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Assistant Professor
University of Georgia
Athens, Georgia, United States
Dr. Emily Noble is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Nutritional Sciences at the University of Georgia. Dr. Noble completed her PhD in Nutritional Biochemistry at the University of Minnesota, where her research focused on the neuroscience of obesity. She completed two postdoctoral fellowships, first at UCLA where she investigated how dietary factors affect recovery from traumatic brain injury and then at the University of Southern California, where her work focused on the impact of dietary sugar on adolescent brain development and the central nervous system regulation of body weight. Dr. Noble uses animal models to investigate questions related to how diets high in saturated fat and added sugars impact the brain and behavior, as well as the signaling pathways in the brain that control eating behavior and drive excessive food consumption. Most recently, Dr. Noble’s rodent research has identified novel neural pathways that contribute to excessive food intake and impulsive overeating. Her additional work on how dietary sugars impact adolescent brain development identified gut microbial factors that are elevated by dietary sugars and negatively impact the development of the hippocampus, a brain region which plays a critical role in both learning and memory function and in sensing interoceptive cues related to prandial state. Dr. Noble’s current research is funded by the NIDDK and institutional pilot funding from the UGA Obesity Initiative.
Thursday, June 16, 2022
6:00 PM – 7:30 PM ET
Disclosure(s): No relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.