Basic Science
The purpose of the Basic Science Section (BSS) is to support and promote basic scientific efforts to understand the causes and complications of obesity and to identify mechanisms that lead to its prevention or cure.
Goals:
- Promote mentoring, networking, and collaboration among TOS basic science researchers.
- Promote awareness of interesting new basic science among members.
- Promote interdisciplinary initiatives focused on comorbidities associated with obesity such as cancer.
- Encourage participation and recruitment of new basic researchers in obesity and its comorbidities.
- Increase the national visibility of the basic research component of obesity research and awareness of the important unanswered questions.
- Enhance basic science content of our journal and annual meeting.
Resources:
Join us at the annual BSS events. Each year during the Obesity Society Annual meeting, the BSS sponsors several events including a methods workshop, section meeting and social events. These are open to members and those interested in joining the section. The BSS events provide an excellent opportunity to network with other basic obesity researchers. In addition, TOS sponsors Early-Career Research Grants for which senior BSS section members offer mentoring and review of these grant applications.
Publications:
Basic Science Section Newsletter April 2012
Basic Science Newsbrief April 2012
Basic Science Newsbrief March 2012
Basic Science Newsbrief February 2012
Basic Science Newsbrief January 2012
Basic Science Newsbrief November 2011
Basic Science Newsbrief September 2011
Basic Science Newsbrief August 2011
Basic Science Neswbrief June 2011
Basic Science Newsbrief May 2011
Basic Science Newsbrief April 2011
Basic Science Newsbrief March 2011
Join the Basic Science Section:
All section members must be a member of The Obesity Society.
If you are not a member of The Obesity Society, join today. Be certain to select the Basic Science Section when completing your profile.
If you are already a member and would like to join the Basic Science Section please login to your member profile and select the Basic Science Section. Once you have updated your profile, you will receive all communications pertaining to the section.
Please contact Sadie Campbell, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it , Governance and Executive Assistant if you have any questions.
Basic Science Listserv
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Leaders:
Gerald V Denis, PhD (Chair)
Dr Denis is a faculty member in the Cancer Research Center at Boston University School of Medicine. He is closely affiliated with the Boston Nutrition Obesity Research Center, directed by Susan K. Fried, as well as with other colleagues at Boston University, including Barbara E. Corkey and Barbara S. Nikolajczyk. Dr Denis’ work focuses on bromodomain-containing transcriptional co-regulators and the critical role they play in gene networks that connect obesity to cancer and inflammation. He collaborates with Dr Nikolajczyk on important questions in ‘Immunometabolism’, a new interdisciplinary area that explores the role of the immune system in the co-morbidities of obesity, including Type 2 diabetes and cancer.
Jacqueline Stephens, PhD (Chair-Elect)
Jackie Stephens is a Professor of Biological Sciences at LSU and her laboratory recently moved to the Pennington Biomedical Research Center in Baton Rouge. She received her B.S. in both Chemistry and Biology from St. Andrews College and her Ph.D. in Biochemistry from East Carolina University School of Medicine. She studied insulin signaling during her post-doctorate at Boston University. Her research has largely focused on adipocyte biology and she has studied TNF induced insulin resistance, adipocyte development, and the functions of various transcription factors in fat cells. Dr. Stephens is an active mentor of young scientists and assistant professors at LSU and at the Pennington Biomedical Research Center. She has been funded as Principal Investigator on NIH grants since 1997 and is currently a member of the Integrative Physiology of Obesity and Diabetes NIH study section. She has served on the Editorial Boards of several journals including JBC and Obesity Research. She has won teaching awards and research excellence awards at LSU and was also the recipient of the Lilly Scientific Achievement Award from The Obesity Society in 2005.
