Throne Holst Symposium in Honour of Professor Helga Refsum, combined with THS paper-, poster- and communication awards

Helga Refsum obtained her MD and PhD degrees from the University of Bergen, where she also became a Professor of Pharmacology in 1992. Since 2004, she has been a Professor at the Department of Nutrition at the University of Oslo and a Visiting Professor at University of Oxford. She is a world-renowned researcher on homocysteine, B vitamins, cysteine, and their roles in cardiovascular disease, dementia, and obesity.

To celebrate Professor Refsum’s 60th birthday and her outstanding contributions to science, we welcome you to a symposium with presentations on Helga’s current and past research topics.

Portrett av professor Helga Refsum

Professor Helga Refsum

Registration for lunch during the seminar
 

Deadline for registration: Closed

Information about paper and poster award

  • Deadline for paper: closed

  • Deadline for poster: closed

Program 

Place: Professorboligen; Stallen, Karl Johans gate 47, Oslo, University of Oslo.

09.00 – 9.15: Welcome
Head of Department of Nutrition, Professor Stine Marie Ulven

Program for Helga Refsum

Chair: Kirsten B. Holven

09.15 – 10.00: Professor David Smith, University of Oxford, UK.

“Homocysteine provides a clue to the prevention of dementia”

10.00 – 10.30: Professor Ian Graham, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. 

"ARC – Association, Risk and Causality".

10.30 10.45: Coffee break

10.45 11.05: Professor Ebba Nexø, University of Aarhus, Denmark

 "Important Issues in Science - and for Vitamin B12 Studies".

11.05 – 11.35Dr. Amany Elshorbagy, University of Oxford, UK.

"Cysteine and obesity – the journey".

11.35 – 12.00: Drs. Kathrine Vinknes & Thomas Olsen, University of Oslo, Norway.

 “Sulfur amino acids and metabolic outcomes – experiences from translational human clinical interventions”.

12.00 - 14.30: Lunch and poster presentation
13.30-14.15: Guided tour: Gamle festsal, Bibliotheca, Aulatrappa (maximum 50 participants)

14.30 – 16.00 Throne Holst Program (Professorboligen; Stallen)

Chair: Stine M. Ulven

14.30 - 16.20: Presentation of publications by young scientists (10 minutes each presentation)

14.30-14.40: Frida van Megen
"A Low FODMAP Diet Reduces Symptoms in Treated Celiac Patients With Ongoing Symptoms–A Randomized Controlled Trial"
14.40-14.50: Sonja H. Brunvoll
"Normal and unusual days for dietary intake during the 12 months after a breast cancer diagnosis in women"
14.50-15.00: Ellen Cecilie Andresen
"Environmental Impact of Feeding with Infant Formula in Comparison with Breastfeeding"
15.00-15.10: Torunn Melnes
"What characterizes event-free elderly FH patients? A comprehensive lipoprotein profiling"
15.10-15.20. Eli Bjørnøy Urke
"Individuals with familial hypercholesterolemia have excess risk of eating disorders: a prospectively matched cohort study"
15.20-15.30: Sigrid Pedersen
"Genome-wide decrease in DNA methylation in adults with epilepsy treated with modified ketogenic diet: A prospective study"
15.30-15.40. Dena H. Treider Alavi
"Body composition assessment by artificial intelligence from routine computed tomography scans in colorectal cancer: Introducing BodySegAI"
15.40-15.50. Elisabeth Øhman
"Effects of dietary and exercise treatments on HDL subclasses in lactating women with overweight and obesity: a secondary analysis of a randomised controlled trial"
15.50-16.00. Eduard Romanenko
"Assessing policies to reduce adolescent overweight and obesity: Insights from a system dynamics model using data from the Health Behavior in School-Aged Children study"
16.00-16.10. Gaoyang Li
"Identification of SNPs associated with methotrexate treatment outcomes in patients with early rheumatoid arthritis"
16.10-16.20. Marit Hjorth
"Extracellular vesicles and microRNAs are altered in response to exercise, insulin sensitivity and overweight"

18.00 Dinner at Vaaghals and presentation of the paper- , poster- and communication-awards to young scientists
- Special invitation will be sent by e-mail

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