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The Nutritional Sciences departmental seminar series is held most Firday afternoons during the Fall and Spring semesters. In addition to invited speakers, Nutritional Sciences graduate students make presentations of current research. Check the calendar for upcoming events.

Date

Presenter

Seminar title & location

9/8/23         

Dr. Dana Dabelea
Conrad M. Riley Endowed Professor,
Department of Epidemiology
Director Lifecourse Epidemiology of Adiposity & Diabetes Center
University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus

 

Developmental origins of pediatric obesity and type 2 diabetes

MBB 1.210

9/22/23

Dr. Melanie Hingle
Associate Professor,
School of Nutritional Sciences and Wellness
University of Arizona

 

Harnessing the power of food as medicine

MBB 1.210

10/6/23

Dr. Xiaolu Lulu Cambronne
Assistant Professor, William H. Tonn Professorial Fund Fellow, Molecular Biosciences
The University of Texas at Austin

 

Mechanistic insights into the compartmentalization of mitochondrial NAD+

POB 2.302

10/20/23

Dr. Robert Reece
Assistant Professor, Sociology
The University of Texas at Austin

 

Eugenics, weight stigma, and the ridiculous modern quest to measure fatness

DPRI 1.102

10/27/23

Dr. Leah Whigham
Director, Center for Community Health Impact
Associate Professor, Department of Health
Promotion and Behavioral Sciences
UTHealth Houston
Houston School of Public Health, El Paso Campus

 

A coordinated approach for collective impact on obesity: addressing causes and contributors

POB 2.302

11/3/23

Dr. Sabrino Diano
Robert R. Williams Professor of Nutrition,
Director of the Institute of Human Nutrition, Professor, Molecular Pharmacology and Therapeutics
Columbia University Irving Medical Center

 

Central nutrient-sensing in metabolism regulation

POB 2.302

11/10/23

Dr. Emily Goldberg
Assistant Professor, Physiology
University of California San Francisco,
School of Medicine

 

A novel mechanism of protein acylation and its implication in immune regulation

POB 2.302

12/1/23

Dr. Erica Mandell
Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics,
University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus

 

The role of vitamin D in lung development and disease

POB 2.302

2/16/24

Dr. Erin Lentz
Associate Professor, LBJ School of Public Affairs
The University of Texas at Austin

 

Talk title TBA

POB 2.302

2/23/24

Jean Andrews Lectureship Seminar
Speaker TBA

POB 2.302

 

3/1/24

Dr. Caroline Johnson
Associate Professor of Epidemiology (Environmental Health Sciences)
Yale School of Public Health

Talk title TBA

POB 2.302