NuGOweek 2008: Keynote lectures

Omics technologies
  • Jacek Majewski, Montreal
    Genome-wide analysis of transcript isoform variation
  • Joachim Kopka, Golm
    Mass spectroscopy in metabolomics: Status and future development of GC-TOF MS metabolite profiling
  • Sören Brunak, Copenhagen
    Integrative systems biology approaches to identify human disease genes
Genes, nutrition and colon cancer
  • Kari Hemminki, Heidelberg
    Genome-wide association studies in colon cancer
  • Elio Riboli, London
    Nutritional risk factor for colon cancer
Genes, nutrients, and risk prediction in complex diseases
  • Frank Hu, Boston
    Macronutrients and diabetes risk
  • Leif Groop, Lund
    Genetic basis of type 2 diabetes
  • Matthias Schulze, Potsdam
    Genes, nutrition, and lifestyle: Measuring the risk of type 2 diabetes 
Molecular targets for treatment of nutrition-associated disease
  • Ruth Loos, Cambridge
    Genes related to obesity
  • Karine Clement, Paris
    Transcriptomic approaches in obesity
  • Martin Hrabé des Angelis, Munich
    Identification of molecular targets by large scale ENU mutagenesis
Nutrient Sensing
  • Bernard Thorens, Lausanne
    Central glucose sensing
  • Sander Kersten, Wageningen
    Peripheral fatty acid sensing
  • Anna Krook, Stockholm
    AMP kinase and cellular sensing of energy supply
Micronutrient supplementation
  • Ellen Kampmann, Wageningen
    Folate intake and cancer risk
  • Paul Haggarty, Aberdeen
    B-vitamins, genotype, and disease risk
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