11th – 13th December 2006
Churchill College, Cambridge
A joint meeting with the Nutrition Society to mark the 100th anniversary of the birth of Elsie Widdowson. Please note that this programme highlights keynote lectures and work that was submitted to the Neonatal Society.
Monday 11th December 2006
1700 – 1730 Gathering and Tea Foyer, Churchill College
1730 – 1830 Nutrition Society Elsie Widdowson Lecture: Ann Prentice, President, Nutrition Society and Director MRC Human Nutrition Research, Cambridge, UK
Mining the depths: new metabolic insights into mineral nutrition
Chairperson, Roger Whitehead, former director of MRC Dunn Nutrition Unit, Past President Nutrition Society, Honorary Senior Scientist MRC Human Nutrition Research, Cambridge, UK
1830 Drinks Reception Foyer, Churchill College
Tuesday 12th December 2006
Session 1 Feeding and Infant Development, Wolfson Lecture Theatre
0845 – 0900 Gail Goldberg, MRC Human Nutrition Research, Cambridge, UK: Introduction
0900 – 0945 Lars Hanson, Göteborg University, Sweden
Breast Feeding and Immune Function
0945-1030 Sheila Innis, University of British Colombia, Vancouver, Canada
Breast Feeding, maternal dietary lipids and implications for infant development
1030 – 1100 Coffee Break
1100 – 1145 Glen Gibson, University of Reading, UK
Probiotics, prebiotics and infant health: where are we going?
1150-1250 Session 2 Original Communications Poster session 1, Jock Colville Hall
1211 Ganesan KA, North Cheshire Hospitals NHS Trust
Do feed thickeners help in the treatment of gastroesophageal reflux in preterm babies?
1218 Bos PM, School of Human Development, University of Nottingham
Influence of obesity and formula feeding on local glucocorticoid action in regional adipose tissue (AT)
1225 Marten N, School of Human Development, University of Nottingham
The influence of piglet birth weight on peroxisome proliferator activated receptor (PPAR) expression in skeletal muscle
1232 Gardner DS, School of Human Development, University of Nottingham
An interaction between prenatal nutrition and obesity on cardiovascular responses to angiotensin II at one year of age
1246 Logitharajah P, Imperial College, Hammersmith Hospital, London
Hypoxic-ischaemic encephalopathy in the preterm infant: antecedents, MR patterns of injury and outcome
1250 – 1340 Lunch
Session 3 Original Communications Oral Session 2, Wolfson Lecture Theatre
1340 Kidwai S, Division of Medicine, Imperial College London
The metabolic consequences of preterm birth
1410 Hay G, Institute of Basic Sciences, University of Oslo
Determinants of serum ferritin and serum transferring receptor in newborns and iron status in infancy
Poster session 2, Jock Colville Hall
1416 Wood T, Clinical Sciences at South Bristol, University of Bristol
Phenobarbital protects motor function two weeks after hypoxia-ischaemia in the neonatal rat
1423 Aquilina K, Clinical Sciences at South Bristol, University of Bristol
Inhibition of Transforming Growth Factor-Beta (TGF-β) in a rat pup model of posthaemorrhagic ventricular dilatation (PHVD) does not reduce ventricular size
Session 4 Mineral metabolism/body composition, Wolfson Lecture Theatre
1430-1440 Anthony Williams, St George’s Hospital, University of London, UK: Introduction
1440-1525 Kay Dewey, University of California, Davis, USA
Iron status in breastfed Infants
1525-1610 Jonathan Wells, Institute of Child Health, UK
Programming of body composition by early growth and nutrition
1610-1640 Tea break
Session 5 Original Communications Oral Session 3, Wolfson Lecture Theatre
1640 Burns C, Imperial College, Hammersmith Hospital, London
Cerebral imaging patterns in neonatal hypoglycaemia
1655 Hobbs C, Clinical Sciences at South Bristol, University of Bristol
Hyperthermia exacerbates hypoxic-ischaemic brain injury and impairs function in the neonatal rat surviving into adulthood
1710 Ousey JC, Equine Fertility Unit, Newmarket
The effects of maternal nutritional state during pregnancy on endocrine function in foals
Poster session 3, Jock Colville Hall
Dinner To be held at Churchill College
Wednesday 13th December 2006
0900-1000 Neonatal Society Elsie Widdowson Lecture: Olav Oftedal, Head of Nutrition Division of Conservation Biology, Smithsonian Institute, Washington DC, USA
Adaptive lactation strategies
Chairperson, Andrew Whitelaw, University of Bristol Medical School, UK and President of the Neonatal Society
Session 6 Infant Nutrition – future research in Europe, Wolfson Lecture Theatre
1000-1020 Margaret Ashwell, Ashwell Associates, Hertfordshire, UK: Introduction
1020-1040 Mary Fewtrell, Institute if Child Health, London, UK
Nutrition programming-long term efficacy and safety trials and integrated epidemiological, genetic, animal, consumer and economic research
EARNEST – The early Nutrition Programming Project
1040-1100 Michael Symonds, University of Nottingham, UK
Integration and molecular mechanisms of the developmental origins of adult disease-new concepts and insights
EARNEST – The early Nutrition Programming Project
1100-1130 Coffee Break Session 7 Early Nutrition and Later health, Wolfson Lecture Theatre
1130-1140 Michael Wadsworth, MRC National Survey of Health and Development, University College, London, UK: Introduction
1140-1220 David Dunger, University of Cambridge, UK
Early developmental pathways of obesity and diabetes risk
1220-1300 Alison Stephen, MRC Human Nutrition Research, Cambridge, UK
Dietary impacts on adult health-findings from the MRC National Survey of Health and Development (1946 birth cohort)
1300-1315 Ann Prentice, President, Nutrition Society and Director MRC Human Nutrition Research, Cambridge, UK: Closing remarks