May 14: Ernest Fraenkel, Professor of Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Title: “Network Strategies for Interpreting Metabolomics and Integrating Omic Data”
October 25: Trey Ideker, Professor of Medicine, Bioengineering, and Computer Science, University of California, San Diego. Title: “Interpreting the cancer genome through physical and functional models of the cancer cell”
2018
October 16: Maxim Artyomov, Associate Professor of Pathology and Immunology, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. Title: “Itaconate immunology from one cell to many”
November 13: Mitchell Lazar, Willard and Rhonda Ware Professor in Diabetes and Metabolic Diseases, University of Pennsylvania. Title: “Genetic and Environmental Influences on the Transcriptional Regulation of Metabolism”
December 11: Costas Lyssiotis, Assistant Professor of Molecular & Integrative Physiology, University of Michigan. Title: “Metabolic Networks in the Tumor Microenvironment”
2017
September 20: Thomas Gettys, Professor of Nutrient Sensing & Adipocyte Signaling, Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Louisiana State University System. Title: “Mechanisms Linking Dietary Methionine Restriction to its Metabolic Phenotype.”
October 18: M. Celeste Simon, Scientific Director and Investigator, Abramson Family Cancer Research Institute Arthur H. Rubenstein and Professor, Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine. Title: “Hypoxia, Metabolism, and Tumor Progress.”
November 15: Luke Wiseman, Associate Professor of Molecular Medicine, The Scripps Research Institute. Title: “Coordinating Proteostasis Environments Through the Unfolded Protein Response”
November 29: Eric Ortlund, Associate Professor of Biochemistry, Emory University School of Medicine. Title: “Phospholipid-Driven Gene Expression and New Paradigms in Nuclear Receptor Signaling”
December 13: Nathan Lewis, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and Bioengineering, University of California, San Diego. Title: “A Genome-Scale View of Metabolism and the Mammalian Protein Secretion Pathway”
2016
January 20: Brian Parks, Assistant Professor of Nutritional Sciences, University of Wisconsin–Madison; and Alan Attie, Professor Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin–Madison. Topic: “From Genetics to Molecular Mechanisms”
February 17: Jennifer Reed, Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Wisconsin–Madison; Nicole Perna, Professor of Genetics, University of Wisconsin–Madison; and Brian Pfleger, Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Wisconsin–Madison. Topic: “Using Systems Biology to Understand Metabolism”
March 16: Michael Wolfgang, Associate Professor of Biological Chemistry, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Topic: Neuroscience; Title: “Fatty Acid Metabolism in the Nervous System: Nutrients and Neurodegeneration”
April 20: Benjamin Tu, Associate Professor of Biochemistry, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. Topic: Epigenetics; Title: “Something About SAM”
May 18: Holly Brown-Borg, Chester Fritz Distinguished Professor, University of North Dakota; Title: “Linking methionine metabolism to aging: Role of hormones and diet”
September 20: Roland Nilsson, Professor of Systems Metabolism, Karolinska Institute; Title: “Isotope tracing and model-based flux analysis”
October 4: Patrick Seale, Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Pennsylvania.
2015
October 21: Dan Nomura, Assistant Professor, University of California-Berkeley. Topic: Cancer; Title: “Mapping Metabolic Drivers of Disease using Chemoproteomic and Metabolomic Platforms”
November 18: Toren Finkel, Senior Investigator, NIH Laboratory of Molecular Biology. Topic: Aging; Title: “The Biology of Aging”
December 16: Ying Ge, Associate Professor of Cell and Regenerative Biology and Chemistry, University of Wisconsin–Madison; Fariba Assadi-Porter, Senior Scientist, NMRFAM – University of Wisconsin–Madison; Michael Sussman, Professor of Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin–Madison. Topic: “From Molecules to Mechanisms.”