Seminar Series

Fall 2024 — All seminars will be held in Nutritional Sciences 290 (map) beginning at 11 am on Thursdays except for December 6th.

Date	Presenter	Subject
Sept 5	Jacqueline Monteiro UW-Madison	Translating OMICS-based research and lifestyle to children and adolescents
Sept 12	Cacious Phiri UW-Madison	Vitamin D and calcium reinforce bone health despite extreme vitamin A statuses
Sept 19	Jomol Mathew UW-Madison	Changing the paradigm of data silos: A new era of data-driven biomedical research, population health and personalized medicine
Sept 26	Tu-Anh Huynh UW-Madison	C-di-AMP – an essential second messenger turned toxic
Oct 3	Ting Fu UW-Madison	The role of Microbiota-Modified Bile Acids on intestine tumorigenesis
Oct 10	Joshua Drake Virginia Polytechnic Institute	TBD
Oct 17	William Holland University of Utah	TBD
Oct 24	Jesse Sheftel Boston Consulting Group	Science to Strategy: Transitioning from UW Research to Global Health and Development at BCG
Oct 31*	Patrick Stover Texas A+M University	TBD
Nov 7	Katelyn Cassel UW-Madison	TBD
Nov 14	Fengyi Wan John Hopkins University	TBD
Nov 21	Loredana Quadro Rutgers University	TBD
Nov 28	Thanksgiving
Dec 6	Leanne Redman Louisiana State University	TBD
Dec 12	Kuda Lamin-Bangura National Dairy Council	TBD

Spring 2024 — All seminars will be held in Nutritional Sciences 290 (map) beginning at 11 am on Thursdays.

Date	Presenter	Subject
Jan 25	Rob Nix UW-Madison	Promoting Healthy Eating Habits Among Toddlers Living in Poverty: The Recipe 4 Success Preventive Intervention
Feb 1	Webb Smith UTHSC	Pediatric Obesity Treatment in the Mid-South: Bariatric Surgery, Medication, and Lifestyle Intervention
Feb 8	Lautaro Rostoll Cangiano UW-Madison	Influence of Early Life Microbiota on Dairy Calves’ Health and Disease
Feb 15	Sonia Kupfer University of Chicago	TBA
Feb 22	Angela Byars-Winston UW-Madison	Advancing Culturally Responsive Mentorship
Feb 29	Jill Reedy NIH National Cancer institute division of cancer control & population sciences	Assessment of Dietary Patterns Over the Life Course
Mar 7	Michaela Tautman UW-Madison	TBA
Mar 14	Kristina Martinez-Guryn MWU	Heat Shock Protein 70 (HSP70) Protects Against Diet-Induced Obesity: A Role for Intestinal Fat Metabolism
Mar 21	Brian Parks UW-Madison	Genetic Approaches to Identify and Validate Genes that Contribute to Metabolic Diseases
Mar 28	Spring Break	Spring Break
Apr 4	Susan Johnson University of Colorado	Caregiver Goals for the Complementary Feeding Period: Comparisons with the Dietary Guidelines for Children under 2
Apr 11	Elizabeth Parks University of Missouri	The Process of Hepatic Lipogenesis and its Role in Liver Disease
Apr 18	Dave Eide UW-Madison	ZRTs, ZRGs, ZRRs and ZAP – The Genetics of Cellular Responses to Zinc Deficiency
Apr 25	Gulustan Ozturk UW-Madison	TBA

Fall 2023 — All seminars will be held in Nutritional Sciences 290 (map) beginning at 11 am on Thursdays.

Date	Presenter	Subject
Sept 7	Amy Kind UW-Madison	The Neighborhood Atlas: Linking Disparities-Aligned EXPOSOME to Brain Health through Data Democratization
Sept 14	CANCELLED	CANCELLED
Sept 21	Michelle Cooley UW-Madison	Protective Mechanisms in Exocrine Pancreatic Injury
Sept 28	Molly Bray University of Texas – Austin	TBD
Oct 5	Felice Reznik UW-Madison	TBD
Oct 12	Janos Zempleni University of Nebraska	TBD
Oct 19	Laura McCulley UW-Madison	TBD
Oct 26	Jon Brestoff Washington University	Cell-to-Cell Transfer of Mitochondria in Obesity, Aging, and Mitochondrial Disease
Nov 2	Snehal Chaudhari UW-Madison	A Microbial Metabolite Remodels the Gut-Liver axis Following Bariatric Surgery
Nov 9	Mario Ferruzzi University of Arkansas	TBD
Nov 16	Emily Heying College of Saint Benedict/Saint John’s University	Creating Food Secure College Campuses: What We Know and Where We Need To Go
Nov 23	Thanksgiving
Nov 30	Naiman Khan University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign	Neuro-pigments to Neuro-cognition: Carotenoids and Cognitive Function
Dec 7	Katrina Phelps UW-Madison	Navigating community-engaged research in the health sciences

Spring 2023 — All seminars will be held in Nutritional Sciences 290 (map) beginning at 11 am on Thursdays.

Date	Presenter	Subject
Jan 26	Kristina Penniston UW-Madison	From Bench to Bedside and Beyond: A Journey from Nutritional Sciences to Interdisciplinary Collaborative Genitourinary Research
Feb 2	Harini Sampath Rutgers University	Intestinal Stearoyl-CoA Desaturases – Exploring New Roles for an Old Friend
Feb 9	Emily Britt UW-Madison	Rewiring of Glucose and Glycogen Metabolism in Human Neutrophils upon Activation
Feb 16	Erika Philips UW-Madison	Does aflatoxin exposure reduce linear growth in young children? Results from a cluster-randomized trial
Feb 23	Cancelled	Cancelled
Mar 2	Jason Locasale Duke University	Diet and metabolic therapeutics in health and cancer
Mar 9	Melanie Gillingham Oregon Health Sci University	LCHADD chorioretinopathy: pathophysiology and potential treatments
Mar 23	Molly Mulcahy UW-Madison	Impacts of Chrononutrition on Perinatal Health
Mar 30	Jillian Trabulsi  University of Delaware	Early diet composition: Impact on energy balance, weight status, and other health outcomes
Apr 6	Scott Soleimanpour Duke University	The impact of mitochondrial quality control in metabolic disease
Apr 13	Andrea Garber UCSF	Advances in the treatment of malnutrition secondary to restrictive eating disorders
Apr 20	Diandra Fields UW-Madison	The role of dietary intake and corresponding plasma metabolomics in determining risk of cerebrovascular disease and mixed pathologies
Apr 27	Kayla Kaeppler UW-Madison	Plant Pigments for Human Health: Role of Carotenoids and Anthocyanins in the Fight Against Chronic Disease
May 4	Katie Osterbauer UW-Madison	Preclinical and Clinical Characterization of Skeletal Muscle Aging
May 11	Rashaun Williams UW-Madison	Intraislet expression of cholecystokinin during diabetic stress conditions

Fall 2022 — All seminars will be held in Nutritional Sciences 290 (map) beginning at 11 am on Thursdays.

Date	Presenter	Subject
Sept 8	Sridevi Krishnan UC San Diego Health	The Glycome: A Novel Link Between Diet and Metabolic Disease
Sept 15	Rachel Perry Yale	A New Metabolic Driver of Renal Cell Carcinoma: Insights from MOONSHOT
Sept 22	TBA	TBA
Sept 29	Aparna Vasanthakumar AbbVie Genomics Research Center (GRC)	Harnessing Genomics for Novel Target Discovery and Patient Stratification in Alzheimer’s disease Clinical Trials
Oct 6	Somshuvra Mukkopadhyay University of Texas	SLC30A10, Manganese Homeostasis, and Neuromotor Disease
Oct 13	Erika Anna UW-Madison	Integrating Nutrition Services into Migrant and Seasonal Agricultural Worker Mobile Health Care
Oct 20	Feyza Engin UW-Madison	Beta Cell Stress Responses in Type1 Diabetes
Oct 27	Sean Ronnekleiv-Kelly UW-Madison	Circadian Rhythms Impact Pancreatic Cancer Progression
Nov 3	Adam Konopka UW-Madison	TBA
Nov 10	Claire Richardson UW-Madison	Investigating how Animal Aging Regulates Neuron Endolysosomal Homeostasis in C. Elegans
Nov 17	Kerry Kornfeld Washington University	A Tale of Two Lysosomes — How to Store Zinc and Digest the Trash
Dec 1	Grace Guo Rutgers University	Bile Acids, FXR, and FGF15/19 in Gut-Liver Cross Talk
Dec 8	Liza Makowski The University of Tennessee	Obesity, Bariatric Surgery, and Immunotherapy in Brease Cancer

Spring 2022 — All seminars will be held in Nutritional Sciences 290 (map) beginning at 11 am on Thursdays.

Date	Presenter	Subject
Jan 27	Mark Brown Cleveland Clinic	The Role of Abnormal Phospholipid Remodeling in Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease
Feb 3	D. Lee Alekel Retired NIH Program Officer	Optional Career Paths for a PhD in a Nutrition-Related Field
Feb 10	David Jacobson Vanderbilt	Control of Pancreatic Islet Hormone Secretion by Ion Channels
Feb 17	Yiming (Amy) Qin	Metabolic Control of Reversible Protein Acetylation
Feb 24	Rachel Perry Yale	Canceled
Mar 3	Michael La Frano Cal Poly Tech	Investigations of the vitamin A metabolome
Mar 10	Veronica Lopez-Teros U Sonora	Use of ‘in Silico’ Study Subjects to Assess Nutrient Kinetics, Status and Dietary Requirements: an Overview
Mar 17	Grace Yang UW-Madison	Characterization of a Novel Transcription Factor, Transcription Factor 19 (TCF19), in Diabetes Pathogenesis
Mar 24	Gretchen Seim UW-Madison	Dynamic Metabolic Rewiring in Macrophages in Response to Proinflammatory Stimulation
Mar 31	Victoria Flores UW-Madison	Protein Quality as a Determinant of Metabolic Health
April 7	Benjamin Rush UW-Madison	Maximizing the Associations between Bioimaging Modalities to Improve Muscle Health Diagnostics
April 14	Heidi Pak UW-Madison	Calories, Fasting and Time of Day Mediating the Metabolic and Molecular Response to Calorie Restriction
April 21	James Votava UW-Madison	Gene Network Analysis of Publicly Available Mouse Liver Datasets Identifies Regulators of Lipid Metabolism
April 28	Jevin Lorte UW-Madison	Using Computed Tomography to Assess Muscle Health: Steps Towards Clinical Implementation
May 5	Devika Suri UW-Madison	Determining Accuracy of Vitamin A Biomarkers to Guide Global Health Policy
May 12	Monica White UW-Madison	TBD

Fall 2021 — All seminars will be held virtually at URL: https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/92165777151 via Zoom, beginning at 11 am on Thursdays.

Date	Presenter	Subject
Sept 16th	Kevin Pixley CIMMYT	Nutrition Security in the 21th Century (and forever)
Sept 23rd	Roger Sunde UW Madison	50 Years of Selenium Biochemistry, Transcriptomics, and Metabolism
Sept 30th	Rosalind Coleman UNC-Chapel Hill	Lipid Metabolism and How Cells are Organized
Oct 7th	Jo Freudenheim SUNY Buffalo	Diet and Alcohol: Breast Cancer, and Breast Cancer Survival
Oct 14th	Colin MacDiarmid UW-Madison	There and Back Again; Multiple Roles of Yeast Peroxiredoxin Tsa1 in Low Zinc Stress Tolerance
Oct 21st	Mark Brown Cleveland Clinic	The Role of Abnormal Phospholipid Remodeling in Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease
Oct 28th	Eric Yen UW-Madison	Intestine and Systemic Metabolism: Following My Gut Feelings
Nov 4th	John Rawls Duke University	Microbial Regulation of Intestinal Physiology
Nov 11th	Nathan Welham UW-Madison	Measuring Protein Turnover in Vivo
Nov 18th	Venessa Leone UW-Madison	Understanding the Intestinal Microbiome’s Influence on Complex Metabolic Diseases
Dec 2nd	Andrea Galmozzi UW-Madison	Exploring Adipocyte Function Using Chemoproteomics Methods
Dec 9th	Jessica Hite UW-Madison	Linking Within-host and Between-host Dynamics: A Bioenergetics Approach

Spring 2021 — All seminars will be held via Zoom as linked from within the seminar subject, beginning at 11 am on Thursdays.

Date	Presenter	Subject
Jan 28th	Dr. Anne Merewood Boston University	https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/92993287685
Feb 4th	No Seminar	No Seminar
Feb 11th	No Seminar	No Seminar
Feb 18th	No Seminar	No Seminar
Feb 25th	No Seminar	No Seminar
Mar 4th	Bret Goodpaster Advent Health Research Institute	https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/95865741586
Mar 11th	No Seminar	No Seminar
Mar 18th	No Seminar	No Seminar
Mar 25th	No Seminar	No Seminar
April 1st	Dr. Brian Dewsbury University of Rhode Island	https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/98477226393
April 8th	Jesse Sheftel Nutrition and Metabolism Graduate Program	https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/96809780731
April 15th	Mitchell Lavarias Nutrition and Metabolism Graduate Program	Intestinal Fatty Acid Oxidation Dictates Systemic Nutrient Availability
April 22th	Spencer Haws Nutrition and Metabolism Graduate Program	https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/95572924024
April 29th	Dr. Vijay Singh Mayo Clinic in Arizona	https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/94896541823
May 6th	Dr. Jeff Rathmell Vanderbilt University	https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/97289764826
May 13th	Thomas Lawler Nutrition and Metabolism Graduate Program	https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/94612085055
May 20th	Samantha St. Clair Nutrition and Metabolism Graduate Program
May 27th	No Seminar	No Seminar
June 3rd	Yirong Wang Nutrition and Metabolism Graduate Program

Spring 2020 — All seminars will be held in Nutritional Sciences 290 (map) beginning at 11 am on Thursdays

Date	Presenter	Subject
Jan 23rd	Chris Emfinger, PhD	The role of Zfp148 in glucose homeostasis
Jan 30th	Kristin Malecki, PhD	Environment, diet and mental well-being, the role of inflammation and the gut micro-biome and other findings from the Survey of the Health of Wisconsin
Feb 6th	No Seminar	No Seminar
Feb 13th	Bradley Bolling, PhD	Anti-inflammatory activity of yogurt mediated by the gut
Feb 20th	Jan Peter Van Pijkeren, PhD	The interplay between diet-microbe-virus interactions in the gut ecosystem
Feb 27th	Alissa Ewer UW Madison Graduate School	Individual development plans
Mar 5th	MANTP Presents: Darren Casey, PhD	Use of dietary nitrate for improving cardiovascular health in aging and disease
Mar 12th	MANTP Presents: *HSLC Jon Campbell, PhD	Expanding the definition of the incretin axis
Mar 19th	No Seminar, Spring Break
Mar 26th	No Seminar
Apr 2nd	No Seminar
Apr 9th	No Seminar
Apr 16th	No Seminar
Apr 23rd	Michael Schaid (Exit Seminar)	Ligand Independent Regulation of the inhibitory G-protein Gαz  In Pancreatic β-Cell Compensation and Failure
Apr 30th	No Seminar
Mat 7th	Dylan Souder (Exit Seminar)	TBA
May 14th	No Seminar

Fall 2019 — All seminars will be held in Nutritional Sciences 290 (map) beginning at 11 am on Thursdays

Date	Presenter	Subject
Sept 5th	No Seminar
Sept 12th	Abigail Johnson, PhD, RD University of Minnesota	Post-Doc in the Biotechnology Institute
Sept 19th	MANTP Presents: Joseph Mancias, MD, PhD Harvard Cancer Center	Assistant Professor in Radiation Oncology
Sept 26th	Alfonso Morales, PhD UW-Madison	Hidden Treasures of the RNA World
Oct 3rd	MANTP Presents: Matthias Hentze, MD, PhD European Molecular Biology Laboratory	Director, European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) Professor of Molecular Medicine at Heidelberg University
Oct 10th	TBD	TBD
Oct 17th	MANTP Presents: Irwin Rosenberg, MD Tufts University	Human Nutrition Research Center of Aging
Oct 24th	Rana Gupta	Mechanisms Driving Healthy vs. Unhealthy Adipose Tissue Expansion in Obesity
Oct 31st	Susan Weiss, PhD National Institute of Health	US Cannabis Policy: Implications for Public Health
Nov 7th	Srinivasan Damodaran	Strategies to reduce immune-reactivity of food proteins
Nov 14th	MANTP Presents: Jane-Jane Chen, PhD	Institute for Medical Engineering and Science
Nov 21st	Rachel Taylor (Exit Seminar)	TBD
Nov 28th	Thanksgiving	No Seminar
Dec 5th	Michelle Battle, PhD	Medical College of Wisconsin
Dec 12th	Finals – No Seminar	Good luck, students!

Spring 2019 — All seminars will be held in Nutritional Sciences 290 (map) beginning at 11 am on Thursdays

Date	Presenter	Subject
Jan. 24	Barak Blum	Organogenesis and functional maturation of the islet of Langerhans
Jan. 31	Kristen Malecki	Diet, Inflammation, and Mental Well-Being: A Population Health Approach
Feb. 7	Paul Titchenell	Regulation of Hepatic Metabolism by Insulin
Feb. 14	MANTP Presents: Amy Trentham Dietz	Global study concludes No Level of Alcohol is Safe- true for breast cancer?
Feb. 21	Rachel Fenske Kimple Research Group	TBD
Feb. 28	TBD	TBD
March 7	MANTP Presents: Luis Fernandez	Metabolic Mitochondrial Dysfunction and Its Implication on Delayed Graft Function in Kidney Transplantation
March 14	Anna E. Thalacker-Mercer	TBD
March 21	No Seminar	No Seminar- Spring Break
March 28	Lyanne Chin	TBD
April 4	Adrienne Cheng	TBD
April 11	Tyler Titcomb	TBD
April 18	Michelle Cooley	TBD
April 25	David Threadgill	TBD
May 2	Moon Suhn	TBD

Fall 2018 — All seminars will be held in Nutritional Sciences 290 (map) beginning at 11 am on Thursdays

Date	Presenter	Subject
Sept. 6	MANTP Presents: Lindsay Traeger	Host genetics and the gut microbiome.
Sept. 13	MANTP and CMB Presents: Caroline Enns Oregon Health Sciences	Using gene therapy to study protein-protein interactions in iron homeostasis
Sept. 20	MANTP Presents: Corinne Engelman	Integration of Genomics and Metabolomics for Precision Health
Sept. 27	MANTP Presents: Natalie Niemi	Pptc7 is an essential phosphatase for promoting mammalian mitochondrial metabolism and biogenesis.
Oct. 4	Henry Bunn	How meat and hunting made us human: Early Pleistocene Homo in East Africa
Oct. 11	Mary Beth Hall USDA Dairy Forge Research	Eliminating Animal Agriculture in the U.S.: Exploring Potential Impacts
Oct. 18	TBD	TBD
Oct. 25	MANTP Presents: Jose Andres Reyes Perez	TBD
Nov. 1	TBD	TBD
Nov. 8	Andrea Moosreiner Medical College of Wisconsin	Bionutrition Services for Translational Research
Nov. 15	Mark Nolte Peyseur Lab	Body size evolution in 3G: Gough Island Mice, Gene regulation, Growth.
Nov. 22	No Seminar	No Seminar: Thanksgiving
Nov. 29	TBD	TBD
Dec. 6	TBD	TBD
Dec. 13	No Seminar	No Seminar: Study Day

Dec. 20

No Seminar

No Seminar: Good luck on Final Exams!

Spring 2018 — All seminars will be held in Nutritional Sciences 290 (map) beginning at 11 am on Thursdays

Date	Presenter	Subject
Jan. 25	Dr. Tom Fleming, BSc, Ph.D.	The origins of lifetime health from around the time of conception
Feb. 1	Dr. John Li, Ph.D. Post-Doc: Park’s Lab (Nutrition and Metabolism Graduate Program)	Identification of Sestrin1 As A Novel Cholesterol Sensor and Regulator Gene
Feb. 8	Dr. John Wagner, Ph.D. Metabolon	Metabolomics: Molecular and Phenotyping at the Intersection of Nutrition and Biochemistry
Feb. 15	MANTP Presents: Dr. Elizabeth Leibold, Ph.D. University of Utah	Iron Regulatory Protein 2 Regulates Insulin Production in Pancreatic β-cells
Feb. 22	MANTP Presents: Dr. Rob Miller, Ph.D. Kaleido Health	How selective Glycans affect the Microbiome to improve Health
Mar. 1	Dr. Wallace Lui Post-Doc: Denu Lab	Mechanisms of Sirtuin Activation through Nucleosome Binding
Mar. 8	Dr. Madeleine Signman-Grant, Ph.D. University of Nevada Cooperative Extension	Infant Feeding Guidance: Revised AGAIN?!
Mar. 15	Dr. Mary Sorci Thomas, Ph.D Medical College Wisconsin	Lipid Metabolism and Procollagen Endopeptidase Enhancer Protein 2: Are They Really Connected?
Mar. 22	Sabrina Dumas Ph.D. Candidate: Ntambi Lab (Nutrition and Metabolism Graduate Program)	Unraveling the Mystery of the Skin-Specific SCD1 Deficient Lean Phenotype
Mar. 29	No Seminar	Happy Spring Break!
Apr. 5	Dr. Sharon Donovan, Ph.D., RD University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	Applying Systems Biology to Host-microbe interactions in Early Life
Apr. 12	Dr. Brandon Davies, Ph.D. University of Iowa	Regulation of Plasma Lipids by ANGPTL proteins
Apr. 19	Lexi Macmillen-Uribe Ph.D. Candidate: Olson Lab (Nutrition and Metabolism Graduate Program)	First Steps for a Group-Care Pilot Intervention Targeting Health-related Behaviors of Mothers and Infant
Apr. 26	No Seminar	No Seminar: Experimental Biology
May 3	Elania Jones Ph.D. Candidate: Groblewski Lab (Nutrition and Metabolism Graduate Program)	The Role of D52 in Acinar Cell Homeostasis

Autumn 2017 — All seminars will be held in Nutritional Sciences 290 (map) beginning at 11 am on Thursdays

Date	Presenter	Subject
Sept 7	No Seminar
Sept 14	Sebastian Arriola (Dairy sciences)	mTOR Signaling: at the Crossroads of Health and Production
Sept 21	Raghavendra Rao University of Minnesota	Brain metabolism in early-life iron deficiency
Sept 28	Jing Fan
Oct 5	William Lagor Baylor	Liver-directed genome editing to study and treat lipid disorders
Oct 12	Volker Haase Vanderbilt
Oct 19	Luke Funk UW-Surgery	Obesity: An epidemic in need of public health and basic science solutions
Oct 26	Hamid Said UC Irvine	Physiological, pathophysiological, and molecular aspects of water-soluble vitamin transport in organs of the digestive system
Nov 2	Jason Mills	How cells scale up the secretory apparatus during differentiation and down in metaplasia and cancer
Nov 9	Melanie Gillingham, PhD, RD Oregon Health Sciences University	Anaplerotic therapy with Triheptanoin Improves Cardiac Function in Long-Chain Fatty Acid Oxidation Disorders
Nov 16
Nov 23	No Seminar	Happy Thanksgiving!
Nov 30	Cara Westmark UW-SMPH Dept Neurology	Effects of Soy-Based Diets on Neurological Phenotypes
Dec 7	Scott Reeder UW-Radiology	New Imaging Methods to Assess Liver Disease
Dec 14

Spring 2017 — All seminars will be held in Nutritional Sciences 290 (map) beginning at 11 am on Thursdays

Date	Presenter	Subject
Jan. 26	Dr. Tom Ganz Professor of Medicine and Pathology University of California, Los Angeles	Systemic Iron Homeostasis: Mechanisms and Disorders.
Feb. 2	Nita Salzman (MCOW)	Antimicrobial peptides: mediators of intestinal colonization, homeostasis and defense
Feb. 9	Dr. Rita Strakovsky Postdoctoral Research Associate Univeristy of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	Endocrine disruptors, maternal adiposity, and gestational estrogen status
Feb. 16	Adam Kuchnia Graduate Research and Teaching Assistant University of Minnesota	Novel methods to monitor nutrition status and determine protein needs in clinical populations
Feb. 23	NO SEMINAR – GRAD RECRUITMENT
Mar. 2	Dr. Zhiping Yu Assistant Professor Department of Nutrition and Dietetics University of North Florida	Eating disorders and obesity: contributing factors and clinical intervention?
Mar. 9	Dr. Nita Salzman MD, PhD Medical College of Wisconsin	How antimicrobial peptides can modulate the colonization of the intestine by beneficial vs. harmful (e.g multi drug resistant) bacteria and the health consequences of this.
Mar. 16	Joshua Mezrich (UW-MADISON)
Mar. 23	SPRING BREAK – NO SEMINAR
Mar. 30	Dr. Kent Reed University of Minnesota
Apr. 6	Porsha Howell Nutrition and Metabolism Graduate Program Ph.D Candidate University of Wisconsin-Madison
Apr. 13	Karl Miller Nutrition and Metabolism Graduate Program PhD Candidate University of Wisconsin-Madison
Apr. 20	Ting-Ni Huang Nutrition and Metabolism Graduate Program PhD Candidate University of Wisconsin-Madison
Apr. 27	Stephanie Mondloch Nutrition and Metabolism Graduate Program PhD Candidate University of Wisconsin-Madison
May 4	Bridget Stroup Nutrition and Metabolism Graduate Program PhD Candidate University of Wisconsin-Madison

Autumn 2016

Date	Presenter	Subject
Sept. 15	Dr. Amin Afrazi UW SMPH	Regulation of Toll-like Receptor 4 signaling in Enterocytes during Necrotizing Enterocolitis
Sept. 22	Dr. Patricia J. Keely Chair, Dept. of Cell and Regenerative Biology	Effect of the Microenvironment on Tumor Cell Metabolism
Sept. 29	Dr. Frank Lee Perelman School of Medicine (MANTP)	Prolyl Hydroxylase 2 (PHD2), a Sensor of the Nutrient Oxygen
Oct. 6	Dr. Amber Smith WISCIENCE	Creating a Solid Foundation: Aligning Mentor-Mentee Expectations
Oct. 13	Dr. Tom O’Halloran Dept. of Chemistry, Northwestern University	Zinc sparks and the control of the mammalian egg-to-embryo transition
Oct. 20	Dr. Jackie Wisinki MANTP Post-Doctoral Trainee	Novel mechanisms of pancreatic beta and platelet dysfunction in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus
Oct. 27	Dr. David Weimer Robert M. La Follette School of Public Affairs	Health Care Report Cards
Nov.3	Dr. Cindy Davis Director of Grants and Extramural Activities, NIH	Diet, Microbiome and Health
Nov. 10	Dr. Joshua Mezrich, UW SMPH	CANCELLED: You Are What You Eat; The Effects of Diet on the Gut Immune System in Health and Disease
Nov. 17	Dr. Barb Mickelson Dr. Jessica Flowers Nutritionist, Technical Services, Envigo Teklad Diets	Laboratory Animal Diets: Research Variable and Research Tool
Nov. 24	Thanksgiving NO SEMINAR	Have a wonderful holiday, everyone! May you always find more to be grateful for than bitter about!
Dec. 1	Dr. Drucy Borowitz Dept. of Pediatrics, SUNY-Buffalo	The Baby Observational Nutrition Study (BONUS) in Cystic Fibrosis
Dec. 8	Karl Miller Dept. Nutritional Sciences (Nutrition and Metabolism Graduate Program)	CANCELLED PGC-1a Directed Metabolic Networks in Aging and Caloric Restriction
Dec.15	Dr. Charles Brenner Dept. of Biochemistry, University of Iowa (MANTP)	Nicotinamide riboside: From Discovery to Human Translation

Spring 2016

Date	Presenter	Subject
Jan. 21	Dr. Timothy Reddy Duke University	Regulatory Mechanisms of Gestational Diabetes and the Discovery of a Novel Human Hexokinase
Jan 28
Feb. 4	Dr. William Karasov UW	Wildlife Digestion: A View from Molecules to Ecosystems
Feb. 11	Stefano Rivella University of Pennsylvannia Children’s Hospital of Philidelphia	Modulation of iron metabolism for the treatment of erythroid disorders
Feb. 18	Joel Mason, MD	Cellular pathways of which obesity promotes Colon Carcinogensis
Feb. 25	Charles Stephenson USDA	Vitamin A is Essential for Immune Function: Does This Mean Vitamin A Supplementation Improves Vaccine Responses
Mar. 3	Elizabeth Johnson (alum) Tufts University	Lutein and It’s Role in Cognitive Function
Mar. 10	Emily Sawin Graduate Student
Mar. 17	Josh Mezrich, MD UW Associate Professor	You Are What You Eat; The Effects of Diet on the Gut Immune System in Health and Disease
Mar. 24	Spring Break
Mar. 31
Apr. 7	Andrew Rogers, MD	Normal and abnormal intestinal development in the Fgfr2IIIb mouse model
Apr. 14	Patti Keely UW, Professor and Chair Dept of Cell and Regenerative Biology	Imaging Metabolic Signatures in Situ within the Tumor Microenvironment
Apr. 21	Karen Reue	Sex Chomosome Effects on Obesity and Lipid Metabolism
Apr. 28	Josh Neuman Graduate Student	G Protein-Coupled Receptors as Targets for Improving Beta-Cell Function in Acute and Chronic Conditions of Glucose Intolerance
May 5	Rush Dhillon Dept. Biomolecular Chemistry Epigenetics Theme – WI Institute for Discovery

Autumn 2015

Date	Presenter	Subject
Sept. 10	Dr. Melissa Kaczmarczyk, Associate Principal Nutrition Scientist, PepsiCo	The Role of Industry in the Advancement of Nutritional Sciences
Sept. 17	Dr. Christina Chambers, University of California, San Diego	Nutrition and Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders: Can We Modify Risk?
Sept. 24	Dr. Zhuoxi (Joe) Wu, Department of Nutritional Sciences	HIF1-alpha in the Heart: Provision of Ischemic Cardioprotection and Remodeling Nucleotide Metabolism
Oct. 1	Dr. Corby Martin, Louisiana State University	Effectively Applying Mobile Health Approaches to Improve Outcomes
Oct. 8	Dr. Verónica López-Teros, Universidad de Sonora	The Use of Stable Isotopes in Human Nutrition in Mexico
Oct. 15	Dr. Julie Howe, Auburn University	Peanuts, in a Nutshell
Oct. 22	Dr. Joseph Pierre, University of Chicago	Primary Bile Acid Surgical Diversion Improves Adiposity and Glycemic Control in High-Fat Diet-Induced Obese Mice
Oct. 29	Dr. Amanda Palmer, Johns Hopkins University	Agriculture for Nutrition & Health: The role of aflatoxin as an “anti-nutrient”
Nov. 5	Dr. Bill Schrage, Department of Kinesiology	Vascular Responses to Environmental Stress in Human Metabolic Syndrome
Nov. 12
Nov. 19	Dr. Lisa Cadmus-Bertram, Department of Kinesiology	Physical Activity and Health Promotion for Cancer Prevention and Survivorship
Nov. 26	Thanksgiving!	Have a wonderful Thanksgiving! May you always have more to be grateful for than bitter about!
Dec. 3	Dr. David Eide, Department of Nutritional Sciences	Homeostatic and Adaptive Responses to Zinc Deficiency
Dec. 10	Bryan Gannon, Department of Nutritional Sciences	Applications of 13C in Vitamin A Assessment and Maize Carotenoid Bioefficacy

Spring 2024 — All seminars will be held in Nutritional Sciences 290 (map) beginning at 11 am on Thursdays.

Date	Presenter	Subject
Jan 25	Rob Nix UW-Madison	Promoting Healthy Eating Habits Among Toddlers Living in Poverty: The Recipe 4 Success Preventive Intervention
Feb 1	Webb Smith UTHSC	Pediatric Obesity Treatment in the Mid-South: Bariatric Surgery, Medication, and Lifestyle Intervention
Feb 8	Lautaro Rostoll Cangiano UW-Madison	Influence of Early Life Microbiota on Dairy Calves’ Health and Disease
Feb 15	Sonia Kupfer University of Chicago	TBA
Feb 22	Angela Byars-Winston UW-Madison	Advancing Culturally Responsive Mentorship
Feb 29	Jill Reedy NIH National Cancer institute division of cancer control & population sciences	Assessment of Dietary Patterns Over the Life Course
Mar 7	Michaela Tautman UW-Madison	TBA
Mar 14	Kristina Martinez-Guryn MWU	Heat Shock Protein 70 (HSP70) Protects Against Diet-Induced Obesity: A Role for Intestinal Fat Metabolism
Mar 21	Brian Parks UW-Madison	Genetic Approaches to Identify and Validate Genes that Contribute to Metabolic Diseases
Mar 28	Spring Break	Spring Break
Apr 4	Susan Johnson University of Colorado	Caregiver Goals for the Complementary Feeding Period: Comparisons with the Dietary Guidelines for Children under 2
Apr 11	Elizabeth Parks University of Missouri	The Process of Hepatic Lipogenesis and its Role in Liver Disease
Apr 18	Dave Eide UW-Madison	ZRTs, ZRGs, ZRRs and ZAP – The Genetics of Cellular Responses to Zinc Deficiency
Apr 25	Gulustan Ozturk UW-Madison	TBA

 

Fall 2023 — All seminars will be held in Nutritional Sciences 290 (map) beginning at 11 am on Thursdays.

Date	Presenter	Subject
Sept 7	Amy Kind UW-Madison	The Neighborhood Atlas: Linking Disparities-Aligned EXPOSOME to Brain Health through Data Democratization
Sept 14	CANCELLED	CANCELLED
Sept 21	Michelle Cooley UW-Madison	Protective Mechanisms in Exocrine Pancreatic Injury
Sept 28	Molly Bray University of Texas – Austin	TBD
Oct 5	Felice Reznik UW-Madison	TBD
Oct 12	Janos Zempleni University of Nebraska	TBD
Oct 19	Laura McCulley UW-Madison	TBD
Oct 26	Jon Brestoff Washington University	Cell-to-Cell Transfer of Mitochondria in Obesity, Aging, and Mitochondrial Disease
Nov 2	Snehal Chaudhari UW-Madison	A Microbial Metabolite Remodels the Gut-Liver axis Following Bariatric Surgery
Nov 9	Mario Ferruzzi University of Arkansas	TBD
Nov 16	Emily Heying College of Saint Benedict/Saint John’s University	Creating Food Secure College Campuses: What We Know and Where We Need To Go
Nov 23	Thanksgiving
Nov 30	Naiman Khan University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign	Neuro-pigments to Neuro-cognition: Carotenoids and Cognitive Function
Dec 7	Katrina Phelps UW-Madison	Navigating community-engaged research in the health sciences

Spring 2023 — All seminars will be held in Nutritional Sciences 290 (map) beginning at 11 am on Thursdays.

 

Date	Presenter	Subject
Jan 26	Kristina Penniston UW-Madison	From Bench to Bedside and Beyond: A Journey from Nutritional Sciences to Interdisciplinary Collaborative Genitourinary Research
Feb 2	Harini Sampath Rutgers University	Intestinal Stearoyl-CoA Desaturases – Exploring New Roles for an Old Friend
Feb 9	Emily Britt UW-Madison	Rewiring of Glucose and Glycogen Metabolism in Human Neutrophils upon Activation
Feb 16	Erika Philips UW-Madison	Does aflatoxin exposure reduce linear growth in young children? Results from a cluster-randomized trial
Feb 23	Cancelled	Cancelled
Mar 2	Jason Locasale Duke University	Diet and metabolic therapeutics in health and cancer
Mar 9	Melanie Gillingham Oregon Health Sci University	LCHADD chorioretinopathy: pathophysiology and potential treatments
Mar 23	Molly Mulcahy UW-Madison	Impacts of Chrononutrition on Perinatal Health
Mar 30	Jillian Trabulsi  University of Delaware	Early diet composition: Impact on energy balance, weight status, and other health outcomes
Apr 6	Scott Soleimanpour Duke University	The impact of mitochondrial quality control in metabolic disease
Apr 13	Andrea Garber UCSF	Advances in the treatment of malnutrition secondary to restrictive eating disorders
Apr 20	Diandra Fields UW-Madison	The role of dietary intake and corresponding plasma metabolomics in determining risk of cerebrovascular disease and mixed pathologies
Apr 27	Kayla Kaeppler UW-Madison	Plant Pigments for Human Health: Role of Carotenoids and Anthocyanins in the Fight Against Chronic Disease
May 4	Katie Osterbauer UW-Madison	Preclinical and Clinical Characterization of Skeletal Muscle Aging
May 11	Rashaun Williams UW-Madison	Intraislet expression of cholecystokinin during diabetic stress conditions

Fall 2022 — All seminars will be held in Nutritional Sciences 290 (map) beginning at 11 am on Thursdays.

Date	Presenter	Subject
Sept 8	Sridevi Krishnan UC San Diego Health	The Glycome: A Novel Link Between Diet and Metabolic Disease
Sept 15	Rachel Perry Yale	A New Metabolic Driver of Renal Cell Carcinoma: Insights from MOONSHOT
Sept 22	TBA	TBA
Sept 29	Aparna Vasanthakumar AbbVie Genomics Research Center (GRC)	Harnessing Genomics for Novel Target Discovery and Patient Stratification in Alzheimer’s disease Clinical Trials
Oct 6	Somshuvra Mukkopadhyay University of Texas	SLC30A10, Manganese Homeostasis, and Neuromotor Disease
Oct 13	Erika Anna UW-Madison	Integrating Nutrition Services into Migrant and Seasonal Agricultural Worker Mobile Health Care
Oct 20	Feyza Engin UW-Madison	Beta Cell Stress Responses in Type1 Diabetes
Oct 27	Sean Ronnekleiv-Kelly UW-Madison	Circadian Rhythms Impact Pancreatic Cancer Progression
Nov 3	Adam Konopka UW-Madison	TBA
Nov 10	Claire Richardson UW-Madison	Investigating how Animal Aging Regulates Neuron Endolysosomal Homeostasis in C. Elegans
Nov 17	Kerry Kornfeld Washington University	A Tale of Two Lysosomes — How to Store Zinc and Digest the Trash
Dec 1	Grace Guo Rutgers University	Bile Acids, FXR, and FGF15/19 in Gut-Liver Cross Talk
Dec 8	Liza Makowski The University of Tennessee	Obesity, Bariatric Surgery, and Immunotherapy in Brease Cancer

Spring 2022 — All seminars will be held in Nutritional Sciences 290 (map) beginning at 11 am on Thursdays.

Date	Presenter	Subject
Jan 27	Mark Brown Cleveland Clinic	The Role of Abnormal Phospholipid Remodeling in Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease
Feb 3	D. Lee Alekel Retired NIH Program Officer	Optional Career Paths for a PhD in a Nutrition-Related Field
Feb 10	David Jacobson Vanderbilt	Control of Pancreatic Islet Hormone Secretion by Ion Channels
Feb 17	Yiming (Amy) Qin	Metabolic Control of Reversible Protein Acetylation
Feb 24	Rachel Perry Yale	Canceled
Mar 3	Michael La Frano Cal Poly Tech	Investigations of the vitamin A metabolome
Mar 10	Veronica Lopez-Teros U Sonora	Use of ‘in Silico’ Study Subjects to Assess Nutrient Kinetics, Status and Dietary Requirements: an Overview
Mar 17	Grace Yang UW-Madison	Characterization of a Novel Transcription Factor, Transcription Factor 19 (TCF19), in Diabetes Pathogenesis
Mar 24	Gretchen Seim UW-Madison	Dynamic Metabolic Rewiring in Macrophages in Response to Proinflammatory Stimulation
Mar 31	Victoria Flores UW-Madison	Protein Quality as a Determinant of Metabolic Health
April 7	Benjamin Rush UW-Madison	Maximizing the Associations between Bioimaging Modalities to Improve Muscle Health Diagnostics
April 14	Heidi Pak UW-Madison	Calories, Fasting and Time of Day Mediating the Metabolic and Molecular Response to Calorie Restriction
April 21	James Votava UW-Madison	Gene Network Analysis of Publicly Available Mouse Liver Datasets Identifies Regulators of Lipid Metabolism
April 28	Jevin Lorte UW-Madison	Using Computed Tomography to Assess Muscle Health: Steps Towards Clinical Implementation
May 5	Devika Suri UW-Madison	Determining Accuracy of Vitamin A Biomarkers to Guide Global Health Policy
May 12	Monica White UW-Madison	TBD

Fall 2021 — All seminars will be held virtually at URL: https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/92165777151 via Zoom, beginning at 11 am on Thursdays.

Date	Presenter	Subject
Sept 16th	Kevin Pixley CIMMYT	Nutrition Security in the 21th Century (and forever)
Sept 23rd	Roger Sunde UW Madison	50 Years of Selenium Biochemistry, Transcriptomics, and Metabolism
Sept 30th	Rosalind Coleman UNC-Chapel Hill	Lipid Metabolism and How Cells are Organized
Oct 7th	Jo Freudenheim SUNY Buffalo	Diet and Alcohol: Breast Cancer, and Breast Cancer Survival
Oct 14th	Colin MacDiarmid UW-Madison	There and Back Again; Multiple Roles of Yeast Peroxiredoxin Tsa1 in Low Zinc Stress Tolerance
Oct 21st	Mark Brown Cleveland Clinic	The Role of Abnormal Phospholipid Remodeling in Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease
Oct 28th	Eric Yen UW-Madison	Intestine and Systemic Metabolism: Following My Gut Feelings
Nov 4th	John Rawls Duke University	Microbial Regulation of Intestinal Physiology
Nov 11th	Nathan Welham UW-Madison	Measuring Protein Turnover in Vivo
Nov 18th	Venessa Leone UW-Madison	Understanding the Intestinal Microbiome’s Influence on Complex Metabolic Diseases
Dec 2nd	Andrea Galmozzi UW-Madison	Exploring Adipocyte Function Using Chemoproteomics Methods
Dec 9th	Jessica Hite UW-Madison	Linking Within-host and Between-host Dynamics: A Bioenergetics Approach

Spring 2021 — All seminars will be held via Zoom as linked from within the seminar subject, beginning at 11 am on Thursdays.

Date	Presenter	Subject
Jan 28th	Dr. Anne Merewood Boston University	https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/92993287685
Feb 4th	No Seminar	No Seminar
Feb 11th	No Seminar	No Seminar
Feb 18th	No Seminar	No Seminar
Feb 25th	No Seminar	No Seminar
Mar 4th	Bret Goodpaster Advent Health Research Institute	https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/95865741586
Mar 11th	No Seminar	No Seminar
Mar 18th	No Seminar	No Seminar
Mar 25th	No Seminar	No Seminar
April 1st	Dr. Brian Dewsbury University of Rhode Island	https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/98477226393
April 8th	Jesse Sheftel Nutrition and Metabolism Graduate Program	https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/96809780731
April 15th	Mitchell Lavarias Nutrition and Metabolism Graduate Program	Intestinal Fatty Acid Oxidation Dictates Systemic Nutrient Availability
April 22th	Spencer Haws Nutrition and Metabolism Graduate Program	https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/95572924024
April 29th	Dr. Vijay Singh Mayo Clinic in Arizona	https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/94896541823
May 6th	Dr. Jeff Rathmell Vanderbilt University	https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/97289764826
May 13th	Thomas Lawler Nutrition and Metabolism Graduate Program	https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/94612085055
May 20th	Samantha St. Clair Nutrition and Metabolism Graduate Program
May 27th	No Seminar	No Seminar
June 3rd	Yirong Wang Nutrition and Metabolism Graduate Program

Spring 2020 — All seminars will be held in Nutritional Sciences 290 (map) beginning at 11 am on Thursdays

Date	Presenter	Subject
Jan 23rd	Chris Emfinger, PhD	The role of Zfp148 in glucose homeostasis
Jan 30th	Kristin Malecki, PhD	Environment, diet and mental well-being, the role of inflammation and the gut micro-biome and other findings from the Survey of the Health of Wisconsin
Feb 6th	No Seminar	No Seminar
Feb 13th	Bradley Bolling, PhD	Anti-inflammatory activity of yogurt mediated by the gut
Feb 20th	Jan Peter Van Pijkeren, PhD	The interplay between diet-microbe-virus interactions in the gut ecosystem
Feb 27th	Alissa Ewer UW Madison Graduate School	Individual development plans
Mar 5th	MANTP Presents: Darren Casey, PhD	Use of dietary nitrate for improving cardiovascular health in aging and disease
Mar 12th	MANTP Presents: *HSLC Jon Campbell, PhD	Expanding the definition of the incretin axis
Mar 19th	No Seminar, Spring Break
Mar 26th	No Seminar
Apr 2nd	No Seminar
Apr 9th	No Seminar
Apr 16th	No Seminar
Apr 23rd	Michael Schaid (Exit Seminar)	Ligand Independent Regulation of the inhibitory G-protein Gαz  In Pancreatic β-Cell Compensation and Failure
Apr 30th	No Seminar
Mat 7th	Dylan Souder (Exit Seminar)	TBA
May 14th	No Seminar

Fall 2019 — All seminars will be held in Nutritional Sciences 290 (map) beginning at 11 am on Thursdays

Date	Presenter	Subject
Sept 5th	No Seminar
Sept 12th	Abigail Johnson, PhD, RD University of Minnesota	Post-Doc in the Biotechnology Institute
Sept 19th	MANTP Presents: Joseph Mancias, MD, PhD Harvard Cancer Center	Assistant Professor in Radiation Oncology
Sept 26th	Alfonso Morales, PhD UW-Madison	Hidden Treasures of the RNA World
Oct 3rd	MANTP Presents: Matthias Hentze, MD, PhD European Molecular Biology Laboratory	Director, European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) Professor of Molecular Medicine at Heidelberg University
Oct 10th	TBD	TBD
Oct 17th	MANTP Presents: Irwin Rosenberg, MD Tufts University	Human Nutrition Research Center of Aging
Oct 24th	Rana Gupta	Mechanisms Driving Healthy vs. Unhealthy Adipose Tissue Expansion in Obesity
Oct 31st	Susan Weiss, PhD National Institute of Health	US Cannabis Policy: Implications for Public Health
Nov 7th	Srinivasan Damodaran	Strategies to reduce immune-reactivity of food proteins
Nov 14th	MANTP Presents: Jane-Jane Chen, PhD	Institute for Medical Engineering and Science
Nov 21st	Rachel Taylor (Exit Seminar)	TBD
Nov 28th	Thanksgiving	No Seminar
Dec 5th	Michelle Battle, PhD	Medical College of Wisconsin
Dec 12th	Finals – No Seminar	Good luck, students!

Spring 2019 — All seminars will be held in Nutritional Sciences 290 (map) beginning at 11 am on Thursdays

Date	Presenter	Subject
Jan. 24	Barak Blum	Organogenesis and functional maturation of the islet of Langerhans
Jan. 31	Kristen Malecki	Diet, Inflammation, and Mental Well-Being: A Population Health Approach
Feb. 7	Paul Titchenell	Regulation of Hepatic Metabolism by Insulin
Feb. 14	MANTP Presents: Amy Trentham Dietz	Global study concludes No Level of Alcohol is Safe- true for breast cancer?
Feb. 21	Rachel Fenske Kimple Research Group	TBD
Feb. 28	TBD	TBD
March 7	MANTP Presents: Luis Fernandez	Metabolic Mitochondrial Dysfunction and Its Implication on Delayed Graft Function in Kidney Transplantation
March 14	Anna E. Thalacker-Mercer	TBD
March 21	No Seminar	No Seminar- Spring Break
March 28	Lyanne Chin	TBD
April 4	Adrienne Cheng	TBD
April 11	Tyler Titcomb	TBD
April 18	Michelle Cooley	TBD
April 25	David Threadgill	TBD
May 2	Moon Suhn	TBD

Fall 2018 — All seminars will be held in Nutritional Sciences 290 (map) beginning at 11 am on Thursdays

Date	Presenter	Subject
Sept. 6	MANTP Presents: Lindsay Traeger	Host genetics and the gut microbiome.
Sept. 13	MANTP and CMB Presents: Caroline Enns Oregon Health Sciences	Using gene therapy to study protein-protein interactions in iron homeostasis
Sept. 20	MANTP Presents: Corinne Engelman	Integration of Genomics and Metabolomics for Precision Health
Sept. 27	MANTP Presents: Natalie Niemi	Pptc7 is an essential phosphatase for promoting mammalian mitochondrial metabolism and biogenesis.
Oct. 4	Henry Bunn	How meat and hunting made us human: Early Pleistocene Homo in East Africa
Oct. 11	Mary Beth Hall USDA Dairy Forge Research	Eliminating Animal Agriculture in the U.S.: Exploring Potential Impacts
Oct. 18	TBD	TBD
Oct. 25	MANTP Presents: Jose Andres Reyes Perez	TBD
Nov. 1	TBD	TBD
Nov. 8	Andrea Moosreiner Medical College of Wisconsin	Bionutrition Services for Translational Research
Nov. 15	Mark Nolte Peyseur Lab	Body size evolution in 3G: Gough Island Mice, Gene regulation, Growth.
Nov. 22	No Seminar	No Seminar: Thanksgiving
Nov. 29	TBD	TBD
Dec. 6	TBD	TBD
Dec. 13	No Seminar	No Seminar: Study Day

Dec. 20

No Seminar

No Seminar: Good luck on Final Exams!

Spring 2018 — All seminars will be held in Nutritional Sciences 290 (map) beginning at 11 am on Thursdays

Date	Presenter	Subject
Jan. 25	Dr. Tom Fleming, BSc, Ph.D.	The origins of lifetime health from around the time of conception
Feb. 1	Dr. John Li, Ph.D. Post-Doc: Park’s Lab (Nutrition and Metabolism Graduate Program)	Identification of Sestrin1 As A Novel Cholesterol Sensor and Regulator Gene
Feb. 8	Dr. John Wagner, Ph.D. Metabolon	Metabolomics: Molecular and Phenotyping at the Intersection of Nutrition and Biochemistry
Feb. 15	MANTP Presents: Dr. Elizabeth Leibold, Ph.D. University of Utah	Iron Regulatory Protein 2 Regulates Insulin Production in Pancreatic β-cells
Feb. 22	MANTP Presents: Dr. Rob Miller, Ph.D. Kaleido Health	How selective Glycans affect the Microbiome to improve Health
Mar. 1	Dr. Wallace Lui Post-Doc: Denu Lab	Mechanisms of Sirtuin Activation through Nucleosome Binding
Mar. 8	Dr. Madeleine Signman-Grant, Ph.D. University of Nevada Cooperative Extension	Infant Feeding Guidance: Revised AGAIN?!
Mar. 15	Dr. Mary Sorci Thomas, Ph.D Medical College Wisconsin	Lipid Metabolism and Procollagen Endopeptidase Enhancer Protein 2: Are They Really Connected?
Mar. 22	Sabrina Dumas Ph.D. Candidate: Ntambi Lab (Nutrition and Metabolism Graduate Program)	Unraveling the Mystery of the Skin-Specific SCD1 Deficient Lean Phenotype
Mar. 29	No Seminar	Happy Spring Break!
Apr. 5	Dr. Sharon Donovan, Ph.D., RD University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	Applying Systems Biology to Host-microbe interactions in Early Life
Apr. 12	Dr. Brandon Davies, Ph.D. University of Iowa	Regulation of Plasma Lipids by ANGPTL proteins
Apr. 19	Lexi Macmillen-Uribe Ph.D. Candidate: Olson Lab (Nutrition and Metabolism Graduate Program)	First Steps for a Group-Care Pilot Intervention Targeting Health-related Behaviors of Mothers and Infant
Apr. 26	No Seminar	No Seminar: Experimental Biology
May 3	Elania Jones Ph.D. Candidate: Groblewski Lab (Nutrition and Metabolism Graduate Program)	The Role of D52 in Acinar Cell Homeostasis

Autumn 2017 — All seminars will be held in Nutritional Sciences 290 (map) beginning at 11 am on Thursdays

Date	Presenter	Subject
Sept 7	No Seminar
Sept 14	Sebastian Arriola (Dairy sciences)	mTOR Signaling: at the Crossroads of Health and Production
Sept 21	Raghavendra Rao University of Minnesota	Brain metabolism in early-life iron deficiency
Sept 28	Jing Fan
Oct 5	William Lagor Baylor	Liver-directed genome editing to study and treat lipid disorders
Oct 12	Volker Haase Vanderbilt
Oct 19	Luke Funk UW-Surgery	Obesity: An epidemic in need of public health and basic science solutions
Oct 26	Hamid Said UC Irvine	Physiological, pathophysiological, and molecular aspects of water-soluble vitamin transport in organs of the digestive system
Nov 2	Jason Mills	How cells scale up the secretory apparatus during differentiation and down in metaplasia and cancer
Nov 9	Melanie Gillingham, PhD, RD Oregon Health Sciences University	Anaplerotic therapy with Triheptanoin Improves Cardiac Function in Long-Chain Fatty Acid Oxidation Disorders
Nov 16
Nov 23	No Seminar	Happy Thanksgiving!
Nov 30	Cara Westmark UW-SMPH Dept Neurology	Effects of Soy-Based Diets on Neurological Phenotypes
Dec 7	Scott Reeder UW-Radiology	New Imaging Methods to Assess Liver Disease
Dec 14

Spring 2017 — All seminars will be held in Nutritional Sciences 290 (map) beginning at 11 am on Thursdays

Date	Presenter	Subject
Jan. 26	Dr. Tom Ganz Professor of Medicine and Pathology University of California, Los Angeles	Systemic Iron Homeostasis: Mechanisms and Disorders.
Feb. 2	Nita Salzman (MCOW)	Antimicrobial peptides: mediators of intestinal colonization, homeostasis and defense
Feb. 9	Dr. Rita Strakovsky Postdoctoral Research Associate Univeristy of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	Endocrine disruptors, maternal adiposity, and gestational estrogen status
Feb. 16	Adam Kuchnia Graduate Research and Teaching Assistant University of Minnesota	Novel methods to monitor nutrition status and determine protein needs in clinical populations
Feb. 23	NO SEMINAR – GRAD RECRUITMENT
Mar. 2	Dr. Zhiping Yu Assistant Professor Department of Nutrition and Dietetics University of North Florida	Eating disorders and obesity: contributing factors and clinical intervention?
Mar. 9	Dr. Nita Salzman MD, PhD Medical College of Wisconsin	How antimicrobial peptides can modulate the colonization of the intestine by beneficial vs. harmful (e.g multi drug resistant) bacteria and the health consequences of this.
Mar. 16	Joshua Mezrich (UW-MADISON)
Mar. 23	SPRING BREAK – NO SEMINAR
Mar. 30	Dr. Kent Reed University of Minnesota
Apr. 6	Porsha Howell Nutrition and Metabolism Graduate Program Ph.D Candidate University of Wisconsin-Madison
Apr. 13	Karl Miller Nutrition and Metabolism Graduate Program PhD Candidate University of Wisconsin-Madison
Apr. 20	Ting-Ni Huang Nutrition and Metabolism Graduate Program PhD Candidate University of Wisconsin-Madison
Apr. 27	Stephanie Mondloch Nutrition and Metabolism Graduate Program PhD Candidate University of Wisconsin-Madison
May 4	Bridget Stroup Nutrition and Metabolism Graduate Program PhD Candidate University of Wisconsin-Madison

Autumn 2016

Date	Presenter	Subject
Sept. 15	Dr. Amin Afrazi UW SMPH	Regulation of Toll-like Receptor 4 signaling in Enterocytes during Necrotizing Enterocolitis
Sept. 22	Dr. Patricia J. Keely Chair, Dept. of Cell and Regenerative Biology	Effect of the Microenvironment on Tumor Cell Metabolism
Sept. 29	Dr. Frank Lee Perelman School of Medicine (MANTP)	Prolyl Hydroxylase 2 (PHD2), a Sensor of the Nutrient Oxygen
Oct. 6	Dr. Amber Smith WISCIENCE	Creating a Solid Foundation: Aligning Mentor-Mentee Expectations
Oct. 13	Dr. Tom O’Halloran Dept. of Chemistry, Northwestern University	Zinc sparks and the control of the mammalian egg-to-embryo transition
Oct. 20	Dr. Jackie Wisinki MANTP Post-Doctoral Trainee	Novel mechanisms of pancreatic beta and platelet dysfunction in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus
Oct. 27	Dr. David Weimer Robert M. La Follette School of Public Affairs	Health Care Report Cards
Nov.3	Dr. Cindy Davis Director of Grants and Extramural Activities, NIH	Diet, Microbiome and Health
Nov. 10	Dr. Joshua Mezrich, UW SMPH	CANCELLED: You Are What You Eat; The Effects of Diet on the Gut Immune System in Health and Disease
Nov. 17	Dr. Barb Mickelson Dr. Jessica Flowers Nutritionist, Technical Services, Envigo Teklad Diets	Laboratory Animal Diets: Research Variable and Research Tool
Nov. 24	Thanksgiving NO SEMINAR	Have a wonderful holiday, everyone! May you always find more to be grateful for than bitter about!
Dec. 1	Dr. Drucy Borowitz Dept. of Pediatrics, SUNY-Buffalo	The Baby Observational Nutrition Study (BONUS) in Cystic Fibrosis
Dec. 8	Karl Miller Dept. Nutritional Sciences (Nutrition and Metabolism Graduate Program)	CANCELLED PGC-1a Directed Metabolic Networks in Aging and Caloric Restriction
Dec.15	Dr. Charles Brenner Dept. of Biochemistry, University of Iowa (MANTP)	Nicotinamide riboside: From Discovery to Human Translation

 

Spring 2016

Date	Presenter	Subject
Jan. 21	Dr. Timothy Reddy Duke University	Regulatory Mechanisms of Gestational Diabetes and the Discovery of a Novel Human Hexokinase
Jan 28
Feb. 4	Dr. William Karasov UW	Wildlife Digestion: A View from Molecules to Ecosystems
Feb. 11	Stefano Rivella University of Pennsylvannia Children’s Hospital of Philidelphia	Modulation of iron metabolism for the treatment of erythroid disorders
Feb. 18	Joel Mason, MD	Cellular pathways of which obesity promotes Colon Carcinogensis
Feb. 25	Charles Stephenson USDA	Vitamin A is Essential for Immune Function: Does This Mean Vitamin A Supplementation Improves Vaccine Responses
Mar. 3	Elizabeth Johnson (alum) Tufts University	Lutein and It’s Role in Cognitive Function
Mar. 10	Emily Sawin Graduate Student
Mar. 17	Josh Mezrich, MD UW Associate Professor	You Are What You Eat; The Effects of Diet on the Gut Immune System in Health and Disease
Mar. 24	Spring Break
Mar. 31
Apr. 7	Andrew Rogers, MD	Normal and abnormal intestinal development in the Fgfr2IIIb mouse model
Apr. 14	Patti Keely UW, Professor and Chair Dept of Cell and Regenerative Biology	Imaging Metabolic Signatures in Situ within the Tumor Microenvironment
Apr. 21	Karen Reue	Sex Chomosome Effects on Obesity and Lipid Metabolism
Apr. 28	Josh Neuman Graduate Student	G Protein-Coupled Receptors as Targets for Improving Beta-Cell Function in Acute and Chronic Conditions of Glucose Intolerance
May 5	Rush Dhillon Dept. Biomolecular Chemistry Epigenetics Theme – WI Institute for Discovery

 

Autumn 2015

Date	Presenter	Subject
Sept. 10	Dr. Melissa Kaczmarczyk, Associate Principal Nutrition Scientist, PepsiCo	The Role of Industry in the Advancement of Nutritional Sciences
Sept. 17	Dr. Christina Chambers, University of California, San Diego	Nutrition and Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders: Can We Modify Risk?
Sept. 24	Dr. Zhuoxi (Joe) Wu, Department of Nutritional Sciences	HIF1-alpha in the Heart: Provision of Ischemic Cardioprotection and Remodeling Nucleotide Metabolism
Oct. 1	Dr. Corby Martin, Louisiana State University	Effectively Applying Mobile Health Approaches to Improve Outcomes
Oct. 8	Dr. Verónica López-Teros, Universidad de Sonora	The Use of Stable Isotopes in Human Nutrition in Mexico
Oct. 15	Dr. Julie Howe, Auburn University	Peanuts, in a Nutshell
Oct. 22	Dr. Joseph Pierre, University of Chicago	Primary Bile Acid Surgical Diversion Improves Adiposity and Glycemic Control in High-Fat Diet-Induced Obese Mice
Oct. 29	Dr. Amanda Palmer, Johns Hopkins University	Agriculture for Nutrition & Health: The role of aflatoxin as an “anti-nutrient”
Nov. 5	Dr. Bill Schrage, Department of Kinesiology	Vascular Responses to Environmental Stress in Human Metabolic Syndrome
Nov. 12
Nov. 19	Dr. Lisa Cadmus-Bertram, Department of Kinesiology	Physical Activity and Health Promotion for Cancer Prevention and Survivorship
Nov. 26	Thanksgiving!	Have a wonderful Thanksgiving! May you always have more to be grateful for than bitter about!
Dec. 3	Dr. David Eide, Department of Nutritional Sciences	Homeostatic and Adaptive Responses to Zinc Deficiency
Dec. 10	Bryan Gannon, Department of Nutritional Sciences	Applications of 13C in Vitamin A Assessment and Maize Carotenoid Bioefficacy

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