Date | Speaker | Topic |
January 8 | Victor Darley-Usmar, PhD Pathology Department, UAB |
Mechanisms for the Control of Cardiovascular Function by Reactive Oxygen and Nitrogen Species |
January 15 | Aminul Islam, MD, MSc, DrPH Dept of Epidemiology and International Health, UAB |
Childhood Malnutrition: Bangladesh Perspectives |
January 22 | Catherine Davis, PhD Medical College of Georgia |
Exercise and insulin Sensitivity: What is the Evidence? |
January 29 | Mark Shriver, PhD Department of Anthropology, Penn State |
Using Ancestry to Study the Genetics of Traits and Diseases in Human Populations |
February 5 | Xu Cao, PhD Department of Pathology, UAB |
A Novel Mechanism in the TGF-b/BMP Signaling Pathway |
February 11 | John Speakman, DSc University of Aberdeen, Scotland |
Limits to Sustained Metabolic Rate |
February 19 | Catherine Fenster, PhD Department of Nutrition Sciences, UAB |
Vascular Nitric Oxide Production: Associations with Physical Activity, Body Fat, Race and Plasma Lipids |
March 5 | O. Dale Williams, PhD Department of Medicine, UAB |
Weight Gain in the US CARDIA Study vs Four Samples in China: The CARDIA Study and the US-PRC Collaboration in Cardiopulmonary Epidemiology |
March 12 | Keith West, DrPH, MPH Johns Hopkins University |
Vitamin A Deficiency and Reproductive Health in the Developing World |
March 19 | Pi-Ling Chang, PhD Department of Nutrition Sciences, UAB |
Human Mesenchymal Stem Cell Proliferation and Osteogenic Differentiation |
April 2 | Douglas White, PhD Auburn University |
Low Dietary Protein as a Model of Diet-Induced Obesity |
April 9 | Gerald Shulman, MD, PhD Yale University |
Pathogenesis of Insulin Resistance |
April 16 | Cristina Lara, PhD Department of Nutrition Sciences, UAB |
Visceral Adipose Tissue in Pre-Menopausal Women: Longitudinal Study of the Effects of Fat Gain, Time, and Race |
August 6 | Angelo del Parigi, MD NIDDK-NIH |
Neuroimaging and Obesity |
September 3 | Richard Baumgartner, PhD University of New Mexico |
Sarcopenic-Obesity in Aging and Disease |
September 10 | Richard Weindruch, PhD University of Winconsin |
Caloric Restriction and Aging: Studies in Rodents and Primates |
September 17 | Zhanjiang (John) Liu, PhD Auburn University |
Genomic Research in Fish Ponds: From Markers to Functional Genomics |
September 24 | Noa Noy, PhD Cornell University, NY |
New Angles in Retinoic Acid Signalling |
October 1 | Roger White, PhD Department of Medicine, UAB |
Obesity and the Vascular Response to Injury in Zucker Rats |
October 8 | Noelle Cockett, PhD Utah State University |
Continued Exploration of the Callipyge Region in Sheep |
October 15 | Paul Brookes, PhD Department of Pathology, UAB |
Concepts Regarding UCPs, Free Radicals and Metabolic Rate |
October 22 | Jose Fernandez, PhD Department of Nutrition Sciences, UAB |
Hablemos de AMOR (Admixture Mapping for Obesity-Related Traits) |
October 29 | Barbara Gower, PhD Department of Nutrition Sciences, UAB |
Metabolic Effects of Estrogen |
November 6 | Matthias Tshop, MD German Institute of Human Nutrition |
Energy Balance Regulation: Afferent Signals as Novel Drug |
November 12 | Dympna Gallagher, EdD Columbia University |
Body Composition at the Organ/Tissue Level |
November 18 | Yuchang Fu, PhD Medical University of South Carolina |
Adipocyte Lipid Binding Protein (ALBP) Gene Expression and Foam Cell Formation |
November 19 | James Mills, MD NICHD's Pediatric Epidemiology Section |
Folate and Neural Tube Defects |
November 26 | Gail Mick, MD Department of Pediatrics, UAB |
White Adipocyte Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor |
December 3 | John Fain, PhD University of Tennessee, Memphis |
Regulation of Leptin, PAI-1, VEGF, IL-1beta, 6, 8, & 10, TNFalpha, Resistin and Adiponectin Release by Human Adipose Tissue and Adipocytes in Primary Culture. |
December 10 | Michael Wyss, PhD Department of Cell Biology, UAB |
Human Estrogen, Plant Estrogens and Salt-Sensitive Hypertension: Is There a Good Estrogen Anymore? |