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Diet and Gene Interactions: Equal Partners in Health?
 
The Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion-USDA and The Center for Genetics, Nutrition and Health , The Jefferson Auditorium, USDA South Building, 14th Street and Independence Avenue, SW, Washington, D.C. (Enter through Wing 4 of the South Building)
December 6, 2000

The USDA Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion is pleased to
announce the upcoming symposium on Diet and Gene Interactions: Equal
Partners in Health? to be held Wednesday, December 6, 2000, in the
Department of Agricuture's Jefferson Auditorium.

USDA Secretary Dan Glickman and USDA Under Secretary Shirley Watkins
will open the symposium followed by Conference Chairs Rajen S. Anand of
the Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion and Artemis P. Simopoulos
of The Center for Genetics, Nutrition and Health.

The goals and objectives of the symposium are to discuss the
relationship between diet and genes, specifically the role of genetic
variation and dietary response in the susceptibility to chronic diseases
and in determining nutritional requirements.

Genetic factors contribute to virtually every human disease by conferring susceptibility or resistance, affecting the severity or progression of disease, and interacting with environmental factors that modify disease course and expression. Much
of the current biomedical research in both the public and private sectors is based upon the expectation that understanding the genetic basis of disease will revolutionize diagnosis, treatment and prevention. Defining and understanding the role of genetic factors indisease will allow the non-genetic, environmental contributions to disease be more clearly identified and understood. In the past,
genetics and nutrition were considered two competing forces * nature
versus nurture.

Organized by:

The Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion-USDA and The Center for Genetics, Nutrition and Health

Invited Speakers:

Scientific Speakers Include

Artemis P. Simopoulos, M.D. (USA) * Genetic Variation and Nutrition:
An Overview
Ronald Krauss, M.D. (USA) * Genetic Variation and Dietary Response:
Its Implications for Cardiovascular Disease
Steven Hunt, Ph.D. (USA) * Dietary Sodium, Genetic Variation, and High
Blood Pressure
Anne M. Molloy, Ph.D. (Ireland) * The Role of Genetic Variation in
Establishing Nutritional Requirements: Folate, A Case in Point
Robert F. Murray, Jr., M.D. (USA) * Methodology: State of the Art,
Present and Future
Donald B. Jump, Ph.D. (USA) * Nutrients and Gene Expression
Dennis A. Savaiano, Ph.D. (USA) * Dietary Management of Lactose
Intolerance: Environmental Adaptation to Genetic Variation
Bruce A. Watkins, Ph.D. (USA) * Overview of the Center for Enhancing
Foods to Protect Health at Purdue University
Frank Booth, Ph.D. (USA) * Physical Activity and Gene Expression

Deadline for Abstracts:

not applicable

Registration:

For registration and additional informaton, go to www.cnpp.usda.gov.
(Note new website address.You may now access the CNPP website at either
www.cnpp.usda.gov or www.usda.gov/cnpp). Registration is free.
Email for Requests and Registration: cgnh@bellatlantic.net
 
 

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