Contact UsSESSION 2 Genes, nutrition and colon cancer (chairs: Piero Dolara & Heiner Boeing)
08:30 Nutritional risk factors for colon cancerElio Riboli, Imperial College London (UK)
09:00 Genome-wide association studies in colon cancer
Kari Hemminki, German Cancer Research Center (D)
09:30 Berry extracts exhibit anti-cancer effects on in vitro models of colorectal cancer
Emma Coates, University of Ulster Coleraine (Northern Ireland, UK)
09.45 Effects of increased fish intake on gene expression profiles in the colon: the FISHGASTRO human intervention study
Gosia Majsak-Newman, IFR (UK)
10:00 Gpx2 counteracts COX2 expression - impact in inflammation and colon cancer development
Anna Kipp, DIfE (D)
10.15 Reduced hypermethylation of p16INK4A and ESR1 genes by iberin and selenium in CaCo-2 cells
Lawrence Barrera, IFR (UK)
10.30 BREAK
- PARALLEL SESSION 1 - Focus Teams 1
11.00 Cellular memory of nutritional exposure
Jill McKay, University of Newcastle (UK)
11.15 Effects of micronutrients on genome-wide and gene-specific methylation
Chris Evelo, Maastricht University (NL)
Window of benefit for ß-carotene(chair: Georg Leitz)
11.30 Effects of ß-carotene and ß-carotene 15,15'-monooxygenase on various physiological processes
Franck Tourniaire, University of Newcastle (UK)
11.45 Angiogenesis and adipogenesis of different mice under low and high vitamin A and beta-carotene diets
Urszula Razny, JUMC (PL)
Nutrigenomic markers of selenium status (chair: John Hesketh)
12.00 Genetic varietions in the selenium pathway pathway
Catherine Meplan, University of Newcastle (UK)
12.15 Transcriptomic analysis of the mouse colon
Regina Brigelius-Flohé, DIfE (D)
- PARALLEL SESSION 2 - NuGO Collaborations
11.00 New aspects on adipogenesis in man
Peter Arner, Karolinska (SE)
11.20 Bioinformatics strategies for lipidomics analysis
Matej Oresic, VTT (Finland)
NuGO and its links with suppliers (chair: Fré Pepping)
11.45 Overview of microarray applications; past, present and future
Sven Langer, Affymetrix
12.05 High content immunoassays - the quest for biomarker patterning
Sabine Kuesters, Rules Based Medicine
12:30 LUNCH and posters
SESSSION 3 - Genes, nutrients, and risk prediction in complex diseases (chair: Thorkild Soerensen & Hans-Georg Joost)
14.30 Macronutrients and diabetes risk
Frank Hu, Harvard School of Public Health (USA)
15:00 Genetic basis of type 2 diabetes
Leif Groop, Lund University (SE)
15:30 Genes, nutrition, and lifestyle: measuring the risk of type 2 diabetes
Matthias Schulze, TUM (D)
16:00 The genetic determinants of insulin resistance in response to diet
Iwona Wybranska, JUMC (PL)
16:15 The exploration of genetic determinants of plasma total cholesterol levels
Yingchang Lu, Wageningen University (NL)
17:00-22.00 DINNER with boat trip