NCAB General Body Meeting - Your Brain on Nighttime Eating: Exploring how meal timing shapes the brain, behavior, and metabolic health.

WHEN: Thursday, October 15th from 5:30p to 6:30p

WHERE: TBD

HOW: Register at - NCAB General Body Meeting - Your Brain on Nighttime Eating: Exploring how meal timing shapes the brain, behavior, and metabolic health.

Presenter: Dr. Lauren Woodie

Topic: Your Brain on Nighttime Eating:  Exploring how meal timing shapes the brain, behavior, and metabolic health.

Speaker Bio: Lauren Woodie, PhD, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Pharmacology & Physiology at George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences. Dr. Woodie earned her BS in Biology from Washington & Lee University and her PhD in Nutrition Science from Auburn University, followed by postdoctoral training at the University of Pennsylvania. She joined George Washington University as an Assistant Professor in 2025. Her work has identified mechanisms through which peripheral metabolic signals communicate with the brain to regulate circadian patterns of food intake. The Woodie Lab now investigates how circadian disruption and mistimed eating recruit neural circuits that alter metabolic and behavioral health. By integrating circadian biology, neuroscience, and metabolism, Dr. Woodie seeks to uncover fundamental mechanisms through which the timing of behavior influences physiology and to identify new therapeutic targets for conditions exacerbated by chronodisruption, including shift work and jet lag.