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Harvard School of Public Health

Presents the Fall 2006 & Spring 2007

Nutrition Seminar Series

DATE
SPEAKER TOPIC
September
11

P. Kirstin Newby, ScD, MPH, MS

Empirically derived eating patterns:  Evolving methods in nutritional epidemiology Past, present, and future

18

Hooman Allayee, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Dept. of Preventive Medicine, Director, Molecular Genetics Laboratory, General Clinical Research Center, USC Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA

Role of the 5-Lipoxygenase Gene in Cardiovascular and Metabolic Diseases: From Mouse to Therapy

October
2

Marji  McCullough, Sr. Epidemiologist, American Cancer Society; Adjunct Assistant Professor, Emory University

Scientific basis for the 2006 ACS Guidelines on Nutrition and Physical Activity for Cancer Prevention

4 (WIP)

Dr. Lior Horonchik

Ferristatin Induces Degradation of the Transferrin Receptor

16

Andrew Prentice, PhD, Professor of International Nutrition, MRC International Nutrition Group, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

"Diets, diseases and death in Sub-Saharan Africa"

23

Camilla Hoppe, MSc, PhD, Dept. of Human Nutrition , Centre for Advanced Food Studies, Denmark

Human health aspects of milk and milk products. With focus on linear growth. 

30
Dariush Mozaffarian, MD, DrPH, Dept of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School; Dept of Epidemiology, HSPH

Trans fatty acids and cardiovascular health: The current evidence

November
6

Roberto Marchioli, MD

Testing the Fish Oil Hypothesis in Randomized Trials - The Italian Clinical Research Network in Cardiology and General Practice

13

Xiang Gao, MD, PhD., Research Fellow, Harvard School of Public Health

Marc Weisskopf, PhD, ScD, Harvard School of Public Health, Environmental Health Occupational Health Program

Urate: From foe to friend? New evidence suggests that urate may reduce risk of Parkinson's disease

27
Alice Lichtenstein New AHA Diet and Lifestyle Recommendations - An Insiders Look
December
18

Peter McClennan

Experimental evidence for the use of fish and fish oil in cardiology: Towards biological plausibility of the epidemiology
January
29
Dr. Eliot Berson

Nutritional interventions for retinitis pigmentosa

February
5

Clement Ip

A new look into the anticancer action of selenium through the lens of endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress.

12
(President’s Day)

Improving the DASH diet: results of the OmniHeart trial

26
David Newburg Pre-biotic
March
5

Kurt Long

12

Guy Crosby

Resistant Starch: Nature's Paradox

19
(Spring recess)  
26
 Wessling-Resnick

Iron Status and Metal Transport: Regulation of Divalent Metal Transporter-1 and Its Influence on Manganese Absorption

April
2
 Dr. Sautin

Uric acid in cardiovascular and renal diseases: metabolic syndrome as a common denominator?

9

Cuilin Zhang

16

23
Steven Miller
May
7

Gillman

14

Brian Wansink

 
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