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Wednesday March 21, 2018
Symposium: 08:45am - 17:30pm
Reception: 17:30am - 19:00pm
Talks: Kennedy Lecture Theatre, UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, 30 Guilford St, London WC1N 1EH
Registration / Hospitality: Winter Garden
Description
The UCL Food, Metabolism and Society Research Domain promotes interdisciplinary approaches addressing the biology and genetics of metabolism, metabolic disease, and the economics and history of global nutrition; and aims to further communication between academics, policy-makers, the food industry, and the public. Its 2018 international symposium, Food and the Planet explores multi-disciplinary solutions to the challenges of food security and sustainability, and the growing global burden of metabolic disease.
Under symposium themes of Sustainability and Environment; Food Science; Metabolic Disease; The Microbiome and Health; and Metabolism and Deep Time, its speakers will consider key current challenges, including: how science and society can combat the epidemic of metabolic disease and foodborne illness, and counter antimicrobial resistance; how global food systems can move rapidly towards sustainability; and whether science can create food sources that are not land-hungry, water-thirsty, and pollution-heavy.
Programme
08:30 Registration / Coffee
09:00 WELCOME & SYMPOSIUM OBJECTIVES
Prof Frances Brodsky, Chair of the UCL Food, Metabolism and Society Research Domain and Director, UCL Division of Biosciences
SESSION 1 - SUSTAINABILITY & THE ENVIRONMENT
KEYNOTE
Sir Tim Smit, Eden Project - The vacuum that nature abhors
Dr Riaz Bhunoo, Global Food Security Programme - Business unusual - a food systems approach for health, sustainability and resilience
Dr Carole Dalin, UCL Institute for Sustainable Resources - Measuring the Environmental Sustainability of Global Food Production and Trade
Dr Marco Springmann, Oxford Martin Programme on the Future of Food - Planetary boundaries of the food system: analysing the option space
Chair: Dr Richard Pearson, UCL Centre for Biodiversity and Environment Research
Coffee break
10:55 SESSION 2 - FOOD SCIENCE
Prof Kent Kirschenbaum, NYU - Plant-Based "Meat": Innovating a Bloody Good Burger
Dr Yemisi Latunde-Dada, King's College London - The role of meat in iron nutrition and metabolism: can it be replaced by edible insects?
Prof Dorian Fuller, UCL - The archaeology of cooking traditions: Asia vs the West
Chair: Prof Barry Smith, Centre for the Study of the Senses
Lunch break
13:15 SESSION 3 - METABOLIC DISEASE AND THE MICROBIOME I
Prof Jennie Brand-Miller, University of Sydney - Which diet for the healthiest planet?
Prof Kelle Moley, Washington University - The obesity epidemic: could it be an oocyte issue?
Prof Megan Vaughan, UCL Institute of Advanced Studies - Routes to metabolic disease: insights from older people in Malawi
Dr Matteo Fumagalli, Imperial College London - Species adaptation to extreme diets
Chair: Prof Nishi Chaturvedi, UCL MRC Unit of Lifelong Health & Ageing
Coffee break
15:00 SESSION 4 - METABOLIC DISEASE AND THE MICROBIOME II
KEYNOTE
Prof Ian Charles, Quadram Institute - Exploring the microbiome at the Quadram Institute
Dr Andrew Smith, UCL - The human oral microbiome
Dr Claire Steves, King's College London - The human microbiome and conditions of ageing: Insights from TwinsUK
Dr Nick Lesica, UCL - A neuroscientist's view of obesity
Prof Mike Murphy, University of Cambridge - Mitochondrial redox metabolism in health & disease
Chair: Dr Celia Caulcott, UCL Innovation & Enterprise
17:00 SESSION 5 - METABOLISM & DEEP TIME
KEYNOTE Prof Nick Lane, UCL - The Flux Capacitor: Mitochondria, metabolism and disease
Chair: Prof Mark Thomas, UCL
17:30 Wine reception
For more details regarding the 2018 Food, Metabolism and Society Symposium please contact Dr Aarathi Prasad (a.prasad@ucl.ac.uk).