The Columbia University Seminar on Appetitive Behavior



Scheduled Speakers for the Academic Year 2007-2008
Meetings start at 4:30 PM sharp on Thursday afternoons.
Meetings Sept through March will be held at Columbia Faculty House, 117th St. and Morningside Ave,
reached from 116th Street between Morningside and Amsterdam Aves. Meetings April through June will be held in the Minturn Auditorium at St. Luke's/Roosevelt Hospital
114th St. and Amsterdam Ave.

(August 23, 2007 Revised December 4, 2007)

September 6, 2007Dr. Michel Cabanac, Université Laval, Quebec, "Pleasure of taste and phylogeny"
October 11, 2007Michael Lewis. Princeton University,"Alcohol Dependence: Feeding, Nutrition and Reinforcement Mechanisms"
November 9, 2007Aron Weller, Bar Ilan University, Israel, "Sex differences in coping with energetic challenges during development in the OLETF rat"
December 13, 2007Margriet Westerterp-Plantenga, Maastricht University, Netherlands, "Short- and long-term effects of different proteins on food intake"
January 24, 2008Marci Pelchat, Monell Chemical Senses Center, "Food Craving"
February 7, 2008Karen Acroff, Brooklyn College, "Learned flavor preferences: the variable potency of post-oral nutrient reinforcers"
March 6, 2008Diane Klein, Columbia University "Translational Research on Eating Disorders"
April 3, 2008*Eva Kovacs, Unilever, "Satiety profiles of foods: Assessment of satiety responses"
May 1, 2008*Michael Tordoff, Monell Chemical Senses Center, "Calcium Appetite"
June 5, 2008*Brian Wansink, Cornell University, "Consumption Norms that Drive Mindless Eating"


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
or 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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