Date

Presenter & Presentation Title

21-Aug

Orientation and Lab Safety

Presenter: Dr. Jeyam Subbiah and Dr. Ya-Jane Wang

28-Aug

Overview of Course and Expectations

Presenter: Dr. Jamie Baum

4-Sep

Labor Day-No Class

11-Sep

Cooperative Extension and Leadership Development: Empowering Growth, Collaboration, and Change

Speaker: Julie Robinson, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Leadership Community, Professional & Economic Development UADA, Cooperative Extension Service

18-Sep

Research-Powered Solutions: Breaking Transmission Pathways of Foodborne Viruses
Speaker: Kristen E. Gibson, Ph.D. Professor, Donald "Buddy" Wray Endowed Chair in Food Safety, Director of the Center for Food Safety, UADA

25-Sep

Microbiome in human life
Speaker: Si Hong Park, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Food Science Technology, Oregon State University

2-Oct

Optimizing Cardiometabolic Health and Lifespan: The Interplay of Exercise, Nutrition, and Metabolism in Combating Obesity

Speaker: Elisabet Borsheim, Ph.D., Associate Director of the Arkansas Children's Nutrition Center Professor of Pediatrics and Department of Geriatrics, Director of Research Faculty Development, Arkansas Children's Research Institute, UAMS

9-Oct

Nutrient-sensing ghrelin signaling in inflamm-aging and healthspan

Speaker: Yuxiang Sun, Ph.D., Professor, Associate Department Head for Graduate Programs and AgrilLife, Research Faculty Fellow Department of Nutrition, Texas A&M

16-Oct

Fall Break- No Class

23-Oct

Exercise is Medicine

Speaker: Dr. Erin Howie Hickey, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Director, Exercise is Medicine Health, Human Performance, and Recration, UAF

30-Oct

Rice malt: Investigating suitability and brewing quality of rice cultivars
Speaker: Bernardo Pontes Guimaraes (Ph.D. Entrance Seminar), Advisor: Scott Lafontaine, Ph.D.

6-Nov

Atyipical responses to sensory stimuli or eating environments in children with autism spectrum disorder

Speaker: Lydia Rockers (MS Entrance Seminar) Advisor: Han-Seok Seo, Ph.D.

Nerual network architecture search enabled wide-deep learning (NAS-WD) for spatially heterogenous property awarded chicken woody breast classification and texture regression

Speaker: Chaitanya Palleria (MS Entrance Seminar) Advisor: Dongyi Wang, Ph.D.

13-Nov

Efficacy of hand sanitizers for control of enveloped and non-enveloped virus transmission

Speaker: Francis Torko ( MS Entrance Seminar) Advisor: Kristen Gibson, Ph.D.

20-Nov

Healthy Aging: Revolutionizing Aging with e-health Nutrition & Physical activity Interventions

Speaker: Husne Begum (Ph.D. Entrance Seminar) Advisor: Jamie I. Baum, Ph.D.

27-Nov

Effect of Onion Peel Bioactive Compounds on Gut Microbiome of Obese AdultsSpeaker: Saad Sifat (MS Exit Seminar) Advisor: Sun-Ok Lee, Ph.D.

4-Dec

Dietary amino acid restriction and healthspan
Speaker: Tracy Anthony, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Nutritional Sciences, Rutgers