AG&M annual report 2018

AG&M Science Impressions 2018
AG&M symposia
Wednesday March 28 th , AG&M organized the first
symposium of 2018: “Nutrition” in the Amstelzaal of the
VU medical center.
The symposium was opened by an inspiring movie
featuring Dr. ir. Nicolette Wierdsma, Prof. dr. Daphne de
Jong, Dr. Tim de Meij, Prof. dr. Andries Kalsbeek, Prof.
dr. Ulrich Beuers and Dr. Michel van Weeghel, talking
about nutrition and the relevance of nutrition to their
own research. For movie see:
https://www.amsterdamresearch.org/web/
gastroenterology-and-metabolism/research-2.htm
AG&M symposium: “Nutrition”
Amstelzaal, VUmc, Amsterdam
MARCH 28 th Prof. Jaap Seidell
Hester Coppoolse and Anouk Hagemeijer from the
Student and Nutrition Foundation talked about the
mission and vision of their foundation.
Dr. Maarten Soeters discussed the physiology of insulin
resistance and metabolic (in)flexibility and why that
matters for AG&M. Prof. Ingeborg Brouwer reviewed
the nutrition research at the VU on Nutritional factors
and health, Undernutrition in old age, Nutrition and
low social economic status and Obesity. Dr. Mireille
Serlie closed the session before dinner was served with
a lecture on the effect of nutrients on brain circuits
involved in food intake.
After a nutritious dinner, the battle for Best publication
of 2017 and the AG&M grant 2018 award ceremony
proceeded the lecture of the keynote speaker Prof.
Jaap Seidell, who discussed that unhealthy food
patterns and obesity may contribute to systemic low
grade inflammation and that this chronic inflammation
may lead to a host of metabolic derangements and
noncommunicable diseases.
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