Spring 2026 Nutrition and Metabolism Seminar Series

    Thursdays – 11:00 a.m. – Nutritional Sciences Room 290

    DateSpeakerTitle
    January 22Hoang Bui
    UW-Madison
    N&M Exit Seminar
    Dissecting the Heterogeneity of White and Brown Adipocyte Precursors
    January 29Arion Kennedy
    North Carolina State University
    Immune Cell Dysregulation in Metabolic Dysfunction Associated Steatohepatitis
    February 5Jessica Spinelli
    University of Massachusetts Medicine
    Metabolic and Physiological Implications of Flexibility in the Mitochondrial Electron Transport Chain
    February 12Brad Bolling
    University of Wisconsin – Madison
    February 19Kate Lauer
    UW-Madison
    MANTP Trainee
    Using Machine Learning to Predict Adult Weight Gain
    February 26Shai Bel
    Bar Ilan University – Safed, Israel
    MANTP
    Partners in Slime: Host-Microbe Interactions at the Mucosal Interface
    March 5Frederico Rey
    UW-Madison
    MANTP
    Exploring the Consequences of Gut Microbiome Variation on Host Health
    March 12Jackie Fretz
    Yale University
    Activation of PPAR-gamma Coactivator 1 Alpha (PGC1a) and Transsulfuration Control Fate Choice of Mesenchymal Stem Cells (MSCs)
    March 19Eric McGregor
    UW- Madison
    N&M Exit Seminar
     Metabolism in Brain Aging and Neurodegenerative Disease
    April 2Alice Kane
    ISB Science
    Multiomic Markers of Frailty in Mice and Humans
    April 9Hubert Peng
    UW-Madison
     
    April 16Samantha Weaver
    UW-Madison
    Novel Dietary Strategies for Bone Health and Regeneration
    April 23Marc Hellerstein
    University of California – Berkeley
     
    April 30Ben Ohlstein
    University of Texas – Southwestern
    An Oligosaccharide Regulates Multiple Steps of Digestion