Annual Vitamin Meeting of the Homocysteine LOCUS
Athens, Hellas. Host: Dr.Panagiotakos 17. – 21. October, 2013
Thursday, Oct.17.
06.00 Flight from Bergen with SAS via Copenhagen
Private bus-transport to the hotel: Parthenon (ca 30min)
http://www.airotel.gr/hotel/parthenon
14.00 Check-in
14:30 ca Lunch at the hotel
15.30-16.00 Train – Elektrikos to Harokopio University
(Taking train from stop Monastiraki direction Pireus, and getting off at stop Tavros)
16.00-16.10 Dr.Panagiotakos: Welcome
Head of the Department of Science of Nutrition –Dietetics of Harokopio University
16.10-16.35 Dr med. Anne Lise Bjørke Monsen: Maternal prepregnancy BMI and B vitamin status.
Pediatrician, Haukeland Hospital, Bergen.
16.35-16.55 Fellow Eli Skeie: Smoking and Plasma B-vitamins are Independently Associated with Serum Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids
16.55-17.15 George Dedoussis: Combined inheritance of MTHFR and LDLR genetic variants in early myocardial infarction
Professor of Cellular and Molecular Biology, Department of Nutrition and Dietetics, Harokopio Univesrity
Friday, Oct.18
09.00-09.30 Train – Elektrikos to Harokopio University
09.30-09.50 Fellow Nathalie Puaschitz: Dietary intake of saturated fat and risk of coronary events and all cause death in patients with coronary heart disease”
09.50-10.05 Paraskevi Detopoulou:Dietary intake of choline and betaine and cardiometabolic risk factor – The ATTICA study .
PhD.Clinical Dietician, Korgialeneio Benakio, General Hospital of Athens
10.10-10.30 Fellow Despoina Theofylaktopoulo: Determinants of kynurenines and markers of inflammation in the Hordaland Health study.
10.30-11.00 Coffee/tea
11.00-11.20 Fellow Yunpeng Ding: MTHFD1 and acute myocardial infarction in patients with stable angina pectoris.
11.20-11.40 Fellow Gard Svingen: Plasma Dimethylgycine is a Predictor of Mortality in Patients with Coronary Heart Disease.
11.40-12.00 Prof.Ottar Nygård: Dimethylglicine – a possible target for personalized nutrition.
12.00-13.30 Lunch breake.
13.30-13.50 Scientist Arve Ulvik: Evidence for increased catabolism of vitamin B6 during inflammation.
13.55-14.20 Prof. Per M. Ueland: Bevital: Assessment of nutritional status by vitamin markers.
14.30-14.50 Charis Liapi: Heart dysfunction induced by choline-deficiency in adult rats: the protective role of L-carnitine.
Associate Professor of Pharmacology, Department of Pharmacology, Medical School,National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
20.20 Main Dinner at Taverna Psavas with guests http://www.psaras-taverna.gr/en/