Bionutrition Forum
January 2009
Summary
The Oregon Clinical and Translational Research Institute’s (OCTRI) Bionutrition Unit traveled to Corvallis in January 2009 to participate in a Bionutrition Forum co-sponsored by Oregon State University and the Linus Pauling Institute. This was the second forum coordinated by OCTRI’s Bionutrition Unit with the goal of enhancing nutrition and exercise research through increased collaboration with investigators throughout the region.
For more information about future forums and collaboration opportunities in nutrition and exercise research, contact Martha McMurry.
Highlights
- Presentations by leaders from the Linus Pauling Institute (LPI), the Center for Healthy Aging Research (CHAR), College of Health and Human Science (HHS) Nutrition and Exercise Science Department and the Environmental Health Science Center (EHSC).
- Dietary topics included vitamin D and the immune system, vitamins E and K and oxidative biomarkers, nutrition and cancer chemoprevention and nutritional effects on response to environmental toxins.
- The mass spectrometer at the Environmental Health Science Center (EHSC) is an important instrument not available in Portland.
- Participants were given a tour of the Sinnhuber Aquatic Research Laboratory research kitchens and learned about the dietary feeding studies with zebrafish.
Attendees
OCTRI Bionutrition Unit members:
- Jon Purnell, PhD
- Martha McMurry
- Bionutritionist Research Dietitians Angela Horgan and Jenice Powell
- Body Energy Expenditure Composition Coordinator Maggie Cooper
OHSU investigators:
- Liz Adams, RD, PhD (CDRC)
- Gene Bowman, ND (Neurology)
- Melanie Gillingham, RD, PhD
- Diane Stadler, RD, PhD (Graduate Program in Human Nutrition)
- Linda Lester, MD (Endocrinology)
- Bruce Wolfe, MD (Surgery)
Linus Pauling Institute participants:
- Balz Frei, PhD, Director
- Abby Benninghoff, PhD
- Rod Dashwood, PhD
- Mary Garrard, RN, MSN
- Fritz Gombart, PhD
- Sharon Krueger, PhD
- Regis Moreau, PhD
- Maret Traber, PhD
- Dave Williams, PhD
Environmental Health Science Center (EHSC) participants:
- Joe Beckman, PhD, Director
- Dan Sudakin, MD, MPH, Director, Integrative Health Sciences Facility Core
- Robert Tanguay, PhD
HHS Nutrition and Exercise Science Department participants:
- Tony Wilcox, PhD, Chair
- Emily Ho, PhD
- Don Jump, PhD, Director of Bionutrition
- Urszula Iwaniec, PhD
- Melinda Manore, PhD
Center for Healthy Aging Research (CHAR) participants:
- Karen Hooker PhD, Director
