January 2013
206 Preston Research Building 12:00 P.M.
Friday, January 4- PDF Flyer »
Chris Rhodes, Ph.D.
The Kovler Family Professor
Research Director, The Kovler Diabetes Center
Chair, Committee on Molecular Metabolism & Nutrition
Professor, Department of Medicine Section on
Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism
University of Chicago
"Type 2 Diabetes: Working the Beta-Cell
Over Its Limits"
Friday, January 11 - PDF Flyer »
Vanderbilt Institute for Obesity and Metabolism
Martin Meyers, M.D., Ph.D.
Marilyn H. Vincent Professor in Diabetes Research
Associate Professor of Internal Medicine
and Molecular and Integrative Physiology
University of Michigan
"Neural Mechanisms of Leptin
Action — What's new with
leptin in the brain?"
Friday, January 18 - PDF Flyer »
Eric Ravussin, Ph.D.
Chief, Division of Health and Performance Enhancement
Douglas L. Gordon Chair in Diabetes and Metabolism
Boyd Professor
Pennington Biomedical Research Center
"Caloric Restriction from Mice to Humans"
Thursday, January 24 - PDF Flyer »
Special Seminar: DRTC and Division of General Pediatrics
Sarah Armstrong, M.D.
Director, Duke Healthy Lifestyles Program
Assistatnt Professor of Pediatrics
Duke University School
"Clinical pediatric obesity treatment:
Prevails and pitfalls"
Friday, January 25 - PDF Flyer »
James M. May, M.D.
Professor of Medicine
Professor of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
"Ascorbic acid regulation of neurotransmitter synthesis"
February 2013
206 Preston Research Building 12:00 P.M. Friday, February 1 - PDF Flyer »
Center for Diabetes Translation Research
David Schlundt, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Psychology
Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
"Developing Health Information Technology to Support
Diabetes Management in an American Indian Tribe"
Friday, February 8 - PDF Flyer »
Vanderbilt Institute for Obesity and Metabolism
Toni Pollin, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Departments of Medicine Epidemiology & Public Health
Co-Track Leader, Human Genetics and Genomic Medicine
Program in Epidemiology and Human Genetics,
Graduate Program in Life Sciences
University of Maryland, Baltimore
"Inborn Errors Enhancements of
Metabolism: The APOC3 R19X Story"
Friday, February 15 - PDF Flyer »
Sean Davies, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Pharmacology
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
"Genetic modification of gut
bacteria as a treatment for obesity"
Paul F. Pilch, Ph.D.
Professor
Associate Director, Graduate Program in Molecular Medicine
Boston University School of Medicine
"Pleiotropic metabolic consequences of Cavin-1 deficiency"
Tuesday, February 26 - PDF Flyer »
Special Seminar
8455 MRB-IV
Darleen Sandoval, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Internal Medicine
Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism
University of Cincinnati
"Bariatric Surgery: Nutrient-Sensing
Mechanisms within the Gut-Brain Axis"
March 2013
206 Preston Research Building 12:00 P.M. Friday, March 1 - PDF Flyer »
Vanderbilt Institute for Obesity and Metabolism
Leslie Lange, Ph.D.
Research Assistant Professor
University of North Carolina School of Medicine
"The NHLBI Exome Sequencing Project (ESP)
for heart, lung and blood phenotypes: Overview
and results for LDL cholesterol"
Friday, March 8 - PDF Flyer »
Lawrence C. B. Chan, M.D.
Betty Rutherford Chair for Diabetes Research
Professor of Medicine
Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology
Chief, Division of Diabetes, Endocrinology & Metabolism
Director, Diabetes & Endocrinology Research Center
Baylor College of Medicine
"Diabetic Complications: Bad to the Bone"
Friday, March 15 - PDF Flyer »
Michelle Kimple, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism
University of Wisconsin, Madison
"Inhibitory G-proteins and their receptors:
Targets for beta-cell dysfunction?"
Thursday, March 21 - PDF Flyer »
Special Seminar
8455 MRB-IV
Roberto Gianani, M.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Pathology
University of Colorado Denver
"Pseudoatrophic islets are indicative of
autoimmune diabetes and islet autoimmunity"
Friday, March 22 - PDF Flyer »
Donald W. Bowden, Ph.D.
Associate Director, Center for Genomics
and Personalized Medicine Research
Director, Center for Diabetes Research
Professor, Biochemistry
Wake Forest University
"Life and Death in the Diabetes Heart Study"
Friday, March 29
No Seminar
April 2013
206 Preston Research Building 12:00 P.M.
Friday, April 5 - PDF Flyer »
Center for Diabetes Translation Research
Shari L. Barkin, M.D., M.S.H.S.
William K. Warren Foundation Chair in Medicine
Marian Wright Edelman Professor of Pediatrics
Director, Division of General Pediatrics
Investigator
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
"Pediatric Obesity - Putting Science to Work"
Friday, April 12 - PDF Flyer »
Vanderbilt Institute for Obesity and Metabolism
Joshua Thaler, M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Metabolism, Endocrinology & Nutrition
Unuiversity of Washington
"Hypothalamic Injury and Obesity Pathogenesis"
Friday, April 19 - PDF Flyer »
Jirong Long, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
"Genetics of Type 2 Diabetes:
Common and Rare Variants"
Friday, April 26 - PDF Flyer »
Wenbiao Chen, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
"Zebrafish as a model for type 2 diabetes"
May 2013
206 Preston Research building 12:00 P.M.Friday, May 3 - PDF Flyer »
Simon W. Hayward, Ph.D.
Professor of Urologic Surgery and Cancer Biology
VICC Member
Researcher
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
"Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia in
the context of Obesity and Diabetes."
Friday, May 10
Commencement - No Seminar
