Upcoming Seminars and Conferences

DeWitt Goodman Seminar Series

September 23, 2020 – June 9, 2021

Wednesdays at 1:30pm

Dates	Speakers/Hosts	Title
September 23, 2020	Anthony Ferrante, MD Professor of Medicine Chief Preventive Medicine and Nutrition CUMC	"Many Facets of Adipose Tissue Macrophages: Making Fat and Insulin"
September 30, 2020	Sharon Wardlaw, MD Professor of Obesity Research Department of Medicine & Endocrinology CUMC	"Melanocortin Regulation of Energy Balance and Pituitary Function: Human Translational Studies"
October 21, 2020	Sung-Yon Kim, PhD Assistant Professor, Dept of Chemistry Institute of Molecular Biology and Genetics Seoul National University	"How Do We Stop Eating When We Are (Mechanically) Full?"
October 28, 2020	David Bernlohr, PhD Professor and Head Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology & Biophysics University of Minnesota	"Lipid Signaling and Inflammation in Adipose Tissue"
November 11, 2020	Patrick Seale, PhD Assistant Professor of Cell & Development Biology Perelman School of Medicine University of Pennsylvania	"Mesenchymal Progenitor Cells and Fat Tissue Development"
November 18, 2020	Itsaso Garcia-Arcos, PhD Research Assistant Professor SUNY Downstate Medical Center	"LDL Receptor Related Protein 1 (LRP1) in Lung Lipid Metabolism: Alveolar Surfactant, Type II Pneumocytes, and Pulmonary Function"
December 2, 2020	Herman Pontzer, PhD Associate Professor Evolutionary Anthropology Duke University	"Diet, Exercise and Metabolic Health: Insights from Hunter-Gatherers"
January 13, 2021	Utpal Pajvani, MD, PhD Herbert Irving Associate Professor of Medicine Division of Endocrinology CUIMC	"The Metabolic Consequences of Reactivated Developmental Signals in Obesity"
January 27, 2021	John Nicholas Betley, PhD Assistant Professor of Biology Cell & Developmental Biology Genetics, Epigenetics Genomics Neurobiology University of Pennsylvania	"Adaptive Control of Food Intake"
February 3, 2021	Joseph Bass, MD, PhD Chief, Division of Endocrinology, Metabolism and Molecular Medicine Professor Northwestern University	"NAD+ in the Circadian Regulation of Behavior and Metabolism"
February 10, 2021	Nada Abumrad, MD Professor of Obesity Research in Medicine & Cell Biology & Physiology Washington University	"Cellular and Paracellular Pathways for Tissue Fatty Acid Uptake; Ceramides, Caveolae, VE-Cadherin"
March 3, 2021	Frank Reimann Professor of Endocrine Signalling, University of Cambridge Wellcome Trust/MRC Institute of Metabolic Science (IMS) & MRC Metabolic Diseases Unit, Addenbrooke's Hospital	"Cellular Mechanisms Underlying Enteroendocrine Hormone Secretion"
March 31 , 2021	Yuki Oka, Ph.D Professor of Biology, Division of Biology and Biological Engineering California Institute of Technology	“Functional and Transcriptional Dissection of Neural Circuits Underlying Sodium Consumption.”
April 7, 2021	Michael Honigberg, MD Instructor in Medicine, Cardiology, Department of Medicine Massachusetts General Hospital	"Unique Risk Factors for Cardiovascular Disease in Women: Toward Precision Prevention."
April 21, 2021	Sean Heffron, MD Assistant Professor of Medicine, Department of Medicine Center of Preventive of Cardiology Disease NYU	"Excess Body Weight, Atherosclerosis and Inflammation Resolution."
May 12, 2021	Isha Jain, PhD Department of Physiology, Cardiovascular Research University of California, San Francisco	"Turning the Oxygen and Vitamin Dials as a Therapy."
May 19, 2021	Allison W. Xu, Ph.D. Professor, Diabetes Center and the Department of Anatomy, Joseph and Vera Long Foundation Endowed Professor in Diabetes and Obesity Research University of California, San Francisco	"CNS Control of Metabolic Efficiency."
June 2, 2021	Melinda A. Beck, PhD Professor, Department of Nutrition, Associate Chair, Schools of Public Health & Medicine University of NC at Chapel Hill	"The Influence of Obesity on the Response to Influenza Infection and Vaccination."
June 16, 2021	Rossana Calderon Post-doctoral Research Fellow Department of Preventive Medicine & Nutrition CUMC	“Role of Retinoids in Enteroendocrine Cell Signaling.”

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