Fall 2009 Seminar Series

Thursdays, 11:00 a.m., 290 Nutritional Sciences


Date	Presenter	Topic
Sep. 10	Susan Smith UW-Madison	Your Baby on Booze: Roles for Beta-Catenin and Calcium in Mediating Alcohol's Developmental Neurotoxicity
Sep. 17	Avtar Roopra UW-Madison Department of Neurology	Metabolic sensors in the brain: Tools for controling plasticity?
Sep. 24*	Michael Pollan U of California-Berkeley School of Journalism	'Go Big Read' Humanities Without Boundaries Lecture In Defense of Food: the Omnivore's Solution
Oct. 1	Sara Arscott UW IGPNS Graduate Student	Dietary Provitamin A Carotenoids in the Prevention of Vitamin A Deficiency
Oct. 8	John Suttie UW-Madison Department of Biochemistry	The History of Nutritional Research at the U.W.-Madison
Oct. 15	Amy Luke Loyola University Department of Preventive Medicine and Epidemiology	Primary Driver of the Obesity Epidemic: Energy Intake or Energy Expenditure?
Oct. 22	No Seminar
Oct. 28**	WIPOD Symposium	Production and Consumption of Whole Food
Nov. 5	Brian Baldo UW-Madison Department of Psychiatry	Corticostriatal-hypothalamic Circuitry and Food Motivation
Nov. 12***	Steven Zeisel U of North Carolina-Chapel Hill Depts. of Nutrition and Pediatrics	Milton Nichols Memorial Lecture: Individualized Nutrition: How Genes, Epigenetics, and Sex Interact to Create a Dietary Requirement for the Nutrient Choline
Nov. 19	Mark Richards UW-Madison Department of Animal Sciences	Assessing Lipid Oxidation of Cooked Meat in Stomach and Vascular Environments: Effect of Different Dietary Antioxidants
Dec. 3	Christopher Coe UW-Madison Department of Psychology	Risk Factors and Consequences of Iron Deficiency in the Infant Primate

Spring 2009 Seminar Series

Thursdays, 11:00 a.m., 290 Nutritional Sciences


Date	Presenter	Topic
Feb. 5	Peter Nichol UW-Madison Sect. of Pediatric Surgery	Intestinal Atresias: developing a new hypothesis from clinical observations in the molecular age of developmental biology
Feb. 12	Linda Samuelson Univ Michigan-Ann Arbor	Do the math: notch signaling and cell lineage determination in the intestine
Feb. 19	Hannah Carey UW-Madison Biotron, Comparative Biosciences	Unraveling mysteries of hibernation: from basic science to medical applications
Feb. 26	Chang-Yi (Charlie) Wu UW-Madison	How yeast cells respond to zinc deficiency
Mar. 5	Frank Greer UW-Madison Dept. of Pediatrics	Update on vitamin D requirements for infants, children and adolescents
Mar. 12	Roger Sunde UW-Madison	Use of molecular biology biomarkers for selenium deficiency and toxicity in rodents, humans, and worms
Mar. 19	Spring Break
Mar. 26	Sandy van Calcar UW IGPNS Graduate Student	Glycomacropeptide (GMP) from cheese whey improves nutritional management of phenylketonuria (PKU)
Apr. 2	Jamie Cooper UW IGPNS Graduate Student	Effect of dietary fatty acid composition and exercise on short-term fat balance
Apr. 9	Lisa Harnack University of Minnesota	The American Diet - Is it heading in the right direction?
Apr. 16	EB 2009
Apr. 23	EB 2009
Apr. 30	Elizabeth McNeill UW IGPNS Graduate Student	The role of the retinoic acid responsive gene NAV2 in nervous system development
May 7	Megan Baumler UW IGPNS Graduate Student	The role of luminal nutrients in pancreatic growth and the regulation of secretory function by Hsp70 and cysteine string protein in health and disease

Fall 2008 Seminar Series

Thursdays, 11:00 a.m., 290 Nutritional Sciences


Date	Presenter	Topic
Sept. 4	Maureen Durkin UW-Madison Dept. Population Health Sci	National children's study: hypotheses related to child health, nutrition and development
Sept. 11	Torbert Rocheford Univ IL-Urbana	Genetic and breeding studies on vitamin A and procarotenoids in maize grain: a biosynthetic pathway model approach
*Sept. 19	Robert Martindale Oregon Health & Science Univ	Milton Nichols Memorial Lecture - Prebiotics, probiotics and synbiotics in the ICU: food, fad or "bacterial therapy"? (supported by University Lectures Comm)
Sept. 25	Sherry Tanumihardjo UW-Madison	The potential for provitamin A carotenoids to address vitamin A deficiency
Oct. 2	Chang-Yi Wu UW-Madison	How yeast cells respond to Zinc deficiency
Oct. 9	David Trott UW IGPNS Graduate Student	Chicken egg yolk antibody - a nutraceutical: strategies in vaccinology
Oct. 16	Rosalind Coleman UNC, Chapel Hill	A surprising role for acyl-CoA synthetase-1 in beta-oxidation
Oct. 23	Veronika Somoza UW-Madison Dept. of Food Sciences	Strategies to identify bioactive food compounds
Oct. 30	Charles Burant Univ Michigan	Metabolic profiling with metabolomics and transcriptomics
*Nov. 6	Alan Attie UW-Madison Dept. of Biochemistry	Genes, gene networks, and type 2 diabetes
Nov. 13	Jean Vance Univ of Alberta, Canada	Metabolism of Phospholipids, Cholesterol and Apo E in the Nervous System
Nov. 20	Victor Drover Medical College of WI	Coordinate regulation of whole-body fat utilization by the membrane receptor CD36.
Dec. 4	Joel Walker UW-Madison	Zinc transporters and human disease

*Different date/time:
Martindale, 12:00 VA Hospital Auditorium
Attie, 1:00, Biotech Center Auditorium

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