Strategies for Neuroprotection and Myelin Repair
NIH Neuroscience Series Seminar
Our ability to move, think, perceive, is dependent on a timely transmission of information among specialized cells called neurons. This information is sent via a series of electrical impulses that travel along specialized structures called " axons " , whose ability to conduct signal is dependent on the presence of " myelin " . Myelin is a fatty substance composed of lipids and proteins that is an integral component of a cell called " oligodendrocyte " . Oligodendrocytes are the myelin-forming cells of the CNS and are essential for brain function. Oligodendrocytes originate from neural stem c...
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Agriculture
Soil salinization prevents crops from taking up water and nutrients due to an excess of salt in the soil. Meagan Mauter at Carnegie Mellon University is developing technology to monitor salinity levels to allow farmers to make better watering decisions.
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Group 1 innate lymphoid cells in metabolic disease
Immunology Interest Group Seminar Series
Innate lymphoid cells (ILCs) are the most recently identified arm of the innate immune system that function to protect epithelial barriers against pathogens and maintain tissue homeostasis. Although ILCs can also promote pathology at mucosal sites such as the gut or lung, it remains unknown whether aberrant activation of tissue-resident ILCs can contribute to disease in non-barrier tissues. Here, we identify a subset of long-term adipose-resident ILC1 that are dependent on the transcription factors Nfil3 and T-bet, but phenotypically and functionally distinct from circulating mature...
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Changing marsh conditions make microbes dormant (Image 1)
Low tide in the marsh at the National Science Foundation (NSF) Plum Island Ecosystems Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) site in northeastern Massachusetts. "Frank the Tank," a nutrient delivery system, is in the background.
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Nutrient Sensing by the mTOR Pathway
Stars in Nutrition and Cancer
This lecture, Nutrient Sensing by the mTOR Pathway, will elucidate the role of nutrient sensing in growth control and the role of subcellular compartmentalization in mTOR signaling.For more information go tohttp://go.usa.gov/cwD5CAir date: 12/5/2016 10:00:00 AM (Source: Videocast - All Events)
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Research at University of Maine
Research in the lab of University of Maine civil and environmental engineering professor Aria Amirbahman focuses on aquatic chemistry and contaminant transport in natural and engineered systems, including nutrients and trace metals in lakes, wetlands and coastal sediment. Pictured here are some of ...This is an NSF Multimedia Gallery item. (Source: NSF Multimedia Gallery)
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Germs, genes, and host defense
Cisca Wijmenga has a long standing interest in understanding the molecular basis of the host immune system and how genetic variation leads to dysregulation of a proper immune response. She is particular interested in diseases associated such an imbalance, in particular celiac disease (a common autoimmune disorder) and candidiasis (a common infectious agent causing sepsis) . Her research group focusing on the regulatory networks of immune cells and their perturbation by genetic variation or physiological stressors like infectious agents or dietary gluten. To this end she founded a functional genomics cohort (LIfeLines Deep)...
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Fire and Freedom: Food and Enslavement in Early America
History of Medicine Lecture
What stories can meals tell us about people and places? Meals can tell us how power is exchanged between and among different peoples, races, genders, and classes.
In the Chesapeake region, during the early colonial era, European settlers survived by relying upon indentured servants, Native Americans, and African slave labor for life-saving knowledge of farming and food acquisition. Without this knowledge, Europeans suffered poor nutrition, in addition to widespread illness caused by the lack of medical care.
Despite their perilous position, the colonists used human resources, the natural environ...
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NINR “ Precision Health: From ‘ Omics ’ to Data Science ” Boot Camp
NINR's 2016 “ Precision Health: From ‘ Omics ’ to Data Science ” Boot Camp will engage and inform scientists, clinicians, graduate students, and faculty from multiple disciplines on the latest advances in genomics, pharmacogenomics, nutrigenomics, metabolomics, microbiomics, and data science as well as the associated ethical, legal, and social implications of precision health. The Boot Camp will address the impact of precision health on health care and society and will feature lectures by distinguished guest speakers, discussion groups, and case studies of targeted strategies. < br > < br > For more information g...
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NINR “Precision Health: From ‘Omics’ to Data Science” Boot Camp
NINR's 2016 “Precision Health: From ‘Omics’ to Data Science” Boot Camp will engage and inform scientists, clinicians, graduate students, and faculty from multiple disciplines on the latest advances in genomics, pharmacogenomics, nutrigenomics, metabolomics, microbiomics, and data science as well as the associated ethical, legal, and social implications of precision health. The Boot Camp will address the impact of precision health on health care and society and will feature lectures by distinguished guest speakers, discussion groups, and case studies of targeted strategies.For more information go to http://www.ninr....
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Iron Screening and Supplementation of Iron-replete Pregnant Women and Children (Day 1)
Iron is well recognized as an essential nutrient needed for growth and development. Iron deficiency has serious consequences and, for this reason, is a public health concern particularly for pregnant women and young children (6-24 months). At the same time, ensuring sufficient intakes of iron must be balanced by avoiding too much iron as there are also consequences to excessive iron intake. The Office of Dietary Supplements (ODS) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) is sponsoring an open public meeting titled, “Iron Screening and Supplementation of Iron‐replete Pregnant Women and Young Children,” September 28-2...
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Iron Screening and Supplementation of Iron-replete Pregnant Women and Children (Day 2)
Iron is well recognized as an essential nutrient needed for growth and development. Iron deficiency has serious consequences and, for this reason, is a public health concern particularly for pregnant women and young children (6-24 months). At the same time, ensuring sufficient intakes of iron must be balanced by avoiding too much iron as there are also consequences to excessive iron intake. The Office of Dietary Supplements (ODS) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) is sponsoring an open public meeting titled, “Iron Screening and Supplementation of Iron‐replete Pregnant Women and Young Children,” September 28-2...
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Iron Status Pregnant Women and Infants: Research Needs for Screening and Supplementation Strategies in the US (Day 1)
The workshop outcome will be the identification and prioritization of research gaps and needs.
To develop research recommendations focused on clarifying the benefit and/or harms associated with (a) screening pregnant women and infants (6-24 mos.) for iron deficiency and (b) supplementing replete pregnant women and infants (6-24 mos.) with iron. In 2015 these preventive activities were determined by USPSTF to lack sufficient evidence to demonstrate benefit or harm.
Pregnant women are among the group most likely to have inadequate intakes of iron. During pregnancy, plasma volume and red cell mass expand due to dramatic ...
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Iron Status Pregnant Women and Infants: Research Needs for Screening and Supplementation Strategies in the US (Day 2)
The workshop outcome will be the identification and prioritization of research gaps and needs. To develop research recommendations focused on clarifying the benefit and/or harms associated with (a) screening pregnant women and infants (6-24 mos.) for iron deficiency and (b) supplementing replete pregnant women and infants (6-24 mos.) with iron. In 2015 these preventive activities were determined by USPSTF to lack sufficient evidence to demonstrate benefit or harm. Pregnant women are among the group most likely to have inadequate intakes of iron. During pregnancy, plasma volume and red cell mass expand due to dramatic incre...
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Nutrition, Fasting, Longevity and Diseases
The Trans-NIH GeroScience Interest Group (GSIG) cordially invites you to its spring seminar, featuring Dr. Valter Longo. Dr. Longo is the Edna Jones Professor in Gerontology and Professor in Biological Science. He is also the Director of the University of Southern California Longevity Institute.
Dr. Longo is interested in identifying the molecular pathways conserved from simple organisms to humans that can be modulated to protect against multiple stresses and to treat or prevent diseases such as cancer, Alzheimer’s and other diseases of aging. The focus is on the signal transduction pathways that regulate selective ce...
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