Seminar Speakers for Fall 2025

Date, Time & Location	Speaker/Institution	Topic	Host
Wed., Sept. 10, 2025 2:15-3:30 pm FSNS 65 Dudley Rd, New Brunswick, Rm 120	Christy Gliniak, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Dept. of Nutritional Sciences, Rutgers University	“Inside Fat: Discovering How Adipose Tissue Shapes Health and Disease”298KB	Joshua Miller, Ph.D., DFASN Professor and Chair of Nutritional Sciences, Rutgers
Wed., Sept 17, 2025 2:15-3:30 pm FSNS 65 Dudley Rd, New Brunswick, Rm 120	Alison B. Kohan, PhD, FAHA , Associate Professor Department of Medicine; Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, University of Pittsburgh	"Dietary Lipids Are Delivered to Tregs in Chylomicrons and They Determine Intestinal Treg Survival" 277KB	Harini Sampath, Ph.D., FASN, Associate Professor of Nutritional Sciences, Rutgers
Wed., Oct 8, 2025 2:15-3:30 pm FSNS 65 Dudley Rd, New Brunswick, Rm 120	Patrycja Puchalska, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Molecular Medicine	"Fueling Development: Molecular Cross-Talk Between Ketone Bodies and PUFAs" 257KB	Malcolm Watford, D.Phil, Professor of Nutritional Sciences, Rutgers
Wed., Oct 15, 2025 2:15-3:30 pm FSNS 65 Dudley Rd, New Brunswick, Rm 120	Ankit Shah, M.D., Assistant Professor, Dept of Medicine, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School	"Tracing Glycerol’s Role in Mediating Hyperglycemia" 263KB	Sue Shapses, Ph.D., R.D.,DFASN Professor of Nutritional Sciences, Rutgers
Wed., Oct 22, 2025 2:15-3:30 pm FSNS 65 Dudley Rd, New Brunswick, Rm 120	Heather Schier, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Nutrition at Appalachian State University	"Centering the Nutrition Priorities and Lived Experiences of Transgender and Gender-Diverse Youth" 269KB	Joshua Miller, Ph.D., DFASN, Professor and Chair of Nutritional Sciences, Rutgers
Wed., Nov 5, 2025 2:15-3:30 pm FSNS 65 Dudley Rd, New Brunswick, Rm 120	Tengteng Wang, PhD, MSPH, MBBS, Assistant Professor, Cancer Epidemiology and Health Outcomes, Rutgers Cancer Institute, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School	"Precision Prevention and Control of Breast Cancer: Integrative Insights from Diet, Biomarkers, and Omics Data"(143KB)	Nurgül Fitzgerald, Ph.D., M.S., R.D., Associate Professor of Nutritional Sciences / Extension Specialist, Rutgers

Fri., Nov 14, 2025 Time 11:00 am (in person only) IFNH 61 Dudley Rd, New Brunswick, Rm 101	Beaudette-Thompson Lecture Kathryn Dewey, Ph.D., DFASN Distinguished Professor Emerita, UC Davis, Department of Nutrition	"A ‘Good News’ Story About Preventing Child Undernutrition in Lower-Income Countries: A Journey From Research to Implementation" 243KB	Joshua Miller, Ph.D., DFASN Professor and Chair of Nutritional Sciences, Rutgers
Wed., Dec 3, 2025 2:15-3:30 pm FSNS 65 Dudley Rd, New Brunswick, Rm 120	Jeffrey Pessin, Ph.D., Judy R. & Alfred A. Rosenberg, Professorial Chair in Diabetes Research Director, Diabetes Research Center Departments of Medicine and Molecular Pharmacology Albert Einstein College of Medicine	"Hepatic Gluconeogenesis Transcription, Gene Expression and Activity: Living In the Zone" 156KB)	Malcolm Watford, D.Phil, Professor of Nutritional Sciences, Rutgers