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