information about the "Food Glorious Food!"

Turku BioNet Seminar Series about Nutrition and Health
Food Glorious Food!
On Tuesdays at 14:15 coffee/tea and sandwich, lecture at 14:30
Mauno Conference Center Auditorium
8.9.2015 Gut microbiota
Pentti Huovinen, Dean of Medical Faculty, Professor of Bacteriology, University of Turku:
Gut microbiota and human health.
Seppo Salminen, Director, Functional Foods Forum, University of Turku:
Food and microbes: role of probiotics and prebiotics.
22.9.2015 Food and diabetes
Arno Hänninen, Adjunct professor, Medical Microbiology and immunology, University of Turku:
Infant nutrition, gut microbiota and type 1 diabetes.
Pirjo Nuutila, Professor, PET Center, University of Turku: What to eat to get T2D and what to eat to
go into remission of T2D?
13.10.2015 Probiotics
Samuli Rautava, Senior scientist, University of Turku:
Modulation of early microbial contact to improve child health
Marko Kalliomäki, Adjunct professor, University of Turku:
Probiotics in allergy prevention and beyond
20.10.2015 Vitamins from food
Christel Lamberg-Allardt, Professor, Department of Food and Environmental Sciences, University of
Helsinki: Anything new about vitamin D?
3.11.2015 Superfood
Noora Kanerva, Senior scientist, National Institute for Health and Welfare: Baltic Sea diet
Baoru Yang, Professor Food Development, Department of Biochemistry, University of Turku:
Berries as food for supporting health.
17.11.2015 Food and cancer risk
Anne-Maria Pajari, Adjunct professor, Department of Food and Environmental Sciences, University
of Helsinki: Go for colours – foods against cancer
1.12.2015 ”To eat or not eat”
Mikael Fogelholm, Professor, Department of Food and Environmental Sciences, University of
Helsinki: Popular low-carbohydrate diets - any chance to be healthy?
15.12.2015 Obesity and hedonic hunger
Eriika Savontaus, Academy researcher, Department of Pharmacology, Drug development and
Therapeutics, University of Turku and Leila Karhunen, Senior Lecturer, Institute of Public Health
and Clinical Nutrition, University of Eastern Finland:
Eating for pleasure or eating to survive – non-homeostatic and homeostatic control of appetite and
body weight?