BIOCENTER OULU DAY 2013

Brain’s Digest: Healthy Diet Drives a Sharp Mind

 

Time                   Tuesday, March 12, 2013

Place                  Leena Palotie sali (Auditorium 101A) in the Main Building of the Medical Campus,

Aapistie 5A, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland

Information     Ritva Saastamoinen, Biocenter Oulu, P.O. Box 5000, FIN-90014 Oulu, Finland

tel. 02 9448 6102, e-mail ritva.saastamoinen@oulu.fi

Credits               Certificate of participation will be written.

Transportation There will be bus transportation from Linnanmaa to Aapistie 5A.The bus will leave at 8.30 hrs at door J from Linnanmaa and return at 17.15 hrs from Aapistie 5A to Linnanmaa

Chairpersons  Anna Gaciarz, Rajesh Harijan, Alicia Jurado Acosta and Nina Kozlova

 

PROGRAMME

SESSION 1: Opening and Keynote on Nutrigenomics (Chair: Anna Gaciarz)

 

09.00 – 09.05   Opening remarks

Anna Gaciarz, Chairperson of the Organizing Committee, Biocenter Oulu

 

09.05 – 09.15   Welcome

Prof. Johanna Myllyharju, Scientific Director of Biocenter Oulu

 

09.15 - 09.20    Welcome

Prof. Seppo Vainio, Director of Biocenter Oulu Graduate School

 

09.20 – 10.00   “Nutrigenomics: Be all you can be”

Dr. Jose Ordovas

Genomics Lab-HNRC, TUFTS University, Boston, USA

 

10.00 – 10.35   Coffee at the exhibition area (35 min)

 

SESSION 2: Mental Health & Nutrition (Chair: Rajesh Harijan)

 

10.35 – 11.15   “Prenatal nutrition affects lifelong health and well-being”

Prof. Tessa Roseboom

Dept. of Clinical Epidemiology, Academic Medical Center Amsterdam, NL

 

11.15 – 11.55   “The effects of omega-3 fatty acids in Neurology”

Dr. Ping Yip

Blizard Institute of Cell and Molecular Science, University of London, UK

 

11.55 – 13.25   Lunch break and exhibition (1 h 30 min)

 

SESSION 3: Dietary Supplements: from Vitamins to Psychoactive Drugs (Chair: Alicia Jurado Acosta)

 

13.25 – 14.05   “Antioxidants and risk of major chronic disease - beneficial, indifferent or harmful?”

Dr Jaakko Mursu

University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland

 

14.05 – 14.45   “Psychedelic drugs: from Psychosis to Emotion Regulation”

Dr. Franz X. Vollenweider

Psychiatric University Hospital Zurich, Switzerland

 

14.45 – 15.25   Coffee at the exhibition area (40 min)

 

SESSION 4: What is a Good Diet ? (Chair: Nina Kozlova)

 

15.25 – 16.05   “>From nutrients to foods - time for a bigger picture?”

Prof. Mikael Fogelholm

Dept. of Food and Environmental Sciences, University of Helsinki, Finland

 

16.05 – 16.45   “You are what you eat – are you?”

Panel discussion

 

16.45 – 17.00   General discussion and concluding remarks

 

 

 

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Teija Luoto, Secretary

Biocenter Oulu, University of Oulu

P.O. Box 5000

FI-90014 UNIVERSITY OF OULU, FINLAND

Street address: Aapistie 5A, 90220 OULU, FINLAND

Tel +358 29448 6103, Fax +358 8 537 6115

e-mail: teija.luoto@oulu.fi

BIOCENTER OULU URL: http://www.oulu.fi/biocenter

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