Friday, December 3, 2010

8:00-9:00 am

Conference Registration

9:00-9:10 am

 Conference Opening

Conference Chairman: Danik M. Martirosyan, PhD,  Founder, Functional Food Center, Aso. Clinical Professor , Texas Woman’s University, Denton, TX, USA

Co-Chairman: Nicola Abate, MD, Distinguished Professor, MD. The University of  of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston , TX, USA

Co-Chairman: William C. Orr, PhD, Professor and Chair, Department of Biological Sciences, SMU, Dallas, TX, USA

9:10-9:20 am

Welcome to Southern Methodist University (SMU)

James E. Quick, PhD, Associate Vice President for Research and Dean of Graduate Studies, SMU, Dallas, TX, USA

Session 1: Definition, Components and Clinical Studies of Metabolic Syndrome  

Session Chair: Manisha Chandalia, MD, USA 

9:20-9:50 am

Definition of the Metabolic Syndrome.

Manisha Chandalia, MD. Director, Stark Diabetes Center Endocrinology and Metabolism, The University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, USA  

9:50-10:20am   

Clinical Benefits of a Phytochemical-Enriched Medical Food on Cardiometabolic Risk Factors in Women with Metabolic Syndrome.

Robert H Lerman, MD, PhD. Director,  Functional Medicine Research Center, Metagenics, Inc., Gig Harbor, WA, USA

10:20-10:45 am

Monitoring Premature Infants: Nutritional and Metabolic Indicators.

Rebeca Monroy-Torres, PhD, Professor. Medicine and Nutrition Department, Division of Health Sciences. Campus Leon, University of Guanajuato, Mexico

10:45-10:55 am

Refreshment

10:55-11:25 am

Diabetes and Cardiovascular Disease: What do we Really Know?

Anand Prasad, MD. University of California San Diego, USA

11:25-11:40 am

Association of Plasma Cysteine and Homocysteine Concentrations with Insulin Resistance in low Socio-economic Pregnant Women.

Sujatha Pitla, PhD. Lipid Chemistry Division, National Institute of Nutrition, Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India

Walking Tour of the SMU Campus

12:15-1:00 pm

Lunch

Session 2. Functional and Medical Foods for the Prevention and Management of Metabolic Syndrome

Session Chair: Nathan S. Bryan, PhD, Professor, USA

1:00--1:30 pm

Unique Combination of Beet Root and Hawthorn Berry Promotes Nitric Oxide Production and Reduces Triglycerides in Humans. 

Nathan S. Bryan. PhD, Professor. Brown Foundation Institute of Molecular Medicine, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, TX, USA

1:30-1:55 pm

“Siddha” Herbs for Diabetes. 

Jayaraman Raamachandran, PhD.  Murugan Siddha Marunthakam, India

1:55-2:10 pm

Effects of Korean Pears, Pyrus pyrifolia cv. Shingo, on Alcohol Detoxification. 

Mihi Yang, PhD. College of Pharmacy, Sookmyung Women’s University, Seoul, Republic of Korea

2:10-2.40 pm

Effect of Deuterium Oxide (D2O) Content of Drinking Water on Glucose Metabolism in STZ-induced Diabetic Rats. 

Miklós Molnár, MD, PhD. Professor. Semmelweis University Budapest, Institute of Pathophysiology, Hungary

2:40-2:50 pm

Refreshment

2:50- 3:20 pm

Adipose Tissue Dysfunction and the Metabolic Syndrome

Nicola Abate, MD. The University of Texas Medical Branch,  Galveston,  TX,  USA

3:20 -3:50 pm

Regulation of Insulin Sensitivity by Herbs and Dietary Fibers.

Jianping Ye, Professor, MD. Antioxidant and Gene Regulation Lab, Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, USA

3:50 – 4:20 pm

A Combination of L-Arabinose and Chromium Lowers Circulating Glucose and Insulin Levels After An Acute Oral Sucrose Challenge: A Human Clinical Trial. 

Kaats R. Gillbert, PhD. President of Integrative Health Technologies, Inc. San Antonio, TX, USA

4:20-4:35 pm

Modeling Type-II Diabetes in Drosophila melanogaster.

Johannes Bauer, PhD.  Department of Biological Sciences, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX, USA

4:35-4:50 pm

Irvingia Gabonensis and Metabolic Syndrome: Two Years After Baton Rouge

Julius Oben, PhD, Professor, Head of Nutrition and Nutritional Biochemistry Laboratory. University of Yaoundé, Yaoundé, Cameroon

4:50 pm

Closing

Saturday, December 4, 2010

Session 3: Experimental Studies of Functional Foods and Metabolic Syndrome.

Session Chair: Nicola Abate, MD, Professor, USA

9:00-9:25 am

Cinnamon Extract Inhibits the Overproduction of the Postprandial Apolipoprotein B48-containing Lipoproteins: Evidence from ex Vivo and in Vivo Studies. 

Bolin Qin, PhD. Beltsville Human Nutrition Research Center, ARS, US Department of Agriculture, Beltsville, Maryland, USA. 

9:25-9:40 am

Tea Polyphenols are Inhibitors of Energy Transducing Enzymes.

Steven B. Vik, PhD.  Department of Biological Sciences, Southern Methodist University(SMU), Dallas, TX, USA

9:40-9:55 am

Inhibition of Angiotensin Converting Enzyme in vitro by Apple Skin Extract, Selected Flavonoids and their Metabolites. 

Nileeka Balasuriya and Vasantha Rupasinghe, PhD. Department of Environmental Sciences, Nova Scotia Agricultural College,  Canada

9:55-10:20 am

Animal Models of Metabolic Syndrome. 

Vijayagopal Parakat, PhD, and Chandan Prasad, PhD, Professor. Nutrition and Food Science Department, TWU, Denton, TX, USA

10:20-10:30 am

Refreshment

10:30-10:55 am

A Pilot Study on Treatment Effect of Tomato Lycopene and Soy Isoflavones on Insulin Resistance.

Wentong Pan, MD. The University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, USA

10:55-11:10 am

Study on The Hepatoprotective Effect of Pleurotus Florida (Oyster Mushroom) Against Paracetamol Induced Liver Damage in Wistar Albino Rats. 

Nayma Sultana , PhD.  Assistant Professor at Salimullah Medical College, Mitford, Dhaka, Bangladesh

11:10-11:25 am

Engineering flies for longevity. 

William Orr, PhD, Professor, Chair of Biology Department, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX, USA

11:25-12:00 am

Resveratrol: A Panacea? 

Shazib Pervaiz, MD, PhD, Professor.  Department of Physiology, Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School, Singapore

12:00-1:00 pm

Lunch

Session 4: Metabolic Syndrome related disorders

Session Chair: Chandan Prasad, PhD, Professor, USA

1:00-1:20 pm

Metabolic Markers of Lupus. 

Chandra Mohan, MD, PhD,  Professor Arthritis  and Autoimmunity Research  Center,  UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA

1:20-1:35 pm

Hyperlipidemia,  Metabolic  Syndrome, and  Ischemic Stroke.

Mariam Baklavajian. MD, Professor,  Neurology and Child Neurology Department, National Institute of Health, Yerevan Armenia

1:35-1:50 pm

Incidence of Brucella Species in Slaughtered Food Animals and its Edible Offals in Beni-Suef, Egypt. 

Fatma Ali, PhD.  Associate professor, Department of Food Hygiene, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine Beni-Suef University, Egypt

Session 5: Development of Functional Food products as therapeutics.

Session Chair: Jagat R. Kanwar, PhD, Australia

1:50-2:15 pm

Oral Administration of Nanocarriers Delivery of Small Interfering RNA and micro RNA: Promises of Cancer Gene Therapy

Jagat R. Kanwar, PhD.  Head, Immunology and Molecular Biomedical Research Laboratory, Deakin University, Australia

2:15-2:50 pm

Prebiotic Soluble Fiber in Dairy Desserts for Digestive Health.

Lorraine Niba, PhD. National Starch Food Innovation, Bridgewater, NJ, USA

Shradha Sodhani, PhD Student, Nathaniel Mills, PhD, Professor, Victorine Imrhan, PhD. Texas Woman's University.

3:05-3:15 pm

Refreshment

3:15-4:45 pm.

Posters Presentation Session and Workshop

4:45-5:00 pm

Conference Closing

Danik Martirosyan,PhD, Chairman