{"id":74180,"date":"2021-03-01T09:48:33","date_gmt":"2021-03-01T14:48:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsroom.carleton.ca\/?p=74180"},"modified":"2025-08-19T09:36:25","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T13:36:25","slug":"carleton-university-hosts-science-cafe-a-gut-feeling-about-stress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/2021\/carleton-university-hosts-science-cafe-a-gut-feeling-about-stress\/","title":{"rendered":"Carleton University Hosts Science Caf\u00e9 \u2013 A Gut Feeling About Stress"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Carleton University Hosts Science Caf\u00e9 \u2013 A Gut Feeling About Stress\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>Carleton University will host Science Caf\u00e9 with speaker Prof. <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/neuroscience\/profile\/alfonso-abizaid\/\">Alfonso Abizaid<\/a> in the <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/neuroscience\/\">Department of Neuroscience<\/a> discussing stress, and how under some circumstances, it can increase appetite and alter our metabolism to promote weight gain. He will describe how our gastrointestinal system communicates with our brain to produce these changes and meet the challenges posed by stressors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>When<\/strong>: Wednesday, Mar. 10, 2021 at 1:30 p.m.<br>\n<strong>Registration<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/zoom.us\/webinar\/register\/WN_i7lBklSqSKahAx67PM0Zog\">https:\/\/zoom.us\/webinar\/register\/WN_i7lBklSqSKahAx67PM0Zog<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About the Speaker:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Abizaid is interested in the brain processes that integrate information from the environment to regulate feeding and energy balance. His <em>Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council<\/em>&nbsp;of Canada (NSERC) funded research is focused on how metabolic hormones like ghrelin influence reward-seeking behaviours via actions on the brain systems related to rewards and fears. His Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) funded research examines how the hormone ghrelin influences feeding as a coping mechanism to mitigate the effects of chronic social stress. He is also interested in how prenatal factors like diet, environmental pollutants or gestational diabetes influence the development of brain systems implicated in the regulation of feeding and energy balance in their offspring.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About the Science Caf\u00e9<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Come and virtually join us for a lively discussion around a scientific issue of the day. Be prepared to be informed, engaged and even amused, as our professors share their scientific discoveries with you. All are welcome. For more information, please contact the Faculty of Science by email at <a href=\"mailto:odscience@carleton.ca\">odscience@carleton.ca<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Media Contact<br>\n<\/strong>Steven Reid<br>\nMedia Relations Officer<br>\nCarleton University<br>\n613-265-6613<br>\n<a href=\"mailto:Steven.Reid3@carleton.ca\">Steven.Reid3@carleton.ca<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Follow us on Twitter:&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/Cunewsroom\">www.twitter.com\/Cunewsroom<\/a><br>\nCOVID 19 Updates:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/newsroom.carleton.ca\/coronavirus-covid-19\/messages\/\">https:\/\/newsroom.carleton.ca\/coronavirus-covid-19\/messages\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carleton University will host Science Caf\u00e9 with speaker Prof. Alfonso Abizaid in the Department of Neuroscience discussing stress, and how under some circumstances, it can increase appetite and alter our metabolism to promote weight gain. 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