NORC/CORA Seminar – Developmental Origins of Obesity and Metabolic Disease: Translational & Public Health Perspectives

Location: Brotman Auditorium (In-Person Event)

12:45

Coffee & Socializing

1:00

Shan Luo, PhD

Assistant Professor, University of Southern California

Neurobiological mechanisms underlying obesity development during critical developmental periods in offspring exposed to maternal diabetes

1:35

Mariana Parenti, PhD

Postdoctoral Fellow, Seattle Children's Research Institute

Leveraging multi-omic data to understand the placenta’s role as a
mediator between prenatal vitamin D levels and preterm birth

2:10

Break & Refreshments

2:25

Sheela Sathyanarayana, MD, MPH

Professor, Seattle Children's Research Institute

Environmental Factors and Obesity within the ECHO program

3:00

Wei Perng, PhD, MPH

Associate Professor, University of Colorado - Anschutz

In utero overnutrition and obesity and diabetes…Oh my! Chasing the yellow
brick road to precision prevention

3:35

Suchitra Chandrasekaran, MD, MSCE

Associate Professor, Emory University

Brain and the Baby

4:10

Wrap-Up