INP and Botanicals Seminars Archive
| Name | Department/University | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| Spring 2023 | ||
|
Karen O'Callaghan |
Lecturer, Department of Nutritional Sciences, King's College, London, UK | Vitamin D and health outcomes: What is the evidence? |
| Doratha Byrd | Assistant Member, Cancer Epidemiology Department, Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, FL | Diet, the gut microbiome, and cancer |
| Rebecca Stoltzfus | President, Goshen College, Goshen, IN; Professor Emeritus, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY | Measuring caregiver capacities for child health in global contexts: Results from Zimbabwe |
| Dorothy Teegarden | Professor, Department of Nutrition Science, Purdue University | Vitamin D regulation of energy metabolism to inhibit breast cancer |
| Azza Ahmed | Associate Professor, Nursing, Purdue University | Sleep disturbance during pregnancy and its effect on delayed lactation among socioeconomically disadvantaged women |
| Wayne Campbell | Professor, Department of Nutrition Science, Purdue University | Dietary protein needs and influences on muscle with aging: Are higher intakes helpful? |
| Damian Romero | Professor, Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS | Effect of diet on polycystic ovary syndrome complications |
| Wei Zheng | Professor of Health Sciences and Toxicology, School of Health Sciences, Purdue University | Copper-mediated adult neurogenesis in brain subventricular zone: Implication in olfactory dysfunction in parkinsonian manganism |
| Danielle Reed | Associate Director, Monell Chemical Senses Center, Philadelphia, PA | The hyper-personalized sense of taste and nutrition |
| Haley Oliver | Professor, Food Science, Purdue University | Overview and update on Purdue University Office of the Provost Health Equity Initiative |
| Chad Carroll | Associate Professor, Department of Health and Kinesiology, Purdue University | Dietary modifications and exercise to improve tendon health |
| Sharon Moe | Stuart A. Kleit Professor of Medicine and Associate Dean for Clinical and Translational Science, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN | Uremic toxins and CKD-Mineral Bone Disorder: Is the intestine a surrogate nephron? |
| Kolapo Ajuwon | Professor, Department of Animal Science, Purdue University | Adipose tissue response to fatty acids: Impact on thermogenic and inflammatory processes |
| Fall 2022 | ||
| Ji-Young Lee | Professor, Department Head, Department of Nutritional Sciences, University of Connecticut | Sex-Dependent Role of Nicotinamide Riboside, an NAD Precursor, in Obesity-Related Metabolic Diseases |
| Carolyn Gunther | Associate Professor, Department of Human Sciences, The Ohio State University | 10-Yr Retrospective of the U.S. Childhood Obesity Epidemic: Where Are We Today, What Do The Data Tell Us, and What Does the Future Hold? |
| Dariush Mozaffarian | Jean Mayer Professor of Nutrition, Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, Professor of Medicine, Tufts School of Medicine and Division of Cardiology, Tufts Medical Center, Tufts University | Dietary and Metabolic Fatty Acids and Cardiometabolic Health |
| Rafael Perez-Escamilla | Professor, Director of Office of Public Health Practice, Director of Global Health Concentration, Director of Maternal Child Health Promotion program, Department of Public Health, Yale University | Reducing Breastfeeding Ethnic/Racial Inequities in the USA: Three Decades of Mixed Methods Research |
| Temitope Erinosho | Associate Professor, School of Public Health, Indiana University | Child Nutrition in Early Care and Education Settings: Building Blocks for a Healthy Start |
| Julie Plasencia | Assistant Professor, DPD Director, Dietetics and Human Nutrition, University of Kentucky | Cultural Food Practices and Influences on Diet of Latinx in New Settlement Communities |
| Angela Odoms-Young | Associate Professor, Division of Nutritional Sciences, Cornell University | Achieving Nutrition Equity and Justice: Implications for Research, Practice, and Training |
| Spring 2022 | ||
| Paule Joseph | Researcher, National Institute of Nursing Research, National Institutes of Health | Chemosensation and Health: Alcohol Use Disorder, Obesity and Cancer |
| Luis Dos Santos | Assistant Professor, Department of Veterinary Clinical Sciences, Purdue University | Diet associated with dilated cardiomyopathy in dogs |
| Hyun-young Jeong | Professor, Department of Industrial and Physical Pharmacy, Purdue University | Modulation of drug efficacy and toxicity by gut microbiota |
| James Markworth | Assistant Professor, Department of Animal Sciences, Purdue University | Role of dietary essential fatty acids and their bioactive metabolites in skeletal muscle growth and regeneration |
| Parul Christian | Director of Program in Human Nutrition Professor, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health | Avanelle Kirksey Lecture Series: Putting Women’s Nutrition at the Center of the First 1000 Days |
| Muzi Na | Assistant Professor, Nutritional Sciences, Pennsylvania State University | Food insecurity and mental health disparities in low-income populations |
| Fall 2021 | ||
| Hongxia Ren | Assistant Professor, School of Medicine, Indiana University | Physiological and Molecular Underpinning of Metabolism, Diet, and Ageing |
| Brandon Kistler | Assistant Professor, Department of Nutrition and Health Science, Ball State University | Nutrition Support in Patients Undergoing Hemodialysis: Current Evidence and Opportunities for Growth |
| Kristina Martinez-Guryn | Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Midwestern University | Region-Specific Impact of Diet on the Gut Microbiota |
| Crystal Patil | Professor/Department Head, Department of Human Development Nursing Science, University of Illinois-Chicago | Social Science, Social Exclusion, and Food Environments Through Two Case Studies: People Living with HIV in Peri-Urban Tanzania and Resettled Refugees in Urban U.S. |
| Penny Kris-Etherton | Evan Pugh University Professor, Department of Nutritional Sciences, Pennsylvania State University | Nutrition and Cardiometabolic Disease Research: New Discoveries and Approaches for Addressing Complex Scientific Questions |
| Candida Rebello | Research Scientist, Integrative Physiology and Molecular Medicine Laboratory, Pennington Biomedical Research Cente | Food as Medicine |
| Melanie Beasley | Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, Purdue University | Biogeochemical and Paleopathological Applications to the Study of Prehistoric Human Dietary and Health Patterns in California |
| Lavanya Reddivari | Assistant Professor, Department of Food Science, Purdue University | Harnessing the Anti-Inflammatory Potential of Anthocyanin-Containing Foods: Role of Gut Bacteria |
| Spring 2021 | ||
| Lindsey Smith Taillie | Assistant Professor, Department of Nutrition, University of North Carolina | Food Policies for Obesity Prevention: Lessons from Across the Globe |
| Sharon Donovan |
Professor and Melissa M. Noel Endowed Chair, Director, Personalized Nutrition Initiative, Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition, Division of Nutritional Sciences, and the Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois |
Looking into the Black Box: Applying Non-Invasive Approaches and Systems Biology to Study Host-Microbe Interactions in Human Infants |
| Ian Lanza | Associate Professor, Mayo Clinic | Exercise Responsiveness: Releasing the Brake in Vulnerable Populations |
| Jorge Banda |
Assistant Professor, Department of Public Health, Purdue University |
Youth Sports to Prevent and Treat Childhood Obesity |
| Annabel Biruete |
Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Medicine | Division of Nephrology, Indiana University School of Medicine |
The Role of the Gut Microbiota in Chronic Kidney Disease-Mineral and Bone Disorder |
| Prabhu Pingali |
Professor of Applied Economics & Director Tata-Cornell Institute (TCI), Cornell University |
Transforming Food Systems for a Rising India |
| Timothy Naimi |
Director, Canadian Institute for Substance Use Research (CISUR), Professor, Department of Public Health and Social Policy, University of Victoria |
Is Moderate Drinking Good for Health? |
| Haley Oliver |
Professor and USAID Feed the Future Food Safety Innovation Lab Director, Department of Food Science, Purdue University |
Food Safety Research for Development and its Interface with Nutrition |
| Fall 2020 | ||
| Anita Panjwani | Post Doctorate, Nutrition Science, Purdue University | The Role of Nutrition in Autism Spectrum Disorders from Maternal Biomarkers to the Impacts of COVID-19: Highlighting Disparities |
| John E. Hayes | Professor, Penn State University | High speed massively collaborative science in the COVID-19 era |
| Sayeepriyadarshini Anakk | Associate Professor, University of Illinois | Bile Acid Signaling Pathways: Follow the Yellow Brick Road |
| Minghua Tang | Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Section of Nutrition, University of Colorado | Dietary influence on infant growth and the gut microbiota |
| Nicholas Burd | Associate Professor, Department of Kinesiology and Community Health, University of Illinois | The food matrix and its potential to optimize the regulation of skeletal muscle mass |
| Kameron Moding | Assistant Professor, Human Development & Family Studies, College of Health & Human Sciences, Purdue University | Barriers to Infant Food Acceptance: Child, Parent, and Environmental Factors |
| Brian Parks | Assistant Professor of Nutritional Sciences, College of Agricultural & Life Sciences, University of Wisconsin | Discovering Lipid Genes by Sifting Big Data in Mice and Humans |
| Christina Roberto | Associate Professor of Medical Ethics & Health Policy, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania | An Evaluation of the Philadelphia Beverage Tax |
| Georgia Malandraki | Associate Professor, Department of Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences, Purdue University | Swallowing Physiology and Nutrition: Where and How They Intersect? |
| Spring 2020 | ||
| Corrie Whisner | Assistant Professor, College of Health Solutions, Arizona State University | Exploring the Impacts of Sleep-Wake Patterns, Feeding Practices, and the Intestinal Microbiome During Infancy on Weight Outcomes |
| Emily Smith | Assistant Professor, Global HealthExercise and Nutrition Sciences, George Washington University | Who Benefits? Differential Effects of Nutrition Interventions for a Positive Pregnancy Experience |
| Amelia Linnemann | Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, School of Medicine, Indiana University | Autophagy-Antioxident Response Coupling in Pancreatic Beta Cell Stress Response |
| Scott Bultman | Associate Professor, Department of Genetics, University of North Carolina | The Role of Microbiome-Derived Metabolism in Cancer Prevention and Theory |
| Fall 2019 | ||
| Jay Burgess | Associate Professor, Department of Nutrition Science, Purdue University | Role of Glutathione Redox State in Diabetes-induced Peripheral Neuropathy |
| Bhagyashree Katare | Assistant Professor, Department of Agricultural Economics, Purdue University | Effect of low-cost economic and behavioral incentives on motivating health behavior |
| Kathleen Hill Gallant | Assistant Professor, Department of Nutrition Science, Purdue University | Calcium & Phosphorus Balance and Absorption in Chronic Kidney Disease |
| Usha Ramakrishman | Associate Professor, Department of Nutrition and Health Sciences, Emory University | Effects of Women's Nutrition Before and During Pregnancy |
| Sophie Lelievre | Professor, Department of Basic Medical Sciences, Purdue University | Aging and Cancer: The Oxidative Stress Conundrum |
| Erin Giles | Assistant Professor, Department of Nutrition and Food Science, Texas A&M University | Targeting "Menopausal" Weight Gain to Decrease Post-menopausal Breast Cancer Risk: Insights from Preclinical Studies |
| Leah Bevis | Assistant Professor, Department of Agricultural, Environmental, and Development Economics, The Ohio State University | Soils and South Asian Stunting: Low soil zinc availability drives child stunting in Nepal |
| Andrew Brown | Assistant Professor, School of Public Health, Indiana University | Obesity Isn't Simple: Identifying Complex, Evidence-based Strategies to Treat Obesity Seriously |
| Michael Hamm | C.S. Mott Professor, Department of Community Sustainability, Michigan State University | Nutrition, Sustainability, and City Regions: Thoughts of the Future of People Eating |
| Andrew Jones | John G. Searle Associate Professor, Department of Nutritional Sciences, University of Michigan | Agricultural Biodiversity and Healthy Diets: Making the Connections |
| Marissa Burgermaster | Assistant Professor, Department of Nutritional Sciences and Department of Population Health, University of Texas-Austin | Patient-Generated Data: Implications for Precision Behavioral Nutrition |
| Andrew Flachs | Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, Purdue University | Ethnographic Perspectives on Fermented Food and the Microbiome |
| Spring 2019 | ||
| Chad Carroll | Assistant Professor Department of Health & Kinesiology, Purdue University | Nutritional Interventions and Tendon Health |
| Gerald Shively | Professor, Department of Agricultural Economics, Purdue University | International Nutrition: An Economist's Perspective |
| Stephen Lindemann | Assistant Professor, Department of Nutrition Science, Purdue University | Fiber is Not Just One Thing: How Fiber Physical and Chemical Structure Governs Microbiome Fermentation |
| Tusarebecca Pannucci | Lead Nutritionist, Nutrition and Economic Analysis at USDA, Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion | Healthy Eating Index: Communication Beyond Our Peers |
| Erik Otárola-Castillo | Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, Purdue University | Assessing the Antiquity of Tool-Assisted Hominin Butchery |
| Patrick Schloss | Professor, Department of Microbiology & Immunology, University of Michigan | Understanding Disease Through the Lens of the Microbiome |
| Yoonjung Yang | Department of Foods and Nutrition, Dongduk Women’s University, Seoul, Korea | Mild Cognitive Impairment and Nutrition in Korean Old Adults |
| Qing Jiang | Professor, Department of Nutrition Science, Purdue University | Vitamin E Forms and Metabolites for Cancer Chemoprevention |
| Shihuan Kuang | Professor, Department of Animal Science, Purdue University | Regulation of Lipid Metabolism by Protein Arginine Methylation |
| Kimberly Buhman | Professor, Department of Nutrition Science, Purdue University | Intestinal Triglyceride Metabolism: Storage and Secretion |
| Sean Adams | Director, Arkansas Children’s Nutrition Center | Xenometabolomics: The Next Frontier in Gut Microbiome Research |
| Kolapo Ajuwon | Associate Professor, Department of Animal Sciences, Purdue University | Regulation of Metabolism by Fiber and Fiber-Derived Products, the Neural Connection |
| Traci Mann | Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota | Why Diets Fail: The Myth of Willpower and Strategies for Being Healthy Even If You Don’t Have Any |
| Fall 2018 | ||
| Wayne Campbell | Professor, Nutrition Science, Purdue University | Are Recommended Dietary Allowances for protein accurate and relevant for older adults? |
| Laura McCabe | Professor Michigan State University | Identify Gut Targeted Therapeutics of Osteoporosis |
| Bruce Hamaker | Distinguished Professor of Food Science, Purdue University | Things You Didn't Know About Carbs and Health, and How They Benefit the Body |
| Kevin D. Hall | National Institutes of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases | Why is it so difficult to lose weight and keep it off? |
| Richard D. Mattes | Director of Public Health, Director of Ingestive Behavior Research Center, Distinguished Professor of Nutrition Science, Purdue University | Appetite Control - Are We Making Progress? |
| Connie Weaver | Distinguished Professor, Director, Women's Global Health Institute Purdue University, Co-Deputy Director Indiana CTSI | Overcoming Barriers to Impact Nutrition Science and Policy |
| Michele R. Forman | Distinguished Professor and Head, Department of Nutrition Science Purdue University | Life Course of Preeclampsia: Facing Obesity and Comorbidity in Mothers and Offspring |
| James C. Fleet | Professor, Department of Nutrition Science, Purdue University | The Mind of a Scientist: Nutrition and Cancer Prevention |
| Dennis Savaiano | Virginis C. Meredith Professor of Nutrition Policy, Director of North Central Nutrition Education Center, Purdue University | Lactose Intolerance and Milk Avoidance: Scientific Realities and Dietary Management |
| Spring 2018 | ||
| Penny M. Kris-Etherton | Nutrition, The Pennsylvania State University | Evidence for the numerous cardiometabolic benefits of all dietary unsaturated fatty acids |
| Kathy Janz | Physical Activity and Health Outcomes, University of Iowa | Physical Activity in Building Peak Bone Mass |
| Richard Bodnar | Queens College, The Graduate Center, City University of New York | Pharmacology and genetics of sugar- and fat- conditioned flavor preferences in animal models |
| Janos Zempleni | Nutrition and Health Sciences, College of Education and Human Sciences, University of Nebraska-Lincoln | Cross-kingdom communication: bovine milk exosomes talk to the gut microbiome talk to the host |
| Lina Obeid | School of Medicine and Medicine Health Science Center, Stony Brook University Medical Center | Bioactive Sphingolipid Metabolism, Role in Disease |
| Hugo De Groote | CIMMYT, ICRAF House | Randomized controlled trials and experimental economics and to measure the impact of nutrition-sensitive agricultural interventions |
| Andrew K. Benson | Nebraska Food for Health Center Department of Food Science and Technology, University of Nebraska-Lincoln | Genetic Analysis o Gut Microbiome Active Components in crop plants: In Vitro Trait Discovery and Translational Animal Models |
| Lindsay Allen | USDA, ARS Western Human Nutrition Research Center (WHNRC) | The Nutritional Quality of Human Milk: New Research on an Old Problem |
| Fall 2017 | ||
| Ling Qi | Division of Metabolism, Endocrinology & Diabetes, The University of Michigan Medical School, McMaster University | Protein folding and degradation in the endoplasmic reticulum: what can we learn from mouse models? |
| Patricia M. Guenther | Nutrition & Integrative Physiology, The University of Utah | The Grocery Purchase Quality Index--A Tool for Assessing Household Food Purchases |
| Jennifer Sacheck | Family Medicine and Community Health and Tisch College of Citizenship and Public Service, Tufts University School of Medicine |
If Only Exercise Came in a Pill: The challenges and importance of School-based Nutrition and Physical Activity Interventions |
| Heather Eicher-Miller | Department of Nutrition Science, Purdue University | Interventions Driven by Insecurity: Determining diet and health relationships and developing evidence-based interventions to reduce food insecurity among US sub-populations |
| Richard Bruno | Human Nutrition, The Ohio State University | Anti-inflammatory Activities of Green Tea: Lessons Learned from Obese Models of NASH |
| Keith Belk | Animal Science, Colorado State University | Classification of Muscle Foods: Meat, Poultry and Fish in the Diet |
| Cheryl Wellington | The University British Columbia Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health | Tissue-engineered blood vessels as a novel platform to investigate amyloid beta clearance from the brain |
| David Klurfeld | Nutrition, Food Safety/Quality, USDA, ARS | WHO says eating red meat causes cancer |
| Spring 2017 | ||
| Anne-Marie Torregrossa | Department of Psychology, University of Buffalo | A Role for Salivary Proteins in Taste and Feeding |
| Ellen Schur | University of Washington | That Looks Good! Brain Regulation of Appetite in Humans |
| Joseph Bass | Northwestern University | Genome-wide Basis for the Circadian Regulation of Beta Cell Function |
| Kevin C. Maki | Midwest Biomedical Research & Illinois Institute of Technology, Department of Food Science and Nutrition, Chicago, IL | Replacement of Refined Starches and Added Sugars with Egg Protein and Unsaturated Fat Improves the Cardiometabolic Profile of Adults with Elevated Triglycerides |
| Josie Broussard | Department of Integrative Physiology, University of Colorado - Boulder | Pathways linking insufficient sleep to obesity and diabetes risk |
| Rob Pazdro | Department of Foods and Nutrition, University of Georgia | Understanding the Glutathione Redox System: A Systems Genetic Approach |
| Stuart Phillips | Canada Research Chair, McMaster University | Dietary Protein Beyond the RDA: Myths, Realities, and Challenges |
| Colby Martin | Pennington Biomedical, Louisiana State University | Measurement of food intake and dietary adherence: New solutions to an old problem |
| Keith West | Department of International Health, John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD | Micronutrient Deficiencies We Rarely See: Frontiers in Revealing and Preventing Hidden Hunger |
| Man-sau Wong | Man-sau Wong, Professor and Associate Dean of Faculty of Applied Science, Department of Applied Biology and Chemical Technology, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong | Bone protective photochemical from herbal source |
| Fall 2016 | ||
| Nana Gletsu Miller | Department of Nutrition Science, Purdue University | Dietary Approaches to Combat Obesity-Related Disease |
| Noel T. Mueller | Welch Center for Prevention, Epidemiology, and Clinical Research, John Hopkins, Baltimore, MD |
Microbes at Birth and Childhood Obesity: Do Offspring Reap What Mothers Sow? |
| Zeynep Madak Erdogan | Food Sciences and Human Nutrition Department, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL |
Systems biology of gene and metabolic regulation by estrogen receptors and kinasis in breast cancer |
| Heather Leidy | Department of Nutrition Science, Purdue University | Is there a 'Breakfast of Champions' for appetite control, weight management, and Health Outcomes? |
| Cordelia Running | Department of Nutrition Science, Purdue University | Oral sensations and secretions as both tools and factors in nutritional research |
| Daniel Rosenberg | University of Connecticut Health Center | Nutrition at the center of the storm: Modifying colon cancer risk by dietary interventions |
| Sharon Donovan | University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL | Non-invasive methods for assessing nutritional regulation of neonatal gut gene expression and host-microbe interactions |
| Herman Potzer | Hunter College, City University of New York | Energetics, Diet, and Activity in Living Hunter-Gatherers: Sorting Paleo-fact from Paleo-fantasy |
| Dan Raiten | National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, NIH | Climate, Health and Improved Nutrition - Making Connections to Meet a Global Challenge |
| Lynda F. Bonewald | Indiana Center for Musculoskeletalhealth, Indiana University School of Medicine | The Osteocyte: A Multifunctional, Mechanosensory Bone Cell |
| Christopher D. Morrison | Neurosignaling Laboratory, Pennington Biomedical Research Center | Molecular Detectors Linking Dietary Protein to Behavior and Metabolism |
| Nathan LeBrasseur | Robert and Arlene Kogod Center on Aging, Mayo Clinic | Diet, Exercise, and the Biology of Aging |
| Spring 2016 | ||
| Manju B. Reddy | Department of Food Science & Human Nutrition, Iowa State University | Methodologies for Identifying New Iron Compounds to Improve Bioavailability |
| Richard Mattes | Department of Nutrition Science, Purdue University | Sugar: Darned if you do; darned if you don't; darned if there's a reason why |
| Rajavel Elango | University of British Columbia | |
| Dennis M. Bier | Baylor College of Medicine | Future of Dietary Guidance - Conception to Chronic Disease Prevention |
| Maret G. Traber | Oregon State University | The vitamin E metabolite, α-CEHC, as a marker of vitamin E status, example in humans with metabolic syndrome |
| Nanjoo Suh | Department of Chemical Biology, The State University of New Jersey | Breast Cancer Prevention with natural Tocopherol Mixtures |
| Fall 2015 | ||
| Connie M. Weaver | Department of Nutrition Science, Purdue University | Approaches to Studying Bioactives: Berries and Bone Project |
| Ji-Xin Cheng | Biomedical Engineering and Chemistry, Purdue University | Shedding Light on Cellular Machinery Using Molecular Fingerprint |
| Gregory Lesinski | Department of Internal Medicine, Divisions of Medical Oncology and Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, The Ohio State University | Immune Modulations for Cancer and Inflammation with Dietary Soy |
| T.Y. Chang | Department of Biochemistry, Giesel School of Medicine at Dartmouth | ACAT1/SOAT1 as a potential therapeutic target to treat neurodegenerative diseases |
| Robert Noland | Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Baton Rouge, LA | Targeting peroxisomes in skeletal muscle to combat lipid-induced insulin resistance |
| Stephen B. Kritchevsky | Wake Forest School of Medicine | Weight Loss in Obese Older Adults: Good or Bad? |
| Daniel Nomura | University of California-Berkley | Mapping Metabolic Drivers of Disease using Chemoproteomic and Metabolomics Platforms |
| Rima Rozen | McGill University | Genes and Folate Intake: Impact at both ends of the dietary spectrum |
| Yu-Hua Tseng | Harvard Medical School and Joslin Diabetes Center | New insights into metabolic regulation and human brown fat |
| Elsa Janle | Department of Nutrition Science, Purdue University | Botanicals, Bioavailability, and Tissue Distribution |
| John E. Hayes | Sensory Evaluation Center, The Pennsylvania State University | No Accounting for taste...or is there? Linking variation oral sensation for food choice |
| Spring 2015 | ||
| Andrew D. Mesecar | Department of Biological Sciences, Purdue Center for Cancer Research, Purdue University | Natural and dietary-derived chemopreventive agents that modulate Keap1 and NRF2 |
| Yuan-Xiang Pan | Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | Early Life Nutrition - Developmental Consequences and Mechanisms of Regulation |
| Andrew S. Greenberg | Obesity and Metabolism Laboratory, JM-USDA Human Nutrition Research Center, Tufts University School of Medicine | Insights into the Role of Perilipin2 and Acyl CoA Synthetase 5 in Tissue and Systemic Metabolism |
| Barbara Millen | Department of Family Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine (through 2009) Millennium Prevention, Inc. |
Nutrition for Health in America: The 2015 Dietary Guidelines for Americans Committee Report |
| Jeffrey B. Blumberg | Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, Tufts University | Flavonoids: From Farm to Food to Pharmacokinetics to Function |
| Johanna W. Lampe | Cancer Prevention Program, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center | Bioactives, the Gut Microbiome, and Cancer |
| Ekhard Ziegler, MD | Fomon Infant Nutrition Unit, University of Iowa | Premature Infant Nutrition: Work in Progress |
| Silvia D. Stan | Department of Nutrition Science, Purdue University | Targeting Mechanisms Relevant to Pancreatic Cancer Prevention with Dietary Agents |
| Fall 2014 | ||
| Rafael de Cabo | National Institute on Aging Seniors, Laboratory of Experimental Gerontology | Dietary Interventions for Healthy Aging |
| Margarita Teran-Garcia | Department of Food Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | Genes and Environment: Protection or Risk for Childhood Obesity |
| Juan Andrade | Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | Technologies for improvement of nutrition in low-income countries |
| Susanne Talcott | Department of Nutrition and Food Science, Texas A&M University | Mango polyphenolics-absorption and prevention of chronic disease |
| Shihuan Kuang | Department of Animal Science, Purdue University | A "browned" new pathway to fight obesity and type 2 diabetes |
| Robert Parker | College of Human Ecology, Cornell University | Cytochrome P450s in Vitamin E Metabolism Status |
| Thomas Gettys | Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Louisiana State University | Mechanisms linking sensing of dietary methionine to tissue-specific remodeling of metabolism |
| Jung Eun Kim | Department of Nutrition Science, Purdue University | Cardiovascular Protective Effects of Carotenoids and Increasing Bioavailability of Carotenoids |
| Mary Jane de Souza | Kinesiology and Physiology, Pennsylvania State University | Is Bone Loss Reversible Following Prolonged Energy Deficiency? |
| Sharin Kirkpatrick | School of Public Health and Health Systems, University of Waterloo | Advances in Dietary Assessment: Controversies, Methods, and Applications |
| Joe Prohaska | Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Minnesota Medical School | Impact of Neonatal Copper Limitation on Brain Biochemistry |
| Qing Jiang | Department of Nutrition Science, Purdue University | Natural forms of Vitamin E and their long-chain metabolics |
| Dan Sellen | Nutritional Sciences and Public Health, Dalla Lana School of Public Health | New Tools to Support Ancient Needs: Health Innovations and Cell Phone Support for Infant Feeding |
| Spring 2014 | ||
|
Alison Kohan |
Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Cincinnati | Apolipoproteins in the A-I/C-III/A-IV gene cluster have opposing and distinct roles in dietary triglyceride metabolism |
| Doug Padden-Jones | Department of Nutrition and Metabolism, The University of Texas Medical Branch | Protein, sarcopenia and healthy aging |
| Nana Gletsu Miller | Department of Nutrition Science, Purdue University | Research in Bariatric Surgery: Impact on Nutrition and Metabolic Health |
| Matthew Hayes | Department of Psychiatry, Graduate Group Affiliations Penn State University |
Amylin Signaling in the Mesolimbic Reward System Controls Food Intake |
| Charles Santerre | Department of Nutrition Science, Purdue University |
Sorting Through the Benefits and Risks of Seafood: Research to Translation |
| Dean P Jones | Emory University School of Medicine | Oxidative Stress and Metabolic Disease |
| Robert Stanley Parker | Division of Nutritional Sciences and Department of Food Science, Cornell University | Nutritional Biochemistry of Vitamins E and K |
| Liping Zhao | Director for Laboratory of Molecular Microbial Ecology and Ecogenomics School of Life Sciences and Biotechnology Shanghai Jiao Tong University Director for Laboratory of Nutritional Systems Biology Shanghai Center for Systems Biomedicine Director for SJTU-Perfect (China) Joint Center for Microbiota and Health | Can we follow Koch's postulates for hunting down human obesity bugs in gut microbiota? |
| Henry Kahn | Division of Diabetes Translation, Centers for Disease Control & Prevention | Introduction to the Sagittal Abdominal Diameter -- Why be SAD? |
| Patrick Tso | The role of apolipoprotein AIV in glucose homeostasis | |
| Rosalind Gibson |
Research Professor, Department of Human Nutrition, University of Otago |
Kirksey Lecture - Dietary-induced zinc deficiency in low-income countries: challenges and solutions |
| Fall 2013 | ||
| Scott D. Cramer | Department of Pharmacology, University of Colorado, Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora | How Vitamin and Stem Cells Led to the Identification of a Lethal Prostate Cancer Variant |
| Erin Glynn | Sarah Stedman Nutrition and Metabolism Center, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina | Mechanisms of Improved Insulin Sensitivity by Weight Loss and Exercise |
| Bernard P. Halloran | Veterans Affairs Medical Center, University of California, San Francisco | Dried Plum: An Emerging Therapy for Osteoporosis? |
| Marc T. Hamilton | Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Baton Rouge, Louisiana | The Inactivity Physiology Paradigm: The Dawn of a New Era of Healthy Lifestyle Solutions for All People |
| Joseph A. Houmard | Department of Kinesiology, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina | Severe Obesity: Is There a Metabolic Program and Does Exercise Help? |
| Joshua D. Lambert | Department of Food Science, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park | Cancer Preventive Activity of Green Tea Polyphenols: Role for Oxidative Stress and Mitochondrial |
| Denise M. Ney | Department of Nutritional Sciences, University of Wisconsin, Madison | Phenylketonuria, Glycomacropeptide and Bone Health |
| Hei Sook Sul | Department of Nutritional Science and Toxicology, University of California, Berkeley | Transcriptional Regulation of Lipogenesis |
| Stephen C. Woods | Director of the Obesity Research Center, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Ohio | Assessing the Intake of Dietary Fat and Other Macronutrients |
| Fall 2012-Spring 2013 | ||
| Cheryl Anderson | Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, University of California San Diego | Sodium and blood pressure |
| Caroline M. Apovian | Department of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Nutrition, Boston University School of Medicine, Massachusetts | Obesity 2013: Current treatment and vision for the future |
| Stephen P. Coburn | Department of Chemistry, Indiana University-Purdue University, Fort Wayne, Indiana | Compartmental modeling of vitamin B-6 absorption in rat intestine |
| Elvira de Mejia | Division of Nutritional Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana | Lunasin, a dietary RGD peptide, in the prevention of chronic disease |
| James C. Fleet | Department of Nutrition Science, Purdue University | Making the most of my sabbatical leave...New tools and new research directions |
| Michael H. Green | Department of Nutritional Sciences, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park | Insights into vitamin A metabolism revealed by mathematical modeling - A long-term perspective |
| Craig Hadley | Department of Anthropology, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia | The social and mental health consequences of food insecurity |
| Emily Ho | School of Biological and Population Health Sciences, Linus Pauling Institute, Oregon State University, Corvallis | Diet, epigenetics and prostate cancer prevention |
| Kee-Hong Kim | Department of Food Science, Purdue University | Leaving resveratrol's shadow: Role of piceatannol in adipose tissue |
| Stephen D. Hursting | Department of Nutritional Sciences, University of Texas at Austin and Department of Molecular Carcinogenesis, UT-MD Anderson Cancer Center | Obesity, metabolism and cancer: Mechanistic insights from transdisciplinary studies |
| Kimberly Kinzig | Department of Psychological Sciences, Purdue University | Ketogenic diets: Impact on energy balance, cognition, and the brain |
| Sibylle Kranz | Department of Nutrition Science, Purdue University | Child nutrition: A challenge for researchers, parents, and caretakers of children |
| Nancy F. Krebs | Department of Pediatrics, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora | Complementary feeding strategies for breastfed infants: What's the evidence that it matters? |
| Phlip S. Lowe | Department of Chemistry, Purdue University | Use of folate tags for imaging and therapy of women's diseases |
| Megan McCrory | Department of Nutrition Science and Department of Psychological Sciences, Purdue University | Do eating patterns influence energy intake? |
| Collin R. Payne | Department of Marketing, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces | Marketing sustainable health interventions in grocery stores |
| Cynthia M. Smas | Department of Biochemistry and Cancer Biology, University of Toledo College of Medicine, Ohio | RIFL, A new player in lipid metabolism |
| Gary Stoner | Division of Hematology and Oncology, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee | Strategies for cancer prevention using whole food formulations |
| Sze Yen Tan | Department of Nutrition Science, Purdue University | Incorporating nuts as a whole-food approach to modulate human metabolism and dietary intake |
| Thomas R. Ziegler | Division of Endocrinology, Metabolism and Lipids, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia | High-dose vitamin D in patients with pulmonary tuberculosis in Tbilisi, Georgia: Clinical outcomes and plasma metabolomic profiling |
