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Faculty and Guest Lecture Series
All lectures take place at noon in Preston Research Building, Room 206
Friday, September 13, 2013
Title of talk: The Wiring Diagram for Hunger and Satiety: Using Cell-Specific Cre/Lox Tools to Discover its Neural Basis
Bradford B. Lowell, MD, PhD
Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Research interests: Neurobiological and neurocircuit basis for leptin action and melanocortin-4 receptor action, role of synaptic transmission and NMDAR-mediated synaptic plasticity within feeding circuits, afferent inputs regulating AgRP and POMC neurons, efferent circuits responsible for effects of AgRP and POMC neurons on feeding behavior, dissection of neural pathways regulating sympathetic outflow and energy expenditure, and neural mechanisms by which the brain controls glucose homeostasis.
Friday, October 11, 2013
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Christoph Buettner, PhD
Associate Professor, Medicine, Endocrinology, Diabetes and Bone Disease; Associate Professor Neuroscience, Mount Sinai Hospital
Research interests: To understand how hormones and nutrients are sensed by the hypothalamus and how the brain controls systemic metabolism. Hormones like insulin and leptin regulate systemic inflammation via the brain and the autonomic nervous system. We speculate that this may be the basis for the link between impaired metabolic control and inflammation.
Friday, November 8, 2013
Title of talk: Title TBA . . .
J.K.McIvor (1915-1942) Endowed Chair in Diabetes Research; Canada Research Chair in Obesity; Associate Professor, Departments of Physiology and Medicine, University of Toronto; Associate Director, University of Toronto Banting and Best Diabetes Centre; Senior Scientist, Toronto General Hospital Research Institute
Research interests: The long-term goal is to unveil novel molecules/pathways in the body that regulate both hepatic glucose production and food intake in vivo, and consequently reveal new therapeutic molecules that could be targeted to restor glucose and energy homeostasis in diabetes and obesity
December 13, 2013
Title of talk: Title TBA . . .
Hans-Rudolf Berthoud, PhDGeorge H. Bray Professor, Neurobiology of Nutrition Laboratory, Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Louisiana State University
Martin G. Myers, Jr., MD, PhD, Associated Professor of Molecular & Integrative Physiology, University of Michigan
Research interests: the biology of leptin, a hormone that regulates physiological processes relevant to diabetes and the metabolic syndrome.
Friday, February 8, 2013:
Toni I. Pollin, PhD, Associate Professor, Medicine and Epidemiology & Public Health, University of Maryland
Research interests: using statistical methods to discern the genetic factors in conjunction with environmental factors causing common complex diseases primarily with adult onset.
Title of talk: Inborn Errors Enhancements of Metabolism: The APOC3 R19X Story
Friday, March 1, 2013:
Leslie Lange, PhD, Research Assistant Professor, Department of Genetics, University of North Carolina
Research interests: Genetics of complex diseases, genetics of chronic inflammation, cardiovascular disease, asthma.
Title of talk: An overview of the Exome Sequencing Project (ESP) and discuss LDL-cholesterol results
Friday, April 12, 2013:
Joshua Thaler, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, Division of Metabolism, Endocrinology, and Nutrition, Department of Medicine, University of Washington
Research interests: {C}the hypothalamic regulation of energy homeostasis and the alterations to this system during obesity pathogenesis.
Title of talk: Hypothalamic Injury and Obesity Pathogenesis