The UT Southwestern Obesity Alliance's weekly conferences on metabolism, nutrition, and obesity are held at noon every Thursday in the Cecil H. and Ida Green Science Building (Y6.224). The Taskforce for Obesity Research (TORS) sponsors the weekly conference.

• January 9, 2014
  Robert D. Toto, M.D.
  Associate Dean, Translational Science
  Center for Translational Medicine
• January 23, 2014
  Sabrina Diano, Ph.D.
  Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences, of Comparative Medicine and of Neurobiology
  Director, Reproductive Neurosciences Group
  Yale University
• January 30, 2014
  Thue W. Schwartz, M.D., D.M.Sc.
  Professor and Research Director
  The Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolism Research University of Copenhagen 
• February 6, 2014
  Randy Seeley
  Professor of Endocrinology
  University of Cincinnati College of Medicine
  Advanced Imaging Research Center
• February 13, 2014
  Mikhail Kolonin, Ph.D.
  Associate Professor, Center for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine
  John S. Dunn Research Scholar
  Jerold B. Katz Distinguished Professor in Stem Cell Research
  UTHSC-Houston
• March 20, 2014
  Scott M. Sternson, Ph.D.
  Janelia Lab Head
  Howard Hughes Medical Institute 
• April 17, 2014
  Jeffrey M. Friedman, M.D., Ph.D.
  Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
  Marilyn M. Simpson Professor, Laboratory of Molecular Genetics
  The Rockefeller University
• April 24, 2014
  Michael A. Brownlee, M.D.
  Professor of Internal Medicine and Pathology
  Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York
• May 1, 2014
  Eleftheria Maratos-Flier, M.D.
  Professor of Medicine
  Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center 
• May 15, 2014
  Ira Tabas, M.D., Ph.D.
  Professor of Anatomy & Cell Biology
  Columbia University, New York