Dear One and All,
Please consider yourself most cordially invited to the 14th in our WHAT Talks series, next Sunday, 11th December, at 10pm West Australian Time, (2pm in the UK).
The Zoom link is at the end of this email. Please feel free to copy it to anyone who you think might be interested in why we are so different from our chimpanzee and gorilla cousins generally, and in particular why we, alone tend to be born with a
peculiar coating of cheesy wax. Note that the invite to the meeting states at 9:30 pm start (in WA time) but this is just to allow the speaker and a few other people to join early.
A "waiting room" system will be in operation so if you do join early, please be patient while we test everything before allowing people "in".
The meeting is scheduled to start on the hour at 10pm West Australian time, 2pm in the UK, 3pm Central European time and 8 am in Chicago in the USA from where Tom will be giving the talk.
Please check local times for any daylight-saving alterations.
It is scheduled to last about an hour.
Jump to the end if you want to go straight to the link.
Read on if you want to read more about Tom and his talk.
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Tom Brenna, PhD, is Professor of Pediatrics, of Chemistry, and of Human Nutrition at the Dell Medical School and College of Natural Sciences at the University of Texas at Austin, and Professor Emeritus of Human Nutrition, of Food Science, and of
Chemistry after 28 years as an active faculty member at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. His group’s basic research into the chemical, biochemical, metabolic, genetic and ecological aspects of fatty acids have had a decisive influence on modern
knowledge of these key nutrients. Their work has led to modification of the accepted biochemical pathways for endogenous synthesis of long chain polyunsaturated fatty acids (LCPUFA). Recent research has clarified the molecular biology of human
synthesis of branched chain fatty acids as well as food sources of these compounds. This work has been in concert with many ongoing contributions to the analytical mass spectrometry of fatty acids and related lipids.
His decade of research on the PUFA content of Ready-to-Use Therapeutic Foods used to rehabilitate children afflicted with severe acute malnutrition showed improved long term neurocognitive development, leading to 2021 changes in WHO international food
policy. In the 1990s, his group’s basic research studies on omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids contributed to the US FDA’s approval of DHA and arachidonic acid in US infant formulas. He has contributed to numerous policy efforts, including being a
member of the 2015 US Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee, and the most recent (2011) FAO/WHO Expert Panel on Fats and Fatty Acids. He was President of the International Society for the Study of Fatty Acids and Lipids (ISSFAL), serving on its
executive committee until 2021. He will receive the 2023 Supelco AOCS Research Award recognizing outstanding original research in fats, oils, lipid chemistry or biochemistry; previously he was honored with the Ralph Holman (2021) and the Herbert Dutton (
2020) Awards, all by the American Oil Chemists Society. He is the fourth scientist to be honored with both American Society for Nutrition’s Osborne and Mendel Award for outstanding contributions to basic research in nutrition (2017) and the ASN’s
Robert Herman Award for advancement of clinical nutrition (2013).
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/myncbi/j. thomas.brenna.1/bibliography/public/
https://dellmed.utexas.edu/directory/tom-brenna
https://www.human.cornell.edu/people/jtb4
Algis Kuliukas is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.
Topic: WHAT Talk #14 Tom Brenna
Time: Dec 11, 2022 01:30 PM London
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