William Hansel Visiting Scientist Speakers Series

Almost every Thursday, prominent scientists from national and international universities as well as governmental and industrial laboratories visit to share their scientific discoveries and collaborate with the Pennington Biomedical Community.  Topics and areas of research vary, but the majority relate to nutrition, obesity and metabolic health through the lifespan. 

Date Speaker  Area of Research Host(s) & Contact
March 25, 2021

rescheduled from Spring 2020

 

Sponsored by Pennington/Louisiana NORC

Carrie Ferrario, PhD

Associate Professor of Pharmacology

The University of Michigan Medical School 

Neurobiological mechanisms of obesity

Emily Qualls-Creekmore, PhD

Contact:  Laura Dallam
 

April 8, 2021

 

 

 

 

 

 

Laszlo Nagy, MD, PhD

Co-Director of the Institute for Fundamental Biomedical Research

Associate Director of the Center for Metabolic Origins of Disease, Professor, Medicine and Biological Chemistry

Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Molecular and cellular interactions during muscle regeneration in health and disease

 

 

 

 

Elizabeth Floyd, PhD

Contact: Laura Dallam

 
 
 
 
 
 
April 15, 2021 

Ambra A. Pozzi, PhD

Professor of Medicine, Division of Nephrology and Hypertension

Vanderbilt University Medical Center

 

Role or arachidonic acid derived lipids in angiogenesis and tumorigenesis, tumors, integrins, growth factors, diabetes, metalloproteinases

 

 

Kris Stadler, PhD

Contact: Laura Dallam
 
 
 
April 22, 2021 No meeting: Pennington Biomedical Sicentific Symposium

April 29, 2021

 

 

 

 

 

Karyn Esser, PhD

Professor, Dept. of Physiology and Functional Genomics. Associate Director

Myology Institute, Gainesville, FL

 

 

Circadian rhythms, the molecular clock and skeletal muscle homeostasis

 

 

 

 

Eric Ravvusin, PhD

Gangarao Davuluri, PhD

Contact: Jacqueline Fox
 
 

May 13, 2021

 

 

 

 

 

Tracy Bale, PhD

Professor, Department of Pharmacology & Psychiatry

Director, Center for Epigenetic Research in Child Health and Brain Development

University of Maryland School of Medicine

 

Developing mouse models of stress sensitivity using genetic and prenatal manipulations to understand the mechanism and heritability for increased susceptibility to neurodevelopmental disorders

 

 

 

Emily Qualls-Creekmore, PhD

Contact: Laura Dallam