TY - JOUR
T1 - Creativity needs some serendipity
T2 - Reflections on a career in ingestive behavior
AU - Rolls, Barbara J.
N1 - Funding Information:
I thank the students, post-doctoral fellows, colleagues, and staff who contributed to the studies. The work is currently supported by the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases grants R01 DK082580 and R01 DK059853 , and USDA National Institute for Food and Agriculture grant 2011-67001-30117 .
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Starting over in a new university in a different country was challenging. On top of that I was in a medical school with a great reputation, but with few women in senior positions, especially those with a Ph.D. Eventually I became the 29th woman to become a full professor with tenure at Johns Hopkins, and of those, only the 13th with a Ph.D. Before that was accomplished, I had much to do. In England, I had continuous funding from the Medical Research Council and now I was trying to break into the National Institutes of Health funding system—new players and a very different grant format–and getting used to new computer technology. Just before the deadline on my first grant submission, my computer destroyed my only version of the application. I rewrote lots of it and got the grant in, it got funded, and since I have been continuously funded by the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases. This funding has given me the freedom to pursue new ideas and to experiment creatively.
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PY - 2016/1/7
Y1 - 2016/1/7
N2 - I describe my 50 year career in ingestive behavior in the hope of inspiring young scientists to join in the excitement of discovering why animals, especially the human animal, eat and drink. My interest in ingestive behavior started by chance in a freshman biology class at the University of Pennsylvania taught by Alan Epstein. Once I was exposed to the thrill of doing research my plans for medical school were abandoned and I traveled to the University of Cambridge in England where with James Fitzsimons I completed a Ph.D. in physiology on studies of thirst in rats. After I moved on to the University of Oxford, the early training in biologic mechanisms provided a good basis for studies in humans. We characterized the sensations associated with thirst and the mechanisms involved in its initiation and termination. We also continued to work with animal models in a series of studies of dietary obesity. The effect of dietary variety on rat's intake led to studies of sensory-specific satiety in humans. In recent years the primary interest of my lab has been how food properties affect intake, satiety, and body weight. At the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and now at The Pennsylvania State University, we have conducted systematic studies of the effects of the macronutrients, variety, portion size, and energy density in both adults and children. Currently our research aims to understand how to leverage the robust effects of variety, portion size, and energy density to encourage healthy eating and drinking. Throughout my career I have been lucky to have been in supportive environments surrounded by creative, insightful, and diligent colleagues.
AB - I describe my 50 year career in ingestive behavior in the hope of inspiring young scientists to join in the excitement of discovering why animals, especially the human animal, eat and drink. My interest in ingestive behavior started by chance in a freshman biology class at the University of Pennsylvania taught by Alan Epstein. Once I was exposed to the thrill of doing research my plans for medical school were abandoned and I traveled to the University of Cambridge in England where with James Fitzsimons I completed a Ph.D. in physiology on studies of thirst in rats. After I moved on to the University of Oxford, the early training in biologic mechanisms provided a good basis for studies in humans. We characterized the sensations associated with thirst and the mechanisms involved in its initiation and termination. We also continued to work with animal models in a series of studies of dietary obesity. The effect of dietary variety on rat's intake led to studies of sensory-specific satiety in humans. In recent years the primary interest of my lab has been how food properties affect intake, satiety, and body weight. At the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and now at The Pennsylvania State University, we have conducted systematic studies of the effects of the macronutrients, variety, portion size, and energy density in both adults and children. Currently our research aims to understand how to leverage the robust effects of variety, portion size, and energy density to encourage healthy eating and drinking. Throughout my career I have been lucky to have been in supportive environments surrounded by creative, insightful, and diligent colleagues.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.physbeh.2016.02.009
DO - 10.1016/j.physbeh.2016.02.009
M3 - Review article
C2 - 26861175
AN - SCOPUS:84957627223
SN - 0031-9384
VL - 162
SP - 186
EP - 195
JO - Physiology and Behavior
JF - Physiology and Behavior
ER -