| Date | Speaker | Talk Title |
| 1/4/16 | Helena Laroche, MD, University of Iowa | Obesity Prevention: Family and Enviromental Approaches |
| 1/11/16 | Peter Nau, MD, MS, University of Iowa | Metabolic Surgery: The gold standard for the treatment of obesity in 2016 |
| 1/25/16 | William Lowe, MD, Northwestern University | Metabolomics & Genomics: New Insights into Maternal Metabolism and Fetal Growth |
| 2/8/16 | Alyssa Hasty, PhD, Vanderbilt University | A Novel Role for Adipose Tissue Macrophages in Iron Metabolism |
| 2/15/16 | David Pagliarini, PhD, University of Wisconsin, Madison | Mitochondrial proteins, pathways, and pathogenesis |
| 2/22/16 | David D'Alessio, MD, Duke University | Is GLP-1 a hormone: Whether and When? |
| 2/29/16 | Julie Lumeng, MD, University of Michigan | Stress, Eating Behavior, and Obesity in Low-Income Children |
| 3/1/16 | Sam Klein, MD, Washington University | Metabolically normal and abnormal obesity |
| 3/7/16 | Ana Maria Cuervo, MD, PhD, Albert Einstein College of Medicine | Aging of the autophagic system: metabolic consequences |
| 3/21/16 | Mary Elizabeth Patti, MD, Harvard University | Intergenerational Programming of Metabolic Disease |
| 3/28/16 | Frank Duca, PhD, University of Toronto, Canada | The Role of Intestinal Nutrient Sensing in Obesity and Diabetes |
| 3/29/16 | Miguel Lopez, PhD, University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain | Hypothalmaic lipotoxcity: a new pathological mechanism for obesity |
| 4/11/16 | Joseph Bass, MD, PhD, Northwestern University | Genome Regulation by the Circadian System in Behavior and Metabolism |
| 4/25/16 | Bret Goodpaster, PhD, Sanford Burnham Medical Research Institute | Skeletal Muscle Insulin Resistance |
| 5/2/16 | Marcelo Nobrega, MD, PhD, University of Chicago | Genetic regulatory variation and human diseases |
| 5/9/16 | Sayeed Ikramuddin, MD, University of Minnesota | Clinical Impact of Bariatric Surgery |
| 5/16/16 | Aaron Cypress, MD, PhD, MMSc, National Institutes of Health | The Multiple Physiological Roles for Human Brown Adipose Tissue |
| 5/23/16 | Alan Saltiel, PhD, University of California, San Diego | Inflammatory links between obesity & Type 2 diabetes |
| 6/6/16 | Eleftheria Maratos-Flier, MD, Harvard University | The Complex Biology of FGF21 |
| 6/13/16 | Rajan Sah, MD, PhD, University of Iowa | How does fat feel? Mechano-signaling in the adipocyte and beyond |
| 6/20/16 | Kamal Rahmouni, PhD, University of Iowa | Can a Defective Antenna Cause Obesity? Role of Ciliary Proteins in Energy Homeostasis |
| 7/11/16 | Wei Bao, MD, PhD, University of Iowa | Maternal nutrition and gestational diabetes: opportunities for prevention |
| 7/18/16 | Andrew Judge, PhD, University of Florida | Intracellular Mechanisms of Skeletal Muscle Pathology in Cancer Cachexia |
| 7/25/16 | Vinit Mahajan, MD, PhD, University of Iowa | Translational Biomarker Approaches to Modeling Proliferative Diabetic Retinopathy in the Eye |
| 8/1/16 | Julien Sebag, PhD, University of Iowa | MRAP2: Controlling Energy Homeostasis Beyond the Melanocortin System |
| 8/8/16 | Qiong Wang, PhD, University of Texas Southwestern | Stage and region-specific regulation of adipose tissue expansion |
| 8/15/16 | Pilot & Feasibility Grant Recipients: Robert Piper, PhD, University Matthew Potthoff, PhD, University of Iowa |
Potential Effectors of Glut4 translocation Endocrine Control of Macronutrient Intake by the Liver |
| 8/22/16 | Pilot & Feasibility Grant Recipients: Justin Grobe, PhD, University of Iowa Vitor Lira, PhD, University of Iowa |
Anaerobic Resting Metabolism & the Gut Microbiota Muscle ULK1 & ULK2: Regulation of substrate oxidation and selective autophagy |
| 8/29/16 | Pilot & Feasibility Grant Recipients: Peter Snyder, MD, University of Iowa Aloysius Klingelhutz, PhD, University of Iowa |
Epithelial Sodium Channel Regulation by Glucose: A Potential Link between Diabetes and Hypertension Aryl Hydrocarbon Receptor Agonists Disrupt Adipocyte Function: Potential Role in Diabetes |
| 9/12/16 | Todd Manini, PhD, University of Florida | mtDNA variants, activity energy expenditure and aging |
| 9/19/16 | Xiaoyong Yang, PhD, Yale University | Nutrient Sensing and Metabolic Communication |
| 9/26/16 | Srinivasan Dasarathy, MD, Cleveland Clinic | Molecular mechanisms of impaired skeletal muscle proteostasis in cirrhosis |
| 10/3/16 | Sherry Pagoto, PhD, University of Massachusetts | The Use of Technology in the Management and Treatment of Obesity |
| 10/10/16 | Jen-Chywan Wang, PhD, University of California, Berkely | Angiopoietin-like 4 C-terminal Fibrinogen-like Domain as a Metabolic Regulator |
| 10/17/16 | Rana Gupta, PhD, University of Texas Southwestern | Manipulating the Adipose Lineage to Combat Obesity and Metabolic Disease |
| 10/24/16 | Claudio Villanueva, PhD, University of Utah | Mechanisms of adaptive thermogenesis |
| 10/31/16 | Michael Abramoff, MD, PhD, University of Iowa | Diabetes is a neurodegenerative disease in the eye |
| 11/7/16 | Alan Kim Johnson, PhD, University of Iowa | The role of sensitization and neuroplasticity in the long-term regulation of blood pressure: A new perspective on the etiology of hypertension |
| 11/14/16 | Do-Hyung Kim, PhD, University of Minnesota | mTOR Regulation of Catabolism |
| 11/21/16 | Yang Kevin Xiang, PhD, University of California, Davis | Targeting insulin-induced transactivation of beta2 adrenergic receptor in heart |
| 11/28/16 | Matthew Hirschey, PhD, Duke University | Novel protein modifications targeted by sirtuins control metabolism and insulin secretion |
| 12/5/16 | Bettina Mittendorfer, PhD, Washington University | Nutrition for cardiometabolic and muscle health |
| 12/12/16 | Franck Mauvais-Jarvis, MD, PhD, Tulane University | Novel function of the androgen receptor in glucose homeostasis |