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The joint winter meeting of the Nutritional Society and the Royal Society of Medicine will be held at the Royal Society of Medicine in London between the 11th-12th December 2012.  The title of this meeting is “Dietary Strategies for the Management of Cardiovascular Risk“.

Topics that will be presented on during the meeting include dietary guidelines, policy and CVD risk reduction, dietary saturated fatty acids, cholesterol, carbohydrates, n-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids, pre- and pro-biotics, phytochemicals, vitamin D and fruit and vegetables.  The provisional programme and list of speakers can be found on the website. 

The deadline for submission of Original Communications for the meeting is midnight on the 17th September 2012.  Full submission details can be found online.

To register for this event, please visit the Royal Society of Medicine website, and scroll down to the end of the page.

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.

The Summer Meeting of the Nutrition Society with be held at Queen’s University Belfast between the 16-19th July 2012.  Around 400+ delegates from the UK, Ireland and other European countries are expected to attend – from nutritionists, dietitians and food industry representatives, through to academics, students and researchers.

The programme focuses on translational nutrition and the links between research, practice and policy, and the topics of the four main symposia will be:

• Innovation in diet and lifestyle assessment
• Intervention study design and personalised nutrition
• Diet, insulin resistance and diabetes
• Diet and aging

The current provisional list of invited speakers include Food & Function Advisory Board member Professor Mike Gibney from University College Dublin.  More details about the event and the speakers can be found on the conference website.

The next International Scientific Conference on Probiotics and Prebiotics (IPC 2012) will be held between the 12th-14th June in the university city of Kosice, Slovakia.

The conference programme will focus on current advances in the science and research of probiotics and prebiotics their present and future role in maintaining health and preventing diseases. IPC2012 will focus on evidence-based benefits as proven in clinical trials and scientific experiments.

The mission of IPC2012 is to provide a comprehensive scientific forum to all stakeholders of probiotics. The three day conference is a networking event for scientists, researchers, product developers, industry participants and regulatory officials who work with probiotics. The conference will also provide a platform for scientific exchange and discussion.

For information on the Keynote Speakers at this even, please go to: http://www.probiotic-conference.net/Keynote-Speakers

For further information on the conference please visit www.probiotic-conference.net or contact the Organizing
Secretariat of IPC2012. Phone: +421 917 858 838, e-mail: info@probiotic-conference.net