Current Concepts in Nutrition and Aging Conference

Join us September 18, 2008 on the UW-Madison campus for the fourteenth annual “Current Concepts in Nutrition and Aging” conference.  Get an overview of the gastrointestinal and nutritional implications of aging from keynoter Dr. Robert Martindale, MD, PhD, Medical Director for Hospital Nutrition Services at Oregon Health and Science University.  Then hear keynoter Dr. Michael Wolf, PhD, MPH, of Northwestern University on health literacy.  Choose from seminars on food safety, kidney and diet, web nutrition resources, mineral nutrition, working with the aging Latina/o, exercise for older adults, pressure ulcers, and Parkinson’s.
 
Unable to travel?  Keynotes will be available via webcast.
 
For more information or to receive a brochure, call toll free 1-888-391-4255 or visit the website.

Spring 2008 Seminar Series

Date

Presenter

Topic

January 25*
12:00PM - 1:00 PM
Paul Pencharz
University of Toronto
Recent advances in our understanding of protein and amino acid requirements in health and disease
January 31

Dr. Jean E. Vance
University of Alberta

CANCELLED

February 21
WiPod Lecture Series
4:00 PM
UW Health Sciences Learning Center (HSLC1335)

James Sallis
San Diego State Univ.
The role of the built environment in obesity prevention
February 28 Michael J. Carvan III
Univ. of WI-Milwaukee
Selenomethionine reduces visual deficits due to developmental methylmercury exposures
March 12
Time and Location TBA
Chistina Economos
Tufts Univ
Catalyzing communities to reduce pediatric obesity: shape up Somerville and beyond
March 20
Spring Recess
March 27 Richard F. Hurrell
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH)
Food-based strategies to combat iron deficiency
March 31
Time and Location TBA
John R. Speakman
Aberdeen Univ, Scotland
Body size, energy metabolism and aging
April 3
Anne L. Escaron
UW IGPNS Grad Student
Using tracers to investigate vitamin A metabolism at the extremes of vitamin A status: restricted and excessive vitamin A
April 10
Jeremy Goforth
UW IGPNS Grad Student
How iron regulatory protein 1 selectively binds to its targets mRNAs
April 17
WiPod Lecture Series
4:00 PM
UW Health Sciences Learning Center (HSLC1335)
Joel Gittelsohn
School of Public Health
Johns Hopkins Univ
Environmental interventions to reduce diabetes risk among Native North Americans: approach and results of the healthy stores projects
April 17
Brandon T. Metzger
UW IGPNS Grad Student
 
April 24
Danielle Knutson
UW IGPNS Grad Student
 
May 1
Angela Wai-Man See
UW IGPNS Grad Student
Vitamin A and embryonic development
May 8 Zhumin Zhang
UW IGPNS Grad Student
Evaluation of growth indexes for screening malnutrition in children with cystic fibrosis
May 14
Time and Location TBA
Karen Glanz
Emory Univ
Understanding and improving nutrition environments in grocery stores and restaurants
May 15
Xiaowen Liu
UW IGPNS Grad Student
Synergistic effect of supplemental enteral nutrients (SEN) and a low-dose of glucagon-like peptide-2 (GLP-2) on intestinal adaptive growth in parenterally-fed rats

Fall 2007 Seminar Series

NIH Nutritional Sciences Training Grant Fall Research Symposium

Date

Presenter

Topic

Oct. 11* (1-4:30 pm, 1325 Health Sciences Learning Center) Robert Rizza
Mayo Clinic
Pathogenesis of type 2 diabetes: implications for therapy
Christopher Newgard
Duke University
Comprehensive metabolic profiling for understanding diabetes and obesity mechanisms
Philipp Scherrer
University of Texas
Southwestern
Adipose tissue: innocent bystander or the dark force behind insulin resistance?
Jessica Flowers
UW Nutr Sci/Biochemistry
Stearoyl CoA desaturase-1 as a target for diabetes prevention
Oct. 18 Martina Cartwright
Lilly Pharmaceuticals
Indianapolis, Indiana
A future With Pharma?
Oct. 25 David J. Eide
UW Nutritional Sciences
Nutritional genomics and metal ion homeostasis
Nov. 1 Iqbal Hamza
University of Maryland-
College Park
Specification of eukaryotic heme trafficking pathways
Nov. 8 Barbara Mickelson
Harlan Teklad
Madison WI
The importance of diet selection in reducing research variables
Nov. 15 HuiChuan Lai
UW Nutritional Sciences
Using epidemiological research to improve care and outcome of cystic fibrosis
Nov. 22
Thanksgiving  
Nov. 29 Brandon Metzger
UW IGPNS Grad Student
Cancelled
Dec. 6 Harini Sampath
UW IGPNS Grad Student
Stearoyl CoA desaturase-1 mediates the pro-lipogenic effects of dietary saturated fat
Dec. 13 Jordan Mills
UW IGPNS Grad Student
Dietary provitamin A carotenoids in the prevention of hypo and hypervitaminosis A: extrapolation from animal models