The seminars always take place Wednesdays at NOON CST.
February 9, 2022
Xiaoyong Yang
Professor, Yale University School of Medicine
(Zoom)
"Brain-Fat Communication: A Tale of Two Tissues"
February 16, 2022
Alice Lichtenstein
Stanley N. Gershoff Professor of Nutrition Science and Policy at the Friedman School, Director of the Cardiovascular Nutrition Laboratory and Senior Scientist at the Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging, Tufts University
(Zoom)
"Selected Controversies in the Field of Diet and Cardiovascular Disease Prevention"
February 23, 2022
Lorraine Brennan
Professor of Human Nutrition, University College Dublin, Ireland
(Zoom)
"Metabolomics: A powerful tool in human nutrition research"
March 2, 2022
Qingchun Tong
Professor, Center for Metabolic and Degenerative Disease; Cullen Chair in Molecular Medicine, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
(in-person - Arbor Suite, Nebraska East Campus at Noon)
"A shared neural basis between type 1 and type 2 diabetes"
March 9, 2022
Edward A. Ruiz-Narváez
Associate Professor of Nutritional Sciences, School of Public Health, University of Michigan
(Zoom)
"Links between low birth weight and risk of type 2 diabetes: results from the Black Women's Health Study"
March 23, 2022
Johanna Lampe
Professor and Associate Division Director in the Public Health Sciences Division at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, University of Washington
(Zoom)
"Biomarkers of Dietary Exposure: Impact of Gut Microbial Metabolism"
March 30, 2022
Peter Crawford
Professor of Medicine, Director Division of Molecular Medicine, University of Minnesota
(Zoom)
"Protective interorgan and intercellular metabolite shuttles in obesity"
April 27, 2022
Alexis M. Stranahan
Associate Professor, Dept. Neuroscience & Regenerative Medicine & Dept. Cellular Biology & Anatomy, Augusta University
(Zoom)
"Lymphocyte trafficking via meningeal lymphatics regulates cognition in male and female mice with dietary obesity"