The seminar is sponsored by the Nutrition Obesity Research Center and co-sponsored by the Department of Nutrition Sciences.
| Date | Speaker | Topic | Video |
|---|---|---|---|
| January 10 | Bernardine M. Pinto, Ph.D., Professor, Miriam Hospital and the W. Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Centers of Behavioral and Preventive Medicine, Providence, RI | "A Community Partnership to Promote Exercise for Cancer Recovery." | |
| January 17 | Patrick M. Catalano, MD, Professor, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH | "Impact of maternal GDM and obesity on mother and fetus" | |
| January 24 | Kjersti M. Aagaard-Tillery, MD, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Maternal & Fetal Medicine, Obstetrics & Gynecology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX | "The Role of Epigenetics and Nutrition in Development (and the joy in discovery)" | Watch Video |
| January 31 | Paul J. Kenny, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Laboratory of Behavioral and Molecular Neuroscience, Department of Molecular Therapeutics, The Scripps Research Institute – Florida, Jupiter, FL | "Common Mechanisms in Drug Addiction and Obesity" | Watch Video |
| February 7 | Susan Persky, Ph.D., Associate Investigator, Social and Behavioral Research Branch, National Human Genome Research Institute/NIH, Bethesda, MD | "Communicating about Weight and Genetics: Investigations in a Virtual Reality Clinic" | Watch Video |
| February 14 | Matthew Hirschey, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Dept. of Medicine, Dept. of Pharmacology & Cancer Biology, Sarah W. Stedman Nutrition and Metabolism Center, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC | "Mitochondrial Protein Acylation Regulates Metabolism" | Watch Video |
| February 21 | Michal Masternak, Ph.D., Associate Professor, University of Central Florida, Burnett School of Biomedical Sciences, Orlando, FL | "Growth Hormone, Adipose Tissue and Aging" | |
| February 28 | Edward Sazonov, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, The University of Alabama College of Engineering, Tuscaloosa, AL | "Wearable Sensors for Human Behavior Monitoring and Biofeedback" | Watch Video |
| March 6 | James H. Rimmer, Ph.D., Professor, UAB-Lakeshore Foundation | "At the Crossroads of Inclusion Science in Disability and Health: The UAB-Lakeshore Foundation Collaboration" | Watch Video |
| March 9 | Kristina Martinez, Ph.D., Department of Nutrition University of North Carolina at Greensboro Greensboro, NC | "Conjugated Linoleic Acid Promotes Inflammation to a Greater Extent in Human Adipocytes Compared to Preadipocytes" | |
| March 13 | Salomon Amar, DMD, Ph.D., Professor, Periodontology and Oral Biology, Director, Center of Anti-Inflammatory Therapeutics, Boston University Medical Center, Boston, MA | "Obesity is Bacteria's Little Helper" | Watch Video |
| March 15 | Cassie Brode, Department of Psychology, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA | "Identification of Latent Subgroups of Obese Adolescents Enrolled in a Healthy Weight Management Program" | |
| March 20 | Michael Gordon, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Zoology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada | "Dissecting Taste Circuits and Feeding Behavior in Drosophila" | |
| March 21 | Shanell McGoy, Department of Health Education and Recreation Southern Illinois University Carbondale Carbondale, Illinois | "Exploring the nutrition environment in rural southern Illinois" | |
| March 26 | Michelle I. Cardel, M.S., Department of Nutrition Sciences, UAB | "Predictors of Childhood Obesity: A Multi-Factorial Approach" | |
| March 27 | Ann E. Rogers, Ph.D., RN, FAAN, Professor, and Director of Graduate Studies Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing, Emory University, Atlanta, GA. | "Sleep and Obesity" | |
| April 3 | Jean-Pierre Despres, Ph.D., Professor, Director of Research, Cardiology, Quebec Heart and Lung Institute, Quebec, QC, Canada | "Assessing/Managing the Cardiometabolic Risk of Obesity: Importance of Visceral/Ectopic Fat" | |
| April 10 | Paul Franks, Ph.D., Professor, Lund University of Diabetes Center, Malmo, Sweden, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA | "Gene x Environment Interactions in Obesity & Type 2 Diabetes" | Watch Video |
| April 11 | Dominick Lemas, Ph.D., Department of Biostatistics, UAB | "Do Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids Modify Genetic Risk of Development Obesity" | |
| April 17 | David B. Allison, Distinguished Professor, Associate Dean for Science, Director, Office of Energetics and Director, Nutrition Obesity Research Center, UAB | "State of the NORC" | |
| May 1 | Michael M. Scott, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacology, University of Virginia Health System, Charlottesville, VA | "Hindbrain Modulation of food intake and glucose homeostasis" | Watch Video |
| May 8 | Dario R. Valenzano, Ph.D., Post-doctoral Fellow, Brunet Laboratory, Stanford Center on Longevity, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA | "Genetic Architecture of Longevity in the Short-Lived Fish Model Nothobranchius Furzeri" | Watch Video |
| May 15 | Molly S. Bray, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Epidemiology, UAB | "Genomics Resources for Gene Discovery in Obesity and Complex Disease" | |
| July 12 | Corey Wiggins, Mississippi Advocacy Program, Program Manager, Jackson, MS | "Neighborhoods Matter in Obesity Research: Lessons Learned From CVD" | |
| September 11 | Ruth Patterson, Ph.D., Professor, Dept. of Family & Preventive Medicine, Program Leader, Cancer Prevention & Control, UCSD Moores Cancer Center, La Jolla, CA | "Energetics and Breast Cancer: Obesity, Inflammation, Insulin Resistance & Risk" | Watch Video |
| September 25 | John J. Lemasters, MD., Ph.D., Professor, and GlaxoSmithKline Distinguished Endowed Chair, Director, Center of Cell Death, Injury & Regeneration, Depts. of Pharmaceutical & Biomedical Sciences and Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC | "Ethanol, Cancer, and Regulation of Mitochondrial Function by Voltage-Dependent Anion Channels" | Watch Video |
| October 2 | Elizabeth Parks, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Clinical Nutrition, Internal Medicine, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX | "Causes of Fatty Liver: Lipid flux in mice and humans" | |
| October 9 | Thomas E. Johnson, Ph.D., Professor of Molecular Behavioral Genetics Institute for Behavioral Genetics, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO | "Genetic Analysis of Dietary Restriction" | Watch Video |
| October 16 | Catherine J. Field, Ph.D., RD, Professor Nutrition, Alberta Diabetes Institute, Department of Agricultural, Food and Nutritional Science, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada | "The Role of Long Chain Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids in the Development of Our Immune System" | Watch Video |
| October 23 | Wendy M. Kohrt, Ph.D., Professor of Medicine, Division of Geriatric Medicine, University of Colorado, Denver, CO | "To E or not to E: Metabolic Actions of Estrogens" | Watch Video |
| October 30 | Joseph Bass, Ph.D., Professor, Chief, Division of Endocrinology, Metabolism and Molecular Medicine, Department of Medicine and Neurobiology, Northwestern University, Chicago | "The Circadian Dimension of Metabolism" | Seminar was cancelled |
| November 6 | Christian Bjorbaek, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School and BIDMC, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA | "Hypothalamic Leptin Action, Neuronal Targets, and Anti-Diabetic Actions" | Watch Video |
| November 13 | Brian D. Elbel, Ph.D., MPH, Assistant Professor of Medicine and Health Policy, School of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine, New York University, School of Medicine, New York, NY | "New Supermarkets Resulting from Tax Credits, Food Consumption and Purchasing" | Watch Video |
| November 20 | Ray Browning, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Director, Physical Activity Energetics/Mechanics Lab, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO | "Obesity and Walking: What Do Metabolic and Mechanical Energetics Tell Us?" | Watch Video |
| November 27 | Charles L. Baum, II, Ph.D., Department Chair, Professor, Department of Economics and Finance, Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, TN | "The Effects of College on Weight: Examining the Freshman Fifteen Myth" | Watch Video |
| December 04 | Susan Johnson, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics, University of Colorado Denver, Aurora, CO | "Factors Influencing Children's Food Acceptance and Mealtime Interactions" | Watch Video |
| December 05 | Lisa M. Ramirez, Ph.D., University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL | "Partial Body Potassium Measurement of Regional Skeletal Muscle Mass in a Spinal Cord Injury Population" | |
| December 11 | Timothy Griffin, Ph.D., Assistant Member, Free Radical Biology and Aging Program, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Oklahoma City, OK | "Obesity and osteoarthritis: Too much joint loading or not enough?" | Seminar was canceled |
* Special NORC Seminar