PROGRAMME

NUTRITION AND HEALTHY AGEING

Monday 15 July

Registration
14.00 -17.00    BBSRC satellite session
                         Diet and Health Research with the Food and Drink Industry
17.15 – 18.45   Theme Highlights 
19. 00               Welcome Drinks Reception, Lindisfarne Room, Newcastle University

Tuesday 16 July

09.00- 09.15     Welcome and Opening of Meeting

09.15- 09.55    Waterlow Lecture Plenary Lecture (I)
                         Professor Rudi Westendorp (Leiden University Medical Centre, The Netherlands)
                         Vitality Sir, it's vitality!

Symposium (1): Biology of ageing
10.00-10.30     Professor Hannelore Daniel (Technical University of Munich, Germany)
                         From worms to humans: using C. elegans to understand 
                        the biology of ageing and diet effects
 
10.30-11.00     Dr Massimo Mangino (King's College London, UK)
                        Genomics of ageing in twins

11.00-11.25     Refreshments

11.25-11.55     Dr Karen Lillycrop (Southampton University, UK)
                        Epigenetics and ageing: the influence of early life

11.55-12.25    Professor Thomas von Zglinicki (Newcastle University, UK)
                        Biomarkers of healthy ageing.

12.25-13.30   Lunch and Career Event

Original Communication Session 1
13.30-14.35    Original Communications

14.45-15.25 Plenary Lecture (II)
                      Professor Thomas Flatt (University of Lausanne, Switzerland)
                      Plasticity of ageing in model systems

Symposium (2): Epidemiology of human ageing

15.25-15.55    Professor Diana Kuh (MRC Unit for LifeLong Health and Ageing, UK)
                       A Life-course approach to health and ageing

15.55-16.20    Refreshments

16.20-16.50   Professor Oscar Franco (Erasmus Medical Centre, Rotterdam University, The Netherlands)
                       Nutritional factors in health and ageing: the key ingredients
 
16.50-17.20  Dr Carolyn Ann Greig (University of Birmingham, UK) 
                     Maintaining muscle function in old age: nutrition and physical activity

17.20-17.50  Dr Greg Cole (UCLA, USA)                  
                     Nutritional interventions for brain ageing

18.00 - 19.00 Student Networking Event

19.30          Fork supper at Baltic Centre for Contemporary Arts

Wednesday 17 July

08.55- 09.35 Plenary Lecture (III)
                        Professor Tom Kirkwood (Newcastle University, Uk)
                        Why we age (and what nutrition has to do with it)'

Symposium (3): Nutritional modulation of the ageing trajectory
09.35-10.05   Dr Colin Selman (University of Glasgow) 
                       Dietary restriction and mimetics 

10.05-10.35   Professor Patrick Schrauwen (Maastricht University, The Netherlands)
                      Can resveratrol help to maintain metabolic health?

10.35-11.00 Refreshments

11.00-11.30  Professor Ian Clark (University of East Anglia, UK) 
                     The impact of dietary-derived bioactives on cartilage and osteoarthritis
 
11.30- 12.00 Dr Susan Ozanne (Cambridge University, UK) 
                      The impact of early nutrition on the ageing trajectory
 
Original Communication Session 2
12.10-13.25  Original Communications

13.25-14.35  Lunch and Annual Charity Meeting

14.35-16.15  Postgraduate Symposium

14.35–15.00  Ms Michelle Clarke (University of Ulster)
                     B-vitamins and bone in health and disease: The current evidence

15.00 – 15.25 Mr Kevin Deighton (Loughborough University)
                      Creating an acute energy deficit without stimulating increases in appetite:
                      is there an optimal exercise protocol?

15.25 – 15.50 Ms Jean Redmond (MRC Human Nutrition Research)
                       Ethnic differences in calcium and phosphate metabolism

15.50 – 16.15 Mr Antonis Vlassopoulos (University of Glasgow)
                      Redox status and antioxidants: a novel regulator of protein glycation in  
                      normoglycaemia?

16.15-16.40  Refreshments

Original Communication Session 3
16.40-18.10 Original Communications

19.30           Gala Dinner, Civic Centre

Thursday 18 July 2013

09.00-09.40 Nutrition Society Silver Medal Lecture
                      Professor Ulf Ekelund (Norwegian School of Sport Science, Norway)
                      Physical activity, sedentary time and obesity prevention – a life course perspective

09.40-10.20 Plenary Lecture (IV)
                     Dr Joe Verghese (Albert Einstein College of Medicine, USA) 
                     Locomotion and cognition in ageing

10.20-10.45 Refreshments

Original Communication Session 4
10.45-12.15 Original Communications

12.25- 13.05 Plenary Lecture (V)
             Professor Jan Hoeijmakers (Erasmus University Medical Centre, The Netherlands)
             Ageing and cancer

13.05- 13.55  Lunch

Symposium (4): Public health interventions to enhance healthy ageing
13.55-14.25      Professor Luc van Loon (Maastricht University, The Netherlands)
                         Prevention and treatment of sarcopenia

14.25-14.55 Dr Robert Clarke (Oxford University, UK)
                    B Vitamins and brain ageing

14.55-15.20 Refreshments

15.20-15.50  Professor Martin White (Newcastle University, UK) 
                     How does the environment shape diet in ageing populations?

15.50-16.20 Professor Parveen Yaqoob (Reading University, UK)
                     Probiotics, immunity and ageing

16.20  Close of Meeting

Please note – this programme is provisional and is subject to change. The final programme will be printed in the abstract booklet and will be available at the meeting.

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