Obesity Alliance Conference (TORS)

The UT Southwestern Obesity Alliance's weekly conference on metabolism, nutrition, and obesity is held at noon every Thursday on the sixth floor of the Green Science Building. The weekly conference was initiated by the Taskforce for Obesity Research (TORS) and is supported by the Center for Human Nutrition. The conferences emphasize human and translation research, but all aspects of metabolism and nutrition as related to obesity are considered. Out-of-town speakers are invited, to the extent possible.We hope that conference attendees will broadly represent the UT Southwestern faculty.

• 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"
• May 30, 2013
  Deborah Clegg, Ph.D., R.D.
  Associate Professor
  Internal Medicine and Clinical Nutrition
  "Estrogens/Estrogen Receptors: Critical Modulators of Metabolism"
• June 6 - September 5
  Summer Recess
• September 12, 2013
  Roger Unger, M.D.
  Professor in Internal Medicine
  Touchstone West Distinguished Chair in Diabetes Research
  "Dogma, Data and Diabetes"
• October 24, 2013
  Lori Zeltser, Ph.D.
  Assistant Professor in the Naomi Berrie Diabetes Center
  Department of Pathology and CellBiology
  Columbia University Medical Center
• December 5, 2013
  William Lee Krauss, Ph.D.
  Professor - Obstetrics and Gynecology, Pharmacology
  Endowed Cecil H. and Ida Green Distinguished Chair,
  Reproductive Biology Sciences, UT Southwestern