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Iowa State University

Nutritional Sciences Council

Nutritional Science Council Logo Summer Lectureship
The summer lectureship program was established by the Nutritional Sciences Council in 1975 for the purpose of bringing distinguished scientists to the Iowa State University campus to teach a one-credit short course for graduate students and faculty on topics of current interest in nutrition.

Photos from the 2004 lecture series

Photos from past sessions

photo of audience for 2002 summer lecture photo of Helmut Sies and Don Beitz, May 2002 Dr. Ruth K. Oniang'o, Nairobi

NUTRITIONAL SCIENCES COUNCIL
IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY
SUMMER LECTURESHIPS AND SYMPOSIA

The summer lectureship program was established by the Nutritional Sciences Council in 1975 for the purpose of bringing distinguished scientists to the Iowa State University campus to teach a one-credit short course for graduate students and faculty on topics of current interest in nutrition. A summary of previous lectureships is below:

Year Course Title Instructors Graduate Student Enrollment Estimated
Audience Attendance
2009 Protein Metabolism Dr. Guoyao Wu, Professor, Department of Animal Science and Faculty of Nutrition, Texas A& M University, College Station, TX 34 40
2008 Diet and Human Health Issuesd Dr. Michael Spurlock, Professor, Depts of Food Science and Human Nutrition and of Animal Science, ISU. Dr. Joan Thompson, Nutritionist, Preventive Medicine, and Chronic Disease Specialist, La Clinica de Raza, Oakland, CA; Dr. Deborah Diersen-Schade, Research Fellow, Mead Johnson Nutritionals, Evansville, IN; Dr. George Liepa, Professor, Dept. of Human, Environmental, and Consumer Resources, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, MI; Dr. Mark Erlander, Chief Scientific Officer at AviaraDx, San Diego, CA; Dr. Laura Woollett, Professor, Dept of Pathology, Genome Research Institute, University of Cincinnati; Dr. Ling Li, Assoc. Professor, Dept. of Medicine, University of Alabama-Burmingham; Dr. Nancy DiMarco, Director, Institute for Women's Health, Texas Woman's University, Denton, TX 30 75
2007 Nutrition and cardiovascular disease Dr. Timothy P. Carr, Professor of Nutritional Science, University of Nebraska Lincoln. 35 70
2006 Obesity: Is the food industry to blame? Dr. Judy Sternc,Distinguished Professor in the Departments of Nutrition and Internal Medicine at the University of California, Davis 29 10
2005 Nutrigenomics Dr. Jim Kaput, University of California, Davis 36 50
2004 Meeting future global food needs Dr. Hank Fitzhugh, director-general (retired), International Livestock Research Institute;
Dr. Norman Borlaug, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and Distinguished Professor of International Agriculture at Texas A&M University;
Chris Dowswell, special assistant to the president and director of communications, Sasakawa Africa Association
Dr. Helen Jensen, professor of economics and head, Food and Nutrition Policy Division, Center for Agricultural & Rural Development;
Dr. Kristen Hessler, lecturer and bioethics outreach coordinator, ISU Department of Philosophy and the ISU Office of Biotechnology 		46 95
2003 Molecular nutrition of trace elements Roger Sunde, University of Missouri-Columbia 25 38
2002 Oxidative stress Helmut Siesb, Institute for Physiological Chemistry, Heinrich-Heine University, Dusseldorf, Germany 47 75
2001 Sphingolipic metabolism Alfred Merrill, Emory University 30 50
2000 Nutritional geography: Old field in a new package L.E. Grivettic, Dept. Nutr. Sci. Univ. Calif.-Davis, Davis, CA 25 30
1999 Regulation of gene expression Donald B. Jump, Department of Physiology, Michigan State University 30 50
1998 Nutrition and immunity Simin N. Meydani, Tufts University, Boston MA 52 78
1997 Energy regulation R.J. Martin, Department of Foods & Nutrition, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 40 58
1996 Alcohol and human health C.S. Lieber, Mt. Sinai School of Medicine, Veterinary Affairs Medical Center, Bronx, NY 46 68
1995 Metabolic modifiers and meat production D.H. Beermann, Department of Animal Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 42 67
1994 Nutritional programming of long-term outcomes in human infants A. Lucas,b MRC Dunn Nutritional Unit and University Department of Pediatrics, Cambridge, UK 50 115
1993 Energy metabolism in domestic livestock B.W. McBride, Department of Animal and Poultry Science, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada 35 75
1992 Nutritional status and nutrient metabolism A.C. Beynen, Department of Lab Animal Science, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands 53 75
1991 Diet and cancer D. Birt, Eppley Institute, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE 84 105
1990 Mitochondria A.A. Tzagoloff, Department of Biological Sciences, Columbia University, New York, NY 96 127
1989 Metabolic patterning R.W. Hanson, Department of Biochemistry, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 56 114
1988 Food safety B. Swanson, Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition, Washington State University, Pullman, WA 76 92
1987 Subcellular organelle biogenesis and function P.B. Lazarow, Rockefeller University, New York, NY 64 96
1986 Dietary fiber in human and animal nutrition P.J. Van Soest, Department of Animal Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 65 86
1985 Lipid metabolism in health and disease J.M. Dietschy,b Department of Internal Medicine, University of Texas Health Science Center, Dallas, TX 36 85
1984 Biology of aging E.J. Masoro, Department of Physiology, University of Texas, San Antonio, TX 73 118
1983 Roles of cereals and legumes in the food supply International symposium with 29 speakers 61 75
1982 Energy metabolism in animals A.J.F. Webster, University of Bristol, Bristol, England 28 40
1981 Stores, sumps and sinks: The role of accumulating substances in the human body D.S. McLaren,b University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland 72 80
1980 Animal products in human nutritiona [Co-sponsored by the Nutritional Foundation] An international symposium with 24 speakers 84 140
1979 Protein metabolism and its regulation H.N. Munro, b Department of Nutritional Sciences, University of Massachusetts, Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 80 127
1978 Radioimmunoassay G.D. Niswender, Department of Physiology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 55 100
1977 Use of in vivo kinetics in nutrition and metabolic research N. Baker, Head, Tumor Lipid Research Lab, UCLA School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA 59 109
1976 Nutrition and drug interrelationsa [Co-sponsored by the Nutritional Foundation] An international symposium with 20 speakers 37 127
1975 Gastrointestinal microbiology and mammalian nutrition D. Savage and M.P. Bryant, Department of Animal Science, University of Ilinois, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois 60 100

a Co-Sponsored by the Nutrition Foundation
b Wellcome Visiting Professors
c CFCS Helen Baron Hilton Fund
d College of Ag & Life Sciences
- College of Human Sciences
- Graduate College
- Center for Integrated Animal Genomics
- Dept of Animal Science
- Dept of Biochemistry, Biophysics & Molecular Biology
- Dept of Food Science and Human Nutrition
- Nutritional Sciences Council