Rate My Professor Emily Noble

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).