Informal Nutrition Symposium: Dynamics of the Digestive System Introduction

Nutrition and Gene Regulation Symposium Introduction: Nutrition and Gene Regulation

Nutritional genomics is the study of nutrient-gene interactions and the effect these interactions have on health. It includes how diet affects the way genes are expressed, the effect of genes on how the body uses nutrients, and the effects of nutrients on molecular level processes in the body. It is an area of science that seeks to help people improve their health by studying how genes influenc...

Introduction to the symposium on nutrition of the preterm infant.

I t has been nearly a decade since the publication of Nutrition of the Preterm Infant, Second Edition. Numerous changes in neonatal care have occurred in the interim, and the need to refine nutritional care of the preterm infant is apparent. The science base indicates gaps in our knowledge of appropriate nutritional support and the need to establish new recommendations have evolved. Thus, we no...

Informal Phosphorene Symposium

Black phosphorous (BP) is is recently unveiled as a promising two-dimensional direct bandgap semiconducting material. Here, we report the ambipolar field effect transistor behavior of multilayers of BP with ferromagnetic tunnel contacts. We observe a reduced of Schottky barrier < 50 meV by using TiO2/Co contacts, which could be further tuned by gate voltages. Eminently a good transistor perform...

Digestive physiology of the pig symposium: gut chemosensing: integrating nutrition, gut function, and metabolism in pigs.

Introduction to the symposium.

Forty-five years ago a symposium on the ‘‘Lower Metazoa’’ was held in Pacific Grove, California. The resulting volume (Dougherty et al., 1963) sampled much of the then current study and thought about simple animals—sponges, cnidarians, ctenophores, flatworms, pseudocoelomates, and more. Extensive discussions of homology and phylogeny formed the basis for testing a variety of hypotheses concerni...