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Field of Nutrition Seminar -- Fall 2008

Monday's, 4:00 pm, 100 Savage Hall

Date Title Speaker
Sep 08 Treatment of Parenteral Nutrition Associated Liver Injury (HOST: Tom Brenna) Mark Puder, MD PhD, Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School, Associate in Surgery, Children's Hospital Boston
Sep 15 TBA Open
Sep 22 TBA Emily Levitt, Cornell, DNS Grad Student (Dissertion Seminar)
Sep 26 A physiological perspective on the unfolded protein response Co-sponsored Seminar with Molecular Biology & Genetics: David Ron, NYU School of Medicine
Sep 29 The Built Environment, Food, and Physical Activity: Measurement Issues (HOST: Carol Devine) Ann Forsyth, Cornell, Professor, City and Regional Planning
Oct 06 Fetal Development and Growth Eva Pressman, MD, Director, Obstetrics & Maternal Fetal Medicine, Univrsity of Rochester Medical Center, Strong Memorial Hospital
Oct 13 Title tba: Shu-Bing Qian, Cornell, Div of Nutritional Sciences
Oct 20 From Nanoparticles to Vitamins and Viruses – The Role of the Human Placenta in Maternal and Fetal Physiology (HOST: Kimberly O'Brien) Richard K. Miller, Ph.D., Prof of Obstetrics/Gynecology of Environ Med & Pathology and Laboratory Med; Dir, PEDECS (NYS Teratogen Info Ser);
Oct 24 Title TBD Co-sponsored Seminar with Molecular Biology & Genetics: Marc Montminy, Salk Institute
Oct 27 Nutritional constraints on hominid brain evolution (HOSTS: Tom Brenna) Stephen Cunnane, Canadian Research Chair, Professor and Director, Research Center on Aging Universite de Sherbrooke, Canada
Professor Cunnane is author of the 2005 book "Survival of the fattest: the key to human brain evolution".  His seminar will focus on nutrition beyond calories and protein that are relevant to development to the human brain.
Nov 03 The Role of The Federal Government in Preventing Childhood Obesity - An Analysis of Organizational, Congressional and Parent Perspectives Alexandra Lewin, Cornell, DNS Grad Student
Nov 10 Copper Transporters in Signaling, Development and Disease (HOST: Paul Soloway) Dennis J. Thiele, George Barth Geller Prof, Dept of Pharmacology & Cancer Biology, Duke Univ Medical Center
Nov 17 Title tba: (HOST: Kathy Rasmussen) Grace Marquis, Canada Research Chair Associate Professor, School of Dietetics and Human Nutrition, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Nov 24 Catalyzing communities to prevent obesity (HOST: Jamie Dollahite) Christina Economos, Ph.D., Asst Prof, New Balance Chair in Childhood Nutr, Gerald J. & Dorothy R. Friedman Sch of Nutr, Sci & Policy, Tufts Univ
Dec 01 Metabolic mechanisms underlying folate-responsive neural tube defects Anna Beaudin, Cornell, DNS Grad Student

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