In our weekly seminars, nutrition experts share their insight with students, faculty, staff, and alumni. These seminars supplement traditional coursework and provide a medium for introducing attendees to the latest data and practices in fundamental research, clinical and community nutrition. The seminars take place on Wednesdays from 11:30am - 12:20pm in the locations indicated below. Our seminars are open to students and faculty from outside of Nutritional Sciences, so please feel free to join us each week.
| Date | Speaker | Topic | Location | Host |
| August 14th, 2024 | Dr. Arthur Grider - The University of Georgia Department of Nutritional Sciences | "Zinc-Dependent Regulatory Elements and MicroRNAs" | Dawson Rm. 306 | Dr. Emily Noble |
| August 21st, 2024 | Dr. Carolina Cawthon - The University of Tennessee Department of Nutrition | "Food Intake is an Outcome of Behavior: How it Happens Matters" | Dawson Rm. 306 | Dr. Emily Noble |
| August 28th, 2024 | Dr. Christina Proctor - The University of Georgia College of Public Health | "Examining the Relationship Between Stress, Barriers to Healthcare, and Alcohol Use in the U.S. Agricultural Community" | Dawson Rm. 306 | Dr. Emily Noble |
| September 4th, 2024 |
Dr. Kaixiong (Calvin) Ye - The University of Georgia Department of Genetics |
"Gene-Diet Interactions: How Genetic Factors Modify the Health Impacts of Vegetarianism and Fish Oil Supplementation" | Dawson Rm. 306 | Dr. Emily Noble |
| September 11th, 2024 | Dr. Terry Hartman - Emory University Rollins School of Public Health | “Investigating Dietary Modification in Cancer Prevention and Control” | Dawson Rm. 306 | Dr. Connie Rogers |
| September 18th, 2024 | Dr. Gregory Henderson - Purdue University College of Health and Human Sciences | "Contributions of Plasma Free Fatty Acid Transport to the Development of Metabolic Disease" | Dawson Rm. 306 | Dr. Connie Rogers |
| September 25th, 2024 | Dr. Kearney Gunsalus and Dr. Ellen House - Augusta University partnership with the University of Georgia | "Nutrition For Health, Not Harm: Mitigating Anti-Obesity Bias To Improve Outcomes" | Dawson Rm. 306 | Dr. Emily Noble |
| October 2nd, 2024 | Dr. Allan Tate - The University of Georgia College of Public Health | "Disrupting Cardiometabolic Risk in Pre-Adolescent Children: The Promise of Wearables for Real-Time Intervention" | Dawson Rm. 306 | Dr. Emily Noble |
| October 9th, 2024 | Dr. John Gonzalez - The University of Georgia Department of Animal & Dairy Science | "Nicotinamide Riboside and Manipulating the Modern Broiler: I Did Not Make This Up" | Dawson Rm. 306 | Dr. Emily Noble |
| October 16th, 2024 | Dr. Jung Sun Lee - The University of Georgia Department of Nutritional Sciences | "UGA SNAP-Ed: A Platform for Community and Public Health Nutrition Research" | Dawson Rm. 306 | Dr. Emily Noble |
| October 23rd, 2024 | Dr. Jia-Shen Wang - The University of Georgia College of Public Health | “Modulation of Gut Microbiome and Metabolome by Food, Food Constituents and Contaminants” | Dawson Rm. 306 | Dr. Emily Noble |
| October 30th, 2024 | Dr. Andrew Hardaway - The University of Alabama at Birmingham Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Neurobiology | "Beyond Ozempic: Adventures in Physiology and Pathology of GLP-1 Brain Circuitry" | Dawson Rm. 306 | Dr. Emily Noble |
| November 6th, 2024 | Dr. Carla Schwan - The University of Georgia Department of Nutritional Sciences | "National Trends in Home Food Preservation and Community Outreach" | Dawson Rm. 306 | Dr. Emily Noble |
| November 13th, 2024 | TBD | TBD | Dawson Rm. 306 | Dr. Emily Noble |
| November 20th, 2024 | Student Poster Session | Dawson Rm. 306 | ||
| November 27th, 2024 | THANKSGIVING BREAK - No Seminar |