The Columbia University Seminar on Appetitive Behavior

Scheduled Speakers for the Academic Year 2009-2010

Meetings start at 4:30 PM sharp on Thursday afternoons.

Meetings Sept through May will be held at Columbia Faculty House, 117th St. and Morningside Ave, reached from 116th Street between Morningside and Amsterdam Aves. The June meeting site will be announced in May

September 17, 2009Nicole Avena, Rockefeller University
"Addictive-like properties of sugar and fat bingeing in rodent"
October 1, 2009Andras Hajnal, Pennsylvania State University
"Gustatory Reward in Rat Models of Obesity and Gastric Bypass Surgery."
November 5, 2009Joseph R. Vasselli, New York Obesity Research Center, St Luke's/Roosevelt Hospital
"Role of Insulin in the Regulation of Body Weight"
December 3, 2009Deborah Clegg, Touchstone Diabetes Center UT Southwestern Medical Center
"Fatty Acid-Induced CNS Leptin and Insulin Resistance: A Role for PKC's"
January 21, 2010Wolfgang Langhans, Swiss federal institute of technology,Zurich
"Peripheral GLP-1 and Satiation"
February 4, 2010Magriet Westerterp, Maastricht University Medical Centre
"Representation in the brain of stress induced food choice in the absence of hunger."
March 4, 2010Matthew Hayes, Psychology and Neuroscience University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia
"Neuroendocrinology of energy balance control: role of hindbrain glucagon-like-peptide-1 and leptin receptor signaling"
April 1, 2010Vanessa Routh, UMDNJ - New Jersey Medical School
"Central glucose sensing"
May 6, 2010Khalid Touzani, Tony Sclafani , Brooklyn College of CUNY & Rich Bodnar Queens College of CUNY
"Neuropharmacology of Learned Food Preferences"
June 3, 2010Jennifer Orlet Fisher, Center for Obesity Research and Education Temple University Philadelphia
"Environmental influences on intake regulation in children"


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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