Nutritional Sciences Seminar -- 4 PM -- 150 Animal Sciences Lab
Fall 2008 --
August 27 * -- New Student Reception. *Bevier Hall Commons, 2nd Floor, 3:30-5 PM.
September 03 -- Chad K. Stroud, Nutritional Sciences Graduate Student. "Mice lacking delta-6 desaturase provide new insight into the roles of highly unsaturated fatty acids"
September 10 -- Christina L. Sherry, Nutritional Sciences Graduate Student. "Are you what you eat? Ask your immune system"
September 17 -- No Seminar -- Students only. External Advisory Committee/Graduate Student Forum. (4-5:30 PM). *Monsanto Room, ACES Library
September 24 -- Christopher B. Guest, Nutritional Sciences Graduate Student (Medical Scholars Program). "Problems with the big eaters"
October 01 -- C. K. Gunsalus, TBA
October 08 -- No Seminar -- Faculty/Student Nutrition Bowl, Spice Box, Bevier Hall, 2nd Floor
October 15 -- Mary Frances Picciano, PhD, Office of the Director, Dietary Supplements, National Institutes of Health, Health and Human Services, Rockville, MD. "Vitamin D and health in the 21st century: What we know and what we need to know"
October 22 -- Michael Aviram, PhD, Professor, Bernice R. and Joseph Tanebaum Chair in Preventive Medicine, Head Lipid Research Laboratory, Technion Faculty of Medicine and Director, Dept Laboratory Medicine, Rambam Medical Center, Bat-Galim, Haifa, Israel. "The good, the bad, and the oxidized cholesterol: Cardioprotection by dietary antioxidants and paraoxonase 1"
October 29 -- Margarita Teran-Garcia, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, Dept Food Science and Human Nutrition, UIUC. "A genomic approach to identify genes related to insulin sensitivity and metabolic syndrome"
November 05 -- David A. Williams, VetMB, PhD, DACVIM, DECVIM-CA, Professor and Head, Dept Veterinary Clinical Medicine, UIUC. "Intestinal enteropathy in beagles: Are beagles normal dogs?"
November 12 -- Ren-Hau Lai, Nutritional Sciences Graduate Student. "Metabolism and bioactivity of glucoraphanin in gut of the F344 rat"
November 19 -- Victoria J. Vieira, Nutritional Sciences Graduate Student. "Exercise, inflammation, and obesity co-morbidities"
November 26 -- No Seminar -- Thanksgiving
December 03 -- Saebyeol Jang, Nutritional Sciences Graduate Student. "Effect of flavonoids on neuroinflammation"
December 10 -- Pascasie Adedze, Nutritional Sciences Graduate Student. "Prevention of overweight children enrolled in the Head Start Program through nutrition education directed at teachers and parents"
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