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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 or wish to recommend a guest speaker, please contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

Date	Speaker	Topic
January 14	Acya Erkin-Cakmak, MD, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Divisions of Pediatric Endocrinology, University of California, San Francisco, INSPIRE Scholar	"Early-life exposure to persistent organic pollutants and cardiometabolic health in young adults from the CHAMACOS cohort"
January 28	Nadia Kramer, PhD, Assistant Professor, University of Michigan Health System, Department of Surgery, Research Biologist, Ann Arbor VA Health System, Ann Arbor, Michigan	“The role on the enterohepatic circulation in metabolism-lessons learned from weight loss interventions”
February 4	Sonia Garcia Calzon, PhD, Assistant Professor, Dept Nutrition, Food Science, and Physiology, Nutrition Research Center, School of Pharmacy and Nutrition, University of Navarra	“TBD”
February 11
February 18	Pedro Gonzalez Muniesa, PhD, Professor, Dept Nutrition, Food Science, and Physiology, Nutrition Research Center, School of Pharmacy and Nutrition, University of Navarra	“TBD”
February 25	Nashira Brown, PhD, Assistant Professor, FIRST Benjamin-Carver Scientist, School of Public Health, Dept of Health Behavior, University of Alabama at Birmingham	“TBD”
March 4	Kathryn Whyte, PhD, MS, RDN, Associate Research Scientist, Division of Molecular Genetics, Dept of Pediatrics, Columbia University	“TBD”
March 11	NO SEMINAR - SPRING BREAK
March 18	Jonathon Krakoff, PhD, Obesity and Diabetes Clinical Research Section, NIDDK-Phoenix, Arizona	“TBD”
March 25	Andrew Brown, PhD, Associate Professor, Dept of Biostatistics, University of Arkansas for Medicine Sciences and the Biostatistics Core, Center for Childhood Obesity Prevention, Arkansas Children’s Research Institute	“TBD”
April 1
April 8	Seth Creasy, PhD, Assistant Professor, AHWC Director of Research Integration, Department of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology, Metabolism, and Diabetes, Anschutz Health and Wellness Center, University of Colorado	“TBD”
April 15
April 22	Chinenye Dike, PhD, Assistant Professor, Division of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology & Nutrition, Heersink School of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham	“TBD”
April 29	Martin Young, PhD, Professor of Medicine, Vice-Director for the Research Division of Cardiovascular Disease, Heersink School of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham	“TBD”