- January 17, 2013 – Presented by: Martin J. Hessner, PhD, Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Director, The Max McGee National Research, Center for Juvenile Diabetes, The Medical College of Wisconsin - “Transcriptional Bioassays as a Means of Assessing Inflammatory Processes Associated with T1D.” Sponsored by: The UAB Diabetes Research Center
- February 21, 2013 – Presented by Jon Piganelli, PhD, Associate Professor, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Department of Immunology, Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC, Department of Pediatrics – “No Tolerance For ER- stress in the Autoimmune Prone” – Sponsored by: The UAB Diabetes Research Center
- March 21, 2013 – Presented by Rosalind A. Coleman, MD, Professor of Pediatrics and Nutrition, Associate Director, UNC Nutrition Obesity Research Center, Division Chief, Nutritional Biochemistry, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, NC – “The Role of Acyl-CoA Synthetase-1 in Energy Metabolism” – Sponsored by: The UAB Diabetes Research Center
- April 18, 2013 – David H. Wagner, Jr., PhD, Senior Investigator and Head, Section of Immunology, Webb-Waring Center, Associate Professor, Division of Pulmonary Medicine and Critical Care, Department of Medicine, University of Colorado Denver – “Controlling the CD40/CD154 Inflammatory axis to Prevent/Reverse Type 1 Diabetes in NOD mice” – Sponsored by: The UAB Diabetes Research Center
- May 16, 2013 – Presented by: Christopher J. Rhodes, PhD, Professor, Department of Medicine, Section of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Research, Director, Comprehensive Diabetes Center, The University of Chicago Knapp Center For Biological Discovery, Chicago, IL – “Type 2 diabetes – Working the Beta-Cell to its own demise” – Sponsored by: The UAB Diabetes Research Center
- September 19, 2013 – Presented by: Barbara A. Gower, PhD - Professor of Nutrition Sciences, Vice Chair for Nutrition Sciences Research, Director: Human Physiology Core, UAB Diabetes Research Center, Director: Metabolism Core, UAB Nutrition Obesity Research Center & Center for Clinical and Translational Science, University of Alabama at Birmingham – “Macronutrients and Metabolic Health” – Sponsored by: The UAB Diabetes Research Center
- October 17, 2013 – Presented by: Guadalupe X. Ayala, PhD, “Reaching children where they live, eat, and play: A multi-sector, multi-level intervention to prevent and control childhood obesity.” Sponsored by: The UAB Diabetes Research Center
- November 21, 2013 – Presented by: Robert L. Judd, PhD, Associate Professor of Pharmacology, Chair, Boshell Diabetes and Metabolic Diseases Research Program, Auburn University College of Veterinary Medicine Department of Anatomy, Physiology and Pharmacology, Auburn University, AL - “Pleiotropic Effects of Niacin” - Sponsored by: The UAB Diabetes Research Center
- December 19, 2013 - Presented by: Ming-Hui Zou, MD, PhD, George Lynn Cross Research Professor, Warren Chair in Diabetes Research, Professor of Medicine, Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Chief, Section of Molecular Medicine, Vice Chair for Research, Department of Medicine, University of Oklahoma Health Science Center - “The Blooming of the French Lilac-Mechanisms and therapeutic potentials of metformin” - Sponsored by: The UAB Diabetes Research Center
