| SUNDAY, 21 JUNE |
| 15:00 - 20:00 |
Registration open |
15:00 - 18:00
18:00 - 19:00
19:00 - 19:45
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Poster mounting
Presidential Address
Lessons from disorders of intracellular vitamin B12 metabolism - Brian Fowler (Switzerland)
Honorary Lecture
My life with SAM - Jan P. Kraus (USA) |
| 20:00 - 22:30 |
Welcome party - congress venue |
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| MONDAY, 22 JUNE |
| 8:00 - 20:00 |
Registration open |
| 8:30 - 8:45 |
Opening ceremony |
| 8:45 - 10:45 |
Plenary session 1 - Metabolites and their trafficking |
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1. Historical introduction on homocysteine and vitamins - Jim Finkelstein (USA)
2. Homocysteine as a good guy: Pathway to cysteine and taurine - Martha Stipanuk (USA)
3. Betaine - Per Magne Ueland (Norway)
4. Intracellular trafficking of folates - Patrick Stover (USA) |
| 11:15 - 12:45 |
Plenary session 2 - Genes |
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1. Regulation of gene expression by methylation - Warren Kruger (USA)
2. Fetal programming of gene expression by nutrients - Krzysztof Blusztajn (USA)
3. Genes regulating homocysteine and B-vitamin metabolism genome-wide association studies of complex disorders - Robert Zee (USA) |
| 12:45 - 14:00 |
Poster viewing |
| 14:00 - 15:30 |
Parallel sessions 1-2 |
| 16:00 - 17:30 |
Parallel sessions 3-4 |
| 17:30 - 19:30 |
Poster viewing with beer, wine and snacks |
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| TUESDAY, 23 JUNE |
| 8:30 - 10:00 |
Plenary session 3 - Pathophysiology of disturbed C-1 and sulfur amino acid pool |
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1. Molecular effects of homocysteine - Don Jacobsen (USA)
2. Sulfur amino acids and oxidative stress - Ruma Banerjee (USA)
3. Role of folates/pterines in endothelium - Keith Channon (United Kingdom) |
| 10:30 - 12:30 |
Plenary session 4 - Short communications |
| 14:00 - 15:45 |
Parallel sessions 5-6 |
| 16:15 - 18:00 |
Parallel session 7-8 |
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Free evening |
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| WEDNESDAY, 24 JUNE |
| 8:30 - 9:00 |
Sulfur compound of the year |
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Hydrogen sulfide: Its origin and cellular effects - Csaba Szabo (USA) |
| 9:00 - 10:30 |
Plenary session 5 - Short communications |
| 11:00 - 12:15 |
Plenary session 6 - Short communications |
| 13:15 - 15:15 |
Summary from parallel sessions |
| 20:00 - 24:00 |
Conference dinner - Zofin Palace |
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| THURSDAY, 25 JUNE |
| 9:00 - 10:30 |
Plenary session 7 - Lessons from intervention trials and folate fortification I |
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1. Interplay between folates and vitamin B12 in human populations - Martha Morris (USA)
2. Diseases of the fetal development - Gary Shaw (USA)
3. Cognitive function in older age - David Smith (United Kingdom) |
| 11:00 - 12:00 |
Plenary session 8 - Lessons from intervention trials and folate fortification II |
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1. Cardiovascular diseases - Robert Clarke (United Kingdom)
2. Cancer - Stein Emil Vollset (Norway) |
| 12:00 - 13:00 |
Discussion and vote on mandatory folate/B12 fortification - panelists Irwin Rosenberg (USA), Helga Refsum (United Kingdom), Ralph Green (USA), Ralph Carmel (USA) |
| 13:00 |
Conference close |