Date |
Speaker |
Topic |
Video |
January 6 |
A. Catharine Ross, PhD, Professor of Nutrition, Department of Nutritional Sciences, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA |
"Vitamin A in early life—Why does it matter?" |
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January 13 |
Chantelle Hart, PhD, Associate Professor of Public Health, Center for Obesity Research & Education, Department of Public Health, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA |
"A Novel Approach in Pediatric Weight Regulation: Enhancing Sleep Duration" |
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January 20 |
Stephen Kritchevsky, PhD, Professor of Internal Medicine and Translational Science, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC |
"Increasing Healthspan in Obese Older Adults" |
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January 27 |
Colleen McBride, PhD, Professor/Chair, Behavioral Sciences and Health Education Department, Emory University, Atlanta, GA |
"Cracking the nut of behavior change: Can Genomics Bring Innovation to Behavior Change Interventions?" |
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January 30 |
Marissa Gowey, Psychology Resident, Division of Behavioral Medicine and Clinical Psychology, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio |
"Pediatric Obesity: Correlates, Comorbidities, and Barriers to Intervention" |
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February 3 |
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NORC/DNS Noon Seminar has been canceled |
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February 10 |
Roger Cone, PhD, Professor, Chair of the Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN |
"The MC4R: Conversion of a Threshold Sensor to a Rheostat on Energy Storage" |
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February 17 |
David Mangelsdorf, PhD, Professor & Chairman, Department of Pharmacology, Biochemistry, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX |
"Neuro Endocrine Regulation of Metabolism by FGP" |
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February 24 |
Jason Riis, PhD, Visiting Assistant Professor, Marketing Department, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA |
"Field Studies of Healthy Eating Interventions in Retail Settings" |
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March 3 |
Kenneth J. McLeod, PhD, Director, Clinical Science and Engineering Research Center, Binghamton University, Binghamton, NY |
"The Role of Heat Balance in body Mass Maintenance" |
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March 10 |
Caroline Alexander, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Oncology University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI |
"Skin Insulation and Staying Warm" |
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March 17 |
D. Enette Larson-Meyer, PhD, RD, Associate Professor, Human Nutrition and Food Program Area, Adjunct Clinical Faculty, Division of Kinesiology and Health, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY |
"Human Milk, Exercise and Honey: Exploring the Obesoprotective Effect of gut peptides" |
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March 24 |
Daniel Bessesen, MD, PhD, Professor of Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Colorado Denver, Denver, CO |
"Dietary Fat and Body Weight Regulation" |
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April 7 |
Michael P. Czech, PhD, Professor, Chair, Program in Molecular Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA |
"Adipose mechanisms in control of systemic metabolism" |
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April 14 |
Carl (Chip) Lavie, MD, Cardiologist, Ochsner Hospital Cardiology, New Orleans, LA |
"Untangling the “Heavy” Cardiovascular Burden of Obesity and the “Obesity Paradox" |
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*April 15 |
David Raubenheimer, PhD, Professor/Chair Nutritional Ecology and Nutrition Theme Leader, School of Biological Sciences The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia |
"New Insight from Nutritional Ecology: Captive Insects, Wild Primates and the Causes of Human Obesity" |
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April 21 |
Rebecca E. Hasson, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Kinesiology and Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI |
"Environmental strategies to reduce pediatric obesity disparities" |
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April 28 |
NORC Pilot Feasibility Projects |
Li Li, MD, Assistant Professor, Dept. Psyc-Behavioral Neurobiology, UAB |
"Psychosocial stem links mind with body" |
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Paula C. Chandler-Laney, PhD, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Nutrition Sciences, UAB |
"The use of a jaw motion sensor to characterize infant feeding behavior" |
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Kasturi Mitra, PhD, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Genetics Research Division, UAB |
"Interactions between dietary components driven insulin signaling and mitochondrial fission machinery in Drosophila ovaries: a novel approach to understand insulin related metabolic disease" |
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Peggy Biga, PhD, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Biology, UAB |
"Amino acid regulation of myogenesis via epigenetic mechanisms" |
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*May 14 |
Shannon "Kapuaola" Gellert, PhD, Department of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NCY |
"Changes in Burden of Cardiovascular Disease following a Hypothetical Population Shift in Adiposity" |
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*August 4, |
Amber Kinsey, PhD, Institute of Sports Sciences and Medicine, Department of Nutrition, Food and Exercise Sciences, Florida State University Tallahassee, FL |
"Nighttime eating: what do we Know about eating before bed" |
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*August 18, |
Christine Wegner, Sports Industry Research Center (SIRC) School of Tourism and Hospitality Management Temple University, Philadelphia, PA |
"Organizations, Identity Creation, and Social Change" |
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September 1 |
Richard Feinman, PhD, Professor, Suny Downstate Medical Center, Department of Cell Biology, Brooklyn, NY |
"The World Turned Upside Down. The Second Low-Carbohydrate Revolution" |
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September 8 |
L. Ashley Cowart, PhD, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC |
"Sphingolipid metabolism and signaling in the cardiomyocyte response to lipid stress" |
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September 15 |
Jessica Jones-Smith, PhD Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD |
"Increased economic resources stemming from Native American Casinos and risk of overweight among Native American women and children" |
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September 22 |
Charles Courtemanche, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA |
"Revisiting the Effect of Smoking on Obesity: Evidence from a Randomized Trial" |
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September 29 |
Harris R. Lieberman, PhD U.S. Army Research Institute of Environmental Medicine, USARIEM, Natick, MA |
"Caffeine Consumption and Its Effect on Cognitive Performance" |
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October 6 |
Dominic P. Agostino, PhD, Assistant Professor, Departments of Molecular Pharmacology and Physiology, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL |
"Nutritional Ketosis: Effects on Metabolic Regulation and Signaling" |
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October 13 |
Ayman I. Sayegh, DVM, PhD, FTOS. Professor and Head, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Associate Dean for Research and Advanced Studies, College of Veterinary Medicine, Tuskegee University, Tuskegee, AL |
"A Possible Role For The Gastrointestinal Tract in The Short Term Control of Food Intake by Cholecystokinin and Gastrin Releasing Peptide" |
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October 20 |
Robert Hickner, PhD, Professor of Kinesiology and Physiology, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC |
"Microvascular Blood Flow, Lipolysis and ROS in Obesity" |
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October 27 |
Frank A.J.L. Scheer, PhD, Associate Professor of Medicine, Brigham & Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA |
"The Circadian System and Its Disruption Impact Metabolic and Cardiovascular Function in Humans." |
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November 10 |
Tracy Anthony, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Nutritional Sciences, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ |
"Amino Acid Sensing and Signaling in health and Disease" |
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November 17 |
Andrew T. Gewirtz, PhD, University Center Professor, Center for Inflammation, Immunity & Infection Institute for Biomedical Sciences, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA |
"Gut Microbiota, Chronic Inflammation, And Metabolic Syndrome" |
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November 20 |
Tanya M. Halliday, RD, Postdoctoral Candidate, Human Nutrition, Foods and Exercise, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA |
"Are the Initiation and Maintenance of a Resistance Training Program Associated with Changes to Dietary Intake and Non-Resistance Training Physical Activity in Adults with Prediabetes?" |
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November 24 |
Michael Rendall, PhD, Professor, Director, Maryland Population Research Center, Professor of Sociology, University of Maryland, College Park, MD |
"Cohort Projection of The Emergence and Growth of National Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Obesity From Childhood Through Adulthood" |
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December 1 |
James Kirkland, MD, PhD, Professor of Medicine and Physiology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MA |
"Aging, Adipose Tissue Function And Cellular Senescence" |
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December 8 |
Sean Davies, PhD, Assistant Professor of Pharmacology, Vanderbilt University medical Center, Nashville, TN |
"Genetic engineering of gut microbiota as treatment for cardiometabolic disease" |
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December 15 |
Tom Baranowski, PhD Professor of Pediatrics Behavioral Nutrition & Physical Activity Baylor College of Medicine Houston, TX |
"Best Little eButton In Texas: Overview of Technology-Based Dietary Assessment Methods" |
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