Upcoming Seminars and Conferences

DeWitt Goodman Seminar Series

September 25, 2019 – June 17, 2020

Wednesdays at 1:30pm
Acthley-Loeb Conference Room - PH8E

Dates	Speakers/Hosts	Title
September 25, 2019	Henry N. Ginsberg, M.D. Irving Professor of Medicine Past Director CUMC	"Nuclear Membrane Proteins Regulate VLDL Secretion and Hepatic Lipid Metabolism."
October 2, 2019	Chloe Berland, PhD Research Post-doc Candidate Physiology, Neurosciences Paris, France	"Dietary Fat Impact Feeding Behavior and Food Reward Through the Dopamine D2 Receptor."
October 16, 2019	Zaman Mirzadeh, MD, PhD Assistant Professor of Neurological Surgery Barrow Neurological Institute	"Developmental Plasticity in the Mediobasal Hypothalamus."
October 23, 2019	John I. Glendinning Ann Whitney Olin Professor of Biology Barnard College Columbia University	"Cephalic Control of Insulin Release in Mice."
November 6, 2019	Anthony Sclafani, Ph.D. Emeritus Distinguished Professor Department of Psychology Brooklyn College of City University of New York	"Sugar and Fat Appetite: Role of Mouth and Gut Nutrient Sensors."
November 20, 2019	Sarah Tishkoff, Ph.D. David and Lyn Silfen University Professor Departments of Genetics and Biology University of Pennsylvania	“African Genomics: Implication for Studies of Human Evolution and Disease.”
December 4, 2019	Russell DeBose-Boyd, PhD Beatrice and Miguel Elias Distinguished Chair in Biomedical Science Professor of Molecular Genetics UT Southwestern Medical Center	"Posttranslational Regulation of HMG CoA Reductase, the Rate-Limiting Enzyme of Cholesterol Synthesis and Molecular Target of Statins."
December 11, 2019	Sarah Stanley, MBBCH, PhD Assistant Professor Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism Institute	“Neural Regulation of Glucose Metabolism.”
January 8, 2020	Steven Grinspoon, MD Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School Chief, Metabolism Unit, MGH Director, Nutrition Obesity Research Center at Harvard Massachusetts General Hospital	"A Novel Hormonal Strategy to Treat NAFLD: Mechanistic and Therapeutic Implications."
January 29, 2020	Phyllis C. Zee, MD, PhD Chief of Sleep Medicine in the Department of Neurology Northwestern University Chicago	“Enhancing Circadian Function for Brain and Metabolic Health”
February 12, 2020	Carlos Campos Department of Integrative Physiology and Neuroscience, College of Veterinary Medicine Washington State University	"Viscerosensory Contributions to Feeding and Affective Behaviors"
February 19, 2020	Triantafyllos Chavakis Professor, Clinical Chemistry & Clinical Pathbiochemistry Director, Institute for Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine University Clinic Carl Gustav Carus, Dresden, Germany	"Immunometabolic Circuits in Inflammation"
February 26, 2020	Anthony Ferrante, MD Professor of Medicine Chief of Preventive Medicine and Nutrition	New York Obesity Nutrition Research Center Resources
March 4, 2020	Rotonya Carr, MD Assistant Professor of Medicine University of Pennsylvania Division of Gastroenterology	"Lipid Droplets and Ceramides in Alcoholic Liver Disease"
March 11, 2020	Utpal Pajvani, MD, PhD Herbert Irving Associate Professor of Medicine Division of Endocrinology	"The Metabolic and Neoplastic Consequences of Reactivated Notch Signaling in the Obese Liver"
Postponed	Nada Abumrad, PhD Dr. Atkins Professor of Obesity Research in Medicine Professor of Cell Biology and Physiology Washington University	"CD36 Membrane Signaling in Fatty Acid Uptake and Metabolic Regulation"
Postponed	Jeffrey Rathmell, PhD Associate Director, Institute for Infection, Immunology and Inflammation Professor of Pathology, Microbiology, and Immunology Vanderbilt University Medical Center	Fueling T cells in Inflammation and Cancer"
Postponed	Patrick Seale, PhD Perelman School of Medicine University of Pennsylvania	TBA
Postponed	Herman Pontzer Associate Professor Evolutionary Anthropology Duke University	TBA
May 6, 2020	Nir Barzilai, MD Professor of Medicine Director, Institute for Aging Research Medicine/Endocrinology Albert Einstein	TBA
May 13, 2020	Sharon Wardlaw Professor of Obesity Research Department of Medicine and Endocrinology	TBA
May 20, 2020	David Bernlohr, PhD Professor and Head Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Biophysics University of Minnesota-Twin Cities Minneapolis, MN	TBA
May 27, 2020	Ira Tabas, MD Vice-Chair of Research Department of Medicine Professor of Anatomy & Cell Biology CUMC	TBA
June 3, 2020	Joerg Heeren University of Hamburg, Germany	TBA

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