Seminars

The HNRCA Seminar Series is held every Monday from 12pm-1pm in the HNRCA Auditorium. For any questions regarding the HNRCA Seminar Series, please contact Dr. Martin Obin or MaryBeth Keith.

HNRCA Spring 2012 Seminar Series

February 6
Tools to Measure Muscle Performance: Why Muscle Power Matters to Nutrition and Aging	Roger Fielding, Ph.D. Nutrition, Exercise, Physiology, and Sacropenia (NEPS) Laboratory, HNRCA
February 13
Frailty, Muscle Loss and Water Homeostasis in the Nursing Home	Joseph Kehayias, Ph.D. Body Composition Laboratory, HNRCA
February 27
Epigenetics, diet, and cancer prevention: mechanistic studies of HDAC turnover and recovery	Roderick Dashwood, Ph.D. Linus Pauling Institute
March 5
SIRT1 Signaling, Inflammation, and Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease	Min You, Ph.D. University of South Florida
March 12
Genetics of Autism Spectrum Disorders	Anthony Monaco, M.D., Ph.D. Tufts University
March 19
HIV and Aging	Simin Meydani, D.V.M, Ph.D.,Nutritional Immunology Laboratory, HNRCA Christine Wanke, M.D., Nutrition and Infection Unit, Tufts School of Medicine
March 26
Regulation of regional adipose tissue lipolysis and direct FFA storage in vivo ? implications for body fat distribution in humans	Michael Jensen, Ph.D. Mayo Clinic
April 2
Understanding Omega-3 Fatty Acid Function through Lipidomics Analysis of the Macrophage and Plasma Lipidomes	Ed Dennis, Ph.D. University of California
May 1
Worksite Interventions for Weight Control	Susan Roberts, Ph.D. and Sai Das, Ph.D. Energy Metabolism Laboratory, HNRCA
May 7
Energy Balance and Cancer Prevention: Mechanistic Insights from Transdisciplinary Studies	Stephen Hursting, M.D., Ph.D. University of Texas at Austin
May 21
MicroRNAs: Changing the Molecular Nutrition Landscape	Jose Ordovas, Ph.D. Nutrition and Genomics Laboratory, HNRCA

To see a list of past seminar series topics and speakers, please click here.