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Topic: Adipose Tissue_Appetite_and Obesity
Session Type: Oral Abstract/Rapid-Fire

ORF51 - New Neuroendocrine Pathways Controlling Appetite and Metabolism

Monday, June 15, 2026
1:45 PM - 3:15 PM CT
Location: Room W181AB

    ORF Chair-Primary(s)

  • Sangeeta Kashyap, MD

    Assistant Chief of Clinical Affairs, Division of Endocrinology
    Weill Cornell New York Presbyterian Hospital
    New York, NY, United States

    Disclosure(s): No financial relationships to disclose

Disclosure(s):
Sangeeta Kashyap, MD: No financial relationships to disclose

Presentations:

  • 1:45 PM - 1:50 PM CT
    Brain Vitamin D Receptors Regulate Energy Balance

    Submitting author: Olivia Ginnard, D.O. (she/her/hers) – TEXAS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL/BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE

    Rapid and Poster Presenter: Olivia Ginnard, D.O. (she/her/hers) – TEXAS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL/BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE

    Co-Author: Yareli Carcamo-Bahena, MS (she/her/hers) – BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE

    Co-Author: Elecia Lartigue, B.S. (she/her/hers) – BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE

    Co-Author: Ji Youn Youn, PhD (she/her/hers) – Baylor College of Medicine

    Senior Author/Primary Investigator: Stephanie Sisley, MD (she/her/hers) – Baylor College of Medicine

  • 1:50 PM - 1:55 PM CT
    Single-Nucleus Transcriptional and Chromatin Accessibility Profiling of Mouse Hypothalamic LepRb Neurons Reveals Cell Type-Specific Cis-Regulatory Elements Linked to Human Obesity

    Submitting author: Frankie Darryn Heyward, Ph.D. (he/him/his) – UT SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER

    Rapid and Poster Presenter: Frankie Darryn Heyward, Ph.D. (he/him/his) – UT SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER

    Senior Author/Primary Investigator: Frankie Darryn Heyward, Ph.D. (he/him/his) – UT SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER

  • 1:55 PM - 2:00 PM CT
    Conditional Knockout of Neural Sarm1 Prevents Diet-Induced Weight Gain and Metabolic Dysfunction by Mechanisms Independent of Energy Expenditure

    Submitting author: Lila Dabill, B.A. (she/her/hers) – WashU

    Rapid and Poster Presenter: Lila Dabill, B.A. (she/her/hers) – WashU

    Co-Author: Naina Muvva, Undergraduate student – Washington University in St. Louis

    Co-Author: Ivana Shen, B.S. – Washington University in St. Louis

    Co-Author: Xiao Zhang, PhD – Washington University School of Medicine

    Co-Author: Sreejith Panicker, M.S. – Washington University in St. Louis

    Co-Author: Anushka Gerald, B.S. – Washington University in St. Louis

    Co-Author: Quentin Meslier, PhD – Washington University in St. Louis

    Co-Author: Samia Saleem, n/a – Washington University in St. Louis

    Co-Author: Jeffrey Milbrandt, PhD – Washington University in St. Louis

    Co-Author: Aaron DiAntonio, MD, PhD – Washington University in St. Louis

    Senior Author/Primary Investigator: Erica L. Scheller, DDS, PhD – Washington University School of Medicine

  • 2:00 PM - 2:15 PM CT
    Tanycytic TSHR and IGF-1R Regulate Ingestive Behavior, Blood-Hypothalamus Barrier Plasticity, and Adipose Remodeling

    Submitting author: Vitaly Ryu, Ph.D. (he/him/his) – Mount Sinai

    Oral Abstract Presenter: Vitaly Ryu, Ph.D. (he/him/his) – Mount Sinai

    Co-Author: Zehra Tumoglu, M.D. – Institute for Translational Medicine and Pharmacology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA

    Co-Author: Anisa Gumerova, MD, PhD (she/her/hers) – Institute for Translational Medicine and Pharmacology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA

    Co-Author: Georgii Pevnev, MD – Institute for Translational Medicine and Pharmacology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA

    Co-Author: Emily Weiss, MS (she/her/hers) – Mount Sinai

    Co-Author: Ofer Moldavski, PhD – Institute for Translational Medicine and Pharmacology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA

    Co-Author: Steven Sims, MS (he/him/his) – Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

    Co-Author: Maryam Mansoori, PhD (she/her/hers) – Institute for Translational Medicine and Pharmacology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, 10029, USA

    Co-Author: Rauf Latif, PhD – Institute for Translational Medicine and Pharmacology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA

    Co-Author: Guzel Burganova, MD PhD – Institute for Translational Medicine and Pharmacology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA

    Co-Author: Surabhi Parte, BS (she/her/hers) – ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI

    Co-Author: Rukmani Pandey, PhD (she/her/hers) – Institute for Translational Medicine and Pharmacology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA

    Co-Author: Orly Barak, PhD – Institute for Translational Medicine and Pharmacology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA

    Co-Author: Tal Frolinger, PhD (she/her/hers) – Institute for Translational Medicine and Pharmacology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA

    Co-Author: Tony Yuen, PhD – Institute for Translational Medicine and Pharmacology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA

    Co-Author: Ki Goosens, PhD – Institute for Translational Medicine and Pharmacology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA

    Senior Author/Primary Investigator: Terry J. Smith, MD – Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences and Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI, USA

    Senior Author/Primary Investigator: Mone Zaidi, MD, PhD (he/him/his) – Institute for Translational Medicine and Pharmacology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA

  • 2:15 PM - 2:30 PM CT
    The Brain Reward System as a Critical Substrate through Which Environmental Endocrine Disruptors Promote Obesogenic Eating.

    Submitting author: Emily N. Hilz, PhD – UT Austin

    Oral Abstract Presenter: Emily N. Hilz, PhD – UT Austin

    Co-Author: Tyler Milewski, PhD – UT Austin

    Co-Author: Lindsay Thompson, BS – UT Austin

    Senior Author/Primary Investigator: Kristy Brown, PhD – UT Austin

    Co-Author: Kristy Brown, PhD – UT Austin

  • 2:30 PM - 2:45 PM CT
    Impaired Adaptive Brown Adipose Tissue (BAT) Thermogenesis in Arcuate Kisspeptin-Deficient Female Mice

    Submitting author: Damilare Rotimi, PhD – UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA

    Oral Abstract Presenter: Damilare Rotimi, PhD – UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA

    Co-Author: Cassandra Cox, n/a – UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA

    Co-Author: Sarmed Al-Samerria, PhD – UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA

    Co-Author: Jon Levine, PhD – University of Wisconsin-Madison

    Senior Author/Primary Investigator: Sally Radovick, MD – UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA

  • 2:45 PM - 3:00 PM CT
    Mesolimbic Dopamine Signaling Mediates Increased Hedonic Feeding and Food Seeking in Lactating Mice

    Submitting author: Tanya Pattnaik, MSc (she/her/hers) – University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

    Oral Abstract Presenter: Tanya Pattnaik, MSc (she/her/hers) – University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

    Co-Author: Vraj Patel, n/a – University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

    Co-Author: Benjamin Wang, n/a – University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

    Co-Author: Emma Borrowman, n/a – University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

    Co-Author: Qingyin Zheng, n/a – University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

    Co-Author: Lara Villano, n/a – University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

    Senior Author/Primary Investigator: Patrick Sweeney, PhD – UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

  • 3:00 PM - 3:15 PM CT
    When Leptin Breaks the Clock: How Central Leptin Signaling Disruption Alters Feeding, Activity and Circadian Rhythms

    Oral Abstract Presenter: Lorena Mazuecos Fernández-Pacheco, PhD (she/her/hers) – University of Castilla-La Mancha

    Co-Author: Cristina Pintado, PhD Associate Professor – UNIVERSITY OF CASTILLA-LA MANCHA

    Co-Author: Roberto Pascual-Rico, PhD – CIAGRO-UMH

    Co-Author: Eduardo Moltó, PhD Associate Professor – UNIVERSITY OF CASTILLA-LA MANCHA

    Co-Author: María Rodríguez-Pérez, PhD Assistant Professor – UNIVERSITY OF CASTILLA-LA MANCHA

    Co-Author: Sergio Moreno, Graduate Technician Assistant – UNIVERSITY OF CASTILLA-LA MANCHA

    Co-Author: Blanca M Rubio, PhD – Spanish National Center for Cardiovascular Research (CNIC)

    Co-Author: Óscar Gómez, PhD Associate Professor – UNIVERSITY OF CASTILLA-LA MANCHA

    Senior Author/Primary Investigator: Carmen Arribas, PhD Associate Professor – UNIVERSITY OF CASTILLA-LA MANCHA

    Submitting author: Antonio Andres, PhD – UNIVERSIDAD DE CASTILLA-LA MANCHA

    Senior Author/Primary Investigator: Nilda Gallardo, Professor – UNIVERSITY OF CASTILLA-LA MANCHA