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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 Modulators of Host Pathogen Interactions