The seminar is sponsored by the Nutrition Obesity Research Center and co-sponsored by the Department of Nutrition Sciences.
| Date | Speaker | Topic | Video |
|---|---|---|---|
| January 4 | Eileen T. Kennedy, Ph.D., Dean and Professor of Nutrition, Friedman School of Nutrition Sciences and Policy, Tufts University, Boston, MA | "Science and Controversy in FOP and Nutrient Density." | Watch Video |
| January 11 | John R. Speakman, Ph.D., Professor, Director, Institute of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Aberdeen, Scotland, UK | "The Evolution of Obesity: thrifty genes or drifty genes?" | |
| January 18 | David E. Cummings, MD, Professor Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA | "Metabolic Surgery: Endocrine Mechanisms of Diabetes Remission After “Bariatric” Operations" | Watch Video |
| January 25 | Laura Reed, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Biological Sciences Department, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL | "Phenomics, Metabolomics, Transcriptomics of Genotype by Environment Interactions Underlying Metabolomic Syndrome in Drosophila" | Watch Video |
| February 1 | Rochelle Buffenstein, Ph.D., 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." | Watch Video |
| February 8 | Bret H. Goodpaster, Ph.D. 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." | |
| February 15 | Diana Thomas, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Montclair State University, Montclair, New Jersey | "Dynamic Weight Change Prediction Models and Their Applications" | Watch Video |
| 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" | Watch Video |
| March 1 | George R. Beck, Jr., Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology, Metabolism, and Lipids, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA | "Dietary Phosphate Regulated Proliferation, Transformation and Tumorigenesis" | |
| March 8 | Deborah M. Muoio, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology, Nutrition & Metabolism, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC | "Mechanisms of metabolic dysfunction in skeletal muscle" | |
| March 15 | Deborah J. Clegg, Ph.D., Assistant Professor University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX | "SeXX Matters" | Watch Video |
| March 22 | Michael B. Zemel, Ph.D., 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" | Watch Video |
| March 29 | Ruth Loos, Ph.D., 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" | Watch Video |
| April 5 | Denise E. Wilfley, Ph.D., 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" | Watch Video |
| April 19 | Susan T. Harbison, Ph.D., Department of Genetics, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC | "A Systems Genomics Approach to Sleep and Circadian Rhythms in Drosophila" | Watch Video |
| April 26 | Mardia G. Lopez Alarcon, MD, Ph.D., Professor, Iberoamericana University, Campus Mexico | "Dietary Magnesium, Calcium and Omega-3 Fatty Acids in Obesity-Related Insulin Resistance" | Watch Video |
| May 3 | Shingo Kajimura, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, University of California, UCSF Diabetes Center, San Francisco, CA | "Engineering Fat Cell Fate: Transcriptional Control of Brown Fat Development." | Watch Video |
| June 7 | Richard A. Forshee, Ph.D., 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" | Watch Video |
| September 13 | Connie M. Weaver, Ph.D., Professor and Department Head, Foods and Nutrition, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN | "Building Peak Bone Mass: Role of Diet, Sex, Race, and BMI" | Watch Video |
| September 20 | Eyleen J. O'Rourke, Ph.D., Department of Molecular Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital & Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA | "Surviving without food" | |
| September 27 | Thomas Najarian, MD, Internal Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA | "Maladaptive Hypothyroidism? Thyroid Changes Associated with Weight Loss" | |
| October 11 | Kevin J. Pearson, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Grad. Center for Nutritional Sciences, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY | "Maternal Exercise: Short-Term Investment for Long-Term Gain" | Watch Video |
| October 18 | Rozalyn Anderson, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI | "Metabolic reprogramming by Caloric Restriction" | |
| October 25 | Randy J. Nelson, Ph.D., Professor and Chair, Department of Neuroscience, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH | "Effects of Light at Night on Immune Function, Metabolism, and Mood." | Watch Video |
| November 1 | Dean R. Appling, Ph.D., 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" | Watch Video |
| November 8 | Jean-Philippe Chaput, Ph.D., 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?" | Watch Video |
| November 22 | Gwen V. Childs, Ph.D., 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" | |
| 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?" | Watch Video |
| December 6 | Gertraud Maskarinec, MD, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Epidemiology, University of Hawaii Cancer Center, Honolulu, HI | "Breast Cancer Research in Adolescents and Premenopausal Women" | Watch Video |
| December 13 | "Tasting menu from new NORC members" | Watch Video | |
| E. Michael Foster, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Health Care Organization & Policy, UAB | "Who is Mike Foster and why should I care?" | ||
| Lisle Hites, Ph.D., 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, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Dept. Med-Preventive Medicine, UAB | "Strategies for Weight Loss Maintenance" | ||
| Julia M. Gohlke, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Environmental Health Sciences, UAB | "Heat stress and lipid storage" | ||
| December 20 | Susan Carnell, Ph.D., 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" |
* Special NORC Seminar