Friday, March 27, 2015, 1:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Renaissance Boston Waterfront Hotel - Pacific Grand Ballroom A/B/C
Chair: Zeina E. Jouni, Global Nutrition Science, Kellogg Company
Co-Chair: Sherry Tanumihardjo, Nutritional Sciences, University of Wisconsin, Madison
1:00 – 1:10 PM: “Introduction of the James Allen Olson Memorial Lecture” Zeina E. Jouni, Nutrition Science, Kellogg Company.
1:10-2:00 PM: Olson Memorial Lecture: “Conversion of Dietary Carotenoids and Vitamin A into Bioactive Retinoids: Exploring Trails Blazed by Jim Olson” Earl Harrison, Human Nutrition
College of Education and Human Ecology, Ohio State University.
CARIG Conference: Carotenoids, Retinoids and Cancer
2:00-2:30 PM: “Retinoic Acid Biosynthesis Defects in Cancer” Maureen Kane, School of Pharmacy, University of Maryland.
2:30-3:00 PM: “The Antioxidant Conundrum: Just Do It???” Harold Seifried, NIH, NCI Division of Cancer Prevention.
3:00-3:30 PM: Coffee Break
3:30-4:00PM: “Tomato Carotenoids and Fatty Liver Disease” Xiang-Dong Wang, Jean Mayer USDA, Human Nutrition, Research Center on Aging, Tufts University.
4:00-4:30PM: “Tomato Carotenoids and Risk of Prostate Cancer” John Erdman, Food Science and Human Nutrition, University of Illinois.
4:30-5:00 PM: General Discussion