Seminar Series

Spring 2012

Thursdays, 11:00 a.m., 290 Nutritional Sciences, 1415 Linden Dr.


Date	Presenter	Topic
Jan. 19	Mallory Koenings IGPNS	Relationship between the alcohol environment and healthful lifestyle practices of college students
Jan. 26	Phil Farrell Dept. of Pediatrics	Cystic Fibrosis newborn screening: implications for improved nutrition
Feb. 2	Scott Messenger IGPNS	The minor regulated pathway in exocrine pancreatic function
Feb. 9	J. Wes Pike Dept. of Biochemistry, UW-Madison	Estrogen and Vitamin D hormone activity on skeleton
Feb. 16	Jon Levine Dept. of Neuroscience, UW-Madison	Minding the metabolic messages of estrogen
Feb. 23	Amy Radunz Dept. of Animal Science, UW-Madison	Developmental programming of fat: implications from cattle and sheep to human health
Mar. 1	James LaGro Urban and Regional Planning	Planning healthy communities: challenges and opportunities
Mar. 8	Karen Hansen Rheumatology, UW-Madison	Calcium absorption in post-menopausal women
Mar. 15	Thomas Martin Dept. of Biochemistry, UW-Madison	Priming the fusion machinery for vesicle exocytosis
Mar.22	Eve Van Cauter Dept. of Medicine, Univ. of Chicago	Sleep disturbances, obesity and diabetes: interacting epidemics
Mar. 29	Macy Shen IGPNS	Iron-dependent post-transcriptional control of mitochondrial aconitase expression
Apr. 5	NO SEMINAR	SPRING BREAK
Apr. 19	Sarah Zinkel IGPNS	Impact of energy expenditure on adiposity in adolescents
Apr. 26	Tara LaRowe Dept. of Family Medicine, UW-Madison	Preventing childhood obesity through systems of change
May 3	Nathan Johnson IGPNS	Relationships between cytosolic Fe-S cluster biogenesis and iron regulatory protein 1 function
May 10	NO SEMINAR	NO SEMINAR
May 17	Matt Bruss IGPNS	Interventions altering kinetic biomarkers of longevity