Name: Seminar with Alaina Vidmar, MD, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles
Start: 2021-01-12T00:00:00+00:00
End: 2021-01-12T23:59:59+00:00

Research Highlights

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DORI 2020 Symposium – Recorded Presentations
DORI’s symposium on February 25 & 26, 2020 was recorded and can be viewed at the following link: https://keckmedia.usc.edu/Mediasite/Catalog/catalogs/dorisymposium Password: dori2020 *Please note that some presenters asked not to be recorded.

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COVID-19 Research
Dr. Genevieve Dunton’s research lab @KeckMedUSC is studying how #COVID19 impacts #physicalactivity and #mentalhealth. This survey will take 30 min, and it will ask you to download an app. Her lab is working tirelessly to understand this pandemic. Survey Link: https://is.gd/reachlab

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DORI’s 2019 Symposium Winners
Trainee Lighting Talks Winners: 1st place: Verenice Ascencio, undergraduate student from CSULB 2nd place: Jennifer Zink, PhD student from USC 3rd place: Linda Tsan, PhD student from USC Trainee Poster Presentation Winners: 1st place: Carina Alvarado, undergraduate student from CSULB

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In The News

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LiveStrong cited research by Genevieve Dunton, PhD, MPH, associate professor of preventive medicine and psychology.
LiveStrong on how people are more likely to enjoy exercise if they work out in groups.

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Impact of Gastric Banding Versus Metformin on β-Cell Function in Adults With Impaired Glucose Tolerance or Mild Type 2 Diabetes
Publication by Anny H. Xiang, Enrique Trigo, Mayra Martinez, Namir Katkhouda, Elizabeth Beale, Xinhui Wang, Jun Wu,Ting Chow, Cortney Montgomery, Krishna S. Nayak, Fadi Hendee, Thomas A. Buchanan and for the RISE Consortium in the following link: http://care.diabetesjournals.org/content/early/2018/10/03/dc18-1662

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Central Dicer-miR-103/107 controls developmental switch of POMC progenitors into NPY neurons and impacts glucose homeostasis
Publication by Sophie Croizier, Soyoung Park, Julien Maillard, Sebastien G Bouret, in the following link: https://elifesciences.org/articles/40429

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Welcome to DORI

Welcome to the Diabetes & Obesity Research Institute (DORI) at the University of Southern California. Established in 2012, the DORI is a multi-disciplinary collaborative of investigators seeking to link basic, clinical, and public health research to advance the understanding of obesity and its relationship to type II diabetes. The Institute was designed to foster interactions across disciplinary boundaries; embrace methods and techniques from diverse fields of study; and develop effective approaches to risk assessment, prevention and treatment of the international co-epidemics of diabetes and obesity.
Upcoming Events
1. Seminar with Peter Butler, MD University of California, Los Angeles
  
  October 13
2. Seminar with Steven Heymsfield, MD Louisiana State University
  
  November 17
3. Seminar with Alaina Vidmar, MD, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles
  
  January 12, 2021
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