Date |
Speaker |
Topic |
Video |
January 3 |
Vsevolod Polotsky, M.D., Ph.D.
John Hopkins University School of Medicine |
Sleep Disordered Breathing and Metabolic Dysfunction: The Chicken or the Egg |
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January 17 |
Edmond K. Kabagambe, Ph.D.
School of Public Health, UAB |
Dietary Intake, the Metabolic Syndrome and Cardiovascular Disease |
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January 19 |
Neil Binkley, M.D.
University of Wisconsin Medical School |
"Vitamin D Status and Measurement" |
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January 24 |
Philip Kern, M.D.
UAMS Medical Center |
“Metabolic Syndrome: Fat In All The Wrong Places.” |
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January 31 |
John Chatham, Ph.D.
University of Alabama at Birmingham |
“Protein-O-Glycosylation and the Heart” |
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February 7 |
Jay Horton
Southwestern University |
PCSK9's Role in the Regulation of Plasma Cholesterol Levels |
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February 14 |
Charles Billington, M.D.
University of Minnesota |
“Beyond Setpoint: The Challenge of Increasing Adiposity” |
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February 21 |
Anthony Comuzzie, Ph.D.
Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research |
The Search for Obesity and Diabetes Genes: Updates From the Trail |
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February 28 |
James Hicks, Ph.D.
University of California, Irvine |
“Eat and Run: Prioritization of Oxygen Delivery During Elevated Metabolic States.” |
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March 7 |
Guillermo Oliver
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital |
“Molecular Mechanism Regulating the Development of the Lymphatic Vasculature in Health and Disease.” |
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March 14 |
Dr. Thomas W. Gettys
Pennington Biomedical Research Center |
"Nutrient Sensing Mechanisms which Link Composition of Dietary Lipid to Specificity of Transcriptional Responses in the Liver" |
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March 17 |
Kathleen Tharp
University of Iowa |
"Fruit and Vegetable Consumption and Obesity in Rural Iowans" |
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March 21 |
Linda Kao, Ph.D.
John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health |
“Non-Alcoholic Beverages and The Risk of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) Study ” |
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March 28 |
Tamas Horvath, DVM, PhD
Yale University School of Medicine |
“Synaptic Plasticity and Energy Homeostasis.” |
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April 11 |
Joe Bass
Northwestern University |
“Obesity, Diabetes & The Circadian Gene Oscillator” |
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April 18 |
Mercedes R. Carnethon, Ph.D.
Northwestern University |
“Evidence for Identifying the Temporal Association between Depression and Diabetes” |
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April 25 |
Russell T. Hepple, Ph.D.
University of Calgary |
“Long-Term Caloric Restriction Prevents the Age-Associated Decline in Skeletal Muscle Aerobic Function.” |
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May 2 |
Mulchand Patel
Buffalo |
“Why Are We So Fat?” |
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September 5 |
Charles Mobbs, PhD
Mt. Sinai School of Medicine |
"Glucose-Sensing Neurons: Mechanisms and Function" |
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September 12 |
Barbara Rolls, PhD
Penn State University |
"Dietary Strategies to Enhance Satiety: Implications for Weight Management" |
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September 19 |
Earl Ford, MD, MPH
National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion |
"Metabolic Syndrome: Epidemiological and Public Health Considerations" |
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September 26 |
Nir Barzilai, MD |
"Is Life-Span Determined by Genes or the Environment?" |
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October 3 |
David S. Ludwig, MD, PhD
Harvard Medical School |
"A Low Glycemic Diet in the Treatment of Obesity and Related Complications" |
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October 10 |
Richard Cooper, MD
Loyola University Chicago |
"Facts and Fallacies on Race, Genes and Common Disease" |
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October 17 |
Josep Vidal |
"GLP-1, PYY, and Gastric Bypass Surgery" |
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October 31 |
Monica Baskin, PhD
Department of Health Behavior, UAB |
"Obesity Prevention Among African-American Females: Trick or Treat?" |
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November 7 |
Marla Sokolowski,PhD
University of Toronto |
"Food Related Behaviors: From Nature to Molecule and Back Again." |
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November 14 |
Cynthia Sites, MD
OB/Gyn, UAB |
"Risk of Metabolic Syndrome After Menopause: What Can We Offer?" |
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November 21 |
Vera Bittner, MD, MSPH
Department of Medicine,UAB |
"Cardiac Rehabilitation 2006" |
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November 28 |
Leonard Epstein, PhD
University at Buffalo |
"Behavioral Choice Theory and Obesity." |
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December 12 |
Ioannis Constantinidis, PhD
University of Florida |
"Use of NMR Techniques to Examine Islets and β-Cell Metabolism." |
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