Obesity - are my genes to blame webinar

Overview

Review the role of genetics in the control of food intake and body-weight, the fate hormone-leptin, and the hypothalamic melanocortin pathway.

Watch as Dr Giles Yeo, from the Metabolic Research Labs at the University of Cambridge, discusses how differences in our genetic make-up cause us to respond differently to the same environment.

Topics

The role of genetics in the control of food intake and body-weight

Genome wide association studies and ‘common obesity’

The fat hormone, leptin

Fat mass and obesity related (FTO) plays a role in the genetic susceptibility to common obesity

The hypothalamic melanocortin pathway

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Meet our presenter

Meet our presenter

Professor Giles Yeo

Professor Giles Yeo joins us from the University of Cambridge. He is originally from San Francisco. Giles received his Bachelor's Degree in Molecular and Cell Biology from the University of California, Berkeley, before moving to complete his PhD in the lab of Professor Sydney Brenner at Cambridge University. He then joined Professor Stephen O'Rahilly at the Department of Clinical Biochemistry to work on the genetics of severe human obesity.