UC Davis Centennial Symposia
Foods for Health in the 21st Century: A Roadmap for the Future
Co-Sponsored By:
UC Davis Foods for Health Institute
Innovation Center Denmark/Silicon Valley
Danish Agency for Science Technology and Innovation
Centre for Advanced Food Studies – LMC
Dairy Council of California
NOVEMBER 16-18, 2008
Mission
To develop a state-of-the-art conference that focuses on future directions in nutrition and human
health. To include a point-counterpoint series of presentations that will address contemporary needs in
areas of cooperative extramural funding. To identify special areas of need that will: enhance our
postgraduate education and faculty research collaborations and development; and promote
multidisciplinary partnerships between scientists at the University of California, our cooperative
institutions in Denmark, national and international government agencies, private industry sector, and
philanthropic foundations.
November 16
6:00-9:00 p.m.
Opening reception
Welcome and Address: Claire Pomeroy, Dean, UC Davis School of Medicine
November 17
8:00am
Continental breakfast
8:30am
Welcome and introduction
Neal Van Alfen, Dean, UC Davis College of Agriculture and Environmental
Sciences
Introduced by – Li Tian, UC Davis Foods for Health - Plant Sciences
8:45am
Centre for Advanced Food Studies
Alan Friis, Centre for Advanced Food Studies
Introduced by – John Newman, WHNRC
9:10am
Foods for Health Initiative
Meeting the challenges of our symposia:
Perspectives in nutrition and human health
M.R.C. Greenwood, Director, UC Davis Foods for Health Institute
9:30am
Session I: Meeting the Obesity Challenge
Bruce German, UC Davis Food Science and Technology, Chair
Karsten Kristiansen, Co-Chair
9:45am
Can bioactive foods impact obesity?
Arne Astrup, University of Copenhagen
10:00am
Obesity and Type II diabetes: A panepidemic
Jack Rutledge, UC Davis School of Medicine, Endocrinology
10:15am
Prevention and Treatment of Obesity and its Related Complications
Peter Havel, UC Davis Foods for Health – School of Veterinary Medicine
10:30am
Possible Relationships between Food, Obesity and Allergy
Anders Permin, Centre for Environment and Toxicology
10:45am
Coffee Break
11:00am
What have we learned, what have we missed and how can we proceed?
Bruce German, UC Davis
Karsten Kristiansen, The University of Southern Denmark
11:30am
Session II: Nutrigenomics
Bennie Osburn, Dean UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine, Chair
Hanne Frøkiær, Co-Chair
11:45am
Macronutritient interaction – the molecular interplay between protein,
carbohydrates and fatty acids
Karsten Kristiansen, University of Southern Denmark
12:00pm
Speaker TBD
12:15pm
Dairy fat – more than just a source of saturated fat? Transcriptional regulation
of the typical dairy fatty acids
Lars Hellgren, Technical University of Denmark
12:30pm
What have we learned, what have we missed and how can we proceed?
Bennie Osburn, Dean, UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine
Hanne Frøkiær, Denmark
1:00-2:15pm
Working lunch
Guided Discussion: 1hr Melanie Funes, UC Davis Foods for Health
Addressing the Challenges of Academic Partnerships
Focus: Industry Collaboration
2:15pm
Session III: Improving Human Health
Ralph DeVere-White, UC Davis Cancer Center, Chair
Arne Astrup, Co-Chair
2:25pm
Improving immunity: Premises not promises
M. Eric Gershwin, Co-Director, UC Davis Foods for Health Institute
2:40pm
Food components and their effects on immune maturation and regulation
Hanne Frøkiær, Technical University of Denmark
2:55pm
Food modifications and development of allergenicity
Suzanne Teuber, UC Davis School of Medicine
3:10pm
Dietary Gluten Reduces Intestinal Regulatory T Cells
Karsten Buschard, Bartholin Institute, Rigshospitalet, University of Copenhagen
3:25pm
Coffee Break
3:40pm
Factors that promote the pathogenesis of NASH
Carlo Selmi, UC Davis School of Medicine
3:55pm
Speaker TBD
4:10pm
Nutrition, Phytochemicals and Botanical Dietary Supplements in the Prevention
and Treatment of Cancer
David Heber, UCLA
4:25pm
What have we learned, what is missing and how can we proceed?
Arne Astrup, Denmark
Clare Hasler, UC Davis Robert Mondavi Institute
4:45pm
Open discussion
Reporter TBA
5:15pm
Session ends
7:00 pm
Dinner:
Introduction: William Ristenpart, UC Davis Foods for Health Engineering
Presentation: New and innovative technologies
Dennis Matthews, UC Davis Center for Biophotonics,
Science and Technology
November 18
8:00am
Breakfast
8:30am
Session IV: Functional Foods
Clare Hasler, UC Davis Robert Mondavi Institute, Chair
Anne Meyer, Co-Chair
8:45am
Enrichment of foods with omega-3 fatty acids and other functional lipids
Charlotte Jacobsen, Technical University of Denmark
9:00am
Flavanols and health
Carl Keen, UC Davis Nutrition
9:15am
Wine and health
Andy Waterhouse, UC Davis Viticulture and Enology
9:30am
Enzyme Technology for precision functional Food ingredient processes
Anne Meyer, Technical University of Denmark
9:45am
Dietary Fibres and Immune Function – do They Work and how?
Helle Nygaard Lærke, University of Aarhus
10:00am
Biosynthesis of Dietary Fibres, a Case of Arabinogalactan
Naomi Geshi, University of Copenhagen
10:15am
Coffee Break
10:30am
What have we learned, what have we missed and how can we proceed?
Clare Hasler, UC Davis Robert Mondavi Institute
Anne Meyer, Denmark
11:00am
Session V: Food Culture and Consumer Response
TBD, Chair
Lotte Holm, Co-Chair
11:15am
Consumers and Whole Grain Products
Marika Lyly, UC Davis, USDA/ARS
11:30am
Consumer acceptance of functional foods
Klaus Grunert, University of Aarhus
11:45am
Integrating consumer concern, culture and functional food research:
What can we learn?
Carolyn de la Pena, UC Davis Humanities Institute
12:00pm
Obesity in everyday Life – Social and Cultural Aspects
Lotte Holm, University of Copenhagen
12:15pm
What have we learned, what have we missed and how can we proceed?
Klaus Grunert
Charlotte Biltekoff, UC Davis Food Science and Technology
12:45-2:00pm
Working lunch
Presentation: 15min
Translating Research to Public Benefit
Lars Berglund, UC Davis Clinical and Translational Science Center
Presentation: 15min
Success of International Academic – Industry Partnerships
Novel Food Supplements for Preventing and Treating Malnutrition
(UC Davis/Nutriset)
Kay Dewey, UC Davis Nutrition
Guided Discussion: 1hr
Addressing the Challenges of Academic Partnerships
Focus: Multi-university Collaboration
2:00pm
Session VI: Emerging technologies
Thomas Huser, UC Davis Center for Biophotonics Science and Tech, Chair
Frans Van den Berg, Co-Chair
2:15pm
Process Analytical Technology – Taking spectroscopy and chemometrics
into the factory
Frans Van den Berg
2:30pm
Speaker TBD
2:45pm
Metabolic Assessors of Personal Health
Bruce German, UC Davis Food Science and Technology
3:00pm
MS-based protein chips for detection of food-derived bioactive components.
Jan Stagsted, University of Aarhus
3:15pm
Coffee Break
3:45pm
What have we learned, what have we missed and how can we proceed?
Thomas Huser, UC Davis
4:00pm
Open Discussion - Reporter TBA
4:30pm
Session ends
7:00 pm
Dinner
Theme: Next Steps in Building Partnerships
Anne Meyer, Alan Friis, M.R.C. Greenwood, Eric Gershwin
Final comments: M.R.C. Greenwood, Eric Gershwin
9:00 pm