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 7 | Jung Sun Lee, Ph.D., RD, Associate Professor and Faculty of Gerontology, Department of Foods and Nutrition, University of Georgia, Athens, GA | "Food Insecurity and Nutritional in Older Adults" | Seminar was canceled |
| January 14 | Henry Markram, Ph.D., Professor, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland, Founder, Brain Mind Institute, Founder-Director, Blue Brain Project, Coordinator, Human Brain Project | "The Human Brain Project" | |
| January 15 | Carolyn Pritchett, Ph.D., Department of Psychology, Samford University, Birmingham, AL | "Investigating the Role of Central GLP-1 in Food Reward" | |
| January 21 | "Tasting Menu from New NORC Members"; | ||
| Ganesh V. Halade, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Med-Cardiovascular Disease, UAB | "Translational Outlook of Cardiac Remodeling in Obesity and Aging" | ||
| Steven N. Austad, Professor, Chair of Biology, UAB | "Sex-Specific Interventions in Aging" | ||
| Robert Sorge, Ph.D., Assistant Professor. Dept. of Psychology, UAB | "Dietary influence on pain in animals" | ||
| January 28 | Ronald E. Kleinman, MD, Physician in Chief, MassGeneral Hospital for Children, Chair, Department of Pediatrics, MassGeneral Hospital, Charles Wilder Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA | "Breastfeeding and infant health: an evidence-based approach" | Watch Video |
| February 4 | Juliano Laran, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Marketing, University of Miami School of Business, Coral Gables, FL | "Life History Strategy, Food Choice, and Caloric Consumption" | Watch Video |
| February 11 | John L. Sievenpiper, MD, Ph.D., Centre St. Michael’s Hospital, Department of Pathology and Molecular Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, McMaster University, Ontario, Canada | "Sugars and Cardiometabolic Health: A Story Lost in Translation" | Watch Video |
| February 18 | Anja Bosy-Westphal, Ph.D., Professor of Applied Nutrition and Dietetics, University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany | "Determinants of the partitioning of weight loss and weight gain during under- and overfeeding" | |
| * February 24 | Scott Pletcher Ph.D., Associate Professor, Molecular & Integrative Physiology, University of Michigan | "Hijacking the senses: Modulation of healthy aging in Drosophila through perceptual systems" | Watch Video |
| February 25 | Joseph A. Houmard, Ph.D., Director Human Performance Laboratory, Professor, Department of Kinesiology, East Carolina University, Greenville, SC | "Severe Obesity: Is there a Metabolic Program?" | Watch Video |
| * February 27 | Rita R Colwell, Ph.D., Chair of Canon US Life Sciences, Inc. and Distinguished University Professor both at the University of Maryland at College Park and at Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health | "Oceans, Climate, and Human Health: The Cholera Paradigm" | Watch Video |
| March 4 | Carol Boggs, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Biological Sciences as of 8/2013: Director, School of Earth, Ocean & Environment, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC | "Life history & population responses to nutritional stress in insects" | Watch Video |
| March 6 | Fangjian Guo, Graduate Research Assistant, Department of Nutrition Sciences, UAB | "The Healthy Obese are Alive and Well: Reduced Risk of Diabetes, CHD, and Mortality" | |
| March 11 | Marise Parent, Ph.D., Professor, Neuroscience Institute, College of Arts and Sciences, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA | "Remembering to eat: reciprocal interactions between energy intake and memory" | Watch Video |
| March 25 | Urszula T. Iwaniec, Ph.D., Associate Professor, College of Public Health and Human Sciences, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR | "Obesity, Leptin and Bone" | |
| April 1 | Rocio I. Pereira, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology, Metabolism & Diabetes, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, CO | "Diabetes Risk in Mexican Americans" | Watch Video |
| April 8 | Lotta Granholm-Bentley, D.D.S., Ph.D., Director, Center on Aging, professor, Department of Neurosciences, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC | "Western diets and the brain: Food for thought" | Watch Video |
| April 15 | Arya M. Sharma, MD/Ph.D., DSc., FRCPC, Professor Medicine Chair for Obesity, Research & Management University of Alberta, Royal Alexandra Hospital, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada | "5A’s of Obesity of Management" | Watch Video |
| April 17 | Sparkle Williams, Ph.D., Department of Biological Sciences, Tennessee State University, Nashville, TN | "Induced Reactive Oxygen Species Alter Insulin Signaling in Hypertensive Vascular Smooth Muscle Cells" | |
| * April 21 | Hyeyoung Nam, Ph.D., research fellow in the Endocrinology Department at the University of Utah | "Chronic hypoxia with dietary iron deficiency triggers catabolic state in mice liver" | |
| April 22 | Lee M. Kaplan, MD, Ph.D., Director, Obesity, Metabolism & Nutrition Institute, Massachusetts General Hospital and Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School. Boston, MA | "Physiological Mechanisms of Bariatric Surgery" | Watch Video |
| April 23 | Jay Johnson, Ph.D., Intradepartmental Nutritional Sciences, Iowa State University, Ames, IA | "In Utero Heat Stress Alters Metabolism During Postnatal Development" | |
| May 2 | Hongzhe Li, Ph.D. Professor Biostatistics and Statistics, Perelman School of Medicine University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA | "Microbiome, Metagenomics and High Dimensional Compositional Data Analysis" | Watch Video |
| May 21 | Timothy Heden, Ph.D., Exercise Physiology University of Missouri, Columbia, MO | "Resistance Exercise Timing and Metabolic Control in Individuals with Type 2 Diabetes" | |
| September 2 | Jeff S. Volek, Ph.D., RD, Professor, Department of Kinesiology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT | "The Many Facets of Keto-Adaptation: Health, Performance, & Beyond" | Watch Video |
| September 9 | Katherine L. Milkman, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Operations and Information Management, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA | "Motivating Virtuous Behavior" | |
| September 16 | Marie-Pierre St. Onge, Ph.D., FAHA, New York Obesity Nutrition Research Center, Columbia University, New York, NY | "The Role Of Sleep Restriction in Weight Management" | Watch Video |
| September 23 | Kim Gans, Ph.D., MPH, LDN, Professor, Department of Behavioral and Social Sciences, Director, Institute of Community Health Promotion, Brown University, School of Public Health, Providence, RI | "Fresh to You: An Innovative Public-Private Partnership to Increase Access to Fresh Fruits and Vegetables: History, lessons learned and Next Steps" | Watch Video |
| September 30 | Vicente Gilsanz, MD, Ph.D., Director Children’s Hospital, Professor of Radiology and Pediatrics, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA | "Expanding the role of imaging biomarkers to assess disease risk in children" | Watch Video |
| October 7 | Teri L. Hernandez, Ph.D., RN, Assistant Professor of Medicine and Nursing, University of Colorado, Aurora, CO | "Sugar and Fat: New Insights from Maternal Diabetes on Offspring Health" | |
| October 14 | Ioannis Pavlidis, Ph.D., Eckhard Professor, Computational Physiology, Lab, University of Houston, Houston, TX | "Unobtrusive and continuous monitoring of physiological variables with applications" | Watch Video |
| October 21 | Jennifer Pollock, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Med-Nephrology, UAB | "A mechanistic look at the effects of adversity early in life on cardiovascular disease risk during adulthood" | |
| October 28 | John D. Fernstrom, Ph.D., Professor of Psychiatry & Pharmacology/Chemical Biology, University of Pittsburg, Pittsburgh, PA | "Non-Nutritive Sweeteners and Obesity" | Watch Video |
| * October 29 | Gina M. Many, MA, Microbiology and Immunology, Research Center for Genetic Medicine, Children’s National Medical Center, Washington, DC | "Osteopontin and the regulations of muscle and macrophages" | |
| November 11 | Cathrine Hoyo, Ph.D., Associate Professor and Chief, Division of Clinical Epidemiology, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC | "Testing the Developmental Origins of Adult Disease Hypothesis: The Durham Newborn Epigenetics Study" | Watch Video |
| November 18 | Angela Brooks-Wilson, Ph.D., Professor, Biomedical Physiology and Kinesiology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada | "Genetics of Healthy Aging" | Watch Video |
| November 25 | Michael Alderman, MD, Professor, Department of Epidemiology & Population Health, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, NY | "Dietary Sodium: Where Science and Policy Conflict" | Watch Video |
| December 2 | Steven Farber, Ph.D., Staff Member, Carnegie Institution for Science, Department of Embryology, Baltimore, MD | "Live imaging of subcellular lipid transport and storage using larval zebrafish: A study with guts" | |
| * December 4 | Arthur H Rubenstein MBBCH, Professor, Department of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology at the Raymond and Ruth Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania | "The Evolution of Penn Medicine During The Decade 2001-2011" | Watch Video |
| December 9 | Y. Clair Wang, MD, ScD, Assistant Professor, Department of Health Policy & Management, Co-Director, Obesity Prevention Initiative, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, NY | "Palatable Food Policies: Case studies on the Rationale, Evidence, and Politics of the War on Sugary Beverages" | |
| December 16 | Bradford Lowell, MD, Ph.D., Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA | "The Wiring Diagram for Hunger: Using Neuron-Specific Tools to Discover its Basis" |
* Special NORC Seminar