Conference Preliminary Program
-Explore San Diego-
April 24th, 17:00-20:30: We will leave for a networking dinner on the beautiful Coronado Island. We will take a 15-minute ferry ride from the Convention Center to Coronado Island. You will be able to walk around many shops and restaurants, sightsee, and view the San Diego skyline across the bay. We will then come together for dinner near the harbor. Finally, we will ferry back to the Convention Center, and stroll around Seaport Village. Both ferries and your dinner will be included in your $50 payment. To submit your payment, please click here.
April 24th, 2018
8:15 -8:45 Registrations
8:45-8:55 Welcome and Opening Remarks: Danik Martirosyan, Co-chairman, PhD: President, Functional Food Center; Dallas, TX, USA.
Session 1: Functional Food Definition, Status, and Regulation. Session chair:
8:55-9:25 Danik Martirosyan, Ph.D., Functional Food Center, USA. FFC's Advancement of Functional Food Definition and Common food definitions associated with “healthy” eating
9:25-9:55 Debasis Bagchi, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Pharmacological and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Houston College of Pharmacy, Houston, TX, USA. Regulation of functional foods and Nutraceuticals in USA and Japan.
9:55-10:10 Coffee Break
Session 2. (Special Session): Dietary Nitrite and Nitrate. Session chair: Nathan S. Bryan, Ph.D., Session Chair, Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine-Houston, TX, USA
10:10-10:40 James R. Coughlin, Ph.D. President, Coughlin and Associates: Consultants in Food/Nutritional/Chemical Toxicology and Safety, Aliso Viejo, California, USA. Historical Considerations on the Potential Risks of Nitrite and Nitrate to Humans
10:40-11:10 David J. Lefer, Ph.D. Director, Cardiovascular Center of Excellence; Professor of Pharmacology LSU Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, USA. Dietary Interventions to Increase Nitric Oxide and Treat Cardiovascular Disease
11:10-11:40 Norman Hord, PhD, MPH, RD, Head, School of Biological and Population Health Sciences and Celia Strickland Austin and G. Kenneth Austin III Professor in Public Health and Human Sciences, College of Public Health and Human Sciences, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, USA. Dietary nitrate and nitrite concentrations in food patterns and dietary supplements
11:40-12:10 Nathan S. Bryan, PhD,Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine-Houston, TX, USA. Evidence for Consideration of Dietary Guidelines for Nitrite and Nitrate
12:10 – 13:00 Lunch
Session 3: Functional Foods and Bioactive Compounds for Aging
13:00-13:30 Roel Vonk, PhD, Professor, Department of Cell Biology, UMCG, Groningen, Netherlands. The effect of nutrition and functional food on aging
13:30-14:00 Garth Nicolson, PhD, Research Professor of Molecular Pathology, The Institute for Molecular Medicine, S. Laguna Beach, CA, United States. Clinical effects of hydrogen administration: Molecular hydrogen, disease and cellular aging
Session 4: Functional Foods and Bioactive Compound(s): Prevention and Management of Non-Communicable Diseases. Session Chair: Karen R. Jonscher, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Anesthesiology, University of Colorado Denver, Aurora, CO, USA
14:00-14:30 Maksim Khotimchenko, MD, PhD, Professor, Department of Pharmacy and Pharmacology, School of Biomedicine, Far Eastern Federal University, Vladivostok, Russia. Marine Non-Starch Polysaccharides Prevent Heavy Metal Accumulation in Preschool Children
14:30-15:00 Jian-Yong WU, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Applied Biology & Chemical Technology, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China. Molecular properties and prebiotic functions of polysaccharides produced by Cordyceps sinensis Fungus Cs-HK1
15:00-15:30 Karen R. Jonscher, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Anesthesiology, University of Colorado Denver, Aurora, CO, USA. Role of pyrroloquinoline quinone in altering macrophage metabolic reprogramming
15:30-15:50 Coffee Break
15:50-16:30 Session 5: Poster Session
16:30 Conference Closing
Networking: 17:00-20:30 -Explore San Diego-Networking Dinner on the beautiful Coronado Island
April 25th, 2018
Session 6: Functional Foods and Sport Nutrition, Session chair: Debasis Bagchi, PhD, Professor, University of Houston College of Pharmacy, Houston, TX, USA
9:00-9:30 Manashi Baghchi, PhD, Cepham Research Center, Piscataway, NJ, USA; Dr. Herbs LLC, Concord, CA, USA. Nutrition in Paralympics
9:30-10:00 Didier Hernández García, PhD Student, Department of Experimental Medicine, University of Lleida-IRBLleida, Lleida, Spain. Ginseng, an ergogenic aid for runners? Ginseng utilization for the improvement of lipid metabolism
10:00-10:20 Debasis Bagchi, PhD, Professor, Department of Pharmacological and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Houston College of Pharmacy, Houston, TX, USA. Role of Mammalian Target of Rapamycin (mTOR) in Muscle Growth
10:20-10:40 Sreejayan Nair, PhD, Professor, University of Wyoming, School of Pharmacy, College of Health Sciences, Laramie, WY, USA. From Bench to Market: Clinical Studies Needed to Substantiate Claims of Sports Nutrition Products
10:40-10:55 Coffee Break
Session 7: Functional Foods and Chronic Diseases: Session chair: Jianping Wu, PhD, Professor, University of Alberta. Canada
10:55-11:25 Barat B. Aggarwal, PhD, Professor, Inflammation Research Center San Diego, California, USA. Targeting Inflammatory Pathways Linked to Chronic Disease by Agents Designed by Mother Nature: Food as Medicine
11:25-11:55 Isabel García-Tornadu, PhD, Herbalife International Argentina S.A., Buenos Aires, Argentina. Aloe vera decolorized extracts: Effects on the intestinal barrier
11:55-12:25 Jianping Wu, PhD, Professor, Department of Agricultural, Food and Nutritional Science, Cardiovascular Disease Research Centre, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Food proteins as a source of bioactive peptides against cardiovascular diseases
12:25-13:15 Lunch
Session 8: Current Research and Development of New Functional Food Products. Session chair: Danik Martirosyan, PhD: President, Functional Food Center; Dallas, TX, USA.
13:15-13:45 Jiehui Zhou, PhD student, Diet4Life, Aarhus, Denmark; and Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark. Identification of a food-derived octapeptide from meat proteins that induces signaling in intestinal cells and reduces feed intake in mice by delaying gastric emptying
13:45-14:05 Hairong Cheng, Professor, State Key Laboratory of Microbial Metabolism, School of Life Sciences and Biotechnology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China. Recent progress in functional sugars (erythritol and xylitol) synthesis by the yeast Yarrowia lipolytica
14:05-14:35 Dalal Alghawas, PhD, School of Biological Sciences, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China. Modification of polyunsaturated fatty acid and its mediators in female ApoE-/- mice post oat bran diet
14:35-15:05 WL Wendy Hsiao, PhD, Professor, State Key Laboratory of Quality Research in Chinese Medicine, Macau University of Science and Technology, Macau, China. Restoration of diseased gut microenvironment, stimulation of GPRs and the SCFA-producers in ApcMin/+ mice are associated with the combined treatment of mushroom polysaccharides and herbal saponins
15:05-15:20 Coffee Break
15:20-16:00 Session 9: Poster Session
16:00-16:15 Awards and Certificates
16:15-16:30 Conference Closing
Please note: Schedule subject to change
