The seminar is sponsored by the Nutrition Obesity Research Center and co-sponsored by the Department of Nutrition Sciences.
| Date | Speaker | Topic | Video |
|---|---|---|---|
| January 8 | Randy Seeley, Ph.D., Professor, Director, UC/CCHMC Center of Excellence in Obesity and Diabetes, University of Cincinnati, Reading, OH | "Bariatric Surgery: It’s not what you think it is" | Watch Video |
| January 15 | Michael Pratt, Ph.D., Director, Centers of Disease Control and Prevention, Chief of Physical Activity and Health Branch, CDC, Atlanta, GA | "The Global Public Health Challenge of Physical Activity" | Watch Video |
| January 22 | Danielle Bouchard, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Health, Leisure and Human Performance Research Institute, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada | "Sarcopenia and Dynapenia: Are There Different Implications for Obese Older Adults?" | Watch Video |
| January 29 | Jayson Lusk, Ph.D., Professor, and Willard Sparks Endowed Chair, Department of Agricultural Economics, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK | "The Economics and Politics of Obesity" | Watch Video |
| February 5 | Dr. David Allison, Distinguished Professor, Associate Dean for Science, Director, Office of Energetics, Director, Nutrition Obesity Research Center, UAB | "Myths, Presumptions, and Facts About Obesity" | |
| February 12 | Anthony Sclafani, Ph.D., Distinguished Professor, Department of Psychology, Brooklyn College of CUNY, Brooklyn, NY | "Gut-Brain Nutrient Signaling: Appetition vs. Satiation" | |
| February 19 | Miriam Vos, MD, MSPH, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Emory University School of Medicine, Research Program Director, Child Wellness, Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, Atlanta, GA | "From Sugar to Fat: Role of Fructose in Fatty Live Disease" | |
| February 26 | Douglas Paddon-Jones, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Nutrition and Metabolism, The University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX | "Maintaining Muscle Mass in Older Adults Nutrition and Exercise Strategies" | Watch Video |
| March 5 | John Higginbotham, Ph.D., MPH, Associate Dean for Research and Health Policy, Health Policy, The University of Alabama School of Medicine, Tuscaloosa, AL | "Using New Interventions Together to Eliminate Disparities" | Watch Video |
| March 12 | 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?" | Watch Video |
| March 19 | David A. Levitsky, Ph.D., Professor of Psychology/Nutrition Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY | "The Weigh to Control Body Weight: The Only Way" | Watch Video |
| March 26 | Stephen Woods, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cincinnati, College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH | "Peptides, Food Intake, and Body Weight: Problems of Interpretation" | Watch Video |
| April 2 | Richard J. Bloomer, Chair, Department of Health and Sport Sciences, Director, Cardiorespiratory/Metabolic Laboratory, The University of Memphis, Memphis, TN | "Oxidative Stress-Induced via Exercise and Feeding: Implications for Human Health" | Watch Video |
| * April 2 | Catherine Woteki, Ph.D., Under Secretary for United States Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Research, Education, and Economics (REE) mission area, Department's Chief Scientist. | "Public Health and Food Security: The Nutrition Nexus" | |
| April 9 | "Tasting menu from New NORC Members" | ||
| Peggy Biga, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Dept. of Biology, UAB | "Fish as model organisms: Comparative analyses of different growth potentials" | ||
| Larrell L. Wilkinson, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Human Studies, UAB | "Health Disparities: Examining Individual, Contextual, & Behavioral Factors that Shape Health Outcomes" | ||
| Danielle Powell, MD, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, UAB | "Weight Gain after Spinal Cord Injury" | ||
| April 16 | Lora Burke, Ph.D., MPH, RN, FAAN, Professor, Health and Community Systems, School of Nursing, University of Pittsburg, Pittsburg, PA | "Integrating mHealth in a Program of Behavior Change Research" | Watch Video |
| April 30 | Steven R. Smith, MD, Scientific Director and Professor of the Translational Research Institute for Metabolism and Diabetes, Florida Hospital, Orlando, FL | "Unraveling the Molecular Origins of Body Fat Distribution" | Watch Video |
| May 7 | Brian Parks, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Researcher, University of California, Los Angeles, CA | "A Systems Genetics Approach to Study Obesity, Dietary Interactions, and the Microbiome" | Watch Video |
| May 14 | W. Timothy Garvey, MD, Professor/Chairman, Department of Nutrition Sciences Chair Office, UAB | "New Tools for Weight Loss Therapy: A Complications-Centric Model for Obesity Management and Cardiometabolic Disease Staging" | Watch Video |
| May 21 | Megan Workman, Ph.D., Department of Anthropology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM | "Developmental Influences on Metabolism and Body Composition" | |
| June 12 | Hiroshi Nishiura, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Global Health Policy, And Keisuke Ejima, Ph.D. Candidate, Information Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo, Japan | "Dependent Happening in Epidemiology" | Watch Video |
| August 7 | William Anderson, Ph.D., Department of Sociology, UAB | "A Constructal Systemic Approach to the Sociological Study of Health and Illness." | |
| * August 13 | Steven B Heymsfield, MD, Chair in Nutrition at the Pennington Biomedical Research Center of the Louisiana State University System | "How Does Human Energy Metabolism Relate to Body Size?" | Watch Video |
| * August 13 | Christine L. Pelkman, Ph.D., Senior Nutrition Scientist and Clinical Research Manager, Ingredion Incorported, Nutrition R&D, Bridgewater, NJ | "Resistant Starch-Physiological Benefits of a Unique Dietary Fiber" | |
| August 15 | Katherine A. Sauder, Predoctoral Fellow, Pistachio Diabetes Study Coordinator, Department Biobehavioral Health, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA | "The Relationship Between Diet and Vascular Health" | |
| September 3 | Julian Alston, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Director, Robert Mondavi Institute Center for Wine Economics, University of California, Davis, CA | "Farm and Food Policy and Obesity" | Watch Video |
| September 10 | Cara Ebbeling, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Children’s Hospital Boston, Department of Pediatrics, Division of Endocrinology, Harvard University, Boston, MA | "Dietary Interventions for Obesity: Is Macronutrient Composition Important" | Watch Video |
| September 17 | Rick Weiss, President, Founder & Chief Wellness Engineer, Viocare, Inc., Princeton, NJ | "Recent Advances in Personalized Nutrition Technology" | Watch Video |
| September 24 | Terry W. Snell, Ph.D., Professor and Chair, Elizabeth Smithgall Watts Chair, in Animal Behavior and Conservation, School of Biology, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA | "Searching for Dietary Supplements Capable of Life Extension" | Watch Video |
| October 1 | Paul Rozin, Ph.D., Professor, Department Psychology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | "Eating and the Environment" | Watch Video |
| October 8 | Edward Ip, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Biostatistical Sciences and Department of Social Sciences & Health Policy, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC | "Multichain Hidden Markov Models for Studying Psychological and Behavioral Profiles" | Watch Video |
| October 15 | Jake Lusis, Ph.D., Professor, Departments of Medicine, Cardiology, Human Genetics, Microbiology, Immunology & Molecular Genetics, The Lusis Laboratory, University of California, Los Angeles, CA | "A Systems Genetics Approach to Complex Cardio-Metabolic Traits" | Watch Video |
| October 22 | Michael O. Thorner, Ph.D., M.B.B.S., Professor, Endocrinology and Metabolism Medicine, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA | "Ghrelin Regulation and Its Implications for Its Physiological Role" | Watch Video |
| October 29 | Donald K. Ingram, Ph.D., Professor, Nutritional Neuroscience and Aging Laboratory Director, Animal Metabolism and Behavior Core, Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA | "Good Stress: Hormesis as a Mechanism Underlying Health Benefits of Botanicals and Calorie Restriction" | Watch Video |
| October 30 | TaShauna U. Goldsby, Ph.D., Clinical Research Scientist, Center for Metabolic Health and The Hospital of Central Connecticut, New Britain, CT. | "Designing Real-World Behavioral Change Interventions for Obesity." | |
| November 5 | Paul A.S. Breslin, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Nutritional Sciences, Rutgers University, Philadelphia, PA | "Anticipatory Digestive Responses to Foods" | Watch Video |
| November 19 | Antonio Vidal-Puig, MD, Ph.D., FRCP, Professor Medicine Nutrition and Metabolism, Scientific Director Cambridge Phenomics Centre, Associate Faculty Sanger Institute, Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge, UK | "BAT as a Vacuum Cleaner" | Watch Video |
| November 26 | Christopher Kuzawa, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL | "Epigenetic, Developmental and Intergenerational Influences on US Cardiovascular Health Disparities" | Watch Video |
| December 3 | Philipp Gut, MD, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow, Stainier Lab, Biochemistry and Biophysics Department, University of California, San Francisco, CA | "A Whole-Organism Approach to Study Metabolic Networks" | Watch Video |
| December 10 | Mark Friedman, Ph.D., Member and Director of Technology Transfer, Monell Chemical Senses Center, Philadelphia, PA | "Why Getting Fat Makes You Overeat" | Watch Video |
| December 17 | Lance Baumgard, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Norman Jacobson Endowed Professor, Iowa State University, Ames, IA | "Heat Stress and Post-Absorptive Metabolic Perturbations: Agricultural Models" | Watch Video |
| December 18 | Stephen J. Carter, Exercise Science at the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL | "The Influence of Aspirin on Body Temperature Regulation in Humans" |
* Special NORC Seminar