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Faculty and Guest Lecture Series

All lectures take place at noon in Preston Research Building, Room 206

 

Friday, September 14, 2012

Title of talk:  Obesity Through the Lens of Public Health: Did Our Numbers Really Go Down?

David Schlundt, PhD, Associate Professor of Psychology, Vanderbilt University David Schlundt, PhD
 Associate Professor of Psychology                    
 Vanderbilt University    

 

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  Joan Randall, MPH
  Assistant Professor of Medical   
  Education and Administration
  Vanderbilt University 

 

 Friday, October 12, 2012
 

Deborah Clegg, PhD, Associate Professor, Internal Medicine Clinical Nutrition, UT Southwestern Medical Center  

 Research interests: Sex hormone modulation of hypothalamic and peripheral regulation of energy homeostasis.
 
Friday, November 9, 2012
Brian Welch, PhD, Assistant Professor, Vanderbilt Institute of Imaging Science
Research interests:  focus on overcoming the real world limitations of MRI that hinder research and clinical applications. I seek solutions to problems such as motion corruption, static field and radio frequency field inhomogeneity, long acquisition times, field of view limitations, and the qualitative nature of most MRI methods.
Title of talk: Brown Adipose Tissue Quantification Using Magnetic Resonance Imaging

 
 

December 14, 2012:

Umut Ozcan, MD, Assistant Professor, Division of Endocrinology, Children's Hospital Boston, Harvard Medical School

Research interests: delineation of molecular mechanisms of endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress originated patholgies in obesity. 
 

{C}Title of talk: Reducing ER Stress in the Brain: A New Path for Treatment of Obesity

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 Friday, January 11, 2013:


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

 

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