The seminar is sponsored by the Nutrition Obesity Research Center and co-sponsored by the Department of Nutrition Sciences.
This seminar is held in the Learning Resource Center on Tuesdays at Noon. If you are interested in presenting a seminar, please contact
| Date | Speaker | Topic | Video |
|---|---|---|---|
| January 6 | A. Catharine Ross, PhD, Professor of Nutrition, Department of Nutritional Sciences, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA | "Vitamin A in early life—Why does it matter?" | Watch Video |
| January 13 | Chantelle Hart, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Public Health, Center for Obesity Research & Education, Department of Public Health, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA | "A Novel Approach in Pediatric Weight Regulation: Enhancing Sleep Duration" | |
| January 20 | Stephen Kritchevsky, Ph.D., Professor of Internal Medicine and Translational Science, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC | "Increasing Healthspan in Obese Older Adults" | Watch Video |
| January 27 | Colleen McBride, Ph.D., Professor/Chair, Behavioral Sciences and Health Education Department, Emory University, Atlanta, GA | "Cracking the nut of behavior change: Can Genomics Bring Innovation to Behavior Change Interventions?" | Watch Video |
| January 30 | Marissa Gowey, Psychology Resident, Division of Behavioral Medicine and Clinical Psychology, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio | "Pediatric Obesity: Correlates, Comorbidities, and Barriers to Intervention" | |
| February 3 | NORC/DNS Noon Seminar has been canceled | ||
| February 10 | Roger Cone, Ph.D., Professor, Chair of the Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN | "The MC4R: Conversion of a Threshold Sensor to a Rheostat on Energy Storage" | Watch Video |
| February 17 | David Mangelsdorf, Ph.D., Professor & Chairman, Department of Pharmacology, Biochemistry, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX | "Neuro Endocrine Regulation of Metabolism by FGP" | |
| February 24 | Jason Riis, Ph.D., Visiting Assistant Professor, Marketing Department, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA | "Field Studies of Healthy Eating Interventions in Retail Settings" | |
| March 3 | Kenneth J. McLeod, Ph.D., Director, Clinical Science, and Engineering Research Center, Binghamton University, Binghamton, NY | "The Role of Heat Balance in body Mass Maintenance" | Watch Video |
| March 10 | Caroline Alexander, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Oncology University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI | "Skin Insulation and Staying Warm" | Watch Video |
| March 17 | D. Enette Larson-Meyer, Ph.D., RD, Associate Professor, Human Nutrition and Food Program Area, Adjunct Clinical Faculty, Division of Kinesiology and Health, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY | "Human Milk, Exercise and Honey: Exploring the Obesoprotective Effect of gut peptides" | Watch Video |
| March 24 | Daniel Bessesen, MD, Ph.D., Professor of Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Colorado Denver, Denver, CO | "Dietary Fat and Body Weight Regulation" | Watch Video |
| April 7 | Michael P. Czech, PhD, Professor, Chair, Program in Molecular Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA | "Adipose mechanisms in control of systemic metabolism" | Watch Video |
| April 14 | Carl (Chip) Lavie, MD, Cardiologist, Ochsner Hospital Cardiology, New Orleans, LA | "Untangling the “Heavy” Cardiovascular Burden of Obesity and the “Obesity Paradox" | Watch Video |
| *April 15 | David Raubenheimer, Ph.D., Professor/Chair Nutritional Ecology and Nutrition Theme Leader, School of Biological Sciences The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia | "New Insight from Nutritional Ecology: Captive Insects, Wild Primates and the Causes of Human Obesity" | Watch Video |
| April 21 | Rebecca E. Hasson, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Kinesiology and Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI | "Environmental strategies to reduce pediatric obesity disparities" | Watch Video |
| April 28 | NORC Pilot Feasibility Projects | ||
| Li Li, MD, Assistant Professor, Department Psyc-Behavioral Neurobiology, UAB | "Psychosocial stem links mind with body" | ||
| Paula C. Chandler-Laney, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Nutrition Sciences, UAB | "The use of a jaw motion sensor to characterize infant feeding behavior" | ||
| Kasturi Mitra, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Genetics Research Division, UAB | "Interactions between dietary components driven insulin signaling and mitochondrial fission machinery in Drosophila ovaries: a novel approach to understand insulin-related metabolic disease" | ||
| Peggy Biga, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, UAB | "Amino acid regulation of myogenesis via epigenetic mechanisms" | ||
| *May 14 | Shannon "Kapuaola" Gellert, Ph.D., Department of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NCY | "Changes in Burden of Cardiovascular Disease following a Hypothetical Population Shift in Adiposity" | |
| *August 4 | Amber Kinsey, Ph.D., Institute of Sports Sciences and Medicine, Department of Nutrition, Food and Exercise Sciences, Florida State University Tallahassee, FL | "Nighttime eating: what do we Know about eating before bed" | |
| *August 18 | Christine Wegner, Sports Industry Research Center (SIRC) School of Tourism and Hospitality Management Temple University, Philadelphia, PA | "Organizations, Identity Creation, and Social Change" | |
| September 1 | Richard Feinman, Ph.D., Professor, Suny Downstate Medical Center, Department of Cell Biology, Brooklyn, NY | "The World Turned Upside Down. The Second Low-Carbohydrate Revolution" | Watch Video |
| September 8 | L. Ashley Cowart, Ph.D., Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC | "Sphingolipid metabolism and signaling in the cardiomyocyte response to lipid stress" | Watch Video |
| September 15 | Jessica Jones-Smith, Ph.D. Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD | "Increased economic resources stemming from Native American Casinos and the risk of overweight among Native American women and children" | Watch Video |
| September 22 | Charles Courtemanche, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA | "Revisiting the Effect of Smoking on Obesity: Evidence from a Randomized Trial" | Watch Video |
| September 29 | Harris R. Lieberman, Ph.D. U.S. Army Research Institute of Environmental Medicine, USARIEM, Natick, MA | "Caffeine Consumption and Its Effect on Cognitive Performance" | |
| October 6 | Dominic P. Agostino, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Departments of Molecular Pharmacology and Physiology, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL | "Nutritional Ketosis: Effects on Metabolic Regulation and Signaling" | Watch Video |
| October 13 | Ayman I. Sayegh, DVM, Ph.D., FTOS. Professor and Head, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Associate Dean for Research and Advanced Studies, College of Veterinary Medicine, Tuskegee University, Tuskegee, AL | "A Possible Role For The Gastrointestinal Tract in The Short Term Control of Food Intake by Cholecystokinin and Gastrin Releasing Peptide" | Watch Video |
| October 20 | Robert Hickner, Ph.D., Professor of Kinesiology and Physiology, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC | "Microvascular Blood Flow, Lipolysis and ROS in Obesity" | Watch Video |
| October 27 | Frank A.J.L. Scheer, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Medicine, Brigham & Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA | "The Circadian System and Its Disruption Impact Metabolic and Cardiovascular Function in Humans." | |
| November 10 | Tracy Anthony, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Nutritional Sciences, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ | "Amino Acid Sensing and Signaling in health and Disease" | |
| November 17 | Andrew T. Gewirtz, Ph.D., University Center Professor, Center for Inflammation, Immunity & Infection Institute for Biomedical Sciences, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA | "Gut Microbiota, Chronic Inflammation, And Metabolic Syndrome" | Watch Video |
| November 20 | Tanya M. Halliday, RD, Postdoctoral Candidate, Human Nutrition, Foods and Exercise, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA | "Are the Initiation and Maintenance of a Resistance Training Program Associated with Changes to Dietary Intake and Non-Resistance Training Physical Activity in Adults with Prediabetes?" | |
| November 24 | Michael Rendall, Ph.D., Professor, Director, Maryland Population Research Center, Professor of Sociology, University of Maryland, College Park, MD | "Cohort Projection of The Emergence and Growth of National Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Obesity From Childhood Through Adulthood" | |
| December 1 | James Kirkland, MD, Ph.D., Professor of Medicine and Physiology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MA | "Aging, Adipose Tissue Function And Cellular Senescence" | |
| December 8 | Sean Davies, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Pharmacology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN | "Genetic engineering of gut microbiota as a treatment for cardiometabolic disease" | |
| December 15 | Tom Baranowski, Ph.D. Professor of Pediatrics Behavioral Nutrition & Physical Activity Baylor College of Medicine Houston, TX | "Best Little eButton In Texas: Overview of Technology-Based Dietary Assessment Methods" | Watch Video |
* Special NORC Seminar