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A monthly seminar series with speakers, both internal and external, established to highlight interactions between nutrition science, clinical nutrition, and population science via various technology platforms.
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Current Seminar Series
2023 - 2024 Seminar Series Speakers
September 7, 2023
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Danielle Renee Reed, PhD - Monell Chemical Senses Center - "The hyper-personalized sense of taste and smell"
October 5, 2023
- Tanja V.E. Krall, PhD - University of Pennsylvania - "Impact of Food Properties and Family-Related Factors on Human Ingestive Behavior"
November 2, 2023
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Erikka Loftfield, PhD, MPH - National Cancer Institute - "Diet, Cancer, and Mortality: Harnessing Omics to Advance Etiologic Research"
December 7, 2023
- Hassan S. Dashti, PhD, RD - Harvard Medical School - "Nutrition support, circadian rhythms, and sleep"
January 4, 2024
- Med Bruening, PhD, MPH, RD - Penn State University - "Population-based efforts to examine and intervene on food and nutrition security"
February 8, 2024
- Leanne Redman, PhD - Pennington Biomedical Research Center - "Maternal physiology as a gateway for precision prevention of childhood obesity"
March 7, 2024
- Erica Jansen, PhD - University of Michigan - "Disentangling relationships of sleep, diet, and cardiometabolic health in adolescents"
April4, 2023
- Beth Widen, PhD, RD - The University of Texas at Austin - "Leveraging advanced analytic methods and nutritional phenotyping to improve nutritional status and health during the first 1,000 days and thereafter"
May 2, 2024
- Liming Liang, PhD - Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health - "Dietary Patterns, Metabolome Profile and Risk of Type 2 Diabetes"
Past Seminar Series
September 1, 2022
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Enrique Schisterman, PhD - University of Pennsylvania - "Folic Acid and Zinc Supplementation Trial and Reproductive Health"
October 6, 2022
- Diana Thomas, PhD - United States Military Academy - "What does my Calculus class tell me about the human response to diet?"
November 3, 2022
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Sunni Mumford, PhD - University of Pennsylvania - "Vitamin D and Reproductive Health: Insights and Potential Mechanisms"
December 1, 2022
- Noel Mueller, PhD - Johns Hopkins University - "Human Microbiota and Cardiometabolic Disease: In Pursuit of Causality"
January 5, 2023
- Blandine Laferrere, M.D. - Columbia University - "Gut peptides as mediators of weight loss and improved metabolism after gastric bypass"
February 2, 2023
- Ginanne Stallings, M.D. - Children's Hospital of Philadelphia - "Chronic Disease Risk Reduction Intake (CDRR) Values: Recent Sodium and Potassium DRI"
March 2, 2023
April 6, 2023
May 4, 2023
September 9, 2021
- Walter R. Witschey, PhD - “Artificial Intelligence in Abdominal Imaging and its Relevance to Clinical Nutrition and Research”
October 7, 2021
- Colleen Rauchut Tewksbury, PhD, MPH, RD, CSOWM, LDN - “Leveraging PennChart and Data Systems in Outpatient Nutrition Care”
November 4, 2021
- Charlene Compher, RD, PhD - “Anchoring Diet Data in Metabolic Syndrome”
December 2, 2021
- Daniel J Rader, MD - “Opportunities for Nutrition Research Using Resources in the Penn Medicine BioBank”
January 6, 2022
- Ariana Chao, PHD, RN, CRNP - “Eating Phenotypes: Implications for Obesity Treatment”
February 3, 2022
- Kelly C. Allison, Ph.D. - "Impact of Timing of Eating on Weight, Metabolism, and Bariatric Surgery"
April 7, 2022
- Hyun (Michel) Koo, DDS, MS, PhD & Patricia Corby, DDS, MS - “Diet, Nutrition, and Oral Health”
May 5, 2022
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Abigail Johnson, PhD - "Linking dietary patterns with the microbiome"