Boston Nutrition Obesity Research Center
BNORC Adipose and Metabolic Study Group Seminars:
January 15, 2013
Pleiotropic Metabolic Consequences of Cavin-1 Deficiency
Paul Pilch, Ph.D.
Professor of Biochemistry
BU School of Medicine
January 22, 2013
Processing Extracellular Signals: How Cells ‘Decode’ the Phosphoinositide Message
Lucia Rameh Plant, Ph.D.
Principal Scientist
Boston Biomedical Research Institute
February 26, 2013
Functions of Sortilin in the Adipose Cell
Kostya Kandror, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Biochemistry
BU School of Medicine
March 12, 2013
Lymphocyte cross talk promotes inflammation and insulin resistance in obesity and type 2 diabetes
Barbara Nikolajczyk, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Microbiology, Boston University School of Medicine
March 19th
Type 2 Diabetes – The Beta-Cell Working Hard to its Own Demise
Chris Rhodes, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Medicine
University of Chicago School of Medicine
March 26th
AMPK and Insulin Resistance: Studies in Bariatric Surgery Patients
Neil Ruderman, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Medicine, Physiology and Biophysics
BU School of Medicine
April 9, 2013
The A2B adenosine receptor in control of vascular and metabolic disease
From the lab of Katya Ravid, Ph.D.
Professor of Medicine and Biochemistry
Director, Evans Center for Interdisciplinary Biomedical Research
Presenter: Hillary Johnston-Cox, PhD
April 30th
Nicotinamide N-methyltransferase, a novel regulator of energy expenditure
Qin Yang, M.D., Ph.D.
Instructor, BIDMC, Harvard Medical School
May 14th
Genome Editing to Generate Human Cellular Models of Metabolic Disease
Chad Cowan, PhD
Harvard University, Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital
For additional information about this seminar series, please contact Andrew.Greenberg@tufts.edu.
