Title: Nutrigenomic Regulation of Taste and Food Intake
When: Nov 23, 2022 09:00 AM Singapore
The Brain and Body Seminar Series continues with Associate Professor Monica Dus, who will share her research on nutrigenomic effects on taste and food intake in fruitflies and mammals.
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Title: Understanding the Cell-Intrinsic and Cell-Extrinsic Drivers of Oncogenesis (see poster for more details)
When: Oct 19, 2022 09:00 AM Singapore
The Brain & Body Seminar Series is entering its second year in 2022. We are also pleased to announce the first talk this year in the Brain & Body Seminar Series organized in partnership with the Brain Body Initiative, A*STAR, and Neurometamolism in Health and Disease, IMCB, A*STAR, by Gary Patti.
The Patti lab uses metabolomics to elucidate novel biochemical mechanisms of disease, from cancer to chronic pain.
Title: Reference-free and Ecology-based Understanding of Gut Microbiome in Human Health and Diseases
When: Dec 3, 2021 09:00 AM Singapore
Professor Liping Zhao will be the inaugural speaker for the Brain & Body Seminar Series co-organized by A*STAR and the Society for Neuroscience, Singapore Chapter. His team has pioneered the approach of applying metagenomics-metabolomics integrated tools and dietary intervention for systems understanding and predictive manipulation of gut microbiota to improve human metabolic health. They found that endotoxin-producing opportunistic pathogens overgrowing in the obese human gut can induce obesity, fatty liver, and insulin resistance when mono-colonized in germfree mice via the endotoxin-TLR4 pathway as the initiating molecular crosstalk. Their clinical trials published in Science and EBioMedicine showed that high dietary fiber modulation of gut microbiota can significantly alleviate metabolic diseases including a genetic form of obesity in children and type 2 diabetes in adults.
