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Is Obesity a Choice?
This talk will be online and a link will be provided nearer the time to those who have registered
Giles Yeo has 20 years’ experience studying the genetics of obesity & brain control of food intake. He got his PhD from the University of Cambridge in 1998 and his research focuses on the influence of genes on our feeding behaviour & body-weight. He is currently the President of the British Society for Neuroendocrinology and Honorary President of the British Dietetic Association. Giles is also a broadcaster and author, presenting science documentaries for the BBC’s ‘Horizon’ & ‘Trust Me I’m A Doctor’. His first book ‘Gene Eating: The Story of Human Appetite’ was published in December 2018
Date:
18 November 2020, 16:00
Venue:
Venue to be announced
Speaker:
Dr Giles Yeo (University of Cambridge)
Organiser:
Dr Jane Itzhaki (University of Oxford - Oxford Metabolic Health)
Organiser contact email address:
Jane.itzhaki@medsci.ox.ac.uk
Host:
Dr Jane Itzhaki (University of Oxford - Oxford Metabolic Health)
Part of:
OMH events
Booking required?:
Required
Booking url:
https://www.medsci.ox.ac.uk/omh
Booking email:
Jane.itzhaki@medsci.ox.ac.uk
Audience:
Members of the University only
Editor:
Jane Itzhaki
