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| Date | Time | Speaker | Title | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| November 20, 2025 | 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM | Shingo Kajimura, PhD Professor Harvard Medical School | Leveraging Brown Fat Mitochondria to Understand Fuel Switching | ALTC 2.214 |
| NO SEMINAR IN DECEMBER | ||||
| January 22, 2026 | 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM | Wei Ying, PhD UC San Diego | ALTC 2.214 | |
| February 3, 2026 | 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM | Helen Hobbs, MD UTSW | Rennels Prize lecture hosted by CSA (primary) and CMM | MED 209L |
| March 26, 2026 | 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM | Kevin Davy, PhD Virginia Tech | ALTC 2.214 | |
| April 23, 2026 | 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM | Irfan Lodhi, PhD Washington University | ALTC 2.214 | |
| May 28, 2026 | 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM | Ricardo J. Samms, PhD Eli Lilly | ALTC 2.214 | |
| June 25, 2026 | 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM | Daniel Vatner, MD, PhD Yale | ALTC 2.214 | |
| July 25, 2026 | 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM | Kirk Habegger, PhD University of Alabama at Birmingham | ||
| August 27, 2026 | 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM | Thomas Vallim, PhD University of California Los Angeles | ||
| September 24, 2026 | 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM | John Kirwan, PhD Pennington Biomedical Research Center | ||
| October 22, 2026 | 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM | |||
| November 19, 2026 | 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM | Eric B. Taylor, PhD University of Iowa | ||
| December 17, 2026 | 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM | |||
| PAST SEMINAR TOPICS AND SPEAKERS | ||||
| October 30, 2025 | 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM | Jared Rutter, PhD Professor University of Utah | Metabolism, cellular decisions and the language that unites them | ALTC 2.214 |
| October 23, 2025 | 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM | Hao Zhu, MD Director and Professor UT Southwestern | Somatic mosaicism as a discovery engine for liver biology | ALTC 2.214 |
| NO SEMINAR IN SEPTEMBER | ALTC 2.214 | |||
| NO SEMINAR IN AUGUST | ||||
| July 24, 2025 | 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM | Cholsoon Jang, PhD Assistant Professor University of Calfornia, Irvine | Mechanisms of metabolic homeostasis maintained by inter-organ crosstalk | ALTC 2.214 |
| May 22, 2025 | 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM | James Carson, PhD Professor Texas A&M University | Skeletal muscle responsiveness to the systemic environment in cancer and treatment | ALTC 3.302 |
| April 22, 2025 | 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM | Reuben Shaw, PhD Director and Professor Salk Institute | The AMPK pathway: master regulator of metabolism and mitochondria | ALTC 3.302 |
| March 27, 2025 | 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM | Brian Finck, PhD Professor Washington University | Targeting Mitochondrial metabolism to treat obesity-related diseases | ALTC 2.214 Lunch will be provided |
| February 27, 2025 | 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM | Eric Brey, PhD Professor Klesse College of Engineering and Integrated Design The University of Texas at San Antonio | Engineering functional adipose tissue | ALTC 2.214 Lunch will be provided |
| January 23, 2025 | 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM | Benjamin Miller, PhD Professor and Chair Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation | Assessing proteostatic mechanisms with tracer-based proteomics | ALTC 2.214 Lunch will be provided |
| December 5, 2024 | 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM | John Thyfault, PhD Professor and Director University of Kansas Medical Center | Hepatic metabolism: the center of metabolic protection associated with exercise and fitness | MED 409L |
| November 14, 2024 | 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM | Karyn Esser, PhD Professor and Chair University of Florida | The muscle circadian clock and its role in muscle and systemic health | ALTC 2.214 Lunch will be provided |
| October 24, 2024 | 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM | Shawn C. Burgess, PhD Professor, Center for Human Nutrition UT Southwestern | A brief history of metabolic flux and applications to liver metabolism | ATLC 2.214 Lunch will be provided |
| August 22, 2025 | 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM | Paul Titchenell, PhD Associate Professor and Director University of Pennsylvania | Therapeutic opportunities to preserve muscle mass and function during weight loss | MED 2.209L |
| July 29, 2024 | 12:00PM - 1:00PM | Katsuhiko Funai, PhD Associate Professor of Molecular Medicine University of Utah | Mitochondrial membrane lipids and energy through OXPHOS | ATLC 2.214 Lunch will be provided |
| May 23, 2024 | 12:00PM - 1:00PM | Tracy G. Anthony, PhD Professor of Nutritional Sciences Rutgers University | Surviving and Adapting to Stress: GCN2 and the Integrated Stress Response | ATLC 2.214 Lunch will be provided |
| April 18, 2024 | 12:00PM - 1:00PM | Ralph DeFronzo, MD Professor of Medicine Chief, Diabetes Division Deputy Director, Texas Diabetes Institute | Insulin Resistance in T2DM: Whole Body, Organ, Cellular, and Molecular Pathogenesis | ATLC 2.214 Lunch will be provided |
| March 28, 2024 | 4:00PM - 5:00PM | Stephen C.J. Parker, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics University of Michigan | From Diabetes Genetic Variant to Single Cell (state): What's the Context? | Long Campus MED 3.309L |
| February 15, 2024 | 4:00PM - 5:00PM | Amalia Gastaldelli Institute of Clinical Physiology, CNR | Cardiometabolic Risk Factors, Insulin Resistance, and Steatotic Liver Disease | Barshop Institute Second Floor Conference Room 2005 |
| January 25, 2024 | 4:00PM - 5:00PM | Geoffrey D. Clarke, PhD Chief, MRI Division at the Research Imaging Institute Professor, Department of Radiology | In-vivo multi-nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy in skeletal muscle: applications to metabolic and aging research | ALTC 3.301 Virtual Option Available |