Obesity Alliance Archives 2013

The UT Southwestern Obesity Alliance's weekly conferences on metabolism, nutrition, and obesity are held at noon every Thursday in the Green Building (Y6.224). The  Task Force for Obesity Research (TORS) sponsors the weekly conference.

  • January 10, 2013
    Bruce Beutler, M.D.
    Director, Center for the Genetics of Host Defense
    "Creating IBD-like diseases in mice through random germline mutagenesis"
  • January 17, 2013 
    No conference 
  • January 24, 2013
    Tobias Walther Ph.D.
    Associate Professor of Cell Biology
    Yale School of Medicine
    "The Phase of Fat: Cell Biology of Neutral Lipid Storage"
  • January 31, 2013
    Stephen Turley, Ph.D.
    Professor in Internal Medicine, 
    UT Southwestern Medical Center 
    "Comparison of the Impact of Lysosomal Entrapment of Unesterified Versus Esterified Cholesterol: Studies in the Niemann-Pick C Type 1 (NPC1) and Lysosomal Acid Lipase (LAL) Deficient Mouse Models"
  • February 7, 2013
    Brendan D. Manning, Ph.D.
    Associate Professor of Genetics and Complex Diseases
    Department of Genetics and Complex Diseases
    Harvard School of Public Health
    "Metabolic Control of Cell Growth by mTOR"
  • February 14, 2013
    Barbara Kahn, M.D.
    Vice Chair of Research Strategy in the Department of Medicine
    George R. Minot Professor of Medicine
    Harvard Medical School
    "Novel mechanisms by which adipose tissue regulates systemic insulin sensitivity"
  • February 21, 2013
    Eric Berglund, Ph.D.
    Center for Hypothalamic Research
    UT Southwestern Medical Center
    "Under-appreciated gluco-regulatory control mechanisms: serotonin, leptin, and glucagon"
  • February 28, 2013
    Jonathan C. Cohen, Ph.D.
    Professor, Internal Medicine, Center for Human Nutrition 
    and Eugene McDermott Center for Human Growth & Development
    UT Southwestern 
    "To each according to its needs: ANGPTLs and triglyceride partitioning during fasting and feeding"
  • March 7, 2013
    Hannele Yki-Järvinen, M.D., Ph.D.
    Professor - Division of Diabetes
    University of Helsinki
    Faculty of Medicine and Helsinki University Central Hospital
    "Pathogenesis of NAFLD: lessons from studies in humans"
  • March 14, 2013
    Michael Roth, Ph.D.
    Professor and Vice Chairman of Biochemistry
    Diane and Hal Brierley Distinguished Chair in Biomedical Research
    Interim Dean, Southwestern Graduate School
    "Chemical Suppression of Glucagon as a Treatment for Type I Diabetes"
  • March 21, 2013
    Klaus H. Kaestner, Ph.D.
    Thomas and Evelyn Suor Butterworth Professor in Genetics
    University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine
    "Metastable epigenomic state enables human pancreatic Alpha- to beta- cell reprogramming"
  • March 28, 2013
    Gregory Grabowski, M.D.
    Director, Division of Human Genetics
    Director, Medical Genetics Training Program
    Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
    Cincinnati Children’s Hospital
    "Lysosomal Acid Lipase: From Man to Mouse and Back"
  • April 4, 2013 
    Richard Bergman, Ph.D.
    Director of Cedars-Sinai's Diabetes and Obesity Research Institute
    Los Angeles, Calif.
    "Dissecting the pathophysiological pathway to Type 2 Diabetes"
  • April 11, 2013
    Sandra Schmid, Ph.D.
    Cecil H. Green Distinguished Chair in Cellular and Molecular Biology
    Professor and Chair, Cell Biology
    UT Southwestern
    "Building, testing, demolishing, and reconstructing working models: Lessons from Dynamin"
  • April 18, 2013
    Perry Bickel, M.D.
    Associate Professor, Internal Medicine
    Chief, Division of Endocrinology, UT Southwestern
    “A Lipid Droplet Protein Doubles as a Transcriptional Co-Regulator of Mitochondrial Function”
  • April 25, 2013
    Joshua Mendell, M.D., Ph.D.
    Professor, CPRIT Scholar in Cancer Research
    Department of Molecular Biology, UT Southwestern
    Mendell Lab
    "Novel roles for microRNAs in normal physiology and disease"
  • May 2, 2013
    Juan M. Pascual, M.D., Ph.D.
    Director, Rare Brain Disorders Clinic and Laboratory
    Departments of Neurology and Neurotherapeutics, Physiology, and Pediatrics
    Division of Pediatric Neurology
    "Genetic Disorders of Brain Metabolism: Mechanistic and Therapeutic Aspects"
  • May 9, 2013
    Clifford J. Rosen, M.D.
    Director of Clinical and Translational Research, Maine Medical Center
    “The Color and Function of Marrow Adiposity: Brown, Beige, or White?”
  • May 16, 2013
    Hesham Sadek, M.D., Ph.D.
    Assistant Professor, Internal Medicine
    "Teaching an Old Heart Old Tricks: Lessons From the Neonate"
  • May 23, 2013
    Kevin Williams, Ph.D.
    Assistant Professor
    Internal Medicine and Division of Hypothalamic Research
    UT Southwestern
    "Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress in Arcuate POMC Neurons: Implications for Obesity and Type-II Diabetes"