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. 

Upcoming Conferences

• February 9, 2012
  Victor E. Kotelianski, MD, PhD
  Visiting scientist at Koch Institute for Integrative Research at MIT
  “In vivo RNAi and functional genomics”
• February 16, 2012
  Laurent Gautron, PhD
  Center for Hypothalamic Research/ Internal Medicine
  UT Southwestern Medical Center
  “Viscerosensory neurons: key roles in metabolism and inflammation”
• February 23. 2012
  Edward Fisher, MD
  Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine       
  NYU Lagone Medical Center
• March 1, 2012
  Peter Edwards, PhD
  Professor, Department of Biological Chemistry, Department of Medicine
  UCLA Johnson Comprehensive Cancer Center
• March 8, 2012
  Christopher J. Rhodes, PhD 
  Professor, Department of Medicine
  Research Director of Comprehensive Diabetes Center
  Chair, Committee on Molecular Metabolism and Nutrition
• March 15, 2012
  Roger Unger, MD
  Professor in Internal Medicine
  Touchstone/West Distinguished Chair in Diabetes Research
  UT Southwestern Medical Center
  "Therapeutic Makeover of Diabetes: Suppression vs. Treatment"
• March 22, 2012
  Don McClain, MD
  Professor of Internal Medicine
  University of Utah Health Sciences 
• March 29, 2012
  David Moore, PhD
  Professor, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology
  Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas
  “Nuclear receptors versus diabetes: McGarry was right”
• April 12, 2012
  Stanley L. Hazen, MD, PhD
  Center for Cardiovascular Diagnostics & Prevention
  Kerner Research Institute, Cleveland, Ohio
  "Gut flora as a participant and target for atherosclerotic disease"
  
• April 19, 2012
  Joachim Herz, MD
  Professor of Molecular Genetics
  UT Southwestern Medical Center
• May 3, 2012
  Elizabeth J. Parks, PhD
  Associate Professor of Clinical Nutrition and Internal Medicine
  UT Southwestern Medical Center
  "Sources of TG-fatty acid syntesis secreted by the liver in subjects with low and high liver fat"
• May 10, 2012
  Xiao-Song Xie, PhD
  Professor of Internal Medicine
  UT Southwestern Medical Center
  “ABCG5/ABCG8 transporter complex: Its role in cholesterol metabolism and the underlying mechanism"
• May 17, 2012
  P. Darrell Neufer, PhD
  Director, East Carolina Diabetes and Obesity Institute
• May 24, 2012
  Olivier Kocher, MD, PhD
  Associate Professor of Pathology
  Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
  Harvard Medical School
  "Role of the HDL receptor's adaptor protein PDZK1 in atherosclerosis and lipid metabolism"
• May 31, 2012
  Jeffrey Pessin, PhD
  Judy R. and Alfred A. Rosenberg Professorial Chair in Diabetes Research
  Director, Diabetes Research Center
  Departments of Medicine and Molecular Pharmacology
  Albert Einstein College of Medicine
  
• June 7, 2012
  Luca Scorrano, MD, PhD
  Professor, Universite de Geneve
• June 21, 2012
  Al Merrill, Jr., PhD
  Professor and Smithgall Institute Chair in Molecular Cell Biology, School of Biology and the Petiti Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience, Georgia Institute of Technology
• June 28, 2012
  Joseph T. Brozinick Jr., PhD
  Research Advisor, Eli Lilly and Co, Endocrine Division
  Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
  Indiana University School of Medicine
• July 5, 2012
  Holiday
• July 12, 2012
  Ralph DiBerardinis, MD, PhD
  Assistant Professor of Pediatrics & Genetics
  Program Director, Medical Genetics Residency Program
  
• July 19, 2012
  Vanessa Sperandio, PhD
  Professor in Microbiology and Biochemistry
  UT Southwestern Medical Center
• July 26, 2012
  Joel Elmquist, DVM, PhD
  Professor of Internal Medicine, Psychiatry, Pharmacology
  Maclin Family Professorship in Medical Science, in Honor of Dr. Roy A. Brinkley
  Carl H. Westcott Distinguished Chair in Medical Research
• August 2012
  Summer Recess
• December 6, 2012
  Stephen Turley, PhD
  Professor of Internal Medicine
  UT Southwestern Medical Center
  “The Importance and Challenges of Quantifying Both Esterified and Unesterified Cholesterol Concentrations in the Brain and Other Organs in Health and Disease”
• December 13, 2012
  Philipp Scherer, PhD
  Professor and Director, Touchstone Center for Diabetes Research
  Gifford O. Touchstone Jr. and Randolph G. Touchstone Distinguished Chair in Diabetes Research
  UT Southwestern Medical Center
• December 20, 2012
  No seminars scheduled for the remainder of the month