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 5 | Anna Mae Diehl, MD, Director, Duke Liver Center, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC | "Developmental Morphogens and Adult Liver Repair (Fixing Fatty Livers)" | Watch Video |
| January 12 | David Allison, Ph.D., Distinguished Professor, Quetelet Endowed Professor of Public Health, Associate Dean for Science, Director Office of Energetics and Nutrition Obesity Research Center, UAB, Birmingham, AL | "State of the NORC" | |
| *January 14 | Hongoxia Ren, Ph.D., Associate Research Scientist, Diabetes Research Center, Department of Medicine, Columbia University Medical Center,New York, NY | "Identifying Novel CNS Targets for Metabolic Disease" | |
| January 19 | Michael Perri, Ph.D., Dean, College of Public Health and Health Professions, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL | "Obesity in Rural America: Addressing The Challenges Of Treatment, Dissemination and Implementation" | Watch Video |
| January 26 | James Mitchell, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Department of Genetics and Complex Diseases, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA | "Mechanisms Of Dietary Protein Restriction Benefits: From Hydrogen Sulfide To Lipid Homeostasis" | Watch Video |
| *January 29 | Natalie Ingraham, MPH, Postdoctoral Candidate, Sociology, University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) San Francisco, CA | "Out Of Touch, Out Of Time: A Sociological Exploration Of Queer Women’s Experiences Of Health, Aging, & Body Size" | |
| February 2 | Richard D. Palmiter, Ph.D., Professor of Biochemistry, Adjunct Professor of Genome Sciences, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA | "Deciphering Neural Circuits That Control Appetite" | Watch Video |
| February 9 | Karen Ryan, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Neurobiology, Physiology and Behavior, University of California, Davies, CA | "Nuclear Receptor Signaling In The Regulation Of Stress And Metabolism" | |
| February 16 | Christi Gendron, PhD, Research Assistant Professor, Molecular & Integrative Physiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI | "The Secret To Long Life Is Within: Neuronal Regulation Of The Aging Process" | |
| February 23 | Valter Longo, PhD, Professor of Gerontology and Biological Sciences, Davis School of Gerontology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA | "Nutrition, Fasting Mimicking Diets, Regeneration and Longevity" | |
| March 1 | Debra A . Fadool, PhD, Professor, Department of Biological Science, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL | "Olfactory electrical signaling, structure, and learning is disrupted following a hyperlipidemic diet - neuromodulation of K channels by insulin, glp-1, and glucose" | Watch Video |
| March 8 | Satyanarayana Ande, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Georgia Regents University Cancer Center, Augusta, GA | "ID1 In Brown Adipose Tissue Metabolism And Obesity" | |
| March 15 | Jennifer L. Pomeranz, JD, MPH, Clinical Associate Professor, College of Public Health, New York University, New York, NY | "Supporting Healthy Food Choices For The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)" | Watch Video |
| *March 17 | Arion Kennedy, PhD, Research Instructor, Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN | "Function Of CD8+T Cells In Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease" | |
| March 22 | Michael Beets, M.Ed, MPH, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Arnold School of Public Health, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC | "When policy met practice: Promoting healthy eating and physical activity in afterschool programs" | Watch Video |
| March 29 | Christopher J. Easley, PhD, Knowles Associate Professor, Chemistry & Biochemistry, Auburn University, Auburn, AL | "Bioanalytical Chemistry At The Nanoliter Scale To Study Dynamics Of Endocrine Function" | Watch Video |
| April 12 | James M. Ntambi, PhD, Professor of Biochemistry, Steenbock Professor of Nutritional Sciences, Department of Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin – Madison, Madison, WI | "Lipogenesis And Metabolic Signaling In Obesity And Diabetes" | Watch Online |
| *April 13 | Sarah Owusu, PhD, Physiology, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA | "VARA Supplementation: Effects on Ontogeny and Neonatal Lung Injury" | |
| April 19 | Liou Y. Sun, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, UAB, Birmingham, AL | "What We Learned From Growth Hormone Disrupted Mouse Models" | |
| *April 20 | Anarina Le Murillo, PhD, Simon A. Levin Mathematical, Computational and Modeling Sciences Center, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ | "Type 2 Diabetes And Obesity: A Biological, Behavioral, And Environmental Context" | |
| April 26 | Gerald I. Shulman, M.D., Ph.D, F.A.C.P., M.A.C.E. Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, George R. Cowgill Professor of Physiological Chemistry, Professor of Medicine and Cellular & Molecular Physiology, Co-Director Yale Diabetes Research Center, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT | "Roles Of Ectopic Lipid And Inflammation In The Pathogenesis Of Type 2 Diabetes" | |
| *May 18 | Paige Berger, PhD, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Foods and Nutrition, The University of Georgia, Athens, GA | "Eating Behaviors, Growth, And Body Composition, From Infancy To Adolescence" | |
| *May 21 | S. Nicole Fearnbach, USDA Childhood Obesity Prevention Program Fellow, Department of Nutritional Sciences, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA | "Interactions Between Exercise And Eating Behavior In Children And Adolescents" | |
| September 13 | Ronald J. Jandacek, PhD, Professor, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio | "The Interaction of Nonabsorbable Dietary Lipid with Organohalide Compounds" | Watch Video |
| September 20 | Anthony G. Comuzzie, PhD, FTOS, Scientist and Co-Director TOPS Nutrition and Obesity Research Center, Department of Genetics, Texas Biomedical Research Institute, San Antonio, TX | "Genes and Diet in Cardiometabolic Disease Risk" | Watch Video |
| September 27 | Special K | ||
| Aaron Fobian, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurobiology (UAB) | "A Sleep And Media Intervention To Improve Adolescents’ Weight And Risk Of Type 2 Diabetes" | ||
| Tiffany L. Carson, PhD, Assistant Professor, Division of Preventive Medicine, Department of Medicine (UAB) | "A New Look At Why Health Disparities Continue To ‘Bug’ Us: Behavior, Environment, And The Gut Microbiota" | ||
| Ceren Yarar-Fisher, PT, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation School of Medicine (UAB) | "Kount Down To K" | ||
| Courtney Peterson, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Nutrition Sciences (UAB) | "Impact Of Time-Restricted Feeding On Energy Balance And Circadian Control Of Metabolism" | ||
| October 4 | Braxton D. Mitchell, PhD, Professor, Departments of Medicine and Epidemiology & Public Health, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD | "A novel gene influencing LDL-C levels in the Amish" | |
| October 11 | Timothy H. Moran, PhD, Paul R. McHugh Professor, Vice-Chair, Director of Research, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD | "Gut Peptide Satiety Signaling" | |
| October 18 | Fred (Ted) Edmond Bertrand III, PhD, Assistant Dean of SHP Undergraduate Research and Associate Professor, Departments of Clinical and Diagnostic Sciences, Department of Nutrition Sciences (UAB) | "Notch Signaling & Metabolism" | |
| Brenda Bertrand, PhD, Professor, MS in Nutrition Sciences Program Director, Department of Nutrition Sciences (UAB) | "BestME. Improving Diet Quality Among Child Daycare Centers - One Step At A Time" | ||
| Prabhakara R. Nagareddy, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Nutrition Sciences (UAB) | "Thrombopoiesis In Diabetes: Implications For Atherothrombotic Complications" | ||
| October 25 | Wendy R. Hood, PhD Associate Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, Auburn University, Auburn, AL | "Mitochondrial function and life history tradeoffs" | |
| November 8 | James G. Granneman, PhD, Professor of Molecular Medicine and Genetics, Director - Center of Integrative Metabolic and Endocrine Research, Wayne State University School, Detroit, MI | "A New Locus of Lipolysis Control" | Watch Video |
| November 15 | John M. Stafford, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, Division of Diabetes, Endocrinology, & Metabolism, Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN | "CETP And Sex-Differences In Obesity-Associated Cardiovascular Disease" | Watch Video |
| November 29 | Kerri Boutelle, Ph.D., Professor of Pediatrics and Psychiatry, Director -- Center for Healthy Eating and Activity Research, Senior Psychologist UCSD Eating Disorders Program, University of California San Diego, San Diego, CA | "The development of the next generation of treatment for people with obesity" | Watch Video |
| December 6 | John P. Thyfault, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Molecular and Integrative Physiology, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS | "Hepatic Fitness Impacts Susceptibility for Fatty Liver And Obesity" | Watch Video |
| *December 7 | Sarah E. Deemer, Department of Kinesiology, Texas Woman’s University, Denton, TX | "One Fish, Two Fish…Effect Of Omega-3 Fatty Acids On Metabolic Profile" | |
| December 13 | Pilot Projects | ||
| Li Li, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Division of Behavioral Neurobiology (UAB) | "The Impact Of Sex On The Relationship Between Obesity and Depression" | ||
| Tapan Mehta, Assistant Professor, Department of Health Services Administration (UAB) | "Plausible Explanation(s) To Declining Obesity-Mortality Risks Over Time" | ||
* Special NORC Seminar