Rate My Professor Emily Noble

Emily E. Noble is an Associate Professor in the Department of Nutritional Sciences at the University of Georgia College of Family and Consumer Sciences. She earned a B.A. in Natural Science from Hampshire College in 2001, an M.S. in Nutrition from the University of Minnesota in 2010, and a Ph.D. in Nutritional Biochemistry from the University of Minnesota in 2014. She completed postdoctoral training in neuroscience at the University of California, Los Angeles from 2014 to 2015 and at the University of Southern California from 2015 to 2018, followed by a position as Research Assistant Professor at USC from 2018 to 2019. In 2019, she joined the University of Georgia as Assistant Professor, promoted to Associate Professor in 2023. She also holds secondary appointments as faculty in the Neuroscience Graduate Program and Integrated Life Sciences.

Dr. Noble's research utilizes rodent models to investigate neural mechanisms regulating feeding behavior, energy balance, body weight, and cognitive function. Her studies explore brain signaling pathways that control eating and drinking, the neurobiology of obesity, and the impacts of high-fat, high-sugar Western diets on learning, memory, and food impulsivity. She directs the Nutritional Neuroscience Laboratory. Notable publications include "Hypothalamic melanin-concentrating hormone neurons integrate food-motivated appetitive and consummatory processes in rats" (Nature Communications, 2023), "Early life low calorie sweetener consumption disrupts glucose regulation, sugar-motivated behavior, and memory functions in rats" (JCI Insight, 2022), "Ventral Hippocampus-Lateral Septum circuitry promotes foraging-related memory" (Cell Reports, 2022), "Sexually dimorphic effects of a Western Diet on brain mitochondrial bioenergetics and neurocognitive function" (Nutrients, 2021), and "Oxytocin and food intake control: Neural, Behavioral, and Signaling Mechanisms" (International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2021). Her contributions have earned awards such as Fellow of The Obesity Society (2023), Charles B. Knapp Early Career Scholar Award from the University of Georgia (2022), BioServ Award in Experimental Animal Nutrition from the American Society for Nutrition (2022), FACS Early Career Research Award (2022), and FACS Mentoring Undergraduate Research Award (2024). She has secured NIH funding as principal investigator, including a K01 Career Development Award (DK118000, 2019–2024) and an R03 Small Research Grant (DK128306, 2021–2023).