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 3 | No NORC | ||
| January 10 | Dympna Gallagher, Ed.D., Professor of Nutritional Medicine, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, New York | "Fat-free mass composition: implications for understanding resting metabolic rate and energy balance" | Watch Video |
| January 17 | Philip Calder, PhD, DPhil, RNutr, FSB, FAfN, Professor of Nutritional Immunology within Medicine, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom | "Omega-3 fats: master controllers of inflammation" | Watch Video |
| January 24 | Christine Ferguson, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, SHP Research Collaborative, School of Health Professions, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama | "Does dietary protein matter for sleep and skeletal muscle mass in Parkinson disease?" | Watch Video |
| January 31 | Bonnie Spring, PhD, Director, Institute for Public Health and Medicine (IPHAM) – Center for Behavior and Health Chief of Behavioral Medicine in the Department of Preventative Medicine, Professor of Preventative Medicine (Behavior Medicine), Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois | "Finding the Sweet Spot for Obesity Treatment Strategies that Maximize Public Health Benefit" | Watch Video |
| February 7 | Deborah Tate, PhD, Professor, Department of Health Behavior, Gillings School of Global Health, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina | "Moving towards Precision Behavioral Weight Loss Interventions using Digital Approaches" | Watch Video |
| February 14 | none | ||
| February 21 | William C Roell, PhD - Director – Insulin Discovery/Incretin Discovery, Lilly Research Laboratories, Eli Lilly and Company, Lilly Corporate Center, Indianapolis, Indiana | "Preclinical and clinical exploration of tirzepatide MOA" | |
| February 28 | Gary Foster, PhD - Chief Scientific Officer, WW International | "Clinic and community based approaches to managing obesity: Lessons learned" | Watch Video |
| March 7 | none | ||
| March 14 | Graham Thomas, PhD, Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Brown Alpert Medical School and Associate, Director of the Weight Control & Diabetes Research Center of the Miriam Hospital, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island | "Digital health technology to understand and treat obesity" | Watch Video |
| March 21 | Robert Eckel, PhD, Charles A. Boettcher II Endowed Chair in Atherosclerosis, Professor of Medicine – Division of Endocrinology, Metabolism, and Diabetes and the Division of Cardiology, Professor of Physiology and Biophysics at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Director of the Lipid Clinic at the University of Colorado Hospital, Denver, Colorado | "Lipids, Obesity, Metabolic Syndrome, Diabetes and the Heart – My Professional Journey" | Watch Video |
| March 28 | Corby Martin, PhD, Director, Ingestive Behavior, Weight Management, and Health Promotion Laboratory, Director, Human Phenotyping Core, Nutrition Obesity Research Center (NORC), Professor, Ingestive Behavior, Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana | "Promotion of longevity, health, and science through clinical research and human phenotyping" | |
| April 4 | Mona Mashayekhi, MD, PhD, Instructor, Division of Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center | "Immunometabolism and Cardiovascular Benefits of Newer Anti-Diabetic Therapies" | Watch Video |
| April 11 | Mary Latimer, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, Assistant Professor, Nursing Family, Community & Health Systems, Nursing Academic Affairs, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama | "Investigating Circadian Clock Perturbations During Diet Induced HFpEF" | Watch Video |
| April 18 | Anna Thalacker-Mercer, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Cell, Developmental and Integrative Biology, Associate Scientist, Center for Clinical and Translational Science (CCTS) General Clinical Research Center, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama | "Nutrient and Metabolic Determinants of Skeletal Muscle Regeneration" | Watch Video |
| April 25 | Debra Haire-Joshu, PhD, Joyce and Chauncy Buchheit Professorship in Public Health, Director, Center for Diabetes Translation Research, Director, Center for Obesity Prevention and Policy Research, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri | "Reducing Chronic Disease Disparities in Women: Moving Science to Real World Impact" | Watch Video |
| May 2 | Richard Mattes, PhD, Distinguished Professor, Department of Nutrition Science, College of Health and Human Sciences, Purdue University, Lafayette, Indiana | "A skeptical review of the purported mechanisms linking ultra-processed food intake to obesity risk" | Watch Video |
| May 9 | Slyvie Mrug, PhD, Professor, Medicine – Nephrology & Neurobiology, Dept. of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama | "Diet and mental health in adolescence" | Watch Video |
| May 16 | Jennifer Guimbellot, MD, PhD & Julianna Bailey, PhD, Associate Professor, Assistant Program Director, Pediatric Pulmonology Fellowship Program, Division of Pediatric Pulmonary & Sleep Medicine, Heersink School of Medicine, Instructor, Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care, Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama | "The DOMINO study: how Diet and bOdy coMposItioN impact drug absOrption and response in cystic fibrosis" | Watch Video |
| May 23 | Camille Worthington, PhD, RDN, Assistant Professor, Department of Nutrition Sciences, School of Health Professions, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama | "Timing of Energy Intake Among Postpartum Women: Potential Importance for Postpartum Weight Managemen" | Watch Video |
| September 5 | Jim Hill, PhD, Professor and Chair, Department of Nutrition Sciences, Director, UAB Nutrition Obesity Research Center (NORC), Birmingham, Alabama | "State of NORC" | Watch Video |
| September 12 | Derek LeRoith, MD, PhD, Director of Research, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Bone Disease, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York | "Obesity and Diabetes and their effects on breast cancer progression" | Watch Video |
| September 19 | Juliane Beier, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, Pittsburgh Liver Research Center, Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA | "Environmental Chemical Exposures as Risk Modifiers for Liver Disease and Cancer" | Watch Video |
| September 26 | Konstantinos Drosatos, MSC, PhD, FAHA, Professor, Pharmacology & Systems Physiology, College of Medicine, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio | "Hepatocardiac FGF21 signaling: Treating obesity but promoting cardiac hypertrophy?" | Watch Video |
| October 3 | NO Seminar | ||
| October 10 | Qi Wu, PhD, Assistant Professor, Pediatrics-Nutrition, Childrens Nutrition Research Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas | "Neural circuit basis for multimodal control of feeding and body weight" | Watch Video |
| October 17 | TOS – NO NORC | ||
| October 24 | Frank Greenway, PhD, Chief Medical Officer, Professor, Clinical Trials Unit, Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA | "Food as Medicine" | Watch Video |
| October 31 | Michael Okoroafor, PhD, Chief Sustainability Officer, McCormick & Company, Inc., Hunt Valley, Maryland | "How McCormick Drives Value for all Stakeholders" | Watch Video |
| November 7 | Chris Cifelli, PhD, Vice President of Nutrition Research at National Dairy Council | "The Relationship Between Dairy Foods and Health: Utilization of NHANES Data" | Watch Video |
| November 14 | |||
| November 21 | No NORC – Thanksgiving Holiday | ||
| November 28 | Hollie Raynor, PhD, RD, LDN, Professor, Dept of Nutrition, Associate Dean of Research, College of Education, Health & Human Sciences, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee | "Translating Research to Practice: Childhood Obesity" | Watch Video |
| December 5 | Peter Crawford, MD, PhD, Professor, Department of Medicine, Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, and Biophysics, Associate Dean, Research Operations, University of Minnesota Medical School, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota | "Protective interorgan, intercellular, and intercompartmental metabolite shuttles in obesity" | Watch Video |
| December 12 | none | ||
| December 19 | No NORC – Holidays | ||
| December 26 | No NORC – Holidays |