Colloquium (Seminar) Series

Spring 2013 schedule:

MONDAY, January 7 No Seminar
MONDAY, January 14 Donna Korzick, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Kinesiology
The Pennsylvania State University
Title: Post-Menopausal Estrogen Deficiency and Acute Coronary Syndrome: Mitochondrial Mechanisms and Cell Death
Time & Location: 4:00 - 5:00PM, 008 Mueller
MONDAY, January 21 No Seminar, Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
MONDAY, January 28 Joe Ashmore, Doctoral Candidate
Department of Nutritional Sciences
The Pennsylvania State University
Title: Dietary, Lifestyle, and Genetic Factors Influancing Colorectal Cancer Risk
Time & Location: 2:30 - 3:30PM, 110C Chandlee Lab
MONDAY, February 4 Paula C. Chandler-Laney, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
Department of Nutrition Sciences
University of Alabama - Birmingham
Title: Maternal Glucose During Pregnancy and Children's Body Composition
Time & Location: 4:00 - 5:00PM, 008 Mueller
MONDAY, February 11 Rebecca Corwin, Ph.D., Professor
Department of Nutritional Sciences
The Pennsylvania State University
Title: The Scoop on Food Adiction
Time & Location: 4:00 - 5:00PM, 008 Mueller
MONDAY, February 18 Steven Heysmfield, MD, George A. Bray Jr. Endowed Super Chair in Nutrition
Pennington, Biomedical Research Center
Title: How Does Human Energy Metabolism Relate to Body Size?
Time & Location: 4:00 - 5:00PM, 008 Mueller
MONDAY, February 25 Katherine Restori, Ph.D., Post-Doctoral Fellow
Department of Nutritional Sciences
The Pennsylvania State University
Title: Vitamin A and Immunization as Factors Affecting Lung and Gut Bacterial Infections
Time & Location: 110C Chandlee Lab
MONDAY, March 4 No Seminar, Spring Break
MONDAY, March 11 Andras Hajnal, MD, Ph.D.
Department of Neural and Behavioral Sciences
The Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine
Title: Taste and Reward in Obesity and After Gastric Bypass
Time & Location: 4:00 - 5:00PM, 008 Mueller
MONDAY, March 18 Douglas Cavener, Ph.D., Head
Department of Biology
The Pennsylvania State University
Title: You Are What Your Mother Ate: True Confessions of a Mendelian Geneticist and Evolutionary Biologist
Time & Location: 4:00 - 5:00PM, 008 Mueller
MONDAY, March 25 Lori Francis, Ph.D., Associate Professor
Department of Biobehavioral Health
The Pennsylvania State University
Title: Biobehavioral Mechanisms Linking Stress and Obesity in Children
Time & Location: 4:00 - 5:00PM, 008 Mueller
MONDAY, April 1 Libo Tan, Doctoral Candidate
Department of Nutritional Sciences
The Pennsylvania State University
Title: Tracking The Metabolism of Vitamin A in Neonates Using a Mathematical Modeling Approach
Time & Location: 110C Chandlee Lab
WEDNESDAY, April 4 James McClung, Ph.D., Research Scientist
United States Army Research Institute for Environmental Research
Title: Ruth Pike Lecture
Time & Location: 11:00AM - 12:00PM, Living Center, 110 Henderson
MONDAY, April 8 Megan McCrory, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
Departments of Nutrition Science and Phychological Science
Purdue University
Title: Eating Patterns, Obesity and Chronic Disease Risk
Time & Location: 4:00 - 5:00PM, 008 Mueller
MONDAY, April 15 Rachel Williams, Doctoral Candidate
Department of Nutritional Sciences
The Pennsylvania State University
Title: Investigating Satiating Properties of Foods and Their Effects on Energy Intake
Time & Location: 4:00 - 5:00PM, 008 Mueller
MONDAY, April 22 No Seminar, Experimental Biology