Fall 2012 Streaming Video

“To Eat or Not to Eat: Leptin and the Biologic Basis of Obesity.” Obesity researcher Jeffrey M. Friedman, MD, PhD, was the featured speaker for the 2012 Margaret and Herman Sokol Science Lecture held at Montclair State University’s Alexander Kasser Theater on October 16 at 8 p.m. A researcher of the molecular mechanisms that regulate food intake and body weight, Friedman is perhaps best known for his genetic studies with mice that led to the identification of leptin, a hormone made by fat tissue, which plays a key role in regulating weight.

Friedman is Marilyn M. Simpson Professor and heads the Laboratory of Molecular Genetics at Rockefeller University, and is also Investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. He is the 2005 winner of the Gairdner Foundation International Award and received the Passano Foundation Award in 2009. He was also awarded the Shaw Prize and Keio Medical Science Prize, and together with Douglas L. Coleman, is the winner of the 2010 Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research.

Watch the lecture using the links below:

“To Eat or Not to Eat: Leptin and the Biologic Basis of Obesity” Part 1/10

“To Eat or Not to Eat: Leptin and the Biologic Basis of Obesity” Part 2/10

“To Eat or Not to Eat: Leptin and the Biologic Basis of Obesity” Part 3/10

“To Eat or Not to Eat: Leptin and the Biologic Basis of Obesity” Part 4/10

“To Eat or Not to Eat: Leptin and the Biologic Basis of Obesity” Part 5/10

“To Eat or Not to Eat: Leptin and the Biologic Basis of Obesity” Part 6/10

“To Eat or Not to Eat: Leptin and the Biologic Basis of Obesity” Part 7/10

“To Eat or Not to Eat: Leptin and the Biologic Basis of Obesity” Part 8/10

“To Eat or Not to Eat: Leptin and the Biologic Basis of Obesity” Part 9/10

“To Eat or Not to Eat: Leptin and the Biologic Basis of Obesity” Part 10/10