- January 21, 2016 – Elizabeth A. Walker, PhD, RN – Professor of Medicine, Department of Epidemiology & Population Health, Director of the Prevention and Control Core for the Diabetes Research and Training Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY – “Reaching the Disadvantaged with Diabetes: Lessons Learned and Applied”
- February 18, 2016 – Three of the UAB DRC Pilot recipients presented for our lecture: Donald Muccio, PhD, Professor, UAB Department of Chemistry – “Metabolic Homeostasis Studies on the Retinoid X Receptor Rexinoid, UAB126” / Maria DeLuca, PhD, Associate Professor, UAB Department of Nutrition Sciences – “A role for Sdc4 in cellular senescence in adipose tissue” / Karthikeyan Lingasubramanian, PhD, UAB Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering – “Development of Automated Processing Techniques for Time-Series Data Derived via Continuous Glucose Monitoring (CGM): Working Toward the Identification of Patterns in Free-Living Glucose Profile That May Predict Future Glucose Intolerance”
- March 17, 2016 –John A. Corbett, MD - Chairman and Professor, Department of Biochemistry, Medical College of Wisconsin , Milwaukee, WI - Nitric oxide as a novel regulator of the DNA damage response in pancreatic beta cells
- April 21, 2016 – Kevan Herold, MD – Professor of Immunobiology and of Medicine (Endocrinology); Deputy Director for Translational Science, YCCI; Director, Yale Diabetes Center – “Beta cells and T cells in Type 1 diabetes”
- September 15, 2016 – Sean H. Adams, PhD, Director of Arkansas Children’s Nutrition Center – “Acylcarnitines as Players in Metabolic Physiology and Pathophysiology”
- October 20, 2016 – Alan Saltiel, PhD, Professor of Medicine, University of California San Diego – “Inflammatory links between obesity and type 2 diabetes”
- November 17, 2016 – Teresa P. DiLorenzo, PhD, Professor, Department of Microbiology & Immunology; Professor, Department of Medicine (Endocrinology); Diane Belfer, Cypres & Endelson Families Faculty Scholar in Diabetes Research; Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Jack and Pearl Resnick Campus, Bronx, NY - “The Potential of transgenic and Humanized Mice for Type 1 Diabetes Research”
- December 15, 2016 – Franck Mauvais-Jarvis, M.D., Ph.D. Director, Diabetes Discovery Research & Gender Medicine Laboratory Section of Endocrinology, Price-Goldsmith Endowed Professorship in Nutrition Research, Professor, Department of Medicine and Pharmacology, Director, Tulane Diabetes Research Program, Tulane University Health Sciences Center- “Novel roles of estrogen and androgen receptors in diabetes prevention”