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Daniela Cota
Deputy Director INSERM U1215 Neurocentre Magendie, Bordeaux, France.
Daniela Cota obtained her Medical Degree at the University of Bologna, Italy (1999) and carried out post-doctoral research at the Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry in Munich, Germany and at the University of Cincinnati, USA. In 2008, thanks to the prestigious INSERM Avenir award, Dr. Cota established her laboratory at the NeuroCentre Magendie in Bordeaux, France. Dr. Cota and her lab study the neural mechanisms and molecular events involved in the hypothalamus-periphery cross-talk relevant for the regulation of food intake, body weight and whole-body metabolism. The work of her lab has so far critically contributed to understanding the roles of lipid-based, energy-related signaling systems, such as the endocannabinoid-CB1 and the bile acids-TGR5 systems, and of the energy sensor mTOR, in the brain-periphery crosstalk regulating energy balance, pinpointing some of these mechanisms as potential therapeutic targets for obesity and type 2 diabetes. Recent work has been focusing on the physiological and pathological relevance of the heterogeneity of hypothalamic POMC neurons. Please visit: http://www.neurocentre-magendie.fr/cota
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Corby K. Martin
Pennington Biomedical
Corby Martin is a Professor and the Associate Executive Director of the Division of Scientific Education at Pennington Biomedical. He also directs the Ingestive Behavior, Weight Management, & Health Promotion Laboratory. The overarching goal of Dr. Martin’s research is to study factors that affect energy balance and weight change, and to develop tools and interventions to help people live healthier lives through diet and exercise. Dr. Martin and colleagues developed smartphone apps to assess food intake and related behaviors, such as meal timing, as well as technology-based weight management interventions that have successfully been delivered in clinical settings and remotely via mobile health technology. Dr. Martin also studies the effects of energy imbalance on appetite and other constructs, with the aim of identifying mechanisms that can be modified to improve health.
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Camilla Nord
University of Cambridge
Camilla Nord is Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Cambridge, where she directs the Mental Health Neuroscience Lab at the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit and the Department of Psychiatry. Professor Nord is a world expert in the neuroscience of mental health disorders and the development of novel neurostimulation interventions for mental health. Camilla studied Physiology and Psychology at the University of Oxford (Magdalen College) as an undergraduate before completing her doctorate in neuroscience with Jonathan Roiser at University College London, and postdoctoral training at the University of Cambridge with Valerie Voon and Tim Dalgleish. Camilla’s work has been recognised by various awards, including the European Society of Cognitive and Affective Science Young Investigator Award, the British Association of Cognitive Neuroscience’s Early Career Award, and the Association for Psychological Science’s Rising Star. Camilla holds an eight-year Wellcome Career Development Award fellowship, and a seven-year Wellcome Mental Health Award, both exploring body-brain interactions in mental health disorders, using neuroimaging, neurostimulation, and computational modelling. Camilla also has a particular interest in science communication for the public, including her recent book The Balanced Brain: The Science of Mental Health, a Sunday Times and Financial Times Book of the Year.
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Randy J. Seeley
Nutritional Sciences at the University of Michigan School of Medicine
Dr. Randy Seeley is the Henry K. Ransom Endowed Professor of Surgery, Internal Medicine, and Nutritional Sciences at the University of Michigan School of Medicine. He also serves as the director of the NIH-funded Michigan Nutrition Obesity Research Center (MNORC). His scientific work has focused on the gut-brain axis's role in regulating energy balance, body weight, and circulating fuels. His work has also focused on new treatment strategies for obesity and diabetes. He has published over 400 peer-reviewed articles in Science, Nature, Nature Medicine, Nature Neuroscience, Cell Metabolism, The Journal of Clinical Investigation, and the New England Journal of Medicine. This work has been cited more than 44,000 times, and Dr. Seeley has a Scopus h-index of 103. Dr. Seeley has received numerous awards including the 2009 Outstanding Scientific Achievement Award from the American Diabetes Association. This award is presented to an individual medical researcher under age 45 who has made an outstanding contribution to diabetes research that demonstrates originality and independence of thought. Dr. Seeley has also served on numerous review panels for the NIH and was Chair of the Integrative Physiology of Obesity and Diabetes. He also served on the Board of Reviewing Editors for Science.
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