The seminar is sponsored by the Nutrition Obesity Research Center and co-sponsored by the Department of Nutrition Sciences
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| January 4 | Roland L. Weinsier, MD and Members of the Executive Committee Department of Nutrition Sciences, UAB |
"What the New NIH-Funded Clinical Nutrition Research Center Can Do For You!" |
| January 11 | Douglas Heimburger, MD Department of Nutrition Sciences, UAB |
"Can Dietary Changes Really Prevent Cancer? Epidemiology vs. Randomized Trials" |
| January 18 | T. Tamura, MD Department of Nutrition Sciences, UAB |
"Folate Metabolism in Zinc and Iron Deficiency: Implication to Pregnancy Outcome" |
| January 25 | Marc L. Reitman, MD, Ph.D. NIDDK, NIH |
"The Physiology of Fatless Mice" |
| February 15 | James C. Barton, MD Department of Medicine, UAB |
"Iron Nutrition in Hemochromatosis" |
| February 22 | Pi-Ling Chang, Ph.D. Department of Nutrition Sciences, UAB |
"Suppressed Expression of Osteopontin Decreased Tumorigenic Transformation of Mouse Preneoplastic Cells" |
| February 29 | Philip Wood, DVM, Ph.D. Department of Comparative Medicine, UAB |
"Roles of Fatty Acid Metabolism in Disease: Genetic and Molecular Mechanisms In Vivo" |
| March 7 | Rakesh P. Patel, Ph.D. Department of Pathology, UAB |
"Free Radicals, Nutrition and Exercise: Potential Mechanisms for Protection Against Cardiovascular Diseases" |
| March 21 | Barbara A. Gower, Ph.D. Department of Nutrition Sciences, UAB |
"Hormone Replacement Therapy and Body Composition: New Insights" |
| March 28 | Patrick P. Tso, Ph.D. University of Cincinnati College of Medicine |
"The Role of Apoprotein A-IV in the Regulation of Food Intake" |
| April 4 | Steven J. Zullo, Ph.D. National Institute of Mental Health |
"Is the Common Mitochondrial DNA Deletion of Man and Mouse a Biomarker of Aging Mitochondria?" |
| April 11 | David A. Bernlohr, Ph.D. University of Minnesota |
"Adipocyte Fatty Acid Trafficking in Obesity and Diabetes Syndromes" |
| April 25 | Tim R. Nagy, Ph.D. Department of Nutrition Sciences, UAB |
"Mechanisms Regulating Body Weight: Insights from a Novel Animal Model" |
| May 2 | Stephen D. Hursting, Ph.D. National Cancer Institute |
"Nutrition and Cancer Prevention: Studies of Mice and Men" |
| May 9 | Marcas Bamman, Ph.D. Department of Human Studies, UAB |
"Morphological and Enzymatic Characteristics of Skeletal Muscle in Obese and Normal Weight Women" |
| May 16 | Mark Tarnopolsky, MD, Ph.D., FRCP McMaster University Medical Center |
"Creatine Monohydrate: A Potential Therapeutic Agent for the Elderly and those with Neurological Disorders" |
| May 23 | John Chatham, Ph.D. Department of Medicine, UAB |
"13C-NMR Spectroscopy - A Window into the Heart of Metabolism" |
| September 12 | Renee Desmond, Ph.D., Heidi Weiss, Ph.D., and Kathy Zhang, MS CNRC Statistical Core, Department of Nutrition Sciences, UAB |
"Longitudinal Data Analysis: An Introduction and Examples" |
| September 19 | Patrick Stover, Ph.D. Cornell University |
"Regulation of Folate Metabolism and Status by Iron" |
| September 26 | Gary E. Truett, Ph.D. Pennington Biomedical Research Center |
"A Developmental Switch for Obesity" |
| October 3 | John Forder, Ph.D. Department of Medicine, UAB |
"The Future of Magnetic Resonance: Star Trek Reality" |
| October 10 | Gary Hunter, Ph.D. Department of Human Studies, UAB |
"Metabolic Difference Between Black and White Women" |
| October 17 | Mary Hagen, Ph.D. Department of Psychology, UAB |
"New Insights into the Role of the CNS Melanocortin System in the Control of Food Intake and Body Weight" |
| October 24 | Paul Brookes, Ph.D. Department of Pathology, UAB |
"Mitochondrial Uncoupling Proteins - Certainties and Uncertainties" |
| November 7 | Janet Isaacs, Ph.D. Department of Nutrition Sciences, UAB |
"Nutritional Management of Inborn Errors of Protein Metabolism" |
| November 14 | Isao Eto, Ph.D. Department of Nutrition Sciences, UAB |
"Cell Cycle Control of Tumor Promotion" |