Plenary & Special Lectures
Sunday, September 15th
Lorca Auditorium
19.15-20.00h
Opening Lecture
The New Sustainable Development Goals and Nutrition
Maria Purificación Neira, Director Public Health and Environment, WHO
Monday, September 16th
Lorca Auditorium
10.3011.00h
Plenary Lecture
The resolution of inflammation. Is there anything nutrients can do for it?
Charles N. Serhan, Harvard Institutes of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard
Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
16.00 - 16.30 SPECIAL LECTURES
Andalucia
Chronobiology and obesity: the number 25, the initial point
Fred W. Turek, Charles E. & Emma H. Morrison, University in Evanston and Chicago, Illinois, USA
Machado and Picasso
Social determinants of health and nutrition
Tomris Turmen, International Children's Center; Department of Pediatrics/Newborn Medicine, University of Ankara Medical School, Turkey
Falla Auditorium
The role of policy and regulation in improving diets
Boyd Swinburn, Epidemiology and Biostatistics Department University of
Auckland, New Zealand
Lorca Auditorium
Differential diagnosis and management in childhood obesities
Jesús Argente, Department of Paediatrics, Univesidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain
Room B
Sweetness, satiation, and satiety
France Bellisle, Faculty of Medicine, Laval University, Quebec. Centre de Recherche en Nutrition Humained'Ile de France, Université Paris, Bobigny, France
Room C
Modulation of the gut microbiota by nutrients with prebiotic and
probiotic properties
Nathalie Delzenne, Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium
Machuca and Albéniz
Maternal nutrition and birth outcomes
Zulfiqar Bhutta, The Aga Khan University, Pakistan
Room D
Assessing and improving the quality of food composition databases
for nutrition and health applications
Paul Finglas, Institute of Food Research, UK
Tuesday, September 17th
Lorca Auditorium
10.30-11.00h
Plenary Lecture
Micronutrient Research, Programs and Policy: From Meta-analyses
to Metabolomics
Lindsay Allen (E.V. McCollum lecture)
16.00 - 16.30 SPECIAL LECTURES
Andalucia
Challenges for molecular nutrition research
Mike Gibney, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
Machado and Picasso
Towards body composition reference data for children and adolescents
Jonathan C Wells, University College London, UK
Falla Auditorium
Energy balance and obesity
James O. Hill, Anschutz Health and Wellness Center, University of
Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, USA
Lorca Auditorium
Nutritional rickets around the world
Gail Goldberg, MRC Human Nutrition Research, Cambridge, UK
Room B
Developing suitable methods of nutritional status assessment,
a continuous challenge
Ibrahim Elmadfa, University of Vienna, Austria
Room C
Iron nutrition of infants - what is too little and what is too much?
Bö Lönnerdal, University of California, Davis, USA
Machuca and Albéniz
Research to improve infant nutrition and growth in Africa
Anna Lartey, University of Ghana, Legon, Ghana
Room D
Sustainable diets: how nutrition can save the planet
Barbara Burlingame, Food and Nutrition Division, FAO, Rome
Wednesday, September 18th
Lorca Auditorium
10.30-11.00h
Plenary Lecture
New powers of brown fat: fighting the metabolic syndrome
Jan Nedergard, The Wenner-Gren Institute, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
16.00 - 16.30 SPECIAL LECTURES
Andalucia
Early Nutrition and non-nommunicable diseases in countries of the Middle-East
Nahla Houalla, Dean of the Faculty of Agriculture, American University of Beirut/ Lebanon, Beirut
Machado and Picasso
Genetic engineering/biotechnology and it's relevance to pediatric nutrition
Ronal E. Kleinman, Mass General Hospital for Children Chair, Department of Pediatrics Massachusetts
General Hospital Charles Wilder Professor of Pediatrics Harvard Medical School
Room B
Regulation of protein synthesis in skeletal muscle by leucine during the neonatal period
Teresa Davis, Baylor College of Medicine, U.S. Department of Agriculture / Agricultural Research Service , Children’s Nutrition Research Center at Baylor College of Medicine
Room C
Why alpha-linolenic acid (ALA) is essential: New research on plant based sources
Kris Etherton, Department of Nutritional Sciences, The Pennsylvania State University, USA
Machuca and Albéniz
Bioactive foods and ingredients for health
Connie Weaver, Department of Nutrition Science (NUTR), Purdue University, USA
Room D
Agrinutrition. Where are we going?
Alan Dangour, The Leverhulme Centre for Integrative Research in Agriculture and Health
Thursday, September 19th
Lorca Auditorium
10.30-11.00h
Plenary Lecture
IUNS Award (TBC)
16.00 - 16.30 SPECIAL LECTURES
Andalucia
Brite versus brown and white adipose tissues: functional and molecular differences
Barbara Cannon, Stockholm University
Machado and Picasso
The importance of dietary protein to maintain musculoskeletal mass and quality during aging
Daniel Moore , Department of Human Health and Nutritional Sciences, University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada
Falla Auditorium
Obesity of the rich, obesity of the poor: two epidemics?
Benjamin Caballero, International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloombergs School of Public Heatlh Baltimore, USA
Lorca Auditorium
Diet and noncommunicable diseases: Lessons from the EPIC-Study
Heiner Boeing, German Institute of Human Nutrition, Berlin
Room B
Iron food fortification and anemia prevention
Mari Nieves García Casal, Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas (IVIC), Venezuela
Room C
Cardiovascular Effects of Dietary Flavonoids - Is there a potential benefit in diabetes?
Ian MacDonald, University of Nottingham, UK
Machuca and Albéniz
Innovation and quick-wins in nutrition policies in WHO European Region
Joao Breda, WHO Programme Manager Nutrition, Physical Activity and Obesity
Room D
Identifying and characterizing the effects of nutrition on learning and memory
Neal Cohen, Neuroscience Program, and Beckman Institute; Neuroscience Program (NSP); Center for Nutrition, Learning, and Memory (CNLM); Center for Lifelong Improvement of Minds & Brains (CLIMB); University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Friday, September 20th
Lorca Auditorium
12.00-13.00h
Closing Ceremony
12.00-12.15h
Towards a new milestone in European nutrition and physical activity
policies - Vienna Declaration on Nutrition and NCD
João Breda, WHO Regional Office for Europe João Breda, Nutrition,
Physical Activity and Obesity Programme Division of Noncommunicable
Diseases and Life-Course World Health Organization, Copenhagen, Denmark
12.15-12.45h
Closing Lecture
Health and Well Being in the Changing Urban Environment
Dov Jaron, School of Biomedical Engineering, Science & Health Systems,
Member of the International Council of Science (ICSU) Board
12.45-13.00h
Presentation IUNS 21st ICN
13.00-13.15h
Closing remarks
13.15-13.45h
Performance
14.00-15.30h
Show Cooking at Parque de las Ciencias