Program in International Nutrition -- Seminars

Program in International and Community Nutrition

Spring 2004 Seminar Topics

Date	Topic	Speaker
4/7	Functional assessment: lessons learned, opportunities and challenges	Lindsay Allen Director WHNRC
4/14	Assessment of body composition, bone mineral density and turnover	Marta Van Loan Senior Scientist WHNRC
4/21	No seminar – Experimental Biology
4/28	Novel approaches for measuring energy expenditure and appetite	Molly Kretsch Nancy Keim Senior Scientists WHNRC
5/10	Change in date (Monday at noon)! The impact of an integrated food and nutrition program (PANN 2000) on the prevalence of anemia and low weight-for-age among infants and young children in Ecuador	Chessa Lutter Pan American Health Organization
5/12	Discussion of article: B. Caballero. “Ethical issues for collaborative research in developing countries.” Am. J. Clin. Nutr. 76:717-20, 2002. (Note: This is a Required Reading)	Zhenyu Yang PIN Student Joshua Miller Associate Professor Dept. Pathology UCDMC
5/19	Assessment of immune function	Charles Stephensen Senior Scientist WHNRC
5/26	Assessing the impact of a vitamin B-12 supplement on child development in Guatemala	Manuel Ramirez INCAP Guatemala
6/2	Child development: Results of an iron-zinc intervention trial in Pemba, Zanzibar	Deanna Olney PIN Student
6/9	Pizza, international organizations, careers	Faculty and Students

Winter 2004 Seminar Topics

Date	Topic	Speaker
1/7	Discussion of journal article: Robert E Black, Saul S Morris, Jennifer Bryce. "Where and why are 10 million children dying every year?" Lancet, June 28, 2003, Vol 361, pp. 2226-2234.	Amy Hughes PIN Student
1/14	Discussion of journal article: Gareth Jones, Richard W Steketee, Robert E Black, Zulfiqar A Bhutta, Saul S Morris and Bellagio Child Survival Study Group. "How many child deaths can we prevent this year?" Lancet, July 5, 2003, Vol 362, pp. 65-71.	Kathleen Deegan PIN Student
1/21	Discussion of journal article: Adam Drewnowski and SE Specter. “Poverty and obesity: the role of energy density and energy costs” Am J Clin Nutr, 79:6-16; 2004.	Sara Schaefer PIN Student
1/28	Discussion of journal article: Abdullah H. Baqui, K. Zaman, Lars Ake Persson, Shams El Arifeen, Mohammad Yunus, Nazma Begum, and Robert E. Black. “Simultaneous weekly supplementation of iron and zinc is associated with lower morbidity due to diarrhea and acute lower respiratory infection in Bangladeshi infants” J Nutr, 133:4150-4157, 2003.	Bakhtiar Hossain PIN Student
2/4	Discussion of journal article: Angela de Silva, Sunethra Atukorala, Irangani Weerasinghe, and Namanjeet Ahluwalia. “Iron supplementation improves iron status and reduces morbidity in children with or without upper respiratory tract infections: a randomized controlled study in Colombo, Sri Lanka” Am J Clin Nutr, 77:234-41, 2003.	Patrice Armstrong PIN Student
2/11	Discussion of journal article: Robert E Mazur, Grace S Marquis, and Helen H Jensen. “Diet and food insufficiency among Hispanic youths: acculturation and socioeconomic factors in the third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey” Am J Clin Nutr, 78:1120-1127, 2003.	Virginia Chaidez PIN Student
2/18	Discussion of journal article: Parul Christian, Keith P West, Subarna K Khatry, Steven C Leclerq, Elizabeth K Pradhan, Joanne Katz, Sharada Ram Shrestha, and Alfred Sommer. “Effects of maternal micronutrient supplementation on fetal loss and infant mortality: a cluster-randomized trial in Nepal” Am J Clin Nutr, 78:1194-1202, 2003.	Emmanuel Aklamati PIN Student
2/25	Discussion of journal article: Jahns L, Baturin A, Popkin BM. “Obesity, diet, and poverty: trends in the Russian transition to market economy” Eur J Clin Nutr, 57:1295-1302, 2003.	Jessica DeHaene PIN Student
3/3	Discussion of journal article: Wagstaff A. “Child health on a dollar a day: some tentative cross-country comparisons.” Soc Sci Med, 57:1529-1538, 2003.	Ana Perez PIN Student
3/10	Discussion of journal article: Frongillo EA, Chowdhury N, Ekstrom EC, Naved RT. “Understanding the experience of household food insecurity in rural Bangladesh leads to a measure different from that used in other countries.” J Nutr, 133:4158-4162, 2003.	Naila Baig-Ansari PIN Student

Fall 2003 Seminar Topics

Date	Topic	Speaker
10/1	Introductory Seminar -- Overview of faculty research interests	PIN Faculty
10/8	Overview of faculty research interests (continued)	PIN Faculty
10/15	Change of date! Please attend World Food Day Teleconference on October 16 from 8:00 a.m. to noon in the DANR Building (Plum Room) in lieu of this week's seminar
10/22*	Introduction to nutritional genomics	Raymond Rodriguez Professor Molecular and Cellular Biology
10/29*	Polymorphism testing and the potential influence of polymorphisms on vitamin requirements	Joshua Miller Assistant Adjunct Professor Department of Pathology
11/5*	Statistical methods used in nutritional genomics/metabolomics	David Rocke CIPIC
11/12*	Genetic risk factors for nutritional deficiency:possible example of vitamin A	Charles Stephensen PIN Faculty
11/19*	The Genomics Toolkit: An overview of technologies	Kenneth Beckman CHORI
11/26*	Introduction to metabolomics	Bruce German Professor Food Science & Technology
12/3*	Ironics and Zincomics -- effects of trace element nutrition on gene and protein expression	Bo Lönnerdal PIN Faculty Shannon Kelleher Assistant Researcher, Nutrition

* Special sessions – mini-symposium on nutritional genomics/metabolomics

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