Seminar 2
“Overview of the field of bioactive compounds”
Tuesday 3 November 2009 from 13.00-16.00
At KU Life, AUDITORIUM 1-12, Bülowsvej 17, Frederiksberg
Winter School 2009-10: “Bioactive compounds in food”
The Winter School is approved as a PhD-course at DTU (2 ECTS points)
Programme
Time |
Subject |
Speaker |
|---|---|---|
13.00-13.20 |
Welcome to the Winter school 2009-10 |
Lisbeth Valentin Hansen, Executive advisor, Center for Environment and Toxicology, DHI |
13.20-14.00 |
Overview of bioactive compounds, experience from industry and university |
Peter Olesen, Professor, KU Life/Actifoods |
14.00-14.45 |
Lisbeth Nielsen Fink, Assistant Professor, Technical University of Denmark |
|
14.45-15.15 |
Coffee break |
|
15.15-15.45 |
Bioactive compounds in food plants and their impact on human health |
Lars Porskjær Christensen, Professor, PhD Head of Department, University of Southern Denmark |
15.45-16.00 |
Summing up and final discussion |
Anders Permin, DVM, Head of department, Center for Environment and Toxicology, DHI |
References:
- Dietary phenolics: chemistry, bioavailability and effects on health (Nat. Prod. Rep., 2009, 26, 1001-1043)
- Galactolipids as potential health promoting compounds in vegetable foods (Recent Patens on Food, Nutrition & Agriculture, 2009, 1, 50-58)
- Health promoting compounds in vegetables and fruits: A systematic approach for identifying plant components with impact on human health (Trends in Food Science & Technology, 2004, 15, 384-393)
- Bioactive polyacetylenes in food plants of the Apiaceae family: Occurrence, bioactivity and analysis (J. Pharm. Biomed. Anal., 2006, 41, 683-693)
- Differential effects of falcarinol and related aliphatic C17-polyacetylenes on intestinal cell proliferation (J. Agric. Food Chem., 2009, 57, 8290-8296)
- Vitamin effects on the immune system: vitamins A and D take centre stage (Mora, Iwata & von Andrian, Nature Reviews Immunology, 2008)
- Nutrient sensing and inflammation in metabolic diseases (Hotamisligil & Erbay, Nature Reviews Immunology, 2008)
- Probiotics during the first 7 years of life: A cumulative risk reduction of eczema in a randomized, placebo-controlled trial (Kalliomäki, Salminen, Poussa & Isolauri, Journal of Allergy and Clinical Nutrition, 2007)
Participation is open for all interested and is free of charge.
Register online on www.oresundfood.org, or contact Mie Bendtsen (mib@oresundfood.org, +4528754092) or Eva Høy Engelund (ehe@dhigroup.com, +4545169096) no later than October 29th. Please cancel if you have registered and cannot make it!
Language will be English unless only Danish speaking participants are present.