Showcase of Young Science
Open to the Public
Venue: IFR Lecture Theatre
Hosted/Organised by Dawn Barrett

Showcase of Young Science 2012

Tuesday 13th March 2012

Institute of Food Research

Doors open 18:30 for 19:00 start

The scientists of the future step up to the plate to tell you what they are working on, and you get the chance to vote for the project you think should get further funding!

Most of us would like to know why there is a new cold every winter, but then again how do we talk to bugs that live in our guts or how do dying cells help wheat fill it's grain and how do plants make 'unnatural' natural products?  To find out come and listen to our students, many of whom will be talking about their research for the first time, alongside their supervisors.  So come and support the rising scientific stars from across the Norwich Research Park.

This event is free to attend but please register with dawn.barrett@nbi.ac.uk Tel: 01603 255328 by Friday 9th March
 

Programme
18:30 Doors open 

19:00 Welcome and introduction by Mike Merrick

19:10 Interactions between life and death: how wheat fills its grain using senescing leaves 
          by Cristobal Uauy and Philippa Borrill, John Innes Centre

19:30 Communicating with your gut microbes
          by Simon Carding and Sam Vogt, Institute of Food Research 

19:50 Sandwich Supper

20:10 Catch it, bin it, kill it. Why we get a new cold every winter
          by Mario Caccamo and Sergey Lamzin, The Genome Analysis Centre

20:40 Getting plants to make 'unnatural' natural products for medicines
           by Sarah O'Connor and Weslee Glenn, John Innes Centre 

21:00 Vote for who you think should be funded in future!

21:10 Close

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IFR in the City Lecture by Dr Susan Jebb
Open to the Public
Venue: The Assembly House, Norwich
Hosted/Organised by Dawn Barrett

Food for a fitter leaner future

Thursday 15th March, 2012
 Music Room, The Assembly House, Norwich
18:30 for 19:00


by Dr Susan Jebb
Head of Diet & Population Health
Medical Research Council, Human Nutrition Research Unit, Cambridge

Chaired by Professor David Boxer, Director, Institute of Food Research
 

Dr Susan Jebb

Dr Susan Jebb is Head of Diet and Population Health at the Medical Research Council Human Nutrition Research Unit (HNR) in Cambridge, UK.

With 25 years experience in nutrition research, Susan now leads a team of scientists working across a range of public health nutrition issues, with particular emphasis on the translation of nutrition science into policy and practice. She is Chair of a NICE Programme Development Group developing guidance for the prevention of obesity at a community level and chaired the cross-government Expert Advisory Group on Obesity in England from 2007-11. She is Co-Chair of the Public Health Responsibility Deal Food Network. In 2008 she was awarded an OBE for services to public health.

Her career began in nutrition and dietetics at the University of Surrey prior to her PhD at the University of Cambridge, where she studied methods to measure body composition. After post-doctoral research at the MRC Dunn Nutrition Unit, she moved to HNR in 1998, where her research focuses on the role of dietary factors in the aetiology and treatment of obesity and related metabolic diseases. It includes observational studies on dietary patterns and weight gain, explanatory dietary intervention studies and more pragmatic trials of community based weight management strategies.

Programme
18:30 Refreshments
19:00 Lecture
20:00 Sandwich supper
21:00 Close

Places are limited for this event so please register early to avoid disappointment
Attendance is FREE but places must be reserved
Contact Dawn Barrett by Friday 9th March
dawn.barrett@nbi.ac.uk or Tel: 01603 255 328

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National treasures in Norwich
Open to the Public
Venue: JIC Conference Centre
Hosted/Organised by Dawn Barrett

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