The seminar is sponsored by the Nutrition Obesity Research Center and co-sponsored by the Department of Nutrition Sciences.
| Date | Speaker | Topic | Video |
|---|---|---|---|
| January 7 | Charles Meng, Ph.D. AtheroGenics, Alpharetta, GA |
"The Role of Inflammation in Atherosclerosis: New Opportunities in Nutrition and Drug Discovery." | |
| January 9 | Nelson Watts, MD University of Cincinnati |
"Hypercalcemia and Hyperparathyroidism" | |
| January 14 | Yingkui Yang, MD Pediatric Surgery, UAB |
"Molecular Basis of Agouti-Related Protein (AGRP) Binding to Human Melanocortin-4 Receptor: Mechanism of AGRP in the Control of Animal Food Intake" | |
| January 21 | Ajay Chawla, MD, Ph.D. Stanford University |
"PPARs, Macrophage Function and Atherosclerosis" | |
| January 28 | Mark Cope, Ph.D. Department of Nutrition Sciences, UAB |
"Atypical Antipsychotc Drug Induced Weight Gain" | |
| February 3 | Jamy Ard, MD Duke University Medical Center |
"African American Culture and Behavior Modification: Lessons for Clinical Trial Design" | |
| February 4 | Randall Sakai, MD University of Cincinnati |
"Attack of the Obese Clones II" | |
| February 11 | Edward Gregg, Ph.D. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention |
"Trying to Lose Weight, Losing Weight, and Death Among U.S Adults: Implications for a Public Health Dilemma" | |
| February 25 | George Howard, DrPH Department of Biostatistics, UAB |
"Birth Cohort Changes in BMI in the US, 1887-1994" | |
| March 4 | Mulchand Patel, Ph.D. University of Buffalo, New York |
"A New Perspective on Obesity: Metabolic Programming" | |
| March 11 | Chung Yang, Ph.D. Rutgers University |
"Mechanisms of Inhibition of Carcinogenesis by Tea" | |
| March 18 | Martin Alpert, MD St. John's Mercy Medical Center |
"Cardiovascular Complications of Obesity and its Treatment" | |
| March 25 | Robert Cousins, Ph.D. University of Florida |
"The Nutritional Genomics of Zinc Metabolism and Function" | |
| April 8 | Shumei Sun, Ph.D. Wright State University |
"Aging, Body Composition and Lifestyle – The Fels Longitudinal Study" | |
| April 22 | Ron Munger Utah State University |
"Maternal Nutrition and Oral Cleft Birth Defects" | |
| April 29 | Chandrika Piyathilake, Ph.D. Department of Nutrition Sciences, UAB |
"Role of Micronutrients in the Natural History of Human Papillomavirus" | |
| April 27 | Eugene Chen, MD, Ph.D. Morehouse School of Medicine |
"PPARs and the Cardiovascular System" | |
| May 6 | Mary Hagan, Ph.D. Department of Psychology, UAB |
"Agouti-Related Peptide (AgRP) and CNS Signals that Interact with AgRP in Dietary-Induced Obesity" | |
| May 13 | Fabio Bessa Lima, MD, Ph.D. University of Sao Paulo |
"Influences on Adipose Cell Biology: Pineal Gland Manipulations, Exercise, and Dietary Sweeteners" | |
| June 10 | John Newcomer, MD Washington University |
"Metabolic Abnormalities During Antipsychotic Treatment" | |
| September 9 | Bob Kesterson, Ph.D. Vanderbilt University Medical Center |
"The Mind of the Fat Mouse" | |
| September 16 | Richard Pratley, MD Novartis Pharmaceuticals |
"The Potential for Dipeptidyl Peptidase Inhibition in the Treatment of Type 2 DM" | |
| September 23 | John Suttie, Ph.D. University of Wisconsin, Madison |
"What We Don't Know About the Metabolic Role of Vitamin K" | |
| September 30 | John Foreyt, Ph.D. Baylor College of Medicine |
"Trends in the Management of Obesity" | |
| October 7 | Jay Kearney, Ph.D., FACSM Clinical Affairs, HealtheTech |
"Resting Metabolic Rate: Clinical Relevance, Technology of Assessment, Factors Affecting Variability, and the Contributions of Lean Muscle Mass" | Watch Video |
| October 21 | Leon Avery, Ph.D. University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center |
"The Nematode Caenorhabditis Elegans" | Watch Video |
| October 28 | Robert Heaney, MD Creighton University |
"Long Latency Period Deficiency Disease: The Challenge of Nutrition's Century" | Watch Video |
| November 4 | David E. Kelley, MD University of Pittsburgh |
"BioEnergetic Defects In Skeletal Muscle Insulin Resistance" | Watch Video |
| November 10 | Diane Birt, Ph.D. Iowa State University |
"Molecular and Hormonal Mechanisms of Cancer Prevention by Dietary Energy Restriction" | |
| November 18 | Kevin Davy, Ph.D. University of Mississippi Medical Center |
"Sympathetic Neural Activation in the Metabolic Syndrome" | |
| November 25 | Gina Nelson, MD Department of Neurobiology |
"Taste Loss in Radiation Exposure: A Combination Model of Histology, Behavior, and Electrophysiology" | |
| December 2 | Maria De Luca, Ph.D. Department of Environmental Health Sciences, UAB |
"The Genetic Architecture of Drosophila Lipid Storage" | Watch Video |
| December 9 | Nancy Colburn, Ph.D. National Cancer Institute |
"AP-1, NFkB, and Pdcd4 as Targets for Cancer Prevention" | Watch Video |
| December 16 | Alan Permutt, MD Washington University School of Medicine |
"Search for Beta Cell Genes Involved in Type 2 Diabetes" |