Daniel Smith Jr.

Daniel Smith Jr.
Assistant Professor

Scientist (C), Comprehensive Diabetes Center , School of Medicine
Associate Scientist (C), O'Neal Comprehensive Cancer Center , School of Medicine
Scientist (C), Integrative Center for Aging Research , School of Medicine
Associate Scientist (C), Center for Clinical and Translational Science (CCTS) , General Clinical Research Center
Scientist (C), Comprehensive Neuroscience Center , General Clinical Research Center
Assistant Professor (P), Nutrition Sciences , School of Health Professions
Associate Scientist (C), Nutrition Obesity Res Center (NORC) , Nutrition Sciences Research

Overview

Daniel L. Smith Jr., Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Nutrition Sciences at UAB. His research focuses on the interaction of nutrition and metabolism in relationship to aging and disease. Topics include: obesity, calorie restriction, calorie restriction mimetics, brown adipose tissue, ulcerative dermatitis in C57BL/6 mice, and systems biology of aging using budding yeast chronological lifespan.

Selected Publications

Academic Article

Year	Title	Altmetric
2021	Diabetes medications as potential calorie restriction mimetics—a focus on the alpha-glucosidase inhibitor acarbose. Geroscience. 43:1123-1133. 2021
2021	High Fructose Corn Syrup-Moderate Fat Diet Potentiates Anxio-Depressive Behavior and Alters Ventral Striatal Neuronal Signaling. Frontiers in Neuroscience. 15. 2021
2021	Fat mass loss correlates with faster disease progression in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis patients: Exploring the utility of dual-energy xray absorptiometry in a prospective study. PLoS ONE. 16. 2021
2021	High-resolution yeast quiescence profiling in human-like media reveals complex influences of auxotrophy and nutrient availability. Geroscience. 43:941-964. 2021
2021	University of Alabama at Birmingham Nathan Shock Center: comparative energetics of aging. Geroscience. 2021
2020	A cell-nonautonomous mechanism of yeast chronological aging regulated by caloric restriction and one-carbon metabolism.. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 296:100125. 2020
2020	Canagliflozin extends life span in genetically heterogeneous male but not female mice. JCI insight. 5. 2020
2020	The antidiabetic agent acarbose improves anti-PD-1 and rapamycin efficacy in preclinical renal cancer. Cancers. 12:1-19. 2020
2020	Exogenous Dietary Ketone Ester Decreases Body Weight and Adiposity in Mice Housed at Thermoneutrality 2020
2020	Energy Balance as a Moderator of Neurologic Disease Risk and Progression. Neurotoxicity Research. 38:242-248. 2020
2020	Murine genetic models of obesity: type I error rates and the power of commonly used analyses as assessed by plasmode-based simulation. International Journal of Obesity. 44:1440-1449. 2020
2019	Differences in Glucose Metabolism Among Women With Spinal Cord Injury May Not Be Fully Explained by Variations in Body Composition. Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. 100:1061-1067.e1. 2019
2019	A Systematic Scoping Review of Surgically Manipulated Adipose Tissue and the Regulation of Energetics and Body Fat in Animals 2019
2019	Dietary R,S-1,3-butanediol diacetoacetate reduces body weight and adiposity in obese mice fed a high-fat diet. The FASEB Journal. 33:2409-2421. 2019
2018	Weight Cycling Increases Longevity Compared with Sustained Obesity in Mice 2018
2018	A paternal methyl donor depleted diet leads to increased anxiety- and depression-like behavior in adult rat offspring 2018
2018	Regression to the mean, apparent data errors and biologically extraordinary results: Letter regarding 'changes in telomere length 3-5 years after gastric bypass surgery'. International Journal of Obesity. 42:949-950. 2018
2018	Sex-dependent differences in liver and gut metabolomic profiles with acarbose and calorie restriction in C57BL/6 mice 2018
2016	Gene-nutrient interaction markedly influences yeast chronological lifespan. Experimental Gerontology. 86:113-123. 2016
2016	Nutrition and energetics in rodent longevity research. Experimental Gerontology. 86:90-96. 2016
2016	Observational research rigour alone does not justify causal inference. European Journal of Clinical Investigation. 46:985-993. 2016
2016	Targeting glucose metabolism for healthy aging.. Nutr Healthy Aging. 4:31-46. 2016
2016	Contributors to Metabolic Disease Risk Following Spinal Cord Injury. Current Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Reports. 4:190-199. 2016
2016	In Vivo Determination of Body Composition in Zebrafish (Danio rerio) by Quantitative Magnetic Resonance. Zebrafish. 13:170-176. 2016
2015	Weighing the Evidence of Common Beliefs in Obesity Research 2015
2014	Aging and energetics' 'Top 40' future research opportunities 2010-2013. F1000Research. 3. 2014
2014	Impact of weight cycling on risk of morbidity and mortality. Obesity Reviews. 15:870-881. 2014
2014	Variations in body weight, Food Intake and body composition after long-term high-fat diet feeding in C57BL/6J mice 2014
2013	Measurement of interscapular brown adipose tissue of mice in differentially housed temperatures by chemical-shift-encoded water-fat MRI. Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging. 38:1425-1433. 2013
2013	Sarcopenia and piscines: The case for indeterminate-growing fish as unique genetic model organisms in aging and longevity research. Frontiers in Genetics. 4. 2013
2013	Dietary protein source influence on body size and composition in growing zebrafish. Zebrafish. 10:439-446. 2013
2013	Effects of risperidone on energy balance in female C57BL/6J mice 2013
2013	Myths, presumptions, and facts about obesity. New England Journal of Medicine. 368:446-454. 2013
2013	Chemical-shift water-fat MRI of white adipose depots: inability to resolve cell size differences.. International Journal of Body Composition Research. 11:9-16. 2013
2012	Variations in T 2^* and fat content of murine brown and white adipose tissues by chemical-shift MRI. Magnetic Resonance Imaging. 30:323-329. 2012
2012	Ambient Temperature and Obesity. Current Obesity Reports. 1:26-34. 2012
2012	Conjectures on some curious connections among social status, calorie restriction, hunger, fatness, and longevity. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 1264:1-12. 2012
2011	Telomere dynamics in rhesus monkeys: No apparent effect of caloric restriction 2011
2011	MR properties of brown and white adipose tissues. Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging. 34:468-473. 2011
2011	No compelling evidence that sibutramine prolongs life in rodents despite providing a dose-dependent reduction in body weight. International Journal of Obesity. 35:652-657. 2011
2011	Can rodent longevity studies be both short and powerful? 2011
2010	Identification of brown adipose tissue in mice with fat-water IDEAL-MRI. Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging. 31:1195-1202. 2010
2010	Metformin supplementation and life span in fischer-344 rats 2010
2010	The effect of mannan oligosaccharide supplementation on body weight gain and fat accrual in C57Bl/6J mice 2010
2010	A microarray-based genetic screen for yeast chronological aging factors. PLoS Genetics. 6. 2010
2010	Chronic ingestion of 2-deoxy-d-glucose induces cardiac vacuolization and increases mortality in rats. Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology. 243:332-339. 2010
2010	Mild calorie restriction induces fat accumulation in female C57BL/6J mice 2010
2010	Calorie restriction: What recent results suggest for the future of ageing research. European Journal of Clinical Investigation. 40:440-450. 2010
2009	Validation of quantitative magnetic resonance (QMR) for determination of body composition in rats.. International Journal of Body Composition Research. 7:99-107. 2009
2009	Precision and accuracy of bioimpedance spectroscopy for determination of in vivo body composition in rats.. International Journal of Body Composition Research. 7:21-26. 2009
2008	Pnc1p-mediated nicotinamide clearance modifies the epigenetic properties of rDNA silencing in Saccharomyces cerevisiae 2008
2007	DNA replication stress is a determinant of chronological lifespan in budding yeast. PLoS ONE. 2. 2007
2004	Nicotinamide Clearance by Pnc1 Directly Regulates Sir2-Mediated Silencing and Longevity. Molecular and Cellular Biology. 24:1301-1312. 2004