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| Yakult UK Symposium 2010 Speakers |
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Catherine Collins
Catherine Collins is a Registered Dietitian (RD) and Principal Dietitian at St Georges Hospital in SW London specialising in intensive care nutrition and rheumatology.
As an active spokesperson for The British Dietetic Association she is frequently quoted in the written and broadcast media as an objective and impartial expert on nutrition and dietary matters.
Her dietetic and media experiences have fostered an interest in how nutrition and health messages engage and encourage the individual to adopt dietary change. She is particularly interested in the alternative nutrition and health practices marketed to the general public keen to adopt dietary and lifestyle measures to protect against or manage ill-health, often without substantive proof of benefit.
Catherine is an external lecturer on nutrition for Kingston / St Georges and Kings College London, and has co-authored consumer, dietetic and medical books. Collaboration with chef Dan Green resulted in a HEART-UK endorsed book Healthy Eating for Lower Cholesterol, now reprinted and translated into 7 languages. She has presented clinical research at several national and international conferences, and has published widely on nutrition related issues in specialist health journals.
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Professor Glenn Gibson
In 1986 Glenn completed his PhD on the anaerobic bacteriology of marine and estuarine sediments in Scotland at the University of Dundee. From there he moved to the MRC Dunn Clinical Nutrition Centre in Cambridge to research human gut microbiology. In 1995 he was appointed Head of the Microbiology Department, Institute of Food Research in Reading. In 1999 his research group transferred to the Department of Food Biosciences, University of Reading to instigate a research unit in Food Microbial Sciences.
Glenn is Professor of Food Microbiology, The University of Reading. He also heads the Food Microbial Sciences Research Unit.
He has published over 300 full-length research articles, 10 patents and 8 books, on human gut bacteria. Currently, he runs 20 externally-funded research projects. He is President and a founder member of International Scientific Association for Probiotics and Prebiotics. He does an average of 40 science lectures to International conferences each year. He sits on five advisory panels in Europe and USA (chairs two of them). He was partly responsible for the initiation of the prebiotic concept for gut microflora management through diet (in 1995).
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Professor Mike Gleeson
Mike Gleeson is Professor of Exercise Biochemistry in the School of Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences at Loughborough University. In the last 20 years, he has published over 150 papers on exercise biochemistry, physiology, immunology and nutrition. He is co-author of two textbooks on exercise biochemistry for undergraduates (Biochemistry of Exercise and Training: Oxford University Press, 1997; The Biochemical Basis of Sports Performance: Oxford University Press, 2004 and a second edition in 2010). He is a co-author with Asker Jeukendrup of a textbook of Sport Nutrition published by Human Kinetics, 2004 and a second edition in 2010 and has edited a book on Immune Function in Sport and Exercise published by Elsevier in 2005.
His recent research has focused on the effects of acute exercise, repeated exercise and intensified training on the immune system and the modifying effects of nutritional interventions. He is on the Editorial Board of several international journals. He is a member of the Physiological Society, BASES, and ACSM and is a past president of the International Society of Exercise and Immunology. He is also a Fellow of the European College of Sport Science. He has provided advice on minimising risks of infection and nutritional strategies to maintain immune function to numerous sports clubs and organisations. In his spare time Mike enjoys playing tennis, watching football and drinking beer.
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Professor Jeremy Hamilton-Miller
Main research interests include:
- Evaluation of new antibiotics (laboratory, pharmacokinetic and clinical)
- Antibiotic resistance in bacteria epidemiology, mechanisms, prevention and implications
- Antibiotic use and abuse
- Microbiological properties of natural products
- Management of urinary tract infections
- Usefulness of probiotics
Educated at Rugby School and Clare College, Cambridge University, Jeremy went on to complete his PhD at the University of London (Faculty of Medicine) in 1964.
Professor Hamilton-Miller began his postgraduate career at Guys Hospital Medical School in the Department of Bacteriology in 1961. In 1967 Jeremy took up a Post-doctoral appointment as MRC Junior Research Fellow at the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford, and later became Departmental Demonstrator in Bacteriology. He became Research Fellow and honorary Lecturer at Charing Cross Hospital Medical School in 1970. In 1972, he was appointed Lecturer in Medical Microbiology at the Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine, where he became Senior Lecturer 1976, Reader in 1981 and Professor of Medical Microbiology in 1987.
Professor Hamilton-Miller has written over 530 published scientific papers on a variety of topics relating to microbiology.
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Dr James Lindsay
CLINICAL: Dr Lindsay studied medicine at Cambridge and Oxford Universities and undertook a PhD in the immunology of Crohn's disease at Imperial College before completing gastroenterology specialist training at St Mark's Hospital. He has been a consultant Gastroenterologist at Barts and the London NHS trust since 2004 and a Senior Lecturer in Gastroenterology at Barts and the London Medical School since 2007. Along with a full multidisciplinary team he runs the adolescent inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) service at The Royal London Hospital and the Adult IBD service at Barts Hospital. James has chaired the ECCO consensus on the management of paediatric and adolescent Crohns disease and is on the committee of the adolescent section of the British Society of Gastroenterology. He is the National UK representative to ECCO.
RESEARCH: Dr Lindsays research interests focus on the interaction of the intestinal microbiota with the immune system with a particular interest in the role of dendritic cells. He is the chief investigator for a multi-centre trial of prebiotic therapy in Crohns disease as well as a variety of commercial clinical trials.
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Professor Claudio Nicoletti
Professor Claudio Nicoletti is a Research Leader at the Institute of Food Research, Norwich. He obtained his BSc (hons) in Biological Sciences at the University of Siena in Italy and continued his studies at the University of Maryland at Baltimore with a PhD in Immunology ‘Cellular and molecular events in immunosenescence’.
As post doc he joined the German Cancer Centre at Heidelberg, Germany working on lymphocytes development. After two years in Germany he joined the Babraham Institute in Cambridge, UK where he worked on several aspects of mucosal immunology
At the Institute of Food Research in Norwich his role is to lead research in the field of mucosal immunology with emphasis on the role of intestinal epithelial cells and dendritic cells in both food allergy and response to pathogens. He teaches immunology at University of East Anglia, Norwich, and at the Universities of Siena and Milan in Italy
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Professor Dermot Power
Professor Dermot Power, MD, FRCPI, DCH, DMMD is Associate Professor of Postgraduate Medical Education at University College Dublin (UCD) School of Medicine and is also a consultant Geriatrician at the Mater Misericordiae University Hospital and St Mary's Hospital. A graduate of UCD, his Membership of the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland was awarded in 1995 and his Fellowship in 2006. Among his other qualifications are a Diploma in Management and a Diploma in Child Health. He is a member of the British Geriatrics Society and the Royal Society of Medicine. He sits on a number of boards including the board of the Health Service Executive (HSE), Irelands national healthcare service. |
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Professor Eamonn Quigley
Eamonn Quigley is Professor of Medicine and Human Physiology and a Principal Investigator at the Alimentary Pharmabiotic Centre at the National University of Ireland, Cork, Ireland. He is the immediate past of the World Gastroenterology Organisation (WGO-OMGE) and the American College of Gastroenterology.
His major research interests include motility, functional gastrointestinal disease, neurogastroenterology, gastroesophageal reflux disease and probiotics in health and disease. He has published over 550 original papers, reviews, editorials and book chapters, and has received numerous awards worldwide. He has been named an Honorary Professor by the Faculty of Medicine of the Universidad de la Republica Oriental del Uruguay, awarded Doctor Honoris Causa by the University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Iuliu Hateiganu Cluj-Napoca, Romania, elected as a Distinguished Doctor to the Fellowship of the Royal College of Physicians, London, received the J Edward Berk Distinguished Lecturer award from the American College of Gastroenterology and the Windle Prize, Medical School Medal and Alumnus Achievement Award from UCC.
Professor Quigley graduated in medicine (MB BCh BAO) from the National University of Ireland, Cork in 1976 and completed his residency in internal medicine at the Western Infirmary and associated hospitals in Glasgow, Scotland. There followed a two-year research fellowship, leading to an MD degree by thesis, at the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, USA. He served as Lecturer in the Department of Medicine (Gastroenterology) at the University of Manchester at Hope Hospital in Salford, England before joining the faculty of the section of Gastroenterology and Hepatology at the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha in 1986 eventually serving as division chief. He returned to University College Cork (UCC), his alma mater, in 1998 and served two terms as Head of the Medical School from 2000-2007 and also acted as interim director of the Graduate Entry to Medicine programme at UCC.
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Professor Bob Rastall
Bob Rastall is currently Head of the Department of Food and Nutritional Sciences at the University of Reading in the UK and also holds the post of Professor of Biotechnology. He is also joint leader of the University Food Chain and Health research theme. He has a BSc in Applied Biology and a PhD in Microbial Biochemistry (1987) from the University of Greenwich, London. He held research fellowships in the field of carbohydrate bioengineering at the University of Westminster until joining the University of Reading in 1993.
Professor Rastall now leads a personal research team developing novel enzymatic manufacturing technologies for functional carbohydrates targeted at gut health. His research is focused on understanding structure-function relationships in prebiotic carbohydrates and the application of that knowledge to the rational development of functionally enhanced prebiotics. He is also developing concepts around the rational targeting of synbiotics to specific health outcomes.
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Professor Ian Rowland
Ian Rowland has a BSc and PhD in microbiology from University College London and is a Registered Nutritionist. He is Professor of Human Nutrition and head of the Hugh Sinclair Unit of Nutrition at the University of Reading. He is on the editorial boards of five journals and is the author of over 200 scientific publications. His current research areas include the role of diet (in particular probiotics, prebiotics, phytoestrogens, and phytochemicals) in prevention of colon, breast and prostate cancer.
He was recently awarded an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Gent for his work on nutrition and cancer risk.
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