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Symposia organised by the Human and Animal Nutrition and Crop Husbandry Fund

International symposia

1974

Bread

  1977 The Diet of Man: Needs and Wants
1979 Food Chains and Human Nutrition   1980 Nitrogen Metabolism in Man
1981 Food, Nutrition and Climate   1984 Nutritional Adaptation in Man
1987 Comparative Nutrition   1990 Genetics and Human Nutrition
1992 Plant Adaptation to Environmental Stress   1996

Feeding a World Population of More Than Eight Billion People:  A Challenge to Science

The proceedings of all International Symposia organised by the Funds are published and are available for purchase through the normal channels.

 

Mini-symposia

1984

  • Immune Response to Food Antigens Before and During Weaning
 

1985

  • Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition

 

1986

  • Lectins  
 

1987

  • Seed Quality

 

1988

  • Regulation of Protein Metabolism
  • Seed Storage Proteins
 

1989

  • Psychology of Food
  • Non-Conventional Crop Protection

 

1990

  • Muscular Activity and Energy Expenditure
  • Inflammation, Cytokines and Nutrition
  • Starch: An Underestimated Nutrient?

 

 

1991

  • Symbiosis and Crop Growth: Molecular and Organismal Aspects
  • Digestive Tract Flora and Nutrition in Man
  • Nutrition and the Thyroid

1992

  • Genetical Variation in the Study of Plant Processes
  • Advances in Amino Acid Metabolism and Nutrition
 

1993

  • Overnutrition
  • Early Life Nutrition and Adult Disease
  • The Plant Cell Wall and Nutrition

 

1994

  • Recent Advances in Plant Nutrition
  • Mathematical Modelling in Biological Systems

 

 

1995

  • New Directions in the Study of Insect Semiochemicals
  • New Perspectives on the Metabolic Response to Injury
  • Nutrients as Regulators
  • Nutrition and Immunology

 

1996

  • Anti-Nutritional Factors in Foods and Feeds
  • Diet Selection in Animals and Man
  • Modified Plants for Nutrition and Health Enhancement
 

1997

  • Changing Nutritional Behaviour
  • Nutrition and Lactation
  • Phytoprotectants
  • Collagen

 

1998

  • Sulphur: The Global Cycle, Metabolism and Nutrition
  • Energy in Agriculture
  • Control of Appetite and Energy Expenditure
  • Nutritional Consequences of Food Processing
 

1999

  • Nutrition and Gut Cell Function
  • Nutrition and Renal Function
  • Biochemistry and Cell Biology of Glycation
  • Fin-Fish Nutrition
  • Nutrition, Foetal Growth and Adult Diseases (1 day meeting)

 

2000

  • Water
  • Nutrients and Hormonal Modulation
  • Micronutrient Function in Anti-Oxidant Systems
 

2001

  • Nutrient Transport Mechanisms
  • Metabolic Control Analysis
  • Glycaemic Response to Carbohydrate Rich Foods
  • Nutrient Sensing
  • Regional and Social Conditions and Diet Related Diseases in the UK

 

2002

  • Insulin
  • Nutrition and Brain Function and Development
  • Potatoes: An Important Food Crop
  • Lactation and Disease
  • Determinants and Implications of Breastfeeding Success

 

 

2003

  • Plant Food Allergens
  • Diet, Activity and Child Health (1 day meeting)
  • Nutrition and Adolescence

2004

  • Phytochemicals and the Prevention of Disease
  • Caloric Restriction and Ageing
  • Nutrition and Gut Flora
  • Joint Meeting with The Novartis Foundation on The Rising Tide of Diabetes in Children and Young Adults
 

2005

  • Dietary Supplements
  • Improving the Plant Secretory System for Nutrition and Health
  • Bread
  • Environmental and Nutritional Influences on Infant Development and Behaviour

 

2006

  • Can we Improve the Utilisation of Nitrogen in Cereals?
  • Birthweight and Prenatal Nutrition
  • Nutrigenomics

 

 

2007

  • Long Chain Omega-3 Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids:
  • Human Nutritional Requirements and Provision in the Food Chain
  • Iron: Key Regulator of Host Pathogen Interactions
  • Adiposity
  • The Origins of the Science and Practice of Infant and Child Nutrition and Feeding
  • Foods Fads and Fallacies (1 day meeting)

 

2008

  • Recent Advances in Nutrient Transport
  • Chemical and Visual Ecology of Arthropods: From Genes to Pest Management
  • Transport of Micronutrients in Animals and Plants
  • High Sustainable Cereal Yields under Drought
  • Research for Food Security (1 day meeting)
 

2009

  • Nutrition and HIV
  • Unravelling Common Epigenetic Processes Affecting Crop Quality and Human Development
  • Regulation of Appetite
  • Domestication of Cereals and Exploitation of Genetic Diversity in Improvement

 

2010

  • Dietary Flavonoids: Mechanisms of Action and Human Health
  • Sensory Aspects of Pollination
  • Nutrient Sensing and Signalling
  • Nutritional Biomarkers: Present Science and Future Opportunities

 

 

 

 

 

2011

  • Diabetes and Obesity
  • Roots for Improving roots AQUISITION In Crops
  • Evolution of the Human Diet
  • Nutrition and Alcohol