Educational Activities and Events

BBDC Seminar Series 2011-2012
In conjunction with City-wide Endocrine Rounds
8:00 - 9:00 a.m.
Mount Sinai Hospital, Lebovic Building
60 Murray Street, 3rd Floor Conference Room

An ongoing responsibility of the Centre is to invite researchers within Canada and the United States to present their work on diabetes research at our Seminar Series. To ensure a large attendance, seminars have been incorporated into the University of Toronto's City-wide Endocrine Rounds which are held on Friday mornings at the Mount Sinai Hospital. The BBDC will be hosting the following seminars at City-wide. Faculty wishing to meet with any of the visiting speakers should contact Dr. Tony Lam at tony.lam@uhnres.utoronto.ca :

Friday, October 21, 2011

Obesity: The Skinny on Fat Synthesis
Robert V. Farese, Jr., MD
Senior Investigator, Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease
Professor of Medicine, Biochemistry and Biophysics
University of California, San Francisco
Friday, February 24, 2012
New Date

Branched Chain Amino Acid Sensing in Diabetes
Christopher B. Newgard, PhD
Director, Sarah W. Stedman Nutrition and Metabolism Center
W. David and Sarah W. Stedman Distinguished Professor
Duke University Medical Center

Friday, April 20, 2012

Regulation of Glucose Homeostasis by the Bone
Gerard Karsenty, MD, PhD
Professor and ChairDepartment of Genetics and Development
Columbia University Medical Center

The full City-wide Endocrine Rounds (CWER) schedule can be viewed on the U of T Division of Endocrinology & Metabolism website at http://www.endocrinology.utoronto.ca under Quick Links.

If your organization wishes to support our seminar series, please contact:
Rose LaBarbera
Banting & Best Diabetes Centre
Phone: (416) 978-4656    E-mail: diabetes.bbdc@utoronto.ca