The Columbia University Seminar on Appetitive Behavior
Scheduled Speakers for the Academic Year 2005-2006
All meetings start at 4:30 PM sharp on Thursday afternoons.
Except for June 1** all meetings will be held at Columbia Faculty House, 117th St. and Morningside Ave,
reached from 116th Street between Morningside and Amsterdam Aves.
(**June 1 seminar will be held at St. Luke's Hospital)
(September 21, 2005)
| September 8, 2005 | Sarah Leibowitz, Rockefeller University
"Obesity, eating disorders and alcohol intake: What goes wrong in the brain?"
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| October 6, 2005 | Randall Sakai, PhD, University of Cincinnati Medical Center, Dept of Psychiatry.
"Effects of Social Stress on Energy Homeostasis and Body Composition".
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| November 3, 2005 | Bork Balkan, PhD, Director of Biology, The Institute for Diabetes Discovery, Inc.
"The Role of PTP1b in Metabolism and Body Weight Regulation".
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| December 1, 2005 | Stephen Benoit, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cincinnati
"Learning to be obese: Plasticity and the disregulation of eating behaviors".
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| January 19, 2006 | Daniel Tome, Professor of Human Nutrition, Institute Nutrional Agronomique Paris-
Grignon, Paris, France.
"Protein, satiety power, and body weight"
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| February 16, 2006 | David G. Thompson, Hope Hospital Salford (Manchester, UK)
"Nutrients, CCK and human GI physiology"
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| March 9, 2006 | Jennifer Nasser, St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center, NYORC
"The meal as a clinical assessment tool for eating disturbances in humans"
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| April 6, 2006 | Child Obesity Symposium: "Genetic and environmental contributions to child
eating and body Composition."
Speakers include:
Streamson Chua, Columbia University and Cornell Medical Center
"Genetic models of human obesity in mice and humans"
Myles Faith, University of Pennsylvania
"Behavioral genetic contributions to child feeding and body composition"
Julie Mennella, Monell Chemical Senses
"Flavor imprinting and the role of breastfeeding in the development of food
preferences and habits"
David Levitsky, Cornell University
"Teaching dietary restraint and weight monitoring to children: is it good or bad?"
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| May 11, 2006 | Paul Currie, PhD Department of Psychology, Barnard College, Columbia University
"Ghrelin: More than an eating peptide? It's role in the induction of anxiogenic
behavior."
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| June 1, 2006 | TBA
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For further information contact:
Dr. Harry R. Kissileff, Seminar Chairman
St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital
1111 Amsterdam Ave.
New York, NY 10025
212-523-4200
apsem@columbia.edu |
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Dr. Kathleen Keller, Seminar Rapporteur
KK2092@columbia.edu
212-523-2603 (phone)
212-523-3571 (fax) |
Sponsored in part by GlaxoSmithKline and the New York Obesity Research Center, St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center (www.nyorc.org).
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