Scientific Symposia Series
Upcoming Conference:
"Brain-Body Communication and Metabolic Disease" 
12/8/25 – 12/9/25
Co-Chairs:
Heike Muenzberg-Gruening, PhD
Pennington Biomedical Research Center
Brad Lowell, MD, PhD
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center & Harvard Medical School
Past Conferences:
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"Disseminating and Implementing the Science of Child Obesity Treatment and Prevention" Co-chairs: Peter Katzmarzyk, PhD Paul Estabrooks, PhD |
"Optimization of Health, Performance & Resilience: Courtside, Warside & Spaceside" 12/2/2024 – 12/3/2024 Co-chairs: Tiffany Stewart, PhD Guillaume Spielmann, PhD |
Precision Prevention, Diagnostics and Treatment of Obesity: Pipedream or Reality? 4/15/2024 – 4/16/2024 Co-chairs: Corby Martin, PhD Caroline Apovian, MD |
| Biological and Behavioral Mechanisms of Weight Loss Maintenance 4/24/2022 – 4/26/2022 Co-chairs: Eric Ravussin, PhD Kevin Hall, PhD |
 The Role of Obesity in Cancer Prevention and Control: State-of-the-Science, Innovation,
and Future Directions 12/2/2019 – 12/4/2019 Co-chairs: Justin Brown, PhD Augusto Ochoa, MD |
 What Should I Eat and Why?: The Environmental, Genetic, and Behavioral Determinants
of Food Choice 12/2/2018 – 12/4/2018 Co-chairs: Hans Rudolf Berthoud, PhD Eric Ravussin, PhD |
 Functional MRI in Clinical Trials: State of the Science and Future Directions 12/6/2015 - 12/8/2015 Co-chairs: Owen Carmichael, Ph.D. David Scott, Ph.D. |
 Nutritional Programming and Obesity: State-of-the-Science, Innovation and Future
Directions 12/8/2014 - 12/9/2014 Co-chairs: Eric Ravussin, PhD Leanne Redman, PhD Moshe Szyf, PhD |
 Optimal Clinical Management and Treatment of Childhood Obesity and Translation to
the Public Health Context 10/27/2013 - 10/29/2013 Co-chairs: Peter Katzmarzyk, PhD (Chair) Scientific Planning Committee |
 Botanicals & Translational Medicine 2/7/2013 - 2/8/2013 Co-chairs: William Cefalu, MD Associate Executive Director of Clinical Research Douglas L. Manship, Sr. Professor of Diabetes Pennington Biomedical Research Center & LSUHSC School of Medicine John Parks, PhD Professor, Pathology-Lipid Sciences Wake Forest School of Medicine Jacqueline Stephens, PhD Endowed Professor, Adipocyte Biology Pennington Biomedical Research Center |
 Adiposity in Children and Adolescents: Correlates and Clinical Consequences of Fat
Stored in Specific Body Depots 12/5/2011 - 12/6/2011 Co-chairs: Peter T. Katzmarzyk, Ph.D. Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Baton Rouge, LA Wei Shen, M.D. New York Obesity Nutrition Research Center, St. Luke's – Roosevelt Hospital Center |
 Bariatric Surgery: Do the Mechanisms Hold the Key for Novel Therapies? 12/6/2010 - 12/7/2010 Co-chairs: Hans-Rudolf Berthoud, PhD, Professor, Neurobiology & Nutrition, PBRC Eric Ravussin, PhD, Professor, Skeletal Muscle Physiology, Pennington Biomedical Research Center Philip Schauer, MD, Professor, Endocrinology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine Lee Kaplan, MD, PhD, Director, Weight Center, Massachusetts General Hospital |
 Imaging in Translational Research 3/1/2010 Co-chairs: Brian Gold, PhD, Associate Professor, Anatomy and Neurobiology, University of Kentucky Jeffrey Keller, PhD, Professor, Aging and Neurodegeneration & Associate Executive Director for Basic Research, Pennington Biomedical Research Center |
 Emerging Issues in Energy Balance, Adipocyte Biology & Developmental Origins of Chronic
Disease 11/9/2009 - 11/10/2009 Co-chairs: Claude Bouchard, PhD, Executive Director Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Professor, Human Genomics Rudolph Leibel, MD, Professor of Pediatrics, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University Masanobu Kawakami, MD, Professor and Chairman, Department of Medicine, Omiya Medical Center, Jichi Medical School |
 Circadian Biology and Sleep: Missing Links in Obesity and Metabolism? 4/26/2009 - 4/28/2009 Co-chairs: Jeffrey Gimble, MD., PhD.,Professor, Stem Cell Biology, Pennington Biomedical Research Center Molly Bray, PhD., Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Children's Nutrition Research Center, Baylor College of Medicine Andrew Young, Ph.D., U.S. Army Research Institute of Environmental Medicine |
 Adaptive Thermogenesis & Human Obesity 12/7/2008 - 12/9/2008 Co-chairs: Eric Ravussin, Ph.D., Professor, Human Physiology, Pennington Biomedical Research Center Jean-Pierre Flatt, M.D., Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts Claude Bouchard, Ph.D., Professor, Human Genetics, Pennington Biomedical Research Center |
 The 2007 John S. McIlhenney Series of the Pennington Scientific Symposium: Neuro-Immune
Signaling and Inflamation 12/2/2007 - 12/5/2007 Co-chairs: Joost J. Oppenheim, M.D., Chief, Laboratory of Molecular Immuno-Regulation, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health Janko Nikolic-Zugic, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Oregon Health & Science University Vishwa Deep Dixit, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Laboratory of Neuroendocrine-Immunology, Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Louisiana State University System |
 The 2007 John S. McIlhenny Series of the Pennington Scientific Symposium: Epigenetic
Mechanisms in Obesity: Research & Public Health Implications 5/20/2007 - 5/23/2007 Co-chairs: Kenneth Eilertsen, Ph.D., Nuclear Reprogramming and Epigenetics, Pennington Biomedical Research Center David Barker, Ph.D., M.D., Clinical Epidemiology, Oregon Health and Science University Rob Waterland, Ph.D., Departments of Pediatrics and Molecular and Human Genetics Baylor College of Medicine, Children's Nutrition Research Center |
 The 2007 John S. McIlhenny Series of the Pennington Scientific Symposium: Diabetes
Complications 1/29/2007 - 1/30/2007 Co-chairs: Irina Obrosova, Ph.D., Pennington Biomedical Research Center George King, M.D., Joslin Diabetes Center & Harvard Medical School George Bray, M.D., Pennington Biomedical Research Center |
 Botanicals and Cardiometabolic Risk 10/29/2006 - 10/31/2006 Co-chairs: William Cefalu, M.D., Pennington Biomedical Research Center Mike Lefevre, Ph.D., Pennington Biomedical Research Center Larry Rudel, Ph.D., Wake Forest Univ. School of Medicine |
 Infection, Inflammation & Obesity 4/30/2006 - 5/2/2006 Co-chairs: Nikhil V. Dhurandhar, Ph.D., Pennington Biomedical Research Center Philipp E. Scherer, Ph.D., Albert Einstein College of Medicine David B. Allison, Ph.D., University of Alabama at Birmingham, Department of Nutrition |
