The world congress “Oxidants and Antioxidants in Biology” was held in Alba, Italy, 20th-23rd June 2012. It was a joint meeting of the Oxygen Club of California (OCC) and the University of Turin, Italy, co-sponsored by the Linus Pauling Institute, Oregon State University, U.S.A. This congress is part of a serial of congresses organized every other year by the OCC that gather highly recognized scientists in areas that convey basic and applied medical research.
Guliz Armagan receiving her certificate from Food & Function Associate Editor, Professor Cesaer Fraga
This year, the subject of the meeting was “Cell signaling and nutrient-gene interactions,” having sessions on NRF2-driven regulation of antioxidant defenses, nutrient-gene interactions and epigenetics, novel roles of micronutrients, lipid oxidation and signaling, and epigenetics, metabolism, and aging. The Congress had an attendance of 220 delegates from all over the world, including speakers and chairpersons, general attendants, and young scientists.
Food & Function and the Royal Society of Chemistry awarded a prize for the best work in the area of Nutrition to Guliz Armagan from the Department of Biochemistry, School of Pharmacy, Ege University, Izmir, Turkey. The work, “Induction of oxidative stress, apoptosis and inflammation in rat brain regions by D-serine” was co-authored by Lutfiye Kanit, and Ayfer Yalcin from the same University. Many congratulations to Guliz on winning this prize.
