| Sunday, April 6, 2008 | ||
| 15:00:00 | Registration | |
| 18:30:00 | Refreshments | |
| 19:30:00 | Keynote Session (Joint) | Andrew Hattersley, Mark A. Magnuson, Christopher B. Newgard |
| Monday, April 7, 2008 | ||
| 07:00:00 | Breakfast | |
| 08:00:00 | Stem Cells and Optimization of Beta Cell Function to Transplantation (Joint) | Douglas A. Melton, Klaus H. Kaestner, Claes B. Wollheim, Frances M. Ashcroft, Christopher B. Newgard |
| 09:20:00 | Coffee Break | |
| 11:00:00 | Poster Setup | |
| 13:00:00 | Poster Viewing | |
| 16:30:00 | Coffee Available | |
| 17:00:00 | Understanding and Controlling Autoimmunity | Shira Y. Perl, Thomas W. Kay, Arlene H. Sharpe, E. William St. Clair, David M. Harlan |
| 17:00:00 | Transcriptional Networks that Regulate Islet Function | Chutima Talchai, Raghu G. Mirmira, Roland W. Stein, Doris A. Stoffers |
| 19:00:00 | Social Hour w/ Lite Bites | |
| 19:30:00 | Poster Session 1 | |
| Tuesday, April 8, 2008 | ||
| 07:00:00 | Breakfast | |
| 08:00:00 | Pancreas Development – Transcription \ Factors | Harry Heimberg, Victoria E. Prince, Helena Edlund, Lori Sussel, Ray J. MacDonald |
| 08:00:00 | Metabolic Control of Insulin Secretion | Samuel B. Stephens, Leslie Ann Caromile, Christopher B. Newgard, Charles A. Stanley, Alan D. Attie, Marc A. Prentki |
| 09:20:00 | Coffee Break | |
| 11:00:00 | Poster Setup | |
| 13:00:00 | Poster Viewing | |
| 16:30:00 | Coffee Available | |
| 17:00:00 | Stem Cells and Pancreatic Islets | Jianjie Jiang, Maike Sander, Markus Grompe, Gordon M. Keller, Douglas A. Melton |
| 17:00:00 | Mediators of Beta Cell Stress | Andreas C. Wiederkehr, Feroz R. Papa, Sheila Collins, R. Paul Robertson |
| 19:00:00 | Social Hour w/ Lite Bites | |
| 19:30:00 | Poster Session 2 | |
| Wednesday, April 9, 2008 | ||
| 07:00:00 | Breakfast | |
| 08:00:00 | Model Systems for Assessing Beta Cell Replacements | Jake A. Kushner, Yuval Dor, Klaus Ulrich Pechhold, Holger Andreas Russ, Alvin C. Powers, Ray J. MacDonald |
| 08:00:00 | The Molecular Machinery of Insulin Secretion | Hainan Chen, Guy A. Rutter, Susumu Seino, Patrik Rorsman, Tye Deering, Debbie C. Thurmond, Sara Kozma |
| 09:20:00 | Coffee Break | |
| 11:15:00 | Poster Setup | |
| 13:00:00 | Poster Viewing | |
| 16:30:00 | Coffee Available | |
| 17:00:00 | Pancreatic Development – Intercellular Signaling | Steven D. Leach, Maike Sander, Palle Serup, Matthias Hebrok |
| 17:00:00 | Emerging Technologies for Beta-Cell Research | Kristoffer Lihme Egerod, Thomas J. Kodadek, Per-Olof Berggren, Roland W. Stein |
| 19:00:00 | Social Hour w/ Lite Bites | |
| 19:30:00 | Poster Session 3 | |
| Thursday, April 10, 2008 | ||
| 07:00:00 | Breakfast | |
| 08:00:00 | Moving Towards Clinical Application | Masahito Matsumoto, Patrik Brundin, David M. Harlan, Keren Francis, Christian P. Larsen, Kevan C. Herold |
| 08:00:00 | Beta-Cell Mechanisms: Lessons from Other Systems | Katy C. Claiborn, Fiona Gribble, Randy J. Seeley, Frances M. Ashcroft, Nils Wierup, Johan M. Thevelein, Patrik Rorsman |
| 09:20:00 | Coffee Break | |
| 16:30:00 | Coffee Available | |
| 17:00:00 | Islet Proliferation and Survival | Seung Kim, Marc Y. Donath, Sonya G. Fonseca, Harry Heimberg, Helena Edlund |
| 17:00:00 | Mechanisms of Beta-Cell Failure In Disease and Possible Drug Targets | Peter C. Butler, Nancy A. Thornberry, Jens Zehetner, Kári Stefánsson, Paul Burn |
| 19:00:00 | Social Hour w/ Lite Bites | |
| 20:00:00 | Entertainment | |
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