Individual Health & Nutrition: Status & Perspectives (seminar 1)
When: October 5, 2010, 13.00-16.00
Where: Aud. 3:03; University of Copenhagen - Life, Thorvaldsensvej 40, Frederiksberg C, Denmark.
Program:
13.00-13.10. Welcome to the Winter School 2010-2011 by the organisers
13.10 - 13.50. Thue Schwartz. Professor, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. "Lessons from Pharmacogenetics and genomics"
13.50 - 14.30. Henrik Bjørn Nielsen. Associate Professor, Center for Biological Sequence Analysis, Technical University of Copenhagen, Denmark. " Human health and our other genome - Metagenomics of the human gut"
14.30-15.00. Coffee/tea & Networking
15.00 - 15.40. Ben van Ommen. Dr., TNO Quality of Life, The Netherlands. "What do we need to define individualised nutrition?"
15.40-16.00. Discussion and summing up
The program will continuously be updated here.
Literature:
Relevant articles and literature references will be published here:
Ommen et al: A network biology model of micronutrient related health. Br J Nutr 2008
Dolgin: Personalized investigation. Nature Medicine 2010
Qin et al: A human gut microbial gene catalogue established by metagenomic sequencing. Nature 2010
PhD course
The Winter School 2010-2011 is approved as a PhD course at the University of Copenhagen (2 ECTS). PhD students are to participate in at least 5 out of the 6 seminars and to provide an essay or a presentation at seminar 6 in order to pass the course. The presentations are assessed by the course responsible (Lars Ove Dragsted, University of Copenhagen), in cooperation with participants from the Department of Plant Biology and Biotechnology at the University of Copenhagen. For registration, see above. Download the course description here.
Registration:
Register online (below) for seminar 1 before Friday October 1, 2010 (before 12), or contact Mie Bendtsen (mie.bendtsen@oresund.org, +45 2875 4092). If you, after registering, are not able to attend please inform us in good advance of the seminar (Friday October 1 at the latest).
