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 nd 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 nd 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 2 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. 2 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.