Provisional Program
Wednesday, June 15, 2011
09.00 Registration and coffee
09.45 Welcome and Opening of Meeting
10.00-10.30 Keynote lecture:
Contribution of
nutrition research to addressing ageing-related disease and
concomitant societal and economic benefits.
Professor Kay-Tee Khaw (University of Cambridge, UK)
Symposium 1: Vitamins and cognitive development and
performance
10.30-11.00 Overview: Determinants of
neurodevelopment and cognitive performance
Professor Martha Morris (Rush University Medical Centre Chicago,
USA)
11.00-11.30 Vitamins and neuro-/ cognitive developmental outcomes
in children
Professor David Benton (University of Swansea, UK)
11.30-11.45 Coffee
11.45-12.15 1-carbon metabolism and cognition in older
adults
Professor Irwin Rosenberg (Tufts University, Boston, USA)
12.15-12.45 Vitamin D and risk of cognitive decline
Dr David Llewellyn (Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital Exeter,
UK)
12.45-13.15 Panel Discussion
13.15-14.00 Lunch
14.00-15.45 Poster/Oral Communications
15.45-16.00 Coffee
16.00-17.45 Poster/Oral Communications
19.30-late Buffet supper and Irish music
Thursday, June 16, 2011
8.30-09.45 Breakfast Symposium
Joint Irish Nutrigenomics Organisation Consortium
Symposium 2: Vitamins in muscular and skeletal
function
10.00-10.30 Overview: Nutrition and
musculoskeletal development & function
in children and older adults
Dr Kate Ward (MRC Human Nutrition Research, Cambridge, UK)
10.30-11.00 Maternal diet and bone growth in utero – does
nutrition during pregnancy
impact on offspring osteoporosis risk?
Professor Bonnie Specker (South Dakota State University,
USA)
11.00-11.15 Coffee
11.15-11.45 Vitamin D and muscle atrophy in older adults
Professor Bess Dawson-Hughes (Tufts University, Boston,
USA)
11.45-12.15 Vitamin K: role in childhood bone acquisition and
bone
maintenance in later-life
Professor Sarah Booth (Tufts University, Boston, USA)
12.15-12.45 Panel Discussion
12.45-13.45 Lunch and Irish Section AGM
13.45-15.30 Poster/Oral Communications
15.30-15.45 Coffee
Symposium 3: Vitamin D and Immune function – from pregnancy
to adolescence
15.45-16.15 Overview: Vitamin D and
Immune function
Professor Martin Hewison (David Geffen School of Medicine at
UCLA, USA)
16.15-16.45 Vitamin D and adverse pregnancy outcomes
Professor Patsy Brannon (Cornell University, New York, USA)
16.45-17.15 Vitamin D and autoimmune disease in early life
Professor Margherita Cantorna (Pennsylvania State University,
USA)
17.15-17.45 Fat-soluble vitamins and atopic disease – what is the
evidence?
Dr Augusto Litonjua (Brigham and Women Hospital, Boston,
USA)
17.45-18.15 Panel Discussion
19.45-late Conference dinner
Friday, June 17, 2011
Symposium 4: Vitamins, infectious and chronic disease during
adulthood and ageing
9.30-10.00 Overview: Nutrition
influences on epigenetics and ageing related disease
Dr Sang-Woon Choi (Tufts University, Boston, USA)
10.00-10.30 1-carbon metabolism and cardiovascular disease
outcomes in older adults
Professor Helene McNulty (University of Ulster, Northern
Ireland)
10.30-10.45 Coffee
10.45-11.15 Vitamin D in the prevention and treatment of
tuberculosis
Dr Adrian Martineau (Barts and The London School of Medicine
and
Dentistry, London, UK)
11.15-11.45 Vitamin D and respiratory infection in adults
Dr Ilkka Laaksi (University of Tampere, Finland)
11.45-12.15 Panel Discussion
12.15 Closing remarks
12.30 Lunch
Local Organiser: Dr Tom Hill (University College Cork)
Scientific Steering Committee: NS:Tom Hill, Mairead Kiely, Kevin Cashman, UCC. ASN: Ryan Cliche (ASN Professional Development Officer); Simin Meydani (USDA HNRCA at Tufts University and ASN scientific representative); Richard Wood (University of Massachusetts and ASN scientific representative).