Adipose Seminar – Amandine Chaix

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 […]

Adipose Seminar – Niels Jessen

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.

Adipose Seminar – Aleksander Kostic

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, […]

Adipose Seminar-Farnaz Shamsi

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.

Adipose Seminar – Laurie Goodyear

Dr. Laurie Goodyear, Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Section Head and Senior Investigator at Joslin Diabetes Center, will present  at the next virtual Adipose Seminar. Her talk, entitled “Ending the Transmission of Metabolic Disease to the Next Generation: How Maternal Exercise Improves the Metabolic Health of Offspring” will take place virtually on […]

Adipose Seminar – Jean Schaffer

Dr. Jean Schaffer, Senior Investigator and Associate Research Director at Joslin Diabetes Center, will present  at the next virtual Adipose Seminar. Her talk, entitled “SnoRNAs and Metabolic Regulation” will take place virtually on Tuesday, January 25, at 10:00AM. Registration is required – click here to register.

Adipose Seminar – Benjamin Bikman

Dr. Benjamin Bikman, Associate Professor in the Department of Cell Biology and Physiology at Brigham Young University, will present today at the next virtual Adipose Seminar. His talk, entitled “Insulin vs. Ketones: the Battle for Brown Fat” will take place virtually on Tuesday, January 11, at 10:00AM. Email kharp@bu.edu for Zoom information.

Next Obesity Journal Club Tuesday, November 16

The first Obesity Journal Club of this academic year will be held on Tuesday, November 16 from 12:00-1:00pm in-person in M&V 105 and remotely on Zoom (details below).  Presenter: Ana Maafs-Rodríguez; PhD Candidate, Nutrition Interventions, Communication and Behavior Change at the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy Article Title:  How Communicating Misleading Information Dilutes Public Understanding of Weight Loss Mechanisms Author/Journal: John […]

Adipose Seminar – Tony Hui

Dr. Sheng (Tony) Hui, Assistant Professor in the Department of Molecular Medicine at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health,  will present at the next virtual Adipose Seminar. His talk, entitled “Quantitative flux analysis of energy metabolism” will take place virtually on Tuesday, October 26, at 10:00AM. Registration for this seminar is required. Please […]