256 - Epigenetic regulation of metabolism: from bench to bedside

Session Chair(s)

• Sarah Hall

  Syracuse University

Session Co-Chair(s)

• Sonia Flores

  Univ of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus

This session will focus on how early-life adversity and stress at the genomic level influence susceptibility to diseases such as diabetes, metabolic syndrome and mental health that augment health disparities later in life. The sessions also will cover molecular resilience and how the genome is sufficiently dynamic to overcome these epigenetic roadblocks.

Who should attend: anyone interested in learning how genomic and subgenomic stresses early in life lead to adversity and health disparities later in life and how the genome is dynamic and can overcome some of these roadblocks.

Presentations:

• 9:15 AM – 9:45 AM

  Intergenerational Inheritance of Altered Metabolism Phenotypes After Early-life Stress in Caenorhabditis elegans
  

  Presenting Author: Sarah Hall – Syracuse University
• 9:45 AM – 10:15 AM

  Epigenetic Mediators of Risk for Metabolic Disease Across Generations
  

  Presenting Author: Mary Patti – Harvard Medical School
• 10:15 AM – 10:45 AM

  Early-life stress and epigenomic regulation of behavior
  

  Speaker: Julie-Anne Balouek – Princeton University
• 10:45 AM – 11:15 AM

  Live fast, die young: the role of epigenetics in stress and aging
  

  Speaker: Anthony Zannas – University of North Carolina