2017 Annual UC San Diego Rheumatic Diseases Research T32 Symposium Sponsored by the UC San Diego NIH/NIAMS Rheumatic Diseases Research T32 Training Grant for Postdoctoral Research Training Tuesday, Jan 31, 2017 Location: Med Education and Telemedicine Building, Room 145, UC San Diego Campus 8:00-08:15am Welcome, Introduction, History of the T32 Training Program, and Discussion of Mentoring of Postdoctoral Scholars in Rheumatic Diseases Research: Robert Terkeltaub MD Professor of Medicine, UC San Diego Division of Rheumatology, Allergy, and Immunology PI: UC San Diego NIH/NIAMS Rheumatic Diseases Research T32 Training Grant for Postdoctoral Research Training 8:15-08:30am Research in Rheumatoid Arthritis at UC San Diego Gary S. Firestein MD Dean, Translational Medicine, UC San Diego Professor of Medicine Division of Rheumatology, Allergy, and Immunology 08:30-08:45am Research in Rheumatic Disease Innate Immunity at UC San Diego Hal Hoffman, MD Professor of Medicine Chief, Division of Pediatric Allergy, Immunology, and Rheumatology 08:45-09:00am Research in Translational Immunology in the UC San Diego T32 Postdoctoral Training Program in Rheumatic Diseases Research Carl Ware, PhD Sanford-Burnham Prebys Discovery Institute 09:15-09:30am Research in Autoimmune Disease Computational Biology at UC San Diego Wei Wang, PhD Professor Department of Biochemistry 09:30-09:45am Research in Rheumatic Disease Epidemiology at UC San Diego Andrea Lacroix, PhD Department of Epidemiology 09:45-10:00am Break 10:00-10:15am Research in Rheumatic Disease Metabolomics at UC San Diego Monica Guma, MD, PhD Assistant Professor of Medicine Division of Rheumatology, Allergy, and Immunology 10:15-10:30am Research in Systemic Autoimmune Rheumatic Diseases at UC San Diego (including systemic lupus erythematosus and scleroderma) Nunzio Bottini MD, PhD Professor of Medicine Division of Rheumatology, Allergy, and Immunology 10:30-10:45am Research in Connective Tissue Biology at UC San Diego Ru Liu-Bryan, PhD Professor of Medicine Division of Rheumatology, Allergy, and Immunology Presentations by T32 Trainees: 10:45-11:00am: Dennis Wu PhD Talk title to be named later (Mentor: Nunzio Bottini) 11:00:11:15am: Meng Zhao, PhD NKT cells in autoimmunity (Mentor: Mitch Kronenberg) 11:15-11:30am: Angel Bottini, PhD, Epigenetics in RA (Mentor: Gary Firestein) 11:30-11:45am: Richard Virgen-Slane, PhD Innate immune signal transduction (Mentor: Carl Ware) 11:45-12:-00pm: Aladdin Shadyab, PhD Epidemiology of Osteoarthritis (Mentor: Andrea Lacroix) 12:00-12:15pm: Chelsey Smith MD, Birth defects in Rheumatic Diseases (Mentor: Christina Chambers) 12:15 Adjourn