In our weekly seminars, nutrition experts share their insight with students, faculty, staff, and alumni. These seminars supplement traditional coursework and provide a medium for introducing attendees to the latest data and practices in fundamental research, clinical and community nutrition. The seminars take place on Wednesdays from 11:30am - 12:20pm in the locations indicated below. Our seminars are open to students and faculty from outside of Nutritional Sciences, so please feel free to join us each week.
Date | Speaker | Topic | Location | Host |
August 16, 2023 | Dr. Sina Gallo, Dr. Joe Kindler, Dr. Hea Jin Park | Faculty Research Showcase | Dawson 310 | Dr. Emily Noble |
August 23, 2023 | Dr. Dee Warmath - UGA Department of Financial Planning, Housing, and Consumer Economics | "Consumer Decision Making" | Dawson 312 | Dr. Emily Noble |
August 30, 2023 | Dr. Katherine Ehrlich - UGA Department of Psychology Behavioral and Brain Sciences Program | "How Does the Social World Shape Health Across the Lifespan?" | Dawson 312 | Dr. Emily Noble |
September 6, 2023 | Dr. Ruth Harris - Center for Neuroinflammation and Cardiometabolic Disease, Georgia State University | "The Integrated Central Control of Food Intake by Leptin" | Dawson 312 | Dr. Emily Noble |
September 13, 2023 | Dr. Ariel Salas - Department of Pediatrics, Division of Neonatology, Heersink School of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham | "Body Composition of Preterm Infants: Focusing on Quality of Growth" | Dawson 312 | Dr. Sina Gallo |
September 20, 2023 | Dr. Sheba Mohankumar - UGA Department of Biomedical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine | "Impact of Prenatal Stress on Offspring Obesity: Lessons Learned from the DIO/DR Rat Model" | Dawson 312 | Dr. Emily Noble |
September 27, 2023 | Dr. Emily Noble - UGA Department of Nutritional Sciences | "Melanin concentrating hormone and food intake control" | Dawson 312 | Dr. Emily Noble |
October 4, 2023 | Dr. Esther van der Knaap - UGA Department of Horticulture, College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences | "Decoding the volatile aroma of tomato fruits" | Dawson 312 | Dr. Emily Noble |
October 11, 2023 | Katherine Ingerson - PhD Candidate, UGA Department of Nutritional Sciences | Dissertation - "Factors that Shape Student Perception and Food Choice in College Dining Halls" | Dawson 312 | Dr. Ginnefer Cox |
October 18, 2023 | Chisom Okoli - PhD Candidate, UGA Department of Nutritional Sciences | Dissertation - "Development of an eLearning Program to Improve Healthy Beverage Consumption Among Black Families" | Dawson 312 | Dr. Caree Cotwright |
October 25, 2023 | Dr. Nikolay Filipov - UGA Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, College of Veterinary Medicine | TBD | Dawson 312 | Dr. Emily Noble |
November 1, 2023 |
Second Annual Lynn Bailey Lectureship Special Guest |
"Nutrition Information/Misinformation; Untangling the Mess" | Georgia Center Masters Hall | Dr. Connie Rogers |
November 8, 2023 | Dr. Karl Lechtreck - UGA Department of Cellular Biology, Franklin College of Arts and Sciences | TBD | Dawson 312 | Dr. Emily Noble |
November 15, 2023 | Dr. Muzi Na - Department of Nutritional Sciences, College of Health and Human Development, Penn State University | TBD | Dawson 312 | Dr. Connie Rogers |
November 22, 2023 | No seminar - Thanksgiving Break | |||
November 29, 2023 | Student poster presentations |