The seminar is sponsored by the Nutrition Obesity Research Center and co-sponsored by the Department of Nutrition Sciences.
| Date | Speaker | Topic | Video |
|---|---|---|---|
| January 6 | Douglas Moellering, Ph.D. Department of Nutrition Sciences, UAB | "Modulation of Endothelial Cell Viability by Oxidized Low-Density Lipoprotein." | |
| January 13 | Gary Johanning, Ph.D. Department of Nutrition Sciences, UAB | "Folic Acid and Cisplatin Resistance" | Watch Video |
| January 20 | Richard Watanabe, Ph.D. University of Southern California | "Dissecting Genetic Heterogeneity Through Physiology" | Watch Video (Part 1) Watch Video (Part 2) |
| January 27 | David Marrero, Ph.D. Indiana University School of Medicine | "Translating the Diabetes Prevention Program" | Watch Video |
| February 3 | Robert Garofalo, Ph.D. Pfizer Global Research and Development | "Metabolism, Stress and Aging: An Evolutionary Perspective" | Watch Video |
| February 10 | Amy Rubinstein, Ph.D. Zygogen | "Integrating Zebrafish into Preclinical Drug Development" | Watch Video |
| February 17 | Marie-Pierre St-Onge, Ph.D. St. Luke's Roosevelt Hospital, New York | "The Usefulness of Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging in the Study of Food-Related Brain Activity" | |
| February 20 | Nikhil Dhurandhar, Ph.D. Wayne State University | "Virus-Induced Obesity" | Watch Video |
| February 24 | Alana Majors, Ph.D. Department of Immunology, Cleveland Clinic Foundation | "Homocysteine Alters the Composition, Structure, and Function of the Extracellular Matrix" | |
| March 2 | Anne McTiernan, MD, Ph.D. Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center | "Obesity and Breast Cancer" | |
| March 9 | Stephen McGarvey, Ph.D., MPH Brown University | "Genetic Epidemiology of Adiposity and Type 2 Diabetes in Modernizing Samoans" | Watch Video |
| March 16 | Eugenia Calle, Ph.D. Analytic Epidemiology, American Cancer Society | "Adiposity and Cancer – How Much Do We Know" | Watch Video |
| March 30 | Jon Graff, MD UT Southwestern Medical Center | "Invertebrate Models of Fat Storage" | |
| April 6 | Chidambaram Ramachandran, Ph.D. Merck Forsst, Canada | "PTP1B Inhibition - A Novel Therapy for the Treatment of Diabetes and Obesity" | |
| April 8 | John Milner, Ph.D. National Cancer Institute | "Frontiers in Cancer Prevention at NCI" | |
| April 13 | Craig Warden University of California, Davis | "Finding Obesity Genes with Congenic Mice" | Watch Video |
| April 27 | Eugene Chen, MD, Ph.D. Morehouse School of Medicine | "PPARs and the Cardiovascular System" | |
| May 4 | Donald Ingram National Institute on Aging | "Development of Calorie Restriction Mimetics as an Anti-Aging Strategy" | Watch Video |
| May 21 | Dr. Weimin University of California, Salk Institute | "The Roles of PPARg in Adipose Tissue and Skeletal Muscle Metabolism - What Tissue-Specific Knockout Mice Tell Us" | |
| September 14 | Dennis Drayna, Ph.D. NIDSCD/NIH | "Genetics of Bitter Taste Perception" | Watch Video |
| September 21 | Ronenn Roubenoff, MD, MHS Millenium Pharmaceuticals, Inc. & Tufts University | "Inflammation in Cardiovascular Disease" | |
| September 28 | Daria Estrada-Smith UCLA | "Analysis of Metabolic Syndrome in Multigenic Obesity Deprived Mouse Strains" | |
| October 5 | Frank F. Bartol, Ph.D. Auburn University | "Developmental Programming and the Porcine Model" | Watch Video |
| October 12 | John Chatham, D. Phil. Division of Cardiovascular Disease, UAB | "Diabetes is Bad for the Heart and Other Metabolic Myths" | Watch Video |
| October 19 | Richard A. Miller, MD, Ph.D. University of Michigan, School of Medicine | "How to Make a Really Old Mouse: Multiple Pathways to Super-Longevity?" | Watch Video |
| October 26 | Maya Grose, Graduate Student Cornell University | "Functions of Heparan Sulfate Proteoglycans in Lipid Metabolism and Adiopogensis" | |
| November 2 | Erin Hanlon University of Wisconsin at Madison | "Sleep Deprivation and Motivation for Food Reward" | Watch Video |
| November 3 | Kathryn E. Henderson, Ph.D. Yale University | "Fighting Childhood Obesity: A Public Health Approach" | |
| November 9 | Anil Malhotra, MD Long Island Jewish Health Systems, New York | "Pharmacogenetics of Antipsychotic Drug Response" | Watch Video |
| November 23 | Xiaoli Chen, Ph.D. NIH, Maryland | "Understanding the Endocrine Role of Adipose Cells in Metabolic Diseases" | |
| November 30 | Kimberly Floyd, Ph.D. Alabama Agricultural and Mechanical University | "Adolescent Nutrition: Knowledge, Education, BMI Levels, and Dietary Habits" | |
| December 7 | Theodore P. Ciaraldi, Ph.D. University of California, San Diego | "Glycogen Synthase Kinase 3: A Potential Target in Diabetes and Obesity?" | Watch Video |
| December 14 | Julie L Locher, Ph.D. Department of Medicine, UAB | "Eating Issues in Vulnerable Older Adults" | Watch Video |
* Special NORC Seminar