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Announcements

Obesity Course: We will be offering this coming year a 600-level obesity course (AS/ES 623, variable advanced topics in obesity). In fall 2008, the topic is Adipose Tissue Biology. Please inform students who are interested in registering for this course. Contact: moustaid@utk.edu

UTORC Pilot and Feasibility Grants Awarded - March 25, 2008
UT Professors Awarded $625,000 Grant to Study Childhood Obesity; Students in Destination ImagiNation to Participate - January 8, 2008
UT Creates Research Center to Study Obesity Prevention and Treatment - August 24, 2007

Seminars

Obesity-Associated Inflammation: Role of adipose tissue and anti-inflammatory nutrients (Archived Webcast)

  • Dr. Kate Claycombe
    Date: May 8, 2008
    Location: 160 Plant Biotech Building
    Time: 9:00 am
    Sponsored by UT Obesity Research Center
    Contact: moustaid@utk.edu

Workshops

WORKSHOP ON The Establishment, Maintenance & Turnover of Fat Depots
May 21-22, 2008
Lister Hill Auditorium, NIH Campus, Bethesda, MD
Sponsored by the National Institutes of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases
http://fatdepotsmtg.niddk.nih.gov

CSREES-USDA NRI Competitive Programs Grantsmanship Workshop in Knoxville
July 17, 2008
Knoxville, TN

Previous News and Events

Seminar: The World is FAT: Understanding the Patterns of the Nutrition Transition  (Archived Webcast)
Seminar: Distributed Control of Muscle Glucose Uptake in Health and Insulin Resistance   (Archived Webcast)
Seminar: The Influence of Ethnicity, Pre-and-Postnatal Nutrition and Physical Activity on Potential Markers for the Metabolic Syndrome in Pre-pubertal Youth

2007 Obesity WorkshopUT Obesity Research Center Interdisciplinary Obesity Workshop Held October 15, 2007

UT Creates Research Center to Study Obesity Prevention and Treatment