Regulatory Factors in Obesity

A symposium sponsored by the Rutgers New Jersey Obesity Group and Department of Nutritional Sciences. Presentation topics include:

• Unsuspected Determinants of Obesity
• The Menopausal Middle:  Estrogen and Abdominal Adiposity
• Molecular Physiology of Body Fat Regulation: Insights from Mouse and Human Studies

National and international experts on obesity include:

• Sue A Shapses, Ph.D., professor, Department of Nutritional Sciences, Rutgers University, Team Leader, New Jersey Obesity Group
• Angelo Tremblay, Ph.D., professor, Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Université Laval, Québec City, Québec, Canada
• Wendy M. Kohrt, Ph.D., professor, Department of Medicine, Division of Geriatric Medicine, University of Colorado Denver, Aurora, Colorado
• Rudolph L. Leibel, M.D., professor of pediatrics and medicine; head, Division of Molecular Genetics; co-director, Naomi Berrie Diabetes Center, Columbia University

Robert M. Goodman, executive dean of the Rutgers School of Biological and Biological Sciences and Rutgers New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station will present the Beaudette Thompson Award to Rudolph L. Leibel.

Friday, March 28th, 2008, 8:40 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

Trayes Hall B, Douglass College Center, Douglass Campus, New Brunswick, N.J.

This lecture series is made possible with support from the families of Willard C. Thompson and Fred R. Beaudette.  In 1921, Dr. Willard C. Thompson was named Professor and Head of the Poultry Department at the College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences, the forerunner of today's Department of Nutritional Sciences at Rutgers University. He was an outstanding teacher and researcher, and regularly voted the most popular professor on campus.  Thompson Hall on the Cook Campus is named for him. Dr. Fred Beaudette came to Rutgers in 1923 and worked closely with Dr. Thompson.  He was the first veterinarian to be employed by the NJ Agricultural Experiment Station.  Their development of vaccines to protect poultry from Newcastle disease and laryngotracheitis won worldwide acclaim.  The Beaudette – Thompson Lectureship brings distinguished scientists to Rutgers University to lecture on cutting-edge research in nutrition, science and medicine.