Endocrine Research, San Francisco VA Medical Center

Pilot and Feasibility Studies Speakers:

“The effects of caloric restriction on bone formation and mTOR signaling”
Frank C. Ko, Ph.D.
Instructor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Assistant in Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital

“Targeting sclerostin in multiple myeloma-induced bone disease”
Michaela Reagan, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Tufts University School of Medicine
Faculty Scientist I, Maine Medical Center Research Institute

Poster Winners

Student Category
Eileen Daley, PhD student
Institution: Boston University School of Dental Medicine
Title: Incretin Dysregulation of Lysyl Oxidase: A Novel Mechanisms for Diabetic Osteopenia
Early Investigator
Carolyne Falank, PhD
Institution: Maine Medical Center Research Institute
Title: New Bone Cell Type Identified as Driver of Drug Resistance in Multiple Myeloma: The Bone Marrow Adipocyte
Other: Everyone else – This category resulted in a tie.
Terence Capellini, PhD
Institution: Harvard UniversityTitle: When Evolution Hurts: Height, Osteoarthritis, and the Regulation of GDF5