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FSHN Graduate Seminar: FSHN 597, Spring 2012

Location: 149 National Soybean Research Lab (unless otherwise noted); Fridays 11:00 - 11:50 AM
Course Instructor: Dr. Susan Brewer

January 20, 2012
Speaker: Dr. Susan Brewer, Professor, Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Title: Introduction to the Course

January 27, 2012
Speaker: Dr. Robert Brackett, Vice President and Director, Institute for Food Safety and Health, an Administrative Unit of Illinois Institute of Technology
Title: Implications of the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act
NOTE: Seminar will be held at 149 National Soybean Research Lab, 1101 W. Peabody Dr., Urbana

February 3, 2012
Speaker: Dr. Christina Sherry, RD, Senior Scientist, Pediatric Research and Development, Abbott Nutrition
Title: Feeding Our Future: The Role of Pediatric Nutrition in the Obesity Epidemic

February 10, 2012
Speaker: Dr. Mark Lippi, Consultant, retired from Kellogg
Title: The New Product Development Process

February 17, 2012
Speaker: Dr. Darin Eastburn, Associate Professor, Crop Sciences, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Title: Aspects of Ethics in Science

February 24, 2012
Speaker: Dr. Diana Grigsby, Assistant Professor, Kinesiology and Community Health, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Title: Health and Place: Exploring Environmental Influences on Obesity Risk

March 2, 2012
Speaker: Soo Rin Kim, PhD Candidate, Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Title: Development of optimal yeast strains for the production of fuels and chemicals from lignocellulosic biomass
Under the advisement of Dr. Yong-Su Jin

March 9, 2012
Speaker: ExplorACES, students are encouraged to volunteer to help
Title: No Seminar

March 16, 2012
Speaker: Sarah Scholl, PhD Candidate, Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Title: Challenges of Creating a Food System in Space
Under the advisement of Dr. Shelly Schmidt

March 30, 2012
Speaker: Erin Burnside, Graduate Student, Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Title: Comparison of Aroma Compounds in Rums and Rum Ethers
Under the advisement of Dr. Keith Cadwallader

April 6, 2012
Speaker: Dexter Chen, Graduate Student, Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Title: Evalutation of the Bacterial Diversity in Complex Samples Using Culture Dependent and Independent Methods
Under the advisement of Dr. Mike Miller

April 13, 2012
Speaker: FSHN Graduate Student Association, Symposium Guests Panel Discussion
Title: Guest Panel of Adjunct Faculty: An Outside Perspective to Life After Grad School
Dr. Mark Berhow, Dr. Anna Keck, Dr. Susan Potter

April 20, 2012
Speaker: Dr. Chaodong Wu, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Nutrition and Food Science, Texas A&M University
Title: Aspects of Palmitoleate Supplementation: Good and Bad

April 27, 2012
Speaker: Heather Gibbs, RD, LDN, PhD Candidate, Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Title: Translating Health Literacy into a Nutrition Context
Under the Advisement of Dr. Karen Chapman-Novakofski