The Boston Nutrition Obesity Research Center’s research, resources, enrichment program and infrastructure are organized into five Cores, unified around key topics in nutrition and obesity research.
BNORC is organized to address cross-cutting themes that represent key gaps in understanding the relationship between nutrition and health, and the pathogenesis of obesity and its associated metabolic diseases.
The Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Harvard Medical School are actively recruiting for an open post doc position on their Nutrition Training Grant funded by the NIH. Our program provides training in four key areas: Nutritional Biochemistry/Genomics/Metabolomics/Microbiome, Human/Clinical/Global Nutrition, Nutritional Epidemiology, and Public Health Nutrition. Our overall goal is to incorporate concepts, […]
Dr. Bradford Lowell, Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, will present at the next virtual Adipose Seminar. His talk, entitled “The neural basis for hunger as revealed using recombinase-expressing mice and genetically-encoded tools” will take place virtually on Tuesday, May 24, at 10:00AM. Registration is required – click […]
Dr. Amandine Chaix, Assistant Professor in the Department of Nutrition and Integrative Physiology at University of Utah, will present at the next virtual Adipose Seminar. Her talk, entitled “When to eat, from mice to men. Cardiometabolic benefits of time-restricted feeding.” will take place virtually on Tuesday, April 26, at 10:00AM. Registration is required – click […]
Dr. Niels Jessen, Head of Research and Professor in Clinical Pharmacology at Aarhus University, will present at the next virtual Adipose Seminar. His talk, entitled “Metabolic insights from single-cell studies in human” will take place virtually on Tuesday, April 12, at 10:00AM. Registration is required – click here to register.
Dr. Aleksander Kostic, Assistant Investigator, Associate Director of the Animal Physiology Core and Assistant Professor of Microbiology at Joslin Diabetes Center and Harvard Medical School, will present at the next virtual Adipose Seminar. His talk, entitled “Listening in on human-microbiome metabolic dialogues in diabetes and metabolic health” will take place virtually on Tuesday, March 22, […]
Dr. Frankie Heyward, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Evan Rosen Lab in the Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center has received a Pilot and Feasibility award for his project entitled “Determining the Direct Transcriptional Targets of IRF3 in AgRP Neurons”. This project seeks to optimize and ultimately harness CUT&RUN, a low-input alternative to ChIP-seq, […]
Dr. Farnaz Shamsi, Assistant Professor in the Department of Molecular Pathobiology at New York University, will present at the next virtual Adipose Seminar. Her talk, entitled “What Keeps Us Warm: Regulation of Adipose Thermogenesis Through Cold Responsive Progenitors” will take place virtually on Tuesday, March 8, at 10:00AM. Registration is required – click here to register.
Dr. Donato Rivas, Scientist II, Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center and Assistant Professor, Tufts University has received a Pilot and Feasibility award for his project entitled “Impact of adipocyte-derived miRNA on age-associated metabolic capacity and muscle atrophy”. The overall goal of the research plan is to determine how aging impacts adipocyte miRNA expression […]