NUTRITION AND OBESITY RELATED SEMINARS 02/29/16 – 03/06/16
Current
Clinical and Community
Monday Nutrition Seminar Series, Harvard School of Public Health
Monday, February 20, 2016 12:30-1:20 PM
“Diabetes and Diet: Behavioral Response to Health News” Emily F. Oster, PhD, Associate Professor of
Economics, Brown University
Location: Harvard School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Avenue, Kresge Room 502
Longwood Nutrition Seminar 2015-2016 – Division of Nutrition at Harvard
Tuesday, March 1, 2016 at 12:00-1:00 PM - Lunch will be served at 11:30 AM
“Resolution of Type 2 Diabetes to Hypoglycemia: Lessons from Bariatric Surgery” Mary Elizabeth Patti,
MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Investigator, Director of the Joslin Genomics Core and
Director of the Hypoglycemia and Severe Insulin Resistance Clinic at Joslin Diabetes Center
Tuesday, March 1, 2016 12:00 – 1:00 PM (Lunch will be served at 11:30 AM)
Location: Cannon Room (Building C1), Medical Education Center, Harvard Medical School, 260 Longwood Avenue,
Boston
Adipose and Metabolic
HNRCA Weekly Seminar Series
Monday, February 29, 2016 at 12:00 NOON
“From Neon to HDL: A Brief History of Isotopes, Mass Spectrometry and Nutrition” Gregory
Dolniksowski, PhD, Scientist I, Mass Spectrometry, Jean Mayer Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts
University
Location: Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging, 711 Washington Street, Mezzanine Auditorium
Adipose Seminar Series sponsored by the Adipose Tissue Biology and Nutrient Metabolism Core (ABM) of BNORC
Tuesday, March 1, 2016 from 10:00–11:00 AM
“Transcriptional and MicroRNA Circuits Controlling Cholesterol/Lipids and Metabolism” Anders M. Näär,
Ph.D., Professor of Cell Biology, MGH Research Scholar, Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital
Cancer Center
Location: BUMC, EBRC Building, 650 Albany Street, 7th Floor, Room 714
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Endocrinology Grand Rounds, The Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes &
Metabolism
Friday, March 4, 2016 from 9:00–10:00 AM
“Thyroid Hormone Receptors and Mammalian Development” Douglas Forrest, PhD, Senior Investigator,
Laboratory of Endocrinology and Receptor Biology, NIDDK, National Institutes of Health
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Location: Shapiro Clinical Center, Leventhal Conference Room, 2 Floor
http://www.bidmc.org/Centers-and-Departments/Departments/Medicine/Divisions/Endocrinology/Endocrinology-GrandRounds.aspx
POSTDOCTORAL CANDIDATE SEMINAR DEPARTMENT OF MICROBIOLOGY, Boston University School of Medicine
Friday, March 4, 2016 from 9:00–10:00 AM
“Coordination Between T Helper and NKT Cells in the Humoral Immune Response Against Clostridium
difficile Toxin B” Pragya Rampuria, Ph.D., University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center
Location: Boston University School of Medicine, 72 East Concord Street, L504
Upcoming
Adipose and Metabolic
Adipose Seminar Series sponsored by the Adipose Tissue Biology and Nutrient Metabolism Core (ABM) of BNORC
Tuesday, March 15, 2016 from 10:00–11:00 AM
“TBA” Evan Rosen, M.D., Ph.D., Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical
Center
Location: BUMC, EBRC Building, 650 Albany Street, 7th Floor, Room 714
Clinical and Community
HNRCA Weekly Seminar Series
Monday, March 7, 2016 at 12:00 NOON
“Genetics and Genomics of Sugar-induced Metabolic Disease, from Animal to Humans” Nicola
McKeown, Ph.D., Scientist I, Nutritional Epidemiology, HNRCA and Mark Herman, M.D., Assistant Professor of
Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Location: Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging, 711 Washington Street, Mezzanine Auditorium
http://hnrca.tufts.edu/hnrca-monday-seminar-series/
WEBINAR: Conducting Focus Groups with Children (1 hour)
The vast majority of texts and literature on conducting focus groups are geared toward adults as participants. Yet, there is
an imperative to conduct qualitative research with children to inform all phases of interventions and programs that include
them. This webinar will cover the major issues to consider when conducting focus groups with children ages 6-12,
including different strategies to use for different ages and unique challenges to consider. Whether you have experience in
conducting groups with adults and would like to adapt your skills, or are completely new to conducting focus groups, you’ll
come away with knowledge of the major considerations when working with children.
Date and time: Thursday 10 March 2016 at 10 AM
RSVP required at http://www.bumc.bu.edu/bnorc/webinar-conducting-focus-groups-with-children/
Save the Date
Epidemiology and Genetics
Symposium – co-sponsored by the Epidemiology & Genetics Core of the Boston Nutrition Obesity Research Center
“Omics: Advances, Applications, and Translation in Nutrition”
Co-chaired by Frank Hu, MD, PhD, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health & Miguel A. Martínez-González, MD, PhD,
MPH, Universidad de Navarra
Monday, May 9, 2016 from 9:00 AM - 4:30 PM
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Location: Joseph B. Martin Conference Center, 2 floor, The Pechet Room, 77 Avenue Louis Pasteur, Boston
Registration is required - please visit: hsph.me/nutrition-omics-conference-2016
Harvard Medical School Division of Nutrition, The 17th Annual Postgraduate Nutrition Symposium
“The Adipocyte in Energy Regulation”
July 13-14, 2016
Location: The Joseph B. Martin Center at Harvard Medical School, 77 Avenue Louis Pasteur, Boston, MA
Registration is required – Email harvardnutrition@pmkassociates.com or call 703-841-1600 for more information or
questions.
Other Information
BNORC Small Grants Program
Do you need some preliminary data that can be obtained using one of our cores for a grant
application? The BNORC Small Grants Program provides funds up to $3,000 (direct costs only). The
timeline from application to award is 1-2 weeks. To-date, the funding rate of this program for eligible
requests has been 100%.
Please visit the website below for program details and eligibility information.
http://bnorc.org/smallgrants/
Pilot Grant Opportunity-Metabolomics sponsored by the University of Michigan Regional Comprehensive Metabolomics
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Resource Core (MRC)
• Submission Deadline: Tuesday, March 15, 2016
• Award Cycle: July 1, 2016 - June 30, 2017
• Discipline/Subject Area: Metabolomics
• Funding Available: $50,000
• Submission: Apply through the University of Michigan Medical School, Office of Research's Competition Space
portal
Questions about the P/F grant program can be directed to:
Alla Karnovsky, PhD.
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Director, (MRC) P/F Grant Program
akarnovs@med.umich.edu
(734) 615-9314
2nd Biannual Conference Childhood Obesity in the Community: Turning Science Into Care
Sponsored by new balance FOUNDATION and Obesity Prevention Center, Boston Children’s Hospital
March 31-April 1, 2016
Location: The Charles Hotel, 1 Bennett Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
More Information: Please contact us at obesityconference@childrens.harvard.edu
https://reg.attendeenet.com/profile/web/index.cfm?PKwebID=0x45232336
This list of seminars and items of interest to the nutrition and obesity community is distributed weekly by the Boston
Nutrition Obesity Research Center. This list is also posted at http://bnorc.org/. Times and dates are subject to change. If
you would like your seminar included in this announcement, please send the relevant information by email to:
dgibson@bu.edu.