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Past Meeting & Seminar Information

Day Date Time Location Topic(s) Speaker(s)
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04/28/07 8:00am-1:00 pm Renaissance Hotel Grand Ballroom South, 999 Ninth Street NW, Washington, DC  LIPID MAPS Lipidomics Workshop www.lipidmaps.org  Various 
Thursday 03/15/07 2:00pm Lipsett Amphitheater, Blgd 10 NIH Main Campus  Omega-3 Fatty Acids in the Dietary Management of Pro-Inflammatory States: A Nutrigenomic Model  Peter J. Gillies, Ph.D., FAHA 
Thursday 10/12/06 2:00-4:00 pm 3rd floor conference room, 5625 Fishers Lane, Rockville, MD 20852  “Role of Stearoyl-CoA Desaturase in Metabolism: Implications in Human Diseases”  Dr. James M. Ntambi 
Thursday 05/12/05 2:00 pm 5625 Fishers Lane, 3rd Floor Conference Room (3N25)  “Novel Omega-3-Derived Anti-Inflammatory and Protective Mediators: Resolvins and Protectins”   Dr. Charles Serhan 
Tuesday 09/14/04 2:00-4:00 pm Conf.Room, Flow Bldg., 12510 Washington Ave., Rockville  “Why we can’t convert DHA from ALA – or can we?”   Robert Gibson, Dir. Child Nutr. Res. Ctr. 
Wednesday 04/07/04 1:00-3:00 pm Conf.Room, Flow Bldg., 12510 Washington Ave., Rockville  "Structure and dynamics of biomembranes with polyunsaturated hydrocarbon chains"   Dr. Klaus Gawrisch 
Thursday 03/04/04 2:00-4:00 pm Conf.Room, Flow Bldg., 12510 Washington Ave., Rockville  “Feedback regulation of highly unsaturated fatty acid synthesis by SREBP-1c and PPAR-alpha”   Dr. Manabu T. Nakamura, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 
Wednesday 01/15/04 2:00 pm Conf.Room, Flow Bldg., 12510 Washington Ave., Rockville  “Mammalian phosphatidylserine synthases”  Dr. Jean Vance, University of Alberta 
Wednesday 06/04/03 1:00-3:00 pm Conf.Room, Flow Bldg., 12510 Washington Ave., Rockville  Dietary Lipids and Risk for Age-related Macular Degeneration   Dr. John Paul San Giovanni, NEI 
Wednesday 03/05/03 1:00-3:00 pm Conf.Room, Flow Bldg., 12510 Washington Ave., Rockville  "Regulation of the ubiquitin-proteasome pathway by fatty acids"   Dr. Hideya Ando, NCI 
Friday 02/14/03 10:00-11:30 am Neuroscience Center, 6001 Executive Blvd.  Omega-3 Fatty Acids as a Modifiable Developmental Risk Factor for Depression and Homicide: Nutritional Restoration in Prisoners.   Joseph R. Hibbeln, NIAAA and C. Bernard Gesch, Oxford University 
Wednesday 02/12/03 1:00-3:00 pm Conf.Room, Flow Bldg., 12510 Washington Ave., Rockville  "How is tissue fatty acid composition maintained?"   Dr. Bill Lands 
Thursday 02/06/03 1:00-2:00 pm Rockledge 2, Conference Room#9112  "Enzymes of Triacylglycerol Synthesis: Are These New Anti-Obesity Drug Targets."   Dr. Rosalind Coleman, Professor of Nutrition and Pediatrics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 
Wednesday 01/08/03 1:00-3:00 pm Conf.Room, Flow Bldg., 12510 Washington Ave., Rockville  "How do proteins discriminate between polyunsaturated omega-6 and omega-3 fatty acids?"   Klaus Gawrisch 
Tuesday 12/10/02 2:00-4:00 pm Conf.Room, Flow Bldg., 12510 Washington Ave., Rockville  DHA Promotes Differentiation of Hippocampal Neurons   Dr. Frances Calderon 
Wednesday 12/04/02 1:00 pm Conf.Room, Flow Bldg., 12510 Washington Ave., Rockville  Systematic Reviews on Essential Fatty Acids and Long-Chain Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids as They Relate to Visual Resolution Acuity in Healthy Infants   John Paul SanGiovanni 
Wednesday 09/25/02 1:00-2:00 pm Conf.Room, Flow Bldg., 12510 Washington Ave., Rockville  An Update on the Evidence for Docosahexaenoic Acid as Determinant of Human Cerebral Evolution   Dr. Michael A. Crawford, Institute of Brain Chemistry and Human Nutrition, London Metropolitan University 
Tuesday 09/10/02 2:00-4:00 pm Conf.Room, Flow Bldg., 12510 Washington Ave., Rockville  Effect of Lipid Composition on Membrane Structure and Protein Function   Dr. Shui-Lin Niu 
Wednesday 04/01/02 1:00-3:00 pm Conf.Room, Flow Bldg., 12510 Washington Ave., Rockville  How Do Dietary Fats Regulate Blood Cholesterol Level? Biophysical Perspective.   Dr. Shui Lin Niu 
Wednesday 03/06/02 2:00 pm Conf.Room, Flow Bldg., 12510 Washington Ave., Rockville  “The Effect of Chronic DHA Dietary Deficiency on Dendritic Morphology in the Developing and Adult Rat Brain.”   Dr. Ronald F. Mervis 
Wednesday 01/09/02 1:00pm Conf.Room, Flow Bldg., 12501 Washington Ave., Rockville  The meeting is about "Impaired Synthesis of DHA in Patients with X-linked Retinitis Pigmentosa"   Dr. James Demar 
Friday 08/17/01 8:30am to 3:30pm Conf.Room C, Bldg. 31  A two-day workshop. Information available from Dr. Rao S. Rapaka (435-1304)   Agenda posted in "Special Items" section of website. 
Thursday 08/16/01 8am to 5pm Conf.Room C, Bldg. 31  CANNABINOIDS: CHEMISTRY AND BIOLOGY A two-day workshop. Information available from Dr. Rao S. Rapaka (435-1304)   Agenda posted in "Special Items" section of website. 
Thursday 07/26/01 2:00-3:00 pm Building 36, 1B07-1B13  Probes for Manipulating the Endogenous Cannabinoid Syatem   Billy R. Martin, Ph.D.; info at 301-443-2069 
Thursday 06/28/01 3-day conference Breckenridge, CO  Cellular and Molecular Aspects of Omega-3 Fatty Acids and Cancer   added information from Dr.H.Seifried, NCI/NIH or Dr. L. Jenski, Marshall Univ. 
Wednesday 05/09/01 4:00-5:00 pm Conf.Room, Flow Bldg., 12510 Washington Ave., Rockville with videoconferencing at 31/1B44 and Willco/400.  “The Enzymatic Regulation of Endogenous Cannabinoid Signaling: How to Achieve a Natural High"   Dr. Benjamin Cravatt from Scripps Research Institute 
Wednesday 05/02/01 1:00-2:00 pm Conf.Room, Flow Bldg., 12510 Washington Ave., Rockville  Journal Club Discussion of: "Neurotrophic actions of DHA: DHA as membrane phospholipids or free fatty acid?"   Dr. Hee-Yong Kim 
Tuesday 05/01/01 4 PM Flow Building library  Hashish: A Historical Perspective and the Synthesis of Important Cannabinoid Ligands   Dr. R.K. Razdan 
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04/04/01 1:00-2:00 pm Conf.Room, Flow Bldg., 12510 Washington Ave., Rockville  Journal Club Discussion of: DELIVERY AND TURNOVER OF PLASMA-DERIVED ESSENTIAL POLYUNSATURATED FATTY ACIDS IN MAMMALIAN BRAIN. J. Lipid Res. In press, 2001; Stanley I. Rapoport, Michael C. J. Chang, Arthur A. Spector   Stanley Rapoport, Brain Physiology and Metabolism Section, National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 
Tuesday
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03/20/01 afternoon USDA (see website travel advice)  "Essential Fatty Acids in Health Maintenance and Disease Prevention". Find schedule and register at http://www.barc.usda.gov/fmod/fatty acids/   see agenda at website 
Wednesday 03/07/01 1:00-2:00 pm Conf.Room, Flow Bldg., 12510 Washington Ave., Rockville  Journal Club Discussion of CHANGE OF OLIGOSACCHARIDES OF RAT BRAIN MICROSOMES DEPENDING ON DIETARY FATTY ACIDS AND LEARNING TASK; S. Yatoshi, et al, J. Neurosci. Resh. 2001; 63: 185-195.   Bill Lands 
Monday 01/29/01 Noon Lipsett Amphitheater  "Endogenous Cannabinoids: Biochemistry and Pharmacology of a Novel Signaling System" NIH Neuroscience Lecture Series   Daniele Piomelli 
Tuesday 11/28/00 4 PM Flow Building library  NMR Studies on Reconstituted Neural Receptor Membranes   Dr. Klaus Gawrisch 
Tuesday 11/14/00 4 PM Flow Building library  Biochemical and Biological Functions of Docosahexaenoic Acid (DHA): Positive Influence on Neuronal Cell Survival   Dr. Hee-Yong Kim 
Tuesday 10/31/00 4 PM Flow Building library  "How Ethanol and Membrane Lipid Composition Modulate A G-Protein-Coupled Signalinmg Pathway"   Dr. Burt Litman 
Tuesday 09/26/00 4 PM Flow Building library  "Omega-3 fatty acids and prevalence rates of depression and violence: neurodevelopmental issues"   Dr. Joe Hibbeln 

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