2016 Pepper Center Seminar Speakers
2016 Pepper Seminar Center Speakers:
1/15/2016 – Elisabet Borsheim, PhD; Associate Professor – Departments of Pediatrics and Geriatrics, College of Medicine, UAMS
Title: Metabolism in aging – nutrition and physical activity
2/19/2016 – Linda J. Larson-Prior, PhD; Professor – Department of Psychiatry, Brain Imaging Research Center, College of Medicine, UAMS
Title: The promise of sleep in an aging population
3/18/2016 – Robert R. Wolfe, PhD; Professor – Department of Geriatrics, UAMS; Director, Center for Translational Research in Aging & Longevity, Reynolds Institute on Aging
Title: The role of amino acids in controlling protein metabolism
5/13/16 – Eugenia Carvalho, PhD; Instructor – Department of Geriatrics, UAMS
Title: Epicardial Adipose Tissue Metabolism – What do We Know?
Narsimha Reddy Penthala, PhD; Research Instructor – College of Pharmacy, UAMS;
Title: Novel drugs to Prevent and Treat Age-Related Sarcopenia
Srinivas Ayyadevara, PhD; Assistant Professor – Department of Geriatrics, UAMS
Title: Novel drugs to Prevent and Treat Age-Related Sarcopenia
12/16/16 – Bryce Marquis, PhD; Assistant Professor – Department of Geriatrics, UAMS
Title: Acute and chronic essential amino acid supplementation on skeletal muscle mitochondria metabolism in older adults
Srinivas Ayyadevara, PhD; Assistant Professor – Department of Geriatrics, UAMS
Title: Protein acetylation by aspirin impedes aggregation