Date |
Speaker |
Topic |
Video |
January 4 |
Eileen T. Kennedy, PhD, Dean and Professor of Nutrition, Friedman School of Nutrition Sciences and Policy, Tufts University, Boston, MA |
"Science and Controversy in FOP and Nutrient Density." |
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January 11 |
John R. Speakman, PhD, Professor, Director, Institute of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Aberdeen, Scotland, UK |
"The Evolution of Obesity: thrifty genes or drifty genes?" |
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January 18 |
David E. Cummings, MD, Professor Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA |
"Metabolic Surgery: Endocrine Mechanisms of Diabetes Remission After “Bariatric” Operations" |
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January 25 |
Laura Reed, PhD, Assistant Professor, Biological Sciences Department, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL |
"Phenomics, Metabolomics, Transcriptomics of Genotype by Environment Interactions Underlying Metabolomic Syndrome in Drosophila" |
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February 1 |
Rochelle Buffenstein, PhD, Professor, Department of Physiology, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, TX |
"A Long-Lived Animal Model for Aging and Cancer; Tthe Bare Essentials." |
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February 8 |
Bret H. Goodpaster, PhD Associate Professor, Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA |
"Skeletal muscle lipid infiltration: Links with obesity and insulin resistance." |
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February 15 |
Diana Thomas, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Montclair State University, Montclair, New Jersey |
"Dynamic Weight Change Prediction Models and Their Applications" |
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February 22 |
Chad H. Stahl, Associate Professor of Developmental Nutrition, Department of Animal Science, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC |
"Nutritional Programming of Mesenchymal Stem Cells" |
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March 1 |
George R. Beck, Jr., PhD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology, Metabolism and Lipids, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA |
"Dietary Phosphate Regulated Proliferation, Transformation and Tumorigenesis" |
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March 8 |
Deborah M. Muoio, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology, Nutrition & Metabolism, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC |
"Mechanisms of metabolic dysfunction in skeletal muscle" |
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March 15 |
Deborah J. Clegg, PhD, Assistant Professor University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX |
"SeXX Matters" |
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March 22 |
Michael B. Zemel, PhD, Professor of Nutrition and Medicine, Director, The Nutrition Institute, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN |
"The New Metabolic Shift: Calcium and Dairy Modulation of Obesity and Metabolic Disease" |
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March 29 |
Ruth Loos, PhD, MRC Epidemiology Unit, Institute of Metabolic Science, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, United Kingdom |
"The Genetic Epidemiology of Obesity – From Heritability via Genes to New Biology" |
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April 5 |
Denise E. Wilfley, PhD, Professor, Dept. of Psychiatry, Medicine, Pediatrics and Psychology Washington University School of Medicine and Washington University in St. Louis, MO |
"Obesity Prevention & Treatment: Evidence-Based Socio-Environmental Approaches" |
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April 19 |
Susan T. Harbison, PhD, Department of Genetics, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC |
"A Systems Genomics Approach to Sleep and Circadian Rhythms in Drosophila" |
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April 26 |
Mardia G. Lopez Alarcon, MD, PhD, Professor, Iberoamericana University, Campus Mexico |
"Dietary Magnesium, Calcium and Omega-3 Fatty Acids in Obesity-Related Insulin Resistance" |
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May 3 |
Shingo Kajimura, PhD, Assistant Professor, University of California, UCSF Diabetes Center, San Francisco, CA. |
"Engineering Fat Cell Fate: Transcriptional Control of Brown Fat Development." |
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June 7 |
Richard A. Forshee, PhD, Associate Director of Research, United States Food and Drug Administration |
"Opportunities and Challenges in Using Genomics Data to Understand the Safety and Efficacy of Biologics Projects" |
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September 13 |
Connie M. Weaver, PhD, Professor and Department Head, Foods and Nutrition, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN |
"Building Peak Bone Mass: Role of Diet, Sex, Race and BMI" |
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September 20 |
Eyleen J. O'Rourke, PhD, Department of Molecular Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital & Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA |
"Surviving without food" |
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September 27 |
Thomas Najarian, MD, Internal Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA |
"Maladaptive Hypothyroidism? Thyroid Changes Associated with Weight Loss" |
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October 11 |
Kevin J. Pearson, PhD, Assistant Professor, Grad. Center for Nutritional Sciences, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY |
"Maternal Exercise: Short-Term Investment for Long-Term Gain" |
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October 18 |
Rozalyn Anderson, PhD, Assistant Professor, School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI |
"Metabolic reprogramming by Caloric Restriction" |
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October 25 |
Randy J. Nelson, PhD, Professor and Chair, Department of Neuroscience, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH |
"Effects of Light at Night on Immune Function, Metabolism, and Mood." |
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November 1 |
Dean R. Appling, PhD, Lester J. Reed Professor of Biochemistry, Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX |
"More than just a Powerhouse: Mitochondrial Folate-Mediated One-Carbon Metabolism" |
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November 8 |
Jean-Philippe Chaput, PhD, Junior Research Chair in Healthy Active Living and Obesity Research(HALO), Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario Research Institute, Ottawa, ON, Canada |
"Does Thinking Make Us Fatter?" |
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November 22 |
Gwen V. Childs, PhD, Professor and Chair, Department of Neurobiology and Developmental Sciences, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Little Rock, AR |
"Pituitary Somatotropes as Metabolic Sensors: Selective Loss of Leptin Receptors Causes Obesity" |
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November 29 |
Young-In Kim, MD, Professor of Medicine & Nutritional Sciences, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
"Folate: A Magic Bullet or a Double-Edged Sword for Cancer Prevention?" |
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December 6 |
Gertraud Maskarinec, MD, PhD, Professor, Department of Epidemiology, University of Hawaii Cancer Center, Honolulu, HI |
"Breast Cancer Research in Adolescents and Premenopausal Women" |
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December 13 |
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"Tasting menu from new NORC members" |
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E. Michael Foster, PhD, Professor, Department of Health Care Organization & Policy, UAB |
"Who is Mike Foster and why should I care?" |
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Lisle Hites, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Health Care Organization & Policy, UAB |
"Healthy Change in your Community Challenge(HC3): Evaluating children's food choices following a community educational effort" |
Gareth R. Dutton, PhD, Associate Professor, Dept. Med-Preventive Medicine, UAB |
"Strategies for Weight Loss Maintenance" |
Julia M. Gohlke, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Environmental Health Sciences, UAB |
"Heat stress and lipid storage" |
December 20 |
Susan Carnell, PhD, Research Fellow, New York Obesity Nutrition Research Center, St. Luke's Hospital, and the Institute of Human Nutrition, Columbia University |
"Neuroimaging and obesity in adults and children" |
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